Senior Infants Room 4: Making Pancakes
Room 4 were very busy on Tuesday morning! We all went to the staff room where Ms Harney made some pancakes. We talked about the ingredients needed to make pancakes and the different kinds of toppings we can put on our pancakes. We loved fruit on our pancakes! Please click here to see some more...Principal: Human Rights Month
I hope that you are all keeping well. I am sure that you, like the staff, are delighted with the amount of media attention the school has been getting recently. We were on Newstalk and Q102 last week and were on Raidió na Gaeltachta (Irish language station in RTE) yesterday speaking about our school. If you would like to hear that interview, please go to 35 minutes into this podcast. Please click here for the podcast. The response to what we are doing in this school has been phenomenal. George was hooked! Thank you all so much for contributing to our ethos of openness, inclusiveness and equality. Religious diversity is not the only diversity we recognise in the school. We also focus on cultural, ethnic and linguistic diversity to name just a few. A great way we have of teaching the children about the value of diversity is our ‘Human Rights Month’ which we hold every February. The children are taught explicitly about their rights. They begin to understand that not everybody is lucky enough to experience the rights they should. We do this by focussing on the ‘United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child’. We make this as easy to understand as possible for the children. We also look at our own Irish legislation around equality and explicitly teach children about ‘The Nine Grounds of Discrimination’, again in an age appropriate way. Your support is extremely important in this work. We hope that parents will be able to engage their children in conversations about rights and equality. It is very important that even if your family values...Principal: English Language Classes
Hi everyone English language classes will start this Thursday from 9-11 a.m. As usual, these classes are free of charge and open to anyone in our community. Many thanks SéamusSenior Infants Room 7: The Life Cycle of a Frog
We have been learning all about the life cycle of a frog. We learned about frog spawn, tadpoles, froglets and adult frogs. Did you know frogs have ears behind their eyes? We learned that frogs hibernate during winter. We wrote our own book with frog facts inside. During art we have being making lighter and darker shades, so we painted a frog by mixing black with green for a dark green and white with green for a light green. Take a look at our pictures...Principal: George Hook Interview
Hi everyone We seem to have gained a huge fan yesterday after the interview with George Hook. He was absolutely fascinated with the CNS model and kept me back for ages after the interview eager to find out more. He wants to come out to the school to do a further piece in the near future. If you missed the interview, you can listen back here The podcast is under “Why do the Irish Swear So Much/The Baptism Barrier.” Thanks...Notice Board
