Welcome Back!

Welcome back! Hopefully everyone is well rested after their lovely summer holidays and ready for some back to school fun! 

Well done to Junior Infants on a super first day in Primary School! We had great fun playing together this morning and drawing our favourite things and using our favourite colours on jigsaw pieces. Just like us, our jigsaw pieces were all different, but all special too! We went out to the halla for PE and then up to our wonderful library. 

Senior Infants were fantastic helpers today too. Well done everybody! 

Pirate Theme

This month we have been learning all about pirates! We did a pirate camp where we learned about the oceans we would sail on as pirates and the different sea creatures we might encounter on ARRRRRRRGH adventures. Once we passed our Pirate Test we were given new pirate names and made our Pirate passports. 

We have been exploring maps using the story Rosie's Walk and we made our own treasure maps of the school.  We swapped maps with our partners and found where they had buried their treasure...x marks the spot!

This week we have two pirate ships, a plank, some telescopes made by Isabel and Rachel, a captain's hat and a lot of imagination for our drama station! We are designing our own pirate flags, making treasure maps and using our ocean magnet scene to explore the ocean...

Sports Day Practice

Juniors and Seniors having a great time practicing for our upcoming sports day! 

Safe Pass

Fergal the builder gave us lots of ideas on how to improve our construction site for playtime. The most important thing we realised was that we needed to make it much safer. Everyone working on the construction site needed a Safe Pass. Fiachra has a background in this area, so he got into role and gave the classroom a talk about safety on the construction site...

Fantastic work Mr. Reilly!!! 

After the talk we did an interactive game on the whiteboard where we looked for hazards on the construction site, and then everyone took a Safety Pass test. Congratulations to all of the Juniors and Seniors who passed their tests and got their Safety Pass for our construction site! 

Special Visitor!!!

Today we had a very exciting visit in the Junior Classroom! Fergal, one of the construction workers building our new classroom, came in to talk to the children about the site! He taught us about safety on the site, why hard hats are different colours, different people you would see on the construction site, safe passes, and showed us some of the equipment you need to to wear as a builder, such as hard hats, high-vis jackets, ear muffs, goggles etc. The boys and girls all got to ask a question at the end and there were some excellent ones! Toby asked if he would have to wear goggles as well as his glasses on the building site, Izzac wanted to know more about jigsaws, Alfred wanted to know how fast could a digger go...well done everybody on your brilliant questions! 

Fergal also brought in a high-vis for all of the children and some sweets! We're going to use the high-vis jackets for our Aistear construction site! Thank you so much! :) 

Junior Infant Builders at Work!

Aistear

Last week all of the children got into role as architects and chose a building to design for our town. They created blueprints of their buildings and then used clay to make a model of it. Fiachra also brought in the blueprints of his new house and Mr Larke let us look at the blueprints of our new classroom! 

This week for playtime we have a construction station and the children at this table are setting up a construction site and getting into role as builders! 

Many thanks to all the children who brought in tools, hard hats, etc.!