Ms. Maher's and Ms. Byrne's class was very fortunate recently to have a special visitor come in to they school to talk all about the work and the contribution that they make to the community. Jakub's dad, Garda Declan Dunne came in to the school in his Garda uniform to tell the boys all about his job, and the work that he does.

We were very excited about this visit, and brainstormed lots of questions the week before to ask him on the day. One of the most important things that we learned about the Garda is that they are there to help us.

We got to see Garda Dunne's badge, his notebooks where he writes down everything for his job, his walkie talkie - and even his handcuffs, which he put on Eva to give her a bit of a scare! :)

Thanks for coming in to talk to us Garda Dunne, we really appreciated it. :)

We are currently busy practicing our lines and songs for our Christmas play – The Nativity Story. We hope that everyone will come to see it. We’ve been trying to make the hall as festive looking as possible. Check out our lovely Christmas Trees which we printed recently. We put paint on sponges, and printed the sponges onto white card. We had lots of fun making these with the sponges, but not as much fun tidying up afterwards – there was paint all over our hands!! :)


A big thank you also to the boys from Mr. Healy’s class who came down to help us with our printed trees – Eoin, Adam, Michael and Erlends – thanks boys! :) 

We are so lucky that Ms. Sheehan and Finola are able to come in to us every Monday and Tuesday to help us with our Ready Set Go Maths. We have been having so much fun with our mental maths and counting games, and using the materials which we have in the classroom to help us learn lots of different things in maths.

Over the last few weeks, we have been learning about pattern.
We learned how to copy a pattern, how to continue on a pattern after it has been started for us, and we even came up with some patterns of our own.

Have a look at some of the wonderful patterns that have been created over the past while ! :)

We love getting to use our paints in our class, and recently we decided to do a little bit of colour mixing.

We used paper plates, that were divided into six sections, and we used these to make our colour wheels. 

We learned all about the primary colours - red, yellow and blue.

We put these on our plates, skipping leaving a gap between each colour, before we mixed our primary colours to make our secondary colours. Check out the different colours we can get when we mix the three original colours.

The following week, we decided that every group was going to concentrate on just one colour, and see if they could make different shades or tints of that colour. We found out that by adding white to a colour it went lighter, and by adding black to a colour it went darker. We were really happy with our work and we have made a big colour mixing display in the main hall for everyone to check out! :)