Homework for Active Week
Homework for Active Week
Active Week
Dear Parents, We will be holding our annual Active Week from Monday, 10th June – Friday, 14th June. Children are asked to wear their team colours on the Thursday & Friday of this week. Weather permitting, the children will be outside as much as possible this week so if it is at all sunny, we would be grateful if the children could pack a sunhat in their bag and also apply sunscreen on these days. An extra bottle of water…
Mini-Beasts in First and Second Class
We had fun working on our projects. We put a lot of effort into our work. We used the Chromebooks to find out the information we needed. We followed the steps we learned in English for writing a report. Report Writing Title Introduction Description What it eats Where it lives Some facts An interesting fact or an opinion After all our tests we did some mindfulness colouring on the topic of Mini-Beasts. We are delighted to show you our…
Our School Garden Comittee
Our School Garden Committee at the planting of our new lime tree.
Junior and Senior Plant Sunflowers
Junior and Senior Infants were busy planting sunflowers in our raised beds. We planted our seeds in recycled pots and looked after them inside until they were ready to plant outside. We learned about the cycle of the sunflower too.
5th and 6th Art Work
The creativity in Rang a Cúig and Rang a Sé has been so impressive over the last few weeks! We have been learning about Picasso and used oil pastels to explore and illustrate the various shapes and lines used in his facial portraits.Look how effective they turned out! Following on from Picasso, we further explored how the use of lines can be manipulated to create a 3d image of the hand when combined with simple coloured patterns. As…
Sunsets by 3rd & 4th Class
The children had great fun experimenting with shade and colour, mixing paints and blending with their fingers! The object of the lesson was to capture a night sky at twilight and I think you will agree that the children have created some stunning images, highlighting shadow and depth in their pictures. some pictures also have a wonderful sense of movement in them. Well done! We hope the children continue to experiment with colour and paint at home over the summer…
Climate Change Projects
As part of our Pride of Place award we have been learning about the impact of climate change on our daily lives and the environment. We formed groups and explored many aspects including global warming, the greenhouse effect and how climate change affects the animal world and their habitats.We then presented our projects to the whole school. We learned alot- hopefully we can all start by making little changes and spreading the word.
Pride of Place
Rang a Cúig and Rang a Sé, having recently learned about the old Irish ‘Hedge Schools’, learned how to weave willow to develop their own willow hut.They used willow branches to weave a wall and form a beautiful hut which would give any modern class room a run for it’s money! Well done on your great teamwork guys!
3rd & 4th Class Projects
Well done to the boys and girls of 3rd and 4th class, who gave presentations at our school assembly today. Each group researched one crop and one type of weed and then told the rest of the children what they had discovered. The posters they made were both colourful and informative!