Salesian Primary Blog

​The second class girls had so much fun making clay egg baskets. The girls also painted some beautiful cards for the Easter bunny 🐣 They wanted to thank him for all the chocolate!!! We finished the day on Friday with some lovely baked treats and choc...

The girls in Miss Haugh’s class really enjoyed becoming scientists today to carry out a few different experiments. We created a storm in a bottle, lava lamps and investigated what materials sink or float.  

This week Miss Haugh’s class have been learning about the different types of houses. Today we got the chance to create our own houses using paper bags and newspaper stuffing. The girls were asked to create different types - detached house, three stor...

 The second class girls had an amazing day today celebrating Halloween. They all dressed up in some scary costumes. The girls had a super fun day playing bingo, watching Halloween movies, having dancing competitions and enjoying some spooky bake...

Today Miss Haugh’s class learned all about the Salesian sisters. They were amazed to hear that the sisters came to Limerick 100 years ago!! They are all so thankful that the sisters founded our lovely school and they created posters to mark the occas...

Miss Haugh’s second class drew their own haunted houses! They turned out amazing. Well done to all the girls 👏🏻👏🏻 

​In miss Haugh’s room we recently read the book “Paper Dolls” by Julia Donaldson. We all loved the story, especially the little rhyme that the dolls chant “you can’t catch us oh no no, we’re holding hands and we won’t let go”. We enjoyed the story so...

​The end of the year is near and it’s time to say goodbye to all the boys moving to JFK. They have had such an amazing three years with us. Just look at how much the boys in Miss Haugh’s class have grown since their first day in junior infants!&...

 This year boys and girls from first class got the opportunity to take part in the doodle families programme. This is an amazing initiative which aims to help both the child and parent improve their literacy skills. Every week the child attends ...

​For art this week Miss Haugh's first class were asked to design their own masks. The children were so creative.Well done for all their hard work. Let's see if you can guess who is behind each mask!

Ms Haugh’s first class really enjoyed these fun maths games a few weeks ago. It’s super easy to do at home too. All you need is a pack of cards! First remove all the kings, queens and jacks. Then place all the other cards on the table face down so th...

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Ms Haugh’s class had a great time dressing up on Friday evening. The kids had the chance to act out some of the jobs  they’d love to have in the future! 

 The children in Ms Haugh's first class had  great time dressing up for World Book Day. Take a look at their amazing costumes!

 Th parents and children partaking in Doodle families had an amazing end of programme party yesterday. We all took a visit to the magical Dreamland factory. The children got the chance to use their imaginations and become pilots, bakers, firefig...

​Stryker engineers Peter Maher, Jason McCabe and Heather Duncan visited Ms Haugh's first class this week. They explained all of the work that is done by the engineers in Stryker. They showed the kids three different cool experiments and eac...

Ms Haugh's first class had a great afternoon completing some engineering challenges. They all worked nicely together to build some impressive towers.

 Well done to the boys and girls in first class and their parents who completed the Doodle Families programme. They thoroughly enjoyed the last eight weeks. Some of their favourite moments include the trip to the library, the tour of the school ...

The children and parents taking part in the Doodle Families programme took a visit to Watch House Cross library today. The librarian gave them a tour around and the children got to take home their favourite books. It was a great experience! ...

​Miss Haugh’s class have been learning about all the different types of houses. They had the chance to use their building skills on Friday afternoon. Each group were asked to make a different house. Great fun was had!