What a lovely way to start the day 😀 Ms. Delahunty's Junior Infant children enjoyed a lovely festive STEM Challenge this morning - We designed and made our own Gingerbread Houses. Check out our fabulous creations! (They didn...
The boys and girls in room 4 have been very busy perfecting their needling skills over the past few weeks. Needling is a great way of helping children to develop thier fine motor skills and it also helps to improve attention and concentration as chil...
We are so very lucky to have the Westfields Wetlands right on the doorstep of our school. We have been learning all about the habitat, and some of the plants and animals that live there. We saw lots of different trees, including the sycamore and the ...
Taking our inspiration from this amazing Building Bridges of Understanding book “ The Memory Coat” we took the class outside for some still image making and some acting fun.
Ms. Hogan's 2nd class were learning about length in Maths last week. We learned about the metre and we used our 1 metre length strings to measure around the classroom. We even took them out to the yard for some measuring activities! We also...
The boys and girls have been so busy learning all about Engineers this week and the great work that they do. They have had lots of fun engaging in wonderful STEM challenges both at home and at school. I was so impressed with all of t...
Ms. Hogan's 2nd class had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day today. We listened to the author, Lauren Child, talking about writing and illustrating books. We each made a book recommendation to the class and compiled a list of these to s...
Second class will be supporting Limerick from the stands in Croke Park on Sunday! Here's a sneak peek of our portraits. Look out for us during the Limerick vs Waterford final on Sunday. A big thank you to James Ryan for organising for us to take...
Ms. Hogan's 2nd class had a great time celebrating Science Week this year. We did three experiments: walking water (colour mixing), eggs in vinegar (rubber egg) and celery in food colouring (how plants absorb water). We wrote down the materials ...
In Junior Infants, we have had such a fantastic Science week so far. We have been doing lots of fun experiments in class! We loved the skittles experiment where we got to see how warm water reacts to the sugary sweets and also saw how pepper reacted ...
Ms. Hogan's 2nd class have been learning about symmetry in Maths this week. Today, we drew symmetrical self portraits! We used half of a photograph of our faces and completed the picture by drawing the other half. We are very proud of the result...
The boys and girls in room 4 have had great fun over the past few weeks learning all about Halloween. There was great excitement today when they all came in with their costumes. Well done everyone. They all looked fabulous. They enjoye...
Ms. Hogan's 2nd class have been learning a bit about the history of the Salesian Sisters in Ireland. We could not believe that they had arrived in Limerick 100 years ago! We saw some photographs from that time and compared them to now. Thin...
Ms. Hogan's 2nd class had a very exciting day today! We played bingo, created witches' feet using paper, listened to Halloween songs and watched a movie. We even had some treats! It was great fun 😁 We hope that you enjoy looking at some of ...
Junior Infants were so delighted to celebrate their first ever Mission Week. This coincided with the Salesian Sisters 100 Centenary celebrations. Check out our lovely art work celebrating the Salesian Sisters 100 years in Limerick. We were also delig...
In Room 2, we have been learning so much about Autumn. We have learned lots about the leaves, trees, animals and changes that happen during Autumn. We especially enjoyed painting trees with broccoli, creating our own Dingle Dangle scarecro...
We really enjoyed learning about the Skeleton last week in Science. On Thursday we used lots of different pasta shapes to make a Skeleton Picture for Halloween. Here are some photos of us creating our art and the finished products. En...
Ms. Hogan's 2nd class have been doing some amazing artwork! We made dolls of ourselves using paper cut-outs, felt and wool. We used markers and rulers to draw our starburst pictures. We have been doing a lot of work on line and pattern. We ...