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Senior infants Champion Healthy Lunches

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Senior Infants Develop Oral Language – Children presented ‘Something Special to Me’ to their class

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Art: Making clay trolls

We are looking at the Three Billy Goat’s Gruff in drama this month and have learnt a poem called ‘Allosaurus’. We decided to design and make our own trolls / dinosaurs using clay. First, we made a plan of what … Continue reading

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4th and 5th class art constructions

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4th and 5th class experiment with electrical circuits

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Writing fairytales

We read some fairytales by a wide range of well-known authors before we started. We then decided to write our own stories, to be read to Junior and Senior Infants. A number of them were chosen to be published, and … Continue reading

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People In Our Neighbourhood – The Shopkeeper

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Hands on Maths!

We have looked at place value, symmetry, angles and fractions this term and have enjoyed learning about them in a hands-on way! We did a ‘mirror dance’ with a partner to help us learn about symmetry in shapes and objects. … Continue reading

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Art: looking and responding to different forest pictures

We looked at forest pictures created by a wide variety of artists. Some were in oil, some in pastel, some in ink. We worked in groups to decide which pictures we liked best, and ranked them once we had agreed. … Continue reading

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Alien attack!

We wondered what would happen if aliens landed in Robertstown National School. We had been looking at report writing and had looked at lots of different newspaper articles before we started. We each wrote a newspaper article about an alien … Continue reading

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