Today we threw the schoolbags to the corner and put on our thinking caps to come up with creative ways of transporting out books to school. With ideas from prams to toolboxes to cat scratchers, the children and teachers really outdid themselves.
After a long wait we took to our heels and christened our new running track today. The track is a wonderful addition to our school and we’re looking forward to running many kilometres in the future 🏃🏃♀️
We took advantage of the good weather and had our Easter assembly outside. After, children participated in our annual Easter egg hunt!
A colourful display by the Junior Room who have been learning all about spring and the life cycles of different plants and animals
Our writing genre this term was ‘Explanation Writing’ and, to celebrate all our learning, children in the Junior Room chose a topic to research and create an explanation project on for an in class competition. Today we were treated to the presentation of projects on the life cycles of plants and animals, why do we have day and night, how rainbows are formed, why cats purr, how airplanes fly and how volcanos erupt – complete with a volcano explosion! Such excellent work by the junior room children – it was very hard to choose just two winners!
This term the senior room took part in START- schools teaching about randomised trials. Children investigated if therabsnds would improve the wellbeing of the children in the junior room. They chose a research question, randomly assigned groups, conducted daily surveys and tabulated and graphed their results. They concluded that therabands did not make the children any happier.
The experiments group had a ‘blast’ today for Genius Hour!
For our Wellbeing Wall display this half term the children created alliterative affirmations for their names – something positive to say to themselves each day as they walk in to school!
Many thanks to Eileen to donated a beautiful wooden bookcase as well as many boxes of books to the school. The bookcase is now part of the Junior Room’s Reading Corner and all children are enjoying DEAR time with lots of new books to choose from!
Children in the Junior Room have been learning about the life cycle of butterflies in science and English. Today they combined maths and art to create beautiful symmetrical paintings of Irish species of butterflies to add our spring window display!
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