Money – Senior Infants
Money This week we have been learning all about money. We looked at coins up to 20c. We worked in a shop, thinking about the different coins we needed to pay for each item. We also used coins to create rubbings!
Read More...Pumpkin Carving in First Class
We had a fantastic time carving pumpkins. Some of us loved getting our hands in and pulling out all the mushy flesh and seeds from the pumpkins. We really enjoyed adding final touches to our pumpkins with some of the autumn leaves we had previously collected. We worked together really well and achieved fabulous results! […]
Read More...Halloween Fun
The boys and girls in 2nd class had great fun this week tasting some bairín brack and helping create a classroom pumpkin
Read More...Family Friday October 2016
Hi everybody, today was the start of Family Friday in school. We had lots of family members join us today in school, which was fantastic! Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it this time, it’ll be on every month so you can try for another time! The senior classes had Nicola as our guest speaker […]
Read More...School disco 2016
Hi everyone, here is a little video of all the fun that was had at our school disco this year. What a fantastic turn out from our school community. It was lovely to see so many of you at the disco! There was such amazing costumes this year as well! I hope you all enjoyed […]
Read More...LETNS Ultra Marathon Launch
Hi everyone we were very excited today in Letterkenny Educate Together NS because we launched our Ultra Marathon (100km) !!! We had special guests Jason Black and Sarah Marie Mc Devitt come into school to help launch our new challenge for the year. We talked about how looking after our body and mind is so […]
Read More...School Quiz
Hi everyone, A huge thank you for supporting our school quiz last night in Arena 7. We raised €752 from the quiz and raffle! The children are delighted with all the money raised and are looking forward to getting their new sports equipment which will be used for PE lessons and sports training. A big […]
Read More...Problem Solvers
This week has been lots of fun and it’s hard to believe that we only have one more week to go until the midterm break! We kicked off the week with an exciting visit from Nigel McKelvey for Code Week EU. Nigel is a lecturer at Letterkenny Institute of Technology and is a CoderDojo expert! […]
Read More...Angles and 2d Shapes
We have been working on angles and 2d shapes in 2nd class. We used our bodies to show different types of angles. When we knew them well we created them using lollipop sticks. We also were learning about 2d shapes. We can create lots of different 2d shapes from pentagons, rectangles to octagons and triangles.
Read More...Off To a Good Start
We have had a hectic few weeks in 5th Class since we came back to school in September! I have been getting to know the children and they have been getting to know how much I love Science, Maths, puzzles and maker spaces! LED ‘Glowie Critters’, Tweeting, Izak9, Nano-science and a LEGO Letterkenny are just […]
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