4th Class
Easter Baskets
We made some beautiful clay pots and enjoyed painting and decorating them. Have a look at our creations.
Hurling Training
We have been very fortunate to receive some excellent training sessions from Cian and St. Mary's GAA Club. We really enjoyed the games and drills
Ukulele Performance
We performed 'Like You' by Tatiana Manaois on our ukuleles and sang along too. It was a very enjoyable experience.
Seachtain na Gaeilge
We had a great time celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge in Newcastle N.S this week. We joined 3rd Class for a Tráth na gCeist which we really enjoyed. We learned some lovely songs and performed 'Pompeii' by Bastille as Gaeilge or Lá Glas. Click on the link below to watch the performance. We had great fun with all the other classes at the Céilí Mór where we danced and sang and enjoyed each other's performances. We learned some new seanfhocail and spoke more Gaeilge each day.
Pompeii by Bastille as Gaeilge
IMG_1422.MOVWorld Book Day
We dressed up as a character from one of our favourite books to celebrate World Book Day. We also enjoyed buddy reading with 2nd Class and loved seeing everyone else's costumes during our Book Character Parade.
Pancake Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday
We enjoyed some delicious pancakes in 4th Class. We also shared stories about where the best places to get pancakes in Athenry, Galway and Ireland are!
Well-Being Week
We enjoyed well-being week in 4th Class and many of us got to try yoga for the first time. We also made some gratitude cards, played games, dressed in bright colours and did some mindful colouring,
St Brigid's Crosses
We had a great day today, learning about St. Brigid, singing songs and organising our rushes to make our own St. Brigid's Cross.
Local History
We were very fortunate to have had Martin Curley visit our school and deliver some excellent local history lessons to our class. We spoke about the castles in the Athenry area and learned about the origins of our townland names. We also enjoyed a wonderful field trip and spoke about castle ruins and eskers that we could see along the way.
Swimming
4th Class are enjoying a 6-week block of swimming lessons in the Raheen Woods Hotel. We are so lucky to have excellent swimming teachers and have improved our stroke techniques and our stamina.
Our Christmas Play- 'A Midwife Crisis'
We thoroughly enjoyed preparing for our Christmas performance in 4th Class. We all helped each other along the way, learning lines, collaborating on costume designs and making changes and suggestions for the script. We gained so much from it and we were so pleased with our performance on December 21st. Thank you to all the parents and grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who came to see us! Happy Christmas Everyone!
Christmas Art
4th Class sis some beautiful chalk art and paintings. Have a look at our work!
Explorer's Project
4th Class has now completed their projects on Sea Turtles with the Marine Institute. We were fortunate to take part in such an exciting project with Sibeal, from the Marine Institute. Over the last few months we learned lots of interesting facts about sea turtles, their characteristics, their habitats, their lifespan, diet and lifecycle. We presented our projects to Sibeal which included posters, clay models and a diorama of the life cycle of the turtle. Sibeal also spoke to us about Dolphins and sharks and we even got to hold a dolphin’s skull and whale's teeth during the session.
Science Week
Science Week was a busy week in 4th Class. We learned lots of interesting facts about famous scientists and enjoyed researching and presenting in groups. We also joined a live Zoom with the Science Foundation of Ireland and were so excited to see some cool experiments. Later in the week we had our own Science Show where groups presented a selection of fun experiments.
Local History Projects
We researched historical places and monuments in our locality and in Athenry town. We worked in groups to present projects and thoroughly enjoyed finding out more about our Medieval town and it's hinterland.
Rugby World Cup
We had great fun in 4th Class over the last two months following the Rugby World Cup. We all had a team and enjoyed discussing the matches and learning about the different participating countries. Our winner who had South Africa was delighted with his prize- a Rugby ball!
Egypt Project
We are doing a project on Egypt with Mr. Cummins. We are having great fun learning about Kings, Pyramids and traditions of the past. We enjoyed designing our own Egyptian jewellery.
Science investigations
We have been learning about levers in science. We worked in groups to investigate how levers work. Have a look at our photos!
Autumn Art
We created some beautiful Autumn artwork using a selection of colours, mostly warm toned colours. We enjoyed blending and making our own shades too.
Bake Sale
We had a lovely time vsiting the Bake Sale in 6th Class. We bought the most delicious treats we had ever tasted. The 6th Class children guided us and advised on on some great bargains. Thank you so much 6th Class! We tried not to eat all our treats and school as we were hoping to share some at home too!
Athletics
We have been enjoying practising our running skills over the last few weeks. We tried some jogging, sprinting and had great fun doing relay races. We worked hard as part of a team and enjoyed challenging ourselves.
Welcome back to school!
4th Class did some lovely artwork highlighting their different interests.
