Senior Infants performed the show Hey Ewe this year. We thoroughly enjoyed dressing up as different people living in Bethlehem, as well as various people from the Christmas Nativity. Senior Infants really impressed with their acting skills, singing, dancing, actions and of course the amazing delivery of their lines. A huge thank you all the families for helping the children prepare for the big day. We are all very proud of the children's fantastic performance.

We had a very special visitor in Newcastle! Santa Claus came to wish all the boys and girls a very Merry Chrsitmas. He told them how proud he was of their kindness and really enjoyed listening to the children singing Christmas songs. Senior Infants really enjoyed the treats they were given by Santa!

We learned about the polar regions this month. We decided to use our STEAM skills to create our very own igloos. It was quite tricky but we had lots of fun experimenting with different ways to build them. The materials we used were sugar cubes for the blocks and water icing for the cement!

We really enjoyed working with our buddies in 5th class again. They helped us to create our very own Rudolph! Thanks to 5th class for all their help and support!

Senior Infants really enjoyed eating some tasty chips. We made them using the potatoes we harvested from the school garden. Thumbs up all around, they were really tasty!

Senior Infants really enjoyed harvesting the potatoes they planted in Junior Infants. A huge thank you to Ms Magnier for encouraging the children to develop an awareness of where food comes from and ensuring the school garden continues to support the learning of all our students.

Senior Infants were very lucky over the last few weeks to have a chance to develop their hurling skills with our brilliant coach Cian! A huge thanks to Athenry Gaa and Cian for all their hard work encouraging the next generation of hurlers.

To finish off Science Week, we got to enjoy some lovely hot chocolate. We really enjoyed adding the marshmellows, cream and sprinkles. Newcastle Café has been a big hit in Senior infants. We really enjoy making different types of food and drinks!

Senior Infants had great fun during Science week.

We investigaed what materials can sink and float in our water area. We also experimented with what materaisl was best to make a new coat for Owly our class puppet. We agreed that tinfoil was the best material we tested because  it didn't let the water true. Tissue paper was by far the worst material.

We were so luck to be invited to visit 6th class who had prepared diffferent Science experiments to show us in small groups. It was very exciting and lots of fun. A huge thank you to 6th class, Ms Colleran and Ms Carty for organising everything.

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We have been learning all about Café's and been enjoying roleplaying as customers, chefs, waiters etc. We also read a lovely story called Friday's at the Café which inspired us to make our own funny faced biscuits. Senior Infants all agreed that the best part was tasting them 👍.

We had a very fun spooky time in Senior Infants celebrating all things Halloween. We really ebjoyed the Halloween parade, all the games and our Halloween party. Everyone looked brilliant in their costumes. Well done for making such a huge effort!

We had great fun creating Halloween Art with 5th class. We made some scary witches out of card. We loved using the different colours and putting gems on the witches hats. Thanks to 5th class and Mr O Looney for all their help.

We have been learning about all about the Season of Autumn. We went on a walk around the school and church to see if we could find any signs of Autumn. Everyone enjoyed getting out in the fresh air. We saw lots of berries, leaves and mushrooms. We even began to learn about deciduous and evergreen trees and why some trees never lose their leaves.

We had so much fun during Maths Week 2023. A special congratulations to the winner of the Senior Infants Maths problem Shauna. We really enjoyed creating a pictogram based on a pack of smarties, making shape monsters and building a numicon city. We also enjoyed playing Maths games on the Ipads and Interactive Board. We are already looking forward to Maths week next year!

We had our annual bake sale this week. Senior Infants thoroughly enjoyed going down to the 6th class room and trying out al the yummy treats which had been kindly donated to the school. A big thank you to all the parents and school community for supporting this event. Senior Infants are already looking forward to the next bake sale!

As part of friendship week Senior Infants listened to and discussed the story of The Rainbow Fish. We all really enjoyed the story and understood the importance of sharing with our friends and being kind to others. We completed some artwork based on the story.

Senior Infants worked together to create a friendship recipe which we used when making our friendship buns this week. We included ingredients such as sharing, being kind and having fun! The best part was decorating the buns and of course eating them!

As part of our theme Myself we learned about the five senses. Sight, heading, touch, taste and smell. We explored each sense at a different station which included tasting different flavours, smelling different fragrances and experimenting with the sounds of different instruments. 

We have also learned the 5 senses poem and are experts at reciting it!

In Senior Infants we have been completing lots of Art based on ourselves and the theme of Autumn. We love working with paint and pastels in Senior Infants!

In senior infants we love using playdough in lots of creative ways. We also enjoy playdough disco, a fun way to warm up our fingers before we start writing.

Senior Infants began engaging in Literacy Lift off this week. We were lucky to have so many adults helping us as we read new books, re read familiar stories, created words with magnetic letters, engaged in Literacy activities on the Ipads and practiced our letter formation and sentence writing. Senior infants have really impressed with how well they have been engaging in these activities!

We have been having lots of fun in Senior Infants this week and were lucky enough to welcome some new friends to our class this year! We have been doing lots of play and the children really enjoyed developing their fine motor skills in the morning and exploring the role play area, making constructions, working with playdough, colouring, playing with the doll house and lots more. Well done for a fantastic start everyone. 😀🥳