Cheerio Ms Fox!

Ms Fox finished up in school today to start her maternity leave. The children have her a wonderful send off, beautiful cakes and a nappy cake! 

Halloween lanterns

Junior Infants made Halloween mummy lanterns with the kind help of mummies Kerry Reilly and Christine Cody today! They had a great time! The children loved it too! :)

Aistear week 21/10/13

 

This week is the final week of our farming theme. The children are having fun in the home corner, role-playing at the farm as farmers and animals. They are building a supermarket out of lego and colouring and cutting out farm animals and machinery. The junior infants are learning the story of 'The little red hen' and senior infants are finishing their Van Gogh sunflowers. They are making farm themed items out of play dough. Senior infants are also building combine harvesters.

 

Visitors

We recently had a visitor to our Aistear Programme in Infants. Farmer Stevenson came along with his tractor and a trailer. Inside were twin calves three days old, Jack and Jill. The children had been learning about farms and farming and this enhanced the programme no end. The children were so excited to see real live calves and all got a chance to pet them.

David Bryce, a pilot, also came to the school when Aistear was covering travel as a theme. Many got to try on his hat and jacket. He showed a very informative powerpoint show and spoke to the children. Visits like these are a great way of learning.

Aoife Munn from Windyridge Nursery came to 3^rd and 4^thclasses to do some planting. She planted cacti with them and gave us winter lettuce seeds to plant outside. She also spoke to them about micro climates.

Welcome back from Mrs. Senior

 

Let me say welcome back to everyone to a new school term. After a fabulous summer I think everyone has been well rested and certainly the children have been delighted to see their friends again.

School came back with our annual parish and school fete. There is always a touch of déjà vú at this time. This was indeed a roaring success and enjoyed and looked forward to by all. It was lovely to see both young and old enjoying the day. So much for all ages to do. Thanks to everyone who got involved and to the parish for this huge initiative which has become so much part of Shankill.

Already photographs have been taken of the pupils in the school. New copies and books are in use and timetables for everything are being enforced. Thanks to all the volunteers at this time. With so many cutbacks this help is essential especially with reading and computers.

Enthusiasm in the school is contagious at present. Long may it continue and here’s hoping we all have an excellent school year.

Caroline Senior

Fields of Life Choir come to visit

Rev. Trevor Stevenson (past pupil of Rathmichael) brought The Fields of Life Celebration Choir to school today. They sang and they danced! They taught the children some dancing and singing too!

Aistear week 14/10/13

This week the infants are making a supermarket in the Construction Corner, creating scarecrows from fibre and fabric at the art table, making shopping lists and then buying animals in the mart in the Home Corner, and building factories from Duplo. The Junior Infants are learning the story of The Enormous Turnip and the Senior Infants are painting pictures inspired by Van Gogh's Sunflowers.

Farmer Eddie comes to visit!

Farmer Eddie came to visit Junior and Senior Infants today. He told the boys and girls all about the food we get from the farm. He told them about farm machinery, crops and animals. The children asked him lots of interesting questions!

Aistear week 7/10/13

This week, the children are role-playing in the vets, building farm machinery in small world and measuring grain in the sand/water area. They are enacting the story of 'the three little pigs' in the construction corner and making animal masks in the art corner.

Farmer David comes to visit!