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Senior Infants’ Clay Work

Cecelia’s senior infants have been working very hard on improving our work in clay. Just before the holidays, we made clay shoes for a tiny baby! We spent one lesson creating them in clay and then a second lesson choosing colours and painting the…

The Fair Trade Step

The entire school performing the Fair Trade Step

Leon and Jenny’s 3rd Class performing the Fair Trade Step

Arts Week

Over the course of Arts Week each class selected an artist and created a piece of art work inspired by their chosen artist. The art piece takes the form of a life-size drawing or silhouette of a child from the class, done in the style of their chosen a…

Yousuf Karsh in Cecelia’s Class

Cecelia’s class have been working hard learning all about the famous portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh.  You can see a digital book of their work here…
We also did some music composition for homework.  Check out our pieces here!
 

Arts Week in Cecelia’s Class!

We have been having an excellent Arts Week so far! We’ve started our class project (based around the famous portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh), we’ve been doing lots of art as part of English and maths lessons, we’ve been creating lots of music …

Arts week in Aideen’s 1st Class

Wow what a week we’re having and its only Tuesday! We’ve had an action packed first two days of Arts Week. Yesterday we had a music workshop where we learned about all the different types of percussion instruments. We got to play music wi…

Arts Week Newsletter Thursday November 15th

Parent Newsletter Thursday November 16th
1 Arts  Week
Our 8th Annual Arts Week  takes place next week (19th to 23rd). This is a very important event in the life our school. The Arts ( Visual Arts, Music, Drama, Literature, Dance) is a flagship area o…

Art in 5th Class

Art in 5th Class

We love Art in our class. Here are some examples of our work.
“The Trellis in Bloom took ages but we enjoyed it”
“We picked really bright colours for our flowers”
“We are very proud of our Ogham Stones. Don’t they look great?”
“It was really cool to learn how to write our names in Ogham letters”
 

Trip to Watch House Cross Library – 5th Class

Trip to Watch House Cross Library – 5th Class

The two fifth classes had a great morning in Watch House Cross Library recently. We watched a one man circus act from Cork. Everyone enjoyed themselves. Some girls volunteered to take part and gave us a good laugh!
It was interesting to explor…

Capoeria with Sansao for Human Rights Month

Capoeira has its origins in Angolan and Nigerian traditions
The Portuguese arrived in Brazil in 1510 and forced many African people to work as slaves on the sugar plantations.
More than two million people were brought to Brazil from Africa for this p…

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