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🧙♀️ Egg Carton Witches – A Spooky Halloween Craft
With Halloween just around the corner, our classroom has been busy brewing up some spooky fun! This week, we transformed ordinary egg cartons into wickedly wonderful witches! 🥚✨ Each witch turned out completely unique — some friendly, some frightful, and all full of Halloween charm! 🧹🎃 This craft was a brilliant way to reuse materials, explore painting and cutting skills, and let our imaginations run wild. Now our classroom is filled with cackles and colour, a sure sign

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Oct 231 min read


🌧️ Rain Cloud Experiment – Learning About How Rain Works!
This week in our classroom, we carried out a fun science experiment to help us understand how rain is formed. All pupils were so excited to become “mini meteorologists” for the day! 🌦️Here’s what we did: We filled the jar about three-quarters full with water, this represented the air. Then we added a layer of shaving foam on top, our fluffy cloud! Using a dropper, we carefully dropped blue (well it ended up being red, as shops were all out of blue, very Halloweeny) food colo

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Oct 191 min read


Painting Fun
We had great fun this week mapping out our spider webs with tape and then painting them. We can’t wait to lift the tape to reveal our fabulous webs.

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Oct 141 min read


Maths Fun
This week in First and Second Class, the classroom was buzzing with hands-on maths activities! The pupils engaged in a variety of...

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Sep 251 min read


Out and About
This week, we took our learning outdoors and celebrated the beauty of autumn with a special egg box nature trail ! Each child was given...

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Sep 221 min read
World Book Day
We enjoyed World Book Day in school.

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Mar 221 min read
A Fantastic Funky Kids Show
Super proud of all our pupils. They were absolutely brilliant performers.

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Mar 221 min read
Recount writing
We love writing every day. We have lots of stories written. We have our free writing books and we are using Book Creator to draft our own...

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Feb 201 min read


Winter Scenes
After all the snow we were inspired to create a art piece entitled ’Winter Scene’.

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Feb 101 min read


Money, Money, Money.
Lots of hands on maths today with First Class. We are learning about Euro coins. We sorted all our coins today. Well done everyone!

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Feb 11 min read


Hands on Maths
We enjoyed working on fractions this week. Lots of activities and great fun too!

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Nov 23, 20241 min read


Fabulous artists
We all had great fun during art class today. We created a beautiful piece of artwork using leaves. We used spray paint. It was great fun....

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Nov 8, 20241 min read


Spooky Experiments
We had great fun making a ghost and some slime today.

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Oct 25, 20241 min read


Halloween Fun
Lots of great costumes from our junior pupils today . Happy Halloween.

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Oct 25, 20241 min read


Our Forest School Experience
The pupils in second class had a fabulous day out at Abbeyleix Estate and Farm. We headed into the woods with Maura from The Acorn...

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Oct 18, 20241 min read


A super science experiment
We enjoyed our science experiment this week. We talked about the circulatory system of a stalk of celery. We used food colouring to show...

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Oct 14, 20241 min read


Outdoor maths activities
We enjoyed creating some great equations today.

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Sep 7, 20241 min read


Bike Day for Juniors
We really enjoyed cycling our bikes in the school grounds today.

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Jun 20, 20241 min read


Pizza Day
We made lovely pizza in school this week. Yummy!

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Jun 20, 20241 min read


Our School Tour
We had a great day out at the ‘Let’s Go’ adventure tour in Kilcullen.

Mrs. Orla Mythen First & Second Class
Jun 20, 20241 min read
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