Junior Infants

Special Guest from Australia 🇦🇺🦘

Special Guest from Australia 🇦🇺🦘

We were delighted to welcome past pupil Grace Cronin (niece of Miss O’Regan’s) to tell us all about her adventures in Australia. We learned about native habitats and tourist attractions in Sydney, Australia. We enjoyed comparing and contrasting Ireland and Australia...

Science Alive in Rang a hAon

Science Alive in Rang a hAon

We were thrilled to welcome Martha's Mum (Blánaid) to Rang a hAon today. She brought her Science expertise and dazzled us with fantastic experiments. We investigated the power of soap to repel germs, using pepper, water and soap. Then we made 'bugs on a string' to...

Junior Infant Scientists at Work!

Junior Infant Scientists at Work!

Junior Infants enjoyed watching the chemical reaction between Diet Coke and mentos today. Such excitement to see the explosion happen!

Ireland’s Call

Ireland’s Call

While the Rugby world cup might not have gone as we planned it certainly raised the spirits of our youngest classes who sang their hearts out on yard to Ireland's Call for our 'Green Day'. We could definitely have used some of their voices over in France!

New LEGO Sets

New LEGO Sets

We would like to sincerely thank one of our sixth class families for kindly purchasing LEGO sets for use in all of our classrooms and SET rooms. LEGO has fantastic benefits including improved hand/eye coordination, the development of spatial skills, enhanced fine...

Celebrating Maths Week in Naíonáin Bheaga.

Celebrating Maths Week in Naíonáin Bheaga.

Junior Infants are enjoying maths stations each day this week. Activities include sorting objects into sets according to different criteria, match the spots and count the ladybirds hiding on the leaves, roll the dice, maths games on the iPads and creating patterns and...

Budding Artists in Junior Infants

Budding Artists in Junior Infants

Junior Infants enjoyed learning about primary colours, mixing colours and worked together to solve colour wheel puzzles. Check out their lovely teddies that they created as a result of mixing the primary colours. 👩‍🎨🧑‍🎨🎨🖌️

Buddying up for the Scilly Walk!

Buddying up for the Scilly Walk!

Junior Infants enjoyed a lovely stroll on the Scilly Walk today, accompanied by their buddies in Rang a 6. Surrounded by nature they made some lovely new friends!