Junior Infants, New School Year 2025/26.!!
April.
April is Autism Awareness Month
here in our school.
April took us into Term 3 and more
fun and busy learning.
We explored money and had superb
fun playing shop, sorting, making coin
rubbings and problem solving too!
We celebrated Earth Day and found
fun ways to look after the Earth,
such as removing litter and recycling.
Our SESE topic was all things winged!!
March,Spring and
SnaG.
We had many fun and exciting events in March. We celebrated
World Book Day by dressing up, taking our favourite stories
into school and teaming up with older classes for reading trains.
We celebrated Seachtain na Gaeilge with Bodhran, art, games
and a whole school performance assembly.
We created Leprechaun trap designs and junk art traps too!
February Fun!
First off, we had St. Brigid cross making with 6th Class.
We worked in buddy pairs to make crosses. Great Fun.
We celebrated Chinese New Year and welcomed our
very treasured Grandparents to the school and
classroom.
We made a chinese restaurant in Aistear and had
much fun along the way.
We made Chinese paper lanterns too!
In maths we were exploring shapes in more detail and
we had Show and Tell with our favourite objects.
We created Valentines Art using our handprints.
Our stations in PE continued with some gymnastics
and mat work this month.
In S.P.H.E we explored the human body and got very
splashy washing the dolls.
January 2026.
January is Houses and Homes time. We are exploring
houses and homes around the world.
We are making homes in Aistear, LEGO and so
much more...... SUPERB!!!
This month our focus is on the number 4.
Christmas Wishes.
The Man Himself came to visit and we had a wonderful
chat with him.
Thank you Santa for visiting.
We had Christmas Concerts, art and lots of creative play.
November Highlights.
October Already!
Happy Halloween.
Happy Halloween!!
September 2025.
We have been settling in to school
and busy with new learning and routines.
We are excited to welcome our new Infant class to
school on Wednesday, 27th of August.
School staff will be on hand to welcome your child
at the P.E Hall doors at 9.20am.
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Joyful June!
June brought school tours and sport!!
Mighty May.
May brought with it Wellbeing Week and
all things relaxation. We had daily relaxation
and meditation and every day had a wellbeing
focus. We enjoyed cloud watching, outdoor
yoga, wearing our comfy clothes and so much
more. A brilliant week!
SPACE!!!
Lots of cool Aistear and Space
inspired activities!!
May was so sunny and we could have P.E outside.
It's almost Easter!!
We have been busy with all things feathers and
Spring.
We followed Rosie the Hen and many winged creatures.
March in K.N.S.
March has taken the Junior Infants on a host
of adventures already.
We celebrated Pancake Tuesday, Grandparents' Day
and World Book Day.
Here are some pictures of our month so far!
We had our school Inspire Awards!!
Our Junior winner was a most worthy recipient.
It was our priviledge to welcome Grandparents.
We completed our Drama with Kerry.
We created a supemarket in Aistear
February Fun.
This month our Aitear was the Take-Away.
We had fantastic fun making our props and meals.
New Year. New pictures!
Handa.
We completed a unit of work based on Handa.
This month our themes and learning topics involve
houses, homes and 3d shapes.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
December has been full of fun and preparations for our Nativity and Christmas Art.
November.
November has been a great month. We have
been immersed in Maths and enjoyed Science Week.
Autumn has been an inspiration for art and SESE.
Our Aistear theme this month is the Post Office.
Happy Halloween!!!
October pictures and adventures.
It was all hubble, bubble, toil and trouble making
our bubbling cauldrons!!
Witches and Puca popped into many of our subjects.
Some pictures of other activities this month.
September 2024.
It has been a busy and fun-filled start to the
school year.
We have been busy learning lots of new subjects.
We explored all things Gruffalo and The Kissing Hand.
We are busy with Wellbeing and Maths.
Welcome New Junior Infants.
We are super excited to welcome our new Junior Infant class.
The Junior entry door is marked as below in the picture.
We look forward to a very happy and busy school year ahead.
Sensory Rooms 2024.
Just a BIG Thank You to all who
contributed to our Sensory Fundraising
this year. We have been able to
upgrade our sensory rooms and
create dedicated sensory spaces in each classroom.
Moving on up!!
We made a visit to the Senior Infant
classroom for a good explore and to try
out sitting at the desks.
We are super excited for all the new
adventures that await us next year.
Busy, busy, busy!
School Sports Day 2024!!
We had a fantastic Sports Day.
School Tour 2024.
We had our very first school
tour this week to Best 'o' Matz
in Kells. The bus was brilliant fun too!
Thank you to all the school staff
who looked after us so well and to
the Playcentre staff and Dessie
who drove the bus!!!
The Month of May.
Up, up and away!!
Our Aistear theme this month
is the Airport.
Junior Infant Art.
Autism Celebration.
April is Autism Awareness Month.
We are delighted to celebrate
Autism in our school.
April in Juniors.
Firm favourite, Rosie Hen was back for a visit and
brought lots of fun activities for us to try.
Mighty in March!!
We had the best fun playing music for Seachtain na
Gaeilge. Thank you Mrs. Arkins for our music session.
This month our theme is THE VETS!!
Here are some highlights from all our Aistear!
Fabulous in February.
Here are some pictures of what we have been
up to these past few weeks.
Grandparents' Day.
A wonderful day of celebration in our classrooms and school.
The Grandparents visited classrooms
and were treated to whole school performances in the hall.
A most magical day!!
Our theme this month was Chinese New Year.
We made lanterns and art based on Chinese
myths and legends.
It was lovely to make cards for Valentine's Day too!
S.T.E.M and motor skills.
We created in KNEX and Magnets as part
of S.T.E.M.
January 2024.
We kicked off the new school term in style with
Maths Minds Stations and lots of wonderful
new learning adventures.
Aistear this month was the House and Home.
SHOW AND TELL.
The Junior Classes had their Inspire Awards.
Alannagh was Junior Infant Inspire winner!!
Congratulations Alannagh.
We have started gymnastics this term.
Some pictures from Maths Minds Groups.
We read the story of My Great Grandpa,
by Martin Waddell.
We worked as detectives to spot the clues!!
Glad tidings in December...
Santa Visit.
Santa came to visit us and give us treats.
Christmas is coming!!
We have been working so hard in our Aistear
Santa's Workshop. Oh boy, do we really empathise
with poor Santa and all the elves!!
November Adventures.
November has been full of Science with
the Intel Mini Scientist Competition taking
place in the senior classes. We so enjoyed
exploring all the great projects.
We had Science Week in the school and in our class we explored
and investigated sound and materials.
Our school received this amazing flag.
We were proud to show it off to everyone.
Autumn and autumn colours have inspired
some of our wonderful art creations.
October.
Halloween Spooktacular.
We co-hosted the Halloween Whole School
Assembly with Senior Infants.
We loved dressing up and singing our song,
5 Batty Bats for everyone.
We wish everyone a very safe and exciting
Halloween.
October means MATHS WEEK!!
We are creating maths games and displays.
We started Aistear this month and kicked off
our socio-dramatic play with SCHOOL!!
September 2023.
Our school was so happy and excited to welcome
the new Junior Infant Group.
A very happy and busy first month has been
underway.
Here are some pictures from some of our
activities so far.
There has been sorting and painting and cutting
and sticking. We met MATMAN and made him using
all manner of materials.
We have started work on literacy and early writing skills.
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Joyful June.
.....and that's a wrap!
Thank you to everyone who made
our first year of school so special.
The Christy Ring Cup
and
The Heineken Cups
visited our school in June.
We had a lovely visit to (and explore of)
the Senior Infant classroom
We are sooooo looking forward to being
in Senior infants in September.
SPORTS DAY 2023.
May.
School Tour!!
We went to Mellowes Adventure Centre for our
first ever school tour.
May has been a busy blast!! We have been
exploring all things Space and Planets!!
We made our own personalised Hurling Sticks!
We are using them with coach!!
Legend Hen, Rosie was the inspiration for our display.
May Medals.
Congratulations to our Community Games Art
Competition Winners!!!
Everyday, the Junior Infant pupils make our school
so proud. Well done!
Our Literacy Groups are just superb fun !!
April.
Busy, busy, happy!!
The month of April has been jam-packed with
so many brilliant tasks and activities.
We had Well-Being week and Active Schools too.
Daily walking and Mary Poppins inspired dance with
Corona was such fun for Active School Week.
We started Hurling with Coach. Brilliant.
We enjoyed amazing activites for Well-Being Week.
We had stories, yoga and mindulness time.
We are exploring 3D shapes too, great fun!!
March.
It was all about Green in the classroom this month.
From shamrocks, to rainbow, pots of gold and
Irish traditional music...we had it all!!!
Nature in the form of butterflies and a visit by Vet Grace
and Snowy the Lamb all made our month!!
February.
Pancake Tuesday.
We made Pancakes with
Miss Mc Nally. They were
so delicious.
We had a very informative talk from
our community Garda.
Thank you Garda Edel!
We took part in the BIG SPRING CLEAN.
Spring arrives with
Saint Brigid
and we celebrate
the Chinese New
Year.
We celebrated Saint Brigid and made
crosses from rushes.
We have been enjoying Drama classes
with Penelope.
The School Readathon has been a
wonderful experience too!
We were inspired by Banksy for
Valentine's Art making.
January 2023.
The New Year has taken us on
new adventures!
Catholic School's Week.
Grandparent's Day 2023.
It was so special to welcome
Grandparent's to our classrom to
colour, chat and look at books with.
A great experience was enjoyed by all!
This month our Aistear topic was
Houses and Homes.
We explored houses all over the world.
We explored types of houses and how they are built.
Handa's Surprise.
We explored the Story of Handa's Surprise.
We created houses and structures from the story.
We sequenced all the parts of the story using
drama, art and socio-dramatic small world play.
We had great fun making fruits for Handa's basket.
In Literacy, we are having fun spelling and creating words.
We had SHOW and TELL after Christmas
and got to show some of our new toys.
We had great fun telling and talking about our
favourite toys and even more fun playing with the
toys and games together.
We shared lots of pictures of our Show and Tell
on Seesaw.
Happy Christmas.
A very safe and happy
Christmas from all of us
in Junior Infants!!!
It has been a great few weeks preparing for Santa.
We have been enjoying lots of Christmas activities
from decorating the tree and school spaces, to
creating and playing in our own Santa's Workshop.
We hope you enjoy looking at some pictures of all
we have been doing these past few weeks.
Santa came to visit and we got gorgeous chocolate gifts.
We decorated our classroom.
Bethlehem was the setting for our Concert Tableau.
We explored the Nativity in art, Aistear and drama.
Our Aistear Socio-drama area was Santa's Workshop.
We decorated the school tree.
Friend of the Junior Room,
Stickman made an appearance too!
November in Junior Infants.
How quickly it flew and how jam packed our month
of November was!!
We attended the Intel Mini-Scientist fair in our school.
We participated in Science week
and lots of fun experiments.
Our favourite was the Dancing Raisins!!!
We experimented with heat and Penguin huddles to keep warm.
Our Aistear Theme this month was the Post Office.
Our School had an Anti-bullying Week.
Be Kind was our Motto.
In Maths we were all about 2D shapes and Pattern.
We are loving our CVC word work. We like finding
and writing as many CVC words as possible.
oOOOOctober!!
October was a very busy month. We had the most
fun playing school in Aistear and wearing our
Maths Eyes for Maths Week.
We really enjoyed all the spooky Halloween stories and
rhymes and songs...especially when teacher wears her
witches hat and uses her funny voices!!
Here are just a few pictures of some of the things we
have been up to.
We explored school and home wearing our maths eyes for
shapes and number.
September 2022.
Welcome
New
Juniors!!
We are so looking forward
to welcoming our new
Junior pupils to school on
Thursday 1st of September
at 9.20 am.
The Junior Infant pupils will enter via
the
the Left hand PE Hall door daily.
This is also the door for daily collection.
Junior Infant pupils will finish at
12 o'clock daily for the first few days.
The Bookends.
A school is full of books and stories. A school is full
of nurturing, emparting knowledge and skills.
Our departing 6th class took time to work in the
Junior Room and share the positive and beautiful
gift of reading.
Two bookends, Juniors at one end and 6th at the other.
Two ends of a school story.
Best of Luck to the Class of '22 graduates.
June Activities.
Our Aistear topic this month was The Airport.
Our airport was very busy, but we had no major
queues!!
We had wonderful fun creating cards for
Father's Day.
We learned all about Vincent Van Gogh this month.
Jumping in June.
We had our 1st Sports Day.
We had a brilliant day.We enjoyed the Bouncing
Castle and Obstacle course.
We had so many fun races and ended the day with
our Class Teddy Bear's Pic-nic!!!!
Amazing in May.
School Tour Excitement!!
Hurling Creative.
We designed and painted our own hurling sticks.
This month was all about Space.
In Aistear our socio-dramatic play topic
was the Veterinary Surgery.
We wrote about the vet and their job from our research.
It was all go for Active Schools Week.
We had such a busy week,but our
favourite was creating cool dance moves
with Corona.
Rosie The Hen.
This month we met Rosie the Hen and created lots of
art and sequencing tasks, drama and writing based
on the story.
APRIL 2022.
Easter Art.
Houses and Homes.
Marching into March.
We Celebrated World Book Day and
dressed up in Book inspired costumes.
Our theme this month was all things Ireland and
Saint Patrick.
Our Aistear topic this month is Houses and Homes.
Here are some pictures of our house and 3D shape
inspired activities.
We went on a village walk to explore the types
of houses and explore the old school.
A Spring in our Step!
We have loved watching for the arrival of Spring and
all the exciting new life and growth around us.
We have also been very busy working on our
hurling skills with Coach.
CHINESE NEW YEAR.
We learned all about the Chinese New Year
and explored artefacts from China.
Our Aistear and role play corner this month
was the Restaurant and Chinese Take-Away!
We created Chinese paper lanterns from red card.
We had the most BRILLIANT wellness week.
We danced,meditated,were mindful and focused
on our emotions!!
We celebrated Valentines by creating a beautiful
heart covered book mark!!!!
The Feast of St. Brigid. The arrival of Spring.
We had great excitement making a Cross.
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Spring has arrived with February and
we explored bulbs and Spring flowers.
January in Juniors!
We were so busy with our literacy stations.
In Aistear, our topic was the Surgey and visiting
the Doctor and Hospital.
Food and fruit were topics we explored
based on the beautiful story of
Handa's Surprise.
We ate all the fruits listed in the story and even made
prints using some of the fruits.
Fruits and food were also very central to
another topic we explored as we read the
Very Hungry Caterpillar and investigated
and explored the Life Cycle of the Butterfly.
December 2021.
Happy Christmas Everyone!!
Please enjoy the Junior Infants' Retelling of the Nativity Play through Aistear.
Well done to all the Junior Infants!!