First Class

First Class 2022-2023

Term 1

'Concentric Circles' inspired by Wassily Kandinsky

The children really enjoyed creating their own version of the famous artwork 'Concentric circles' by Wassily Kandinsky. They used a variety of different oil pastels and white card. It is a lovely colourful display to have in the classroom.

Autumn Nature Walk

The children went on a lovely nature walk all around the school building looking for signs of Autumn. They collected lots of different types of leaves, sycamore seeds and pine cones.

Leaf Printing

The children used some of the leaves that they collected on their nature walk for leaf printing. They carefully painted the backs of each leaf, pressed it down onto white paper and peeled it off to create some beautiful leaf prints.

Storytelling with Niall de Búrca

The children all really enjoyed the storytelling session with Niall de Búrca. Bhí sé ar fheabhas!

Nature Walk to Ballywaltrim

We went on a nature walk with Carol to Ballywaltrim in the lovely Autumn sunshine. The children spotted lots of signs of Autumn along the way.

Map Drawing

Below are some photos of the children working together to draw maps of the route from our school to Ballywaltrim fields.

Maths Week 2022

Mathlethics Workshop
The children had great fun pretending to be 'human hands' on clocks.

2D Shaped Pictures
The children worked with children from fourth class to create fabulous 2D shaped pictures.

Maths Trail
Fourth Class made great maths trails for First Class. First Class really enjoyed looking for the answers around the school grounds.

Clay Monster Pinch Pots

As part of their Halloween art, the children made these fantastic Monster Clay Pinch Pots. They first moulded the clay into a round ball and then with their thumbs and fingers, they carefully pinched out the shape of the monsters. Then using the 'score & slip' technique, the children added eyeballs, fangs, tongues, horns etc, with each of them creating their own unique clay monster!

Halloween

The children all looked fantastic for our Halloween Parade

Seed Scholars

The children really enjoyed their Seed Scholar Workshop with Eliya. Great we have such lovely outdoor spaces on our school grounds.

Science Week 2022

For Science Week, the children had great fun trying out different experiments. The experiments including 'Dancing Raisins', Fleeing Colours and Leaking Bags.

Christmas Craft Fair

The children had a great time at our Christmas craft fair. They made Christmas stockings, paper angels, cards, salt dough ornaments and peg snowmen. Thanks to all the parents that helped out with the morning and made it such a success.

Term 2

Music

Body PercussionThe children had great fun doing body percussion to songs including 'The Greatest Showman, 'We will rock you', 'Dance Monkey' and Happy'. Click on the youtube links below to have a go!

Chinese New Year Parade

The children had great fun at the Chinese New Year Parade.
They really enjoyed wearing their 'rabbit' masks to celebrate the year of the rabbit.

Vincent Van Gogh Art

The children were learning about Vincent Van Gogh this month. They then had a go at re-creating their own fabulous versions of 'Starry Night' and 'Sunflowers'.

World Book Day 2023

All the children brought in their favorite books from home and showed them to the class. We also met with Third Class in the hall and the children spoke to each other about their books.

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Bhain na paistí a lán taitneamh as an seachtain. Bhí siad ag damhsa, ag canadh agus ag abair dánta.
Rinne siad mascanna leipreachán.

Planting Sunflower Seeds

The children planted sunflower seeds with Malcolm. They also experimented with sprinkling cress seeds onto wet cotton pads - we need to wait and see if the cress will grow!