| March has been a very busy month in our school. Engineering week was a great hit in our school. The children loved learning about all different types of engineers and became engineers themselves. The children in the senior room studied different female engineers and completed projects on them as International Women’s Day also took place during that week. The junior room had the task of building bridges and windmills, they were brilliant. We have some future engineers in our school. We celebrated World Book Day in March too. The children did a catwalk to show off their costumes and their favourite books. The school joined up together and did some shared reading which they really enjoyed. We finished off the day with a colouring competition and a quiz which the children loved. Next up, St. Patrick’s Day. The children listened to and discussed the story of St. Patrick. Beautiful art and crafts were created by the children in both rooms. The junior room made Leprechaun magnets for their fridges and the senior room created their very own Leprechaun. The junior room is covering the theme of Fairy tales this month. They were hard at work designing their own castles. We heard the story of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk. We integrated Jack and the Beanstalk into Engineering week and the children had to build a beanstalk which stood by itself. We then learned all about silhouettes. Beautiful silhouettes of castles with colourful backgrounds were created. Seachtain na Gaeilge also took place during March. We did the Walls of Limerick Irish dance and the senior room learned 'Waving flag', 'Abair leat' as Gaeilge. We are very lucky to be taking part in the BLAST programme again this year. The aim of BLAST is to provide pupils with the time and the space to work with a professional artist on creative, imaginative and fun projects. The focus of our BLAST this year is mindfulness. The children received a personal notebook where they recorded their personal likes to do with their 5 senses e.g. their favourite smell, noise etc. The children were then told to imagine their favourite place while guided meditation was read to them. Next, they were given free reign, in groups, to design their own window pieces which mapped out their collective mind palaces. These really brighten up the classrooms and the children are so proud seeing their work displayed on the windows. The children created beautiful Easter art work to display in our local Adair hall. We had a coffee morning in the hall as a fundraiser organised by the PA in our school. It was a great success and the parents were so generous with their donations of beautiful baking. We also held a rafflle. At the end of March we took part in the Great Irish bake off in aid of the CHildren's Health Foundation. We made and decorated rice crispy buns. The children had great fun doing this while raising much needed funds for a great cause. We are all looking forward to the last term and all the fun things we will be doing. |
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