Sandcastles and Splashing

We decided to pay one last trip to the beach before breaking up for the summer.  Buckets and spades in hand we headed off down the hill. Do you know how many steps are between Upper Branch Road and Lower Branch Road? We spent our time digging sandcastles, writing our names in stones and splashing Read More …

The Farm

For our school tour we went to Sallyfort farm in Stradbally.  We spent the week before learning all about life on a farm.  Here we are making papier mache farm animals, driving our tractor to cut silage and bringing the cows in for milking.   We also looked at how to keep safe on a Read More …

Sea Life in School

We have been learning all about the sea.  We paid a visit to our local friendly fishmonger, Hartley’s  Sea Foods and were shown mackeral, prawns, anchovies, swordfish and many more.  We also munched on loads of samphire.  Yum yum.      Back in school, we made our own fish market, made a pretend visit to Read More …

Sports Day on Tramore Beach

We are so lucky to have this amazing resource on our doorstep.  Many thanks to the parents for making it all possible and for supplying those delicious treats.      We had a few classic races, sprint, egg (golf ball) and spoon, pancake race, beanbag on head race.  Then we had a goal shoot-out, bowling, croquet, Read More …

Creepy crawly hunt in October

In October we were busy learning about Autumn.  We enjoyed reading The Gruffalo and The Owl Babies. We created our own Gruffalo using different materials and we sponge painted our Owl Babies.   During maths time we were measuring and mixing to make our own playdough, which we used to make our five little pumpkins. Read More …