2nd Class

The whole school enjoyed dressing up for World Book day. It was great to see children and teachers dressed up as characters from their favourite books.

2nd class were enjoying the spring weather last week and decided to draw some spring pictures. Instead of using colours though they used wool and pieces of fabric to create the pictures. They had a lot of fun experimenting with the different textures and colours.

2nd class were very busy this week learning about 3d shapes. At the start of the week they worked together working out how many edges, faces and corners all the 3d shapes had. Later in the week they worked together making some of these shapes out of spaghetti and either marshmallows or play dough. They worked well together helping each other make the shapes.

It was a very busy month on the lead up to the holidays in December. The parents classes enjoyed their graduation and had a celebration at the end of their classes. The parent's association enjoyed a special Christmas breakfast. Ms. Coleman had a very busy month. There was cuddle and read with the children in Early Start with parents, grandparents and other relatives coming in to read with the children. There was the draw for the Christmas Hampers for all the families that brought in their Christmas Wish stars. 4th class sang in Blackpool at the Community Christmas market. Everyone there enjoyed listening to them and the children enjoyed listening to the other schools performing as well. The two 2nd classes were busy as well. Mr. Stack's class went baking cookies while Ms. Twohig's class went playing Christmas games on the school chrome books. 3rd class put on their own puppet shows in their classes using shadow puppets that they made themselves. The end of the term finished off with a whole school December Assembly where 1st class performed a Christmas song through ISL (Irish Sign Language) and the Junior Infants performed some wonderful Christmas poems.

In late November Ms. O Neill surprised the whole school by inviting an ice cream van to the school. All the children (and staff) were delighted with the special treat.

The whole school loved dressing up on the day of the Mid term holidays. There was super heroes, ninjas, witches and many more. Even the teachers got in on the fun.

2nd class were very busy last week. In science we were learning about light and shadows, so one wet morning the children all made their own shadow puppets and tried them out on the classroom walls. We were also learning about famous clock landmarks around Europe. We have our own famous clock in Cork- Shandon Bell tower. The children drew their own version of Shandon using chalk pastels. Some children even decided to add their own extra details in the background. They were so happy and proud of  their finished pieces that we went and showed them to some of the other classes.

There is some wonderful art on display in the classroom and on the school corridors. All this art has been done by the children in all the classes. They have been inspired by famous artists, Nature, Maths, and local landmarks.

Second class have been very busy this week. We have been learning about the farm long ago and how the farmers had to do a lot of things by hand. After hearing this the class decided to try and make butter by hand. It was not as easy as it seemed but the children enjoyed trying to make it. Later on in the week after learning about Autumn, the children made some apple crumble from freshly picked apples from a member of staff's garden. The children had fun tasting the apple before peeling and chopping the apples and making the crumble. After baking it and cooling it the class loved tasting their baking.

We were delighted to welcome the Lord Mayor Councillor Kieran McCarthy to the school today. The whole school welcomed him with the infant classes waving their flags, while the children sang a beautiful rendition of Ireland's call. The Lord Mayor spoke to us about how he developed a love for the history of Cork City and how he was always trying to find out more information.