Category - News
What a busy term we have had. We have been settling in to our new class and learning lots of new skills whilst having lots of fun.
We have explored several themes including, autumn, houses and homes, winter and Christmas. In autumn we explored autumn colours and we made leaf rubbings using warm autumn colours and we made autumn wreaths. We made hedgehogs from clay and put them underneath leaves to hibernate. We also painted hedgehogs and covered them with leaves. We enjoyed sensory play with leaves and compost and we sowed bulbs so that we will have daffodils in spring.
We read the story of the Three Little Pigs and made houses for them in junk art. The repetition in the story was great for language development.
Whilst exploring the winter theme we made winter clothes collages and snow globes reflecting the cold weather in winter. We decorated our classroom for Christmas and had a very special visit from Santa outdoors.
Take a look at some of our art and activities.
4 th class have spent the year in St Mary’s Hall. They thought it a good idea to find out a little bit more about this important building in our parish and to share what they learned with their school mates.
Our Spelling Bee Champion, Sara O’Grady, recently took part in the Carlow County Final of the Eason Spelling Bee. Read her account below.
We were delighted to welcome our former student, Rosealice Byrne, back to Ballyconnell NS last week to regale our 4 th , 5 th and 6 th class students with details of her recent trip to The Gambia in West Africa.
Cathal and Peter tell us all about their day at the Credit Union All-Ireland Final, Ballyconnell NS’s first appearance at the finals since 2001.
Rang a 4 recently did some planting with Ms Ryan. Sarah tells us more!
Rang a 5 student and team member Florrie Cosgrove regales us with the nerves and excitement of Ballyconnell NS’s recent Credit Union Quiz triumph