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Category: Birch

SI Birch Tennis Taster

We really enjoyed our tennis taster today too! Our coach Anna taught us some great core tennis techniques.

R-Controlled Vowel Hunt 🔍📚

Today in Senior Infants Birch, we explored books to spot r-controlled vowel sounds we learnt last week. The children worked in pairs or independently, eagerly creating lists of the words they discovered!

Easter Fun 🐣🌷

5th Larch made baskets for their Senior Infants Birch buddies and enjoyed an exciting Easter egg hunt together! 🥚✨  

STEM Workshops in Action! 🤖🔧

Our STEM workshops this week were full of excitement, creativity, and hands-on learning! Pupils from Senior Infants to 3rd Class explored, experimented, and solved problems in a fun, interactive environment led by the Clever Cogs team. They had a fantastic time programming cars, building marble-powered machines, and exploring STEM toys, all while developing hands-on skills and verbal reasoning. It was an amazing engineering experience, and everyone had a blast discovering the world of robots, machines, and creative problem-solving!

Seachtain na Gaeilge 🍀

We had a fantastic week celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge! Ciorcail Comhrá took place throughout the school, with lots of fun, laughter, and great Irish being spoken. Pupils enjoyed working together, building confidence, and using the language in a natural way. A big thank you to everyone who took part – go raibh maith agaibh!💚        

A School Full of Stories 📚✨

From witches and wizards to superheroes, animals and beloved characters, today St. Patrick’s was bursting with imagination for World Book Day! Children across the school celebrated their love of reading through costumes, quizzes, buddy reading, art activities and sharing their favourite stories together. A wonderful reminder that books can take us anywhere!    

Creative Garden Art Workshops 🌳🎨

Thanks to the generous funds raised at our Christmas Fair, students recently took part in a series of wonderful art workshops that combined creativity, nature and hands-on learning. During the workshops, the children learned all about tree planting, different types of plants and the importance of caring for our environment. They explored how plants grow, what they need to thrive and why trees are so important for wildlife and our planet. The highlight for many was creating magical garden fairies using natural items collected from the garden along with clay. A huge thank you to everyone who supported the Christmas Fair — your generosity made these amazing experiences possible. The smiles, creativity and learning throughout the workshops were truly something special! 🎄🌱🧚‍♀️🍃

Safer Internet Day – 10th February 💻🌍

At St. Patrick’s NS, children’s safety and wellbeing are at the heart of all we do. Safer Internet Day gave us a wonderful opportunity to shine a spotlight on digital wellbeing across the school. Using our It Takes a Village approach, alongside the TY Digital Passport Programme, our Buddy System and the STEM curriculum, pupils worked collaboratively to learn about, reflect on and raise awareness of strategies for staying safe online. Through age-appropriate books, videos and buddy discussions, children were supported in a safe and inclusive environment where they felt heard, valued and reassured that their safety is always our top priority. Our senior students played a key role in leading the learning throughout the day. Both 6th classes visited Temple Carrig, where they explored the merits and disadvantages of AI, engaging in thoughtful discussion about the opportunities and challenges of this rapidly evolving technology. Once back at school, our 6th class students teamed up with their Junior Infant buddies to share important online safety messages. They created colourful posters about staying safe on the internet and spent time chatting and colouring together, discussing the importance of protecting personal information online. Meanwhile, 5th class organised engaging activities with their Senior Infant buddies, helping them to understand key internet safety messages in a fun, supportive and age-appropriate way. We had great fun playing the Traffic Light Game, using red, yellow and green cards to decide if different online situations were safe, unsafe or unsure. We also tried some role play, acting out scenarios and showing what we would do to stay safe online. It was a fantastic whole-school effort, with children learning from one another and working together to promote a safer online world for everyone.

Exploring Homes Around the World 🏠

In the month of January, Senior Infants Birch have been exploring different kinds of houses and learning how houses are different around the world. We designed our own houses using various materials in Art.

Senior Infants Birch Christmas Concert

Senior Infants Birch had been practising very hard for our Christmas concert over the past few weeks. On Tuesday, the big day finally arrived and we proudly performed our three Christmas songs for our families, wearing our very own handmade donkey ears.

The class performed brilliantly and, despite a few technical difficulties, we really pulled it out of the bag, or Santa’s sack! 🎅⭐ Well done to all our wonderful performers.

Exploring Autumn Wonders!

In Senior Infants Birch, we’ve been learning about autumn. We’ve been collecting items for the nature basket, and we got to plant daffodil bulbs with our buddies from 5th class! We had so much fun and look forward to our bulbs bloom in spring!

Class Buddies!

Class Buddies! office378046 Sep 23 1 min read 5th class Elm got to meet their new buddies for the year ahead , Ms Glynn's Senior Infants. Having a buddy gives us a chance to be a leader, a friend and a positive influence to the younger children. It was very exciting!!! Elm Willow    

Growing Minds! Junior Infants Birch

Junior Infants Birch have been busy learning about ladybirds and sunflower growth. A couple of weeks ago, we planted some seedlings and it has been very exciting watching them grow! This week, Silvia helped us to re-pot our seedlings and we got the chance to see their roots under the soil. We’ll be taking them home with us at the end of the school year!

6th Class Holly

6th class researched all about Native Americans. In art they created their own totem poles, choosing objects that represent themselves.

Junior Infants Birch

Junior Infants Birch have been busy bees in our first week back after the holidays. We’ve had great fun building an extensive railway and were delighted to welcome Siobhán (SNA) to our class. We’ve been learning about flower growth, exploring seed germination and discovering the life cycle of a sunflower. Miss. Flynn is very impressed with our reading progress – we really enjoyed a treasure chest and coin CVC word game. Next week we’ll be planting our own sunflower seeds and observing their growth.

World Maths Day

Well done to our wonderful staff that dressed up as The Numberblocks ☺️ Junior Infants Birch also worked on 3D shapes. They constructed cubes using match sticks and playdough. The children were incredibly focused and patient!

CNY: Junior Infants Birch

Junior Infants Birch had a lovely time learning about Chinese New Year. We talked about 2025 being the year of the snake and each made a part of the snake’s body. Thank you to our TY work experience student, Charlotte for helping us make our snake! We learnt about the ancient emperor who asked some animals to race across a river. We now understand how each year is named after one of these animals.