Newbridge Educate Together National School
We have been learning about energy and forces in Aistear. We were learning about safety around electricity. about how electricity comes to our home and school and from where. We were exploring pushes and pulls and the impact a push or pull has on an object, we made our own static electricity with balloons and […]
In Senior Infants we have been learning about money. We are selling toys in our toy shop, buying ingredients for pizza, making shopping lists, playing money games on the whiteboard and making money bags. Have a look at us in our eadaí glas on Friday!
Next Friday the 22nd of March is World Water Day. We are encouraging all students and teachers to dress up in blue if possible. We will be running activities in school next Thursday and Friday to highlight the importance of water conservation to the children. More information on World Water Day can be found on […]
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Senior Infants performed Bualadh Bos and Must be Santa and it was a truly amazing performance. Well done Senior Infants.
We’ve been learning about people working in our community. We have also been learning about how and why we recycle. Repak have lovely characters and videos for children that explain why we should recycle. We were learning about the vet in role play. We also designed and tested columns for our S.T.E.M challenge. We had […]
We were learning about different types of houses in Aistear. We made detached, semi-detached, bungalows cottages and apartments. We learned about 2d shapes and added them to our houses. We explored where electricity and water came from and how it got into our homes, then we constructed our own homes with electricity and water. We […]
Some very scary pupils in Senior Infants today, bursting with excitement! We had fun eating bairín breac,milseáin, úll, agus cnónna this week. We enjoyed a halloween party with games such as musical statues and ‘secret signals’. After all their hard work Senior Infants deserve a good rest and I look forward to seeing you all […]
We have been learning about our school. We walked around our school and met some of the people working in our school. We met a secretary, a caretaker and cleaners. We learned the name of our school, Newbridge Educate Together. We are learning about materials in our classroom such as metal, plastic, wood, glass and […]
This week in Senior Infants we have been learning about number stories. For example, 3 bears went to the playground and 4 more joined them, how many altogether. We have been making number sentences with numicon shapes as well as addding, minus and equal symbols. We drew pictures to show our number stories and wrote […]
We are enjoying learning about autumn in Senior Infants. We are planting acorns and conkers, we are writing autumn words to match our pictures, we are sorting leaves and making leaf rubbings and we are making a crepe paper autumn tree. We’re also learning a lovely autumn poem with rhyming words. ‘Swirling, twirling, autumn leaves’.
The two Senior Infant classes enjoyed a walk to the Curragh last Thursday as part of Aistear, learning about autumn and trees. We brought our leaf identifiers and found a sycamore, a hawthorn, an oak, a chestnut and a beech tree. The children enjoyed collecting leaves, fruit and berries from the area.
Starting on Tuesday the 2nd October NETNS will be offering a selection of after-school activities. Activities will take place from 2.10pm – 3.10pm. Activities will run for 6 weeks over an 8 week period. No activities will take place the week of Progress Meetings 12th – 16th November 2018. Drama Club Roisin and Philip 4th […]
The children in Trish and Natalies’s Senior infants have had fun learning about what animals do during autumn. We are looking t fallen leaves and identifying what tree they come from. We found out badgers live in setts and are making our own from our designs. We are learning that nocturnal animals such as foxes […]