February 2024

February welcomed Spring in Junior Infants and a trip to the Vets!  We read about a pet lamb who hurt his leg and read about his trip to the vets. In Aistear we set up the role play area in […]

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January

We returned to school on the 8th of January after a lovely Christmas break.  We started planning our Aistear theme ‘The Market’ straight away and set up stalls to sell the crafts that we created.  We read about Ella’s trip […]

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December 2023

This month saw Junior Infants head off on our first school trip.  We all travelled on a big coach to The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon to watch the panto ‘Little Miss Muffet’s Christmas Adventures’.  We loved it! We prepared for our […]

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November 2023

The Aistear theme this month was the Doctor’s Surgery.  We learned lots of vocabulary such as stethoscope, injection, receptionist, and surgery.  The highlight of our month was a visit to our lovely neighbours in the actual Doctor’s Surgery.  We were […]

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October

Here are some photos from Aistear this month.  Our theme was ‘The Farm Shop’ and ‘Halloween’ Our Halloween Aistear; with our haunted house, painting our mummies and spiders, making our PlayDoh monsters and making potions in our Witches Den!   […]

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September

Welcome to Junior Infants 2023/2024 Here are some photos from our first month in school: Here are photos of our first day in school. We have a timeline in our classroom and we will add pictures of activities we do […]

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School Tour and Sport’s Day

Junior Infants and Senior Infants travelled to Gruane Farm in Mayo for our school tour.  We had a wonderful time, we played outside and in the indoor play area.  We fed lots of farm animals and even got to hold […]

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June continued…..

We had our annual Sponsored Walk on Thursday 15th.  The junior end of the school walked out to the playground where we had a little picnic and then we played for a while. We sang songs on our way back […]

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June

Junior Infants have been very busy so far this month. Our Aistear theme for June is The Airport/Summer.  We have been very busy building airport terminals, aeroplanes and runways in the Construction Area.  In the Role Play area we are […]

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May

During the month we had a visit from William from Marine Explorers.  We learned about the importance of bringing our rubbish home with us when we visit the beach; to keep the wildlife and fish safe from harm.  William also […]

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