School News – Page 3 – Navan Educate Together N.S

3 May

Artist of the Month

Senior Infants were busy learning about the artists Graham Knuttel and Georgia O’Keefe this month. Georgia O’Keefe painted this beautiful picture of a sunflower which tied in nicely with our sunflower theme. We love her paintings of flowers and reflections. Graham Knuttel is a famous Irish artist. His colourful paintings feature lots of people, cats […]

29 Apr

5th Class- Writing Genre: Report Writing

5th Class have been exploring report writing this month in class. We looked at some key features of report writing to begin with and and analysed an example of a sample report in class. Then we read through some different styles of reports in our textbooks. After that we began to plan our reports and […]

29 Apr

5th Class Assembly- Equality and Equity

Well done to 5th Class who spoke about equality and equity at their recent assembly, using practical examples to explain these terms. Great work!

26 Apr

Junior Infants A Visit the Jungle!

This month Junior Infants A have been exploring the theme of “The Jungle” in school. These are some of the activities they have enjoyed:– Building jungles (including vines and caves!) in Aistear– Creating clay snakes in Art– Reading stories like “Giraffes Can’t Dance” and “Walking Through the Jungle”– Going on a jungle walk in Drama. […]

25 Apr

World Earth Day April 22nd 2024- Junior Infants B

For our lesson in Learn Together this week we celebrated World Earth Day. We chatted about how we can look after our planet earth and made a promise to recycle items that we can use again. We loved dipping our hands into paint to make our handprint and show that we can “change the world […]

25 Apr

Science Fun

Well done to Liliana in 5th class who got creative and designed her very own volcano using paper mache. She then used water washing up liquid, vinegar and bicarbonate soda to produce a reaction. She showed the eruption to classes around the school! Well done Liliana and thanks to Luna for helping her out!

24 Apr

Give Bees a Chance!

The Blue Rainbow Room children had so much fun reading and hearing about honey bees and then researching and completing projects on them. We learned all about the habits, life cycle and other interesting facts about honey bees and their importance in the world. We also made seed bombs with honey bee friendly flower seeds […]

24 Apr

Red Rainbow Room visits the school library.

The children in the Red Rainbow Room enjoyed their visit to the school library. The boys and girls explored the library, selected a book of their choice and found a cosy corner to read it in!

24 Apr

Blossoms and Butterflies

The children in Senior Infants love seeing the beautiful cherry blosssom trees that are in full bloom at the moment so we used print to create our own blossom tree and lots of beautiful butterflies. They also planted sunflower seeds and are looking forward to seeing the shoots peep through the soil over the coming […]