Maths Week
From the 13th-20th October it was maths week. In
the junior and senior room we enjoyed great maths activities,
including being shape detectives, numbers maths trail, a classroom trail, maths
stations, a maths hero each day, maths songs, problem of the day and much more
!! The children had great fun and it was a great opportunity to have active maths classes every day.
Aistear
During October we learned about
people who help us in our community. We learned about the people who help us in
our school, library, park rangers and doctors/nurses.
School
Here we
learned about all the people who help us in our school including teachers,
caretaker, secretary, principal, cleaner and Rev Brian. Mrs Lawson came to talk
to us about how to become a principal.
Library
We
visited our local library in Rathdrum and asked the librarian questions about being
a librarian.
Park Rangers
We went
outside and looked for the signs of Autumn and pretended to be park rangers in
Glendalough.
Doctors
We
learned about doctors and nurses and Sarah & Daniel’s Mum who is a nurse
came and told us all about being a nurse in a busy hospital.
Friendship Buddies
We are delighted to have started a friendship buddies programme in the junior room. Every week the children are partnered with different friendship buddies. The children have been told that they can approach their buddy if they are feeling lonely on the playground and their buddy will play with them. If they are feeling sad, their buddy will go up to a teacher and tell them. The friendship buddies idea is to support children on the playground so they know they have a child they can go to, if they need someone.
We had great fun learning lots of
spooky Halloween songs, making bats & witches and Halloween cards. We acted
out the story Room on a Broom and had fun bobbing for apples and making
chocolate apples. On our last day before mid term we all dressed up for
Halloween and loved walking in the school Halloween parade.
