Junior Room St Saviour's NS Blog: 2016

Sunday 6 November 2016

October 2016

Aistear

The junior & senior infants were delighted to start Aistear again in our classroom. This month the theme was “People who help us”.

The themes were as follows:

Week 1: School

Week 2: Park Rangers/Autumn

Week 3: Library

Week 4 : Doctor’s Surgery

For each theme we included the four stations – home corner : role playing/ small world: creating the scene using small world materials/ art: creating a art piece under the theme/ reading & writing: sequencing/drawing pieces under the theme. The children then report on each section to tell us what they did that day.

Library Visit

As part of the Aistear theme we visited the library in Arklow. We loved sitting in the children’s area to look at all of the books and the librarian read a lovely story to us. We registered with the library for our class membership and received our own library card.

Harvesting & Soup

The 3^rd & 4^th classes harvested the vegetables from the vegetable garden and then the 5^th & 6^th classes made lovely vegetable soup and scones. The junior and senior infants then were invited to the hall to taste the soup. It was yummy!

Heritage Council

Grace from the Irish Heritage Council visited our school to help us with our biodiversity flag. We went out to our school garden and learned all about the trees that grow in our garden. It was very interesting.

ESB

We were delighted to receive a visit from the ESB Networks to tell us all about being safe around electricity. They presented us with ESB high visibility vests and took our photographs. We entered a competition about being safe around electricity.

Maths Week

The infants had a great time during Maths week where each day we conducted different activities to show that maths is all around us. The highlight of the week was the maths trail with 4^th class. Each child received a prize for being a maths hero.

Halloween Dress Up

We were delighted to get dressed up for Halloween on our last day before mid-term. We paraded around the school yard and all of the parents watched us. It was great fun. Happy Halloween !!

Sunday 2 October 2016

September 2016

Welcome to the new junior infants and I hope you are settling into school life in St. Saviour’s NS. I hope the senior infants have had a wonderful Summer and they have grown so tall over the Summer.

During September we were busy getting used to our school routines and helping the junior infants settle into school.

· We formed our morning activities and every morning we work on a different play activity.
In SESE we learned about our families, locality and our senses.
· We attended our first assembly and learned the hymn Wide Wide as the Ocean.
· The junior infants started to learn their letters and have already learned s,a,t,i
· In October we are starting Aistear which is very exciting.

Friday 19 August 2016

June 2016

June 2016
June has been a very busy month with lots of exciting things happening in the infant room. We went on our school tour, visited the playground, continued with our Aistear and performed our favourite hymn "the birds up on the treetops" at our end of year service. I can't believe the time has come to say goodbye to my senior infants as they move onto 1st class. I know they will be wonderful as they move onto their next adventure and hope they come back to visit us in the infant room from time to time! We look forward to welcoming the new infants in September.
Have a wonderful Summer. Xx

School Tour
We had a fantastic day for our school tour down in Wexford.
First we visited a lego workshop where we had an opportunity to make lots of different creations with lego. Then we went to the beautiful Curracloe Beach where we enjoyed an ice-cream, had a beach scavenger hunt and built sandcastles. It was a really magical day and we were so lucky with the weather.