Our Active School’s Committee has created a whole school Active challenge. The challenge is called “The Christmas Jumping Jacks Challenge”. Each class has a target number of “Jumping Jacks” to achieve over a 4 week period- ending on the 19th of December. Best of luck to all the classes!
This week we have been learning all about life in the past. We worked as historians and examined some old artefacts that Ms. Corrigan brought in for us. It was great fun getting to handle and use the old objects and guess what they were used for. We learned a lot about life in Ireland long ago from these artefacts.
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On Wednesday this week we went to Barmeath Castle for our autumn nature walk. Mrs. Bellew guided us through the forest and around the beautiful walled garden. There were lots of different trees, plants, birds and insects to spot. We also collected various types of leaves and fruit from the trees. We had a fantastic time exploring and examining nature in such a wonderful setting. Even the weather couldn’t dampen our spirits!
Last week was maths week and first and second class got involved by taking part in lots of maths activities, both in the classroom and outdoors.
The Be Active Programme is up and running! The first block is focussing on Athletics. The 2nd class pupils have been busy perfecting all the different skills associated with Athletics. All the pupils are having great fun, while also getting fit at the same time. Big thanks to the parent leaders who are doing an excellent job helping out with programme. The last session of block 1 will take place next Wednesday, the 22nd of October!
This week we have been enjoying the fine weather and went out on a maths trail. We had to work in teams to answer maths questions based on the school environment. It was brilliant fun and a great way to see how we use maths everyday and how it surrounds us in ways we don’t even realise.
We have also been learning about games this week. By talking to parents, grandparents and teachers we learned about games children played in the past. We loved learning about and trying games like Conkers, Red Lights, Giant Steps and Thread the Needle. Skipping was very popular in the class too. We learned some of the rhymes children sang while skipping like Cinderella, Skip To My Lou and England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales.
