This week 4th class enjoyed their first of six Science and Technology workshops at University College Dublin. The programme provides opportunities for the children to engage with a variety of STEM activities (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) based around the children’s interests and questions they have about the world around them. Read more…
Junior Infants have been having great fun learning all about the Garden Centre and Spring. We have been playing in the Garden Centre role play area, making homes for mini-beasts, creating beautiful Spring art and reading lots of exciting stories all about Spring! We have also been making a super effort Read more…
Hi everyone! March has been a very busy and exciting month so far for us! This month in Shannon’s Senior Infants, we have been enjoying the theme of Spring and the Farm. During our Aistear play time, the children have been creating farm animal handprint paintings, as well as using Read more…
Lots of fun, creativity and learning took place this week in 2nd class. To mark the fact that the season of Spring has officially sprung around Broombridge, 2nd class created beautiful daffodil artwork. They learned that a daffodil is a member of the Narcissus family. As part of Seachtain na Read more…
This month in Ross’ class we are learning about the Garden Centre with John. We planted some cress seeds on Tuesday last week. Our cress seeds need sunlight and water so that they can grow. We will water the seeds every day and we can hopefully bring them home when they are Read more…
On March 4th, our school took part in World Book Day. Some of us dressed up as our favourite book characters whilst others shared their favourite book with us. We spent time enjoying our library space and the fourth class even shared some stories with our junior classes. The day Read more…
We have had a brilliant week here in Broombridge celebrating Children’s Mental Health week. We kicked off the week with ‘Mindful Monday’. Classes were invited to take part in some mindfulness colouring, yoga, meditation or simply chill out to their favourite music. Next up was ‘Thankful Tuesday’ where we focused Read more…
In History and Geography we’ve been learning all about China. We looked at Emperors, armies made of clay, the Great Wall and Chinese New Year. Learning about China led to an interesting discussion about the differences between Capitalism, Communism and Socialism. Inspired by this we all wrote a piece entitled Read more…
Learn together We had lots of fun exploring the core value happiness! We have been working on ‘Life in a bag’ and enjoyed sharing all of the people, places and things that bring us happiness! We also have been singing and learning to sign the song “You are my sunshine” Read more…
We have been very busy in Maths this term. As Maths is our area of focus for School Self Evaluation where we are working to develop our Active Learning & Exploration, our classes have been full of fun and games!! Check out all the fun the children are having in Read more…