Broombridge ETNS

Please find below our first school Wellbeing newsletter. A huge thank you to Georgia and Marley in 6th class for designing it and to Shannon for taking part in the interview. We hope you enjoy 🙂

It’s spring time in Spreagadh! We explored seed life cycles on our potato heads and constructed clay frogs for our forest area. We learned about the hindu celebration of Holi where people throw colour to welcome the spring – we made a beautiful mess!

We’ve been enjoying learning about time and using the clocks to make different o’clock and half past times. Our theme for this month has been the forest and have created some great art work such as the Kandinsky inspired trees, and fictional characters and scenes from the book ‘Where the Wild Things Read more…

We recently celebrated Seachtain Na Gaeilge in Broombridge. We had a wonderful time dancing up a storm at the ceilí, learning songs and swapping more than the cúpla focal.at the ciorcal comhrá, all leading up to our incredible seó faisin where our models showed off their incredible designs. Congrats to Síocháin for Read more…

Hola! For the past couple of weeks, Rang Dóchais (Amy’s Second Class) have been learning about Spain. We discovered some of the popular festivals celebrated, typical foods associated with different regions, major cities and important landmarks found there and facts about language, currency and pastimes. We created amazingly detailed maps Read more…

Fifth class spent an incredible afternoon in the Bogies this week, taking part in a nature scavenger hunt, creating artwork from fallen floral detritus,  then a well deserved break in the playground and astroturf. We had a really terrific time!

Spring has sprung in Rang Dóchais! Yesterday we took advantage of the beautiful sunshine and went for a stroll to the Bogies. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and represented the school brilliantly. We have also been busy using recycled materials to create spring bouquets in Art and learning about the Read more…

We have had a busy week in 3rd Class Misneach. On Monday we visited the TUD campus in Grangegorman. We got a tour of their renewable energy lab and made lego robots. We created some codes to make our robots move and stop. We learned a lot about STEM and Read more…

We’ve had a very busy week in Second Class Cnéalta! As it is now Spring, we planted cress seeds together. We learned that plants need soil, water, air and sunlight to grow. We can’t wait to see what our plants look like when they’re fully grown. Then, in art, we made Read more…