We had so much fun using our 6 Lego duplo blocks in many ways this week!

We started by choosing our favourite colour and went into groups to make the biggest towers we could!

Then we played desk twister where we listened to various instructions e.g. put your left thumb on your green brick, your nose on your orange brick and your right elbow on your red brick. It was so much fun!

We also followed instructions, played memory games and worked together to make different structures.

On Friday, 1st and 2nd used their mats to work on addition tables. Tables has never been so much fun!

This month we are all focusing on the fundamental movement skill of balancing. Have a look at the effort pupils across all the classes have been making!

1st and 2nd went out to Rosarie and worked very hard on their spellings and tables using iPads this morning!

Friday afternoon is a popular time when Infants are rewarded with golden time for working so hard all week!

After the magnificent effort everyone made last night, some treats were in order today! Everyone was given a Christmas annual and there was hot chocolate all round as well.

The Junior room performed ‘Ralph the reindeer’ and they were simply magnificent! Well done everyone!

The wonderfully talented pupils of the Senior Room performed ‘Straw and Order’ last night in The Celtic Ross Hotel. It was a magnificent production which had the audience entertained all the way through. Maith sibh go léir, a pháistí!

We were more than happy to drop everything and welcome a very special visitor to school yesterday!

Infants are learning all about the number 7 and having great fun working together in the process!

The pupils of the Senior Room had great fun playing co-operative games recently. The tasks turned out to be harder than they imagined!

The pupils of Junior and Senior Infants created beautiful Christmas trees today. This involved cutting, sticking, painting and careful deliberation about decorations! I think you’ll agree the end result is just fantastic. Maith sibh, a pháistí!

We were delighted to take a bus to the Pike Hall this morning to visit a mobile zoo which had travelled from Kilkenny. David the zookeeper told us some very interesting facts about the blue tongued lizard, tortoises and snakes. We even got to hold the reptiles as well!

We had a fantastic morning today as we were visited by Chrsitian, Mats and Monica as part of a programme called Dance Invasion organised by the West Cork Arts Centre. The pupils really enjoyed themselves!

Today the pupils of the Senior Room attended a Maths Mobile workshop in The Pike hall, Lisavaird organised by The Lifetime Lab in Cork.

It was a series of mathmatical challenges which encouraged teamwork, critical thinking and gave opportunities to problem solve in a fun environment.

Everyone really enjoyed the experience!

Enjoy these pictures of Juniors, Seniors, 1st and 2nd smiling and scowling as scarily as they can!

We were delighted to welcome the captain of Rosscarbery Ladies Gaelic Football U12 team to school this morning. She is none other than our own past pupil Annie! Annie and her teamates won the Cork County League recently and we all got a good look at the trophy! We heard from Annie and one of the coaches, her uncle Conor, about their road to the final and the very tough game they battled through to claim the title.

Well done Annie, you are an inspiration to us all and the Senior Room pupils were fired up and ready for Sciath na Scol action after learning of your great success. Watch out West Cork!

1st and 2nd had great fun inside and outside completing a Scavenger Hunt for Maths week. They worked together to complete such tasks as finding something smaller than their thumb; bigger than their hand; evidence of patterns; estimating how many star jumps they could do in a minute and many more maths-related activities. It was so much fun!

Junior and Senior Infants had so much fun using their Maths Eyes to spot circles, squares, triangles and rectangles in our school environment. They then worked together to make shapes using pegs. Maith sibh, a pháistí!

The pupils of the Senior Room had a great time following a maths trail yesterday!

The whole school took off on tour this morning and we had a terrific day at the Black Pudding Factory!

We learned about the history of black pudding, how it’s made, saw the production in action, learned about some of the history of Clonakilty and best of all – got to taste some delicious black, white and vegetarian pudding as well as sausages. The staff of the factory complimented the pupils on their magnificent behaviour which of course was not news to those of us lucky enough to work with these fantastic children every day but was lovely to hear all the same!

We were delighted to welcome Paudie Crowley Games Development Officer with Cork County Board to school last week for a training session. We are looking forward to seeing him again next Monday!

We recently invested in a programme called ‘Six bricks’. It is a very simple concept whereby pupils each have 6 Lego duplo bricks which they can use in endless ways including:

• Language such as describing in rich detail, giving clear instructions, explaining your reasons, and telling stories, which helps you to communicate with others and express your ideas.
• Problem solving including to stay focused, and remember a task or a challenge, set goals and make plans, come up with creative ideas,and reflect on what you do and how you do it.
• Collaboration as in working together in pairs or teams, share turns and the materials you work with, learn from your peers and their ideas, and give each other roles and responsibilities.

We had so much fun today and look forward to exploring more in the coming days!

The pupils of the Senior Room had a fantastic day at The Warren Beach today. We are so lucky to live in this beautiful part of the world! Our pupils learned about various aspects of ecology in the company of Calvin Jones from the Heritage in Schools project.  An exhausting but enjoyable day all round!

The pupils of the Senior Room had a great time orienteering yesterday!

We enjoyed another terrific Zumba class with Flavie this week!

We just love to see the library bus coming every second Tuesday! Pupils are allowed to broswe the selection and check out 2 books for the coming fortnight.

After all the excitement of Zumba yesterday, the pupils of the Junior room had a change of pace this morning when Clare (who covers Eimear’s principal release days every Thursday) started their day with a lovely Yoga session!

We had so much fun today doing Zumba with Flavie. We cannot wait for next week’s class already!

Concrete materials provide wonderful learning opportunities and help to consolidate crucial mathematical topics.

Today, Infants worked together to sort objects by colour and then classified according to their type while 1st and 2nd used Numicon to assist them with addition.

Plenty fun was had along the way!

Pupils from Juniors – 2nd were very busy today. Our book of the week was ‘Oi frog!’ and everyone drew their favourite part. The results are simply amazing! Everyone’s individual picture is on their Seesaw account so parents please log in to see for yourself!

We also had our first Golden Time of the year as a reward for great work and great behaviour all week. There was lots of sharing and endless laughing!

Maith sibh a pháistí, your teacher is very proud of you!