We had great fun sharing some new toys at golden time after working hard all week, a great start to the new year!

We had a brilliant time presenting our play Aladdin Trouble  to a packed house in The Celtic Ross on Wednesday night. All the hard work really paid off!

It’s a cold start to the day here in Reenascreena! What a picturesque scene it is!

We always have such fun playing together…!

We had a busy day in the Junior room organising some decorations for the hallway!

It’s always great fun when we get the 2 rooms together and today the task was to create a missing reindeer poster for Dasher based on a lovely story from the twinkl website called The lost collar. The results are fantastic! Well done everyone!

We had another session of Reading Buddies again recently – it was hugely beneficial to the younger and older pupils alike!

We were delighted to work with the pre-school on planting a Willow Den in the garden. Nikki Keeling from the Heritage in Schools Scheme came by on Friday with the knowledge and all important willow and the pupils of the Senior Room together with Anne and Nikki did the bulk of the hard work! The pupils of the Junior Room helped with the weaving once the den itself had been constructed. It was a great day’s work and we really look forward to seeing the willow grow. Well done everyone!

Gross and fine motor skills are an essential part of young children’s development and we don’t ignore them! Here you will see our children working on different tasks using a variety of materials. Having an opportunity to work co-operatively is an added bonus!

We love the opportunity to work together in the Junior room. Here, the Junior and Senior Infants needed a little help from their pals in 1st and 2nd to complete this Food Dudes wordsearch.

We all love our PE lessons! Juniors – 2nd were put through their paces here!

We have borrowed sets of K’nex from the West Cork Education Centre and pupils in both rooms have had so much fun creating their own cars, motorbikes, tractors – you name it!

We are really enjoying the Food Dudes programme. Now that we have tasted all the fruit and veg, we know what to expect every day. The pupils are giving things a go that they don’t necessarily like already which is great to see!

Here’s an idea of some of the varied activities the pupils of the Junior Room get up to…

We are taking part in the Food Dudes programme and today was our first tasting session. We tried out cucumber and mandarins with great success. We look forward to seeing what we will be trying tomorrow!

We had a great start to our day today when the pupils of the Junior Room paired up with the older classes for a session of reading buddies! It was a great success and so beneficial for all the children. We look forward to doing it all again very soon!

We are always so happy to see the library bus coming every second Tuesday!

We were delighted to be entered into a draw by our friends from the pre-school to win a bug hotel from Skibbereen Garden Centre and even more thrilled when we were picked as one of the winners! It was delivered last week and already Fiona, Caroline, Sarah and their pupils have been busy making it as cosy as possible. We can’t wait to see who visits!

Next it was the turn of the pupils from first and second whose experiment was a little more challenging that the Infants’ one. This was called ‘Rainbows in a Jar’. It involved mixing oil with warm water before transferring the mixture to a jar and adding food colouring.

The pupils from the Senior Room came to observe and helped the younger pupils think about changes that could be made to cause different outcomes.

The pupils of Junior and Senior Infants took part in an experiment called ‘The Dancing Raisins’. We had great fun watching the fizz in the sparkling water cause our raisins to dance around! The 1st and 2nd class pupils gave great assistance to their younger classmates when they were writing their predictions and recording the results.

We had our traditional Halloween Parade in the corridor. It was great fun admiring everyone’s scary costume!

The pupils of 3rd and 4th were working hard this morning cracking codes to solve a Halloween puzzle!

There’s just a little hint of excitement in the Junior Room this morning! We have vampires, witches, farming contractors, superheroes, princesses, skeletons, a Grim Reaper, a knight and a clown in our midst!

It’s always great fun when both rooms get together! Today it was for a Halloween themed writing buddy session. Pupils of the Junior Room were paired with peers from the older classes to write and draw about the topic of Halloween.

It was a great success and we look forward to working together again very soon!

Playtime is one of the most popular times in our Junior Infants – 2nd class room. It is a vital part of children’s development in terms of turn taking, sharing, problem-solving and a whole range of social skills.

The pupils of the Senior Room picked their own experiments recently and carried them out with varying degrees of success today!

The pupils of 1st and 2nd have been having great fun doing quizzes on a website called Kahoot. The teacher creates a quiz and pupils imput the unique code on the iPad app. Points are awarded for every correct answer with the person answering quickest getting the most points. We used quizzes to assess our knowledge of each chapter of our novel ‘George Speaks’ by Dick King-Smith. We will be doing plenty more of these in future!

There is great excitement every second Tuesday when the library bus pays a visit. The pupils of the Junior Room couldn’t wait to get stuck into their choices – and yes the underfloor heating was turned on for extra comfort!

After the success of our Lego workshop, pupils have been bringing in their own creations having worked on them at home. What talented pupils we have in our school!

The pupils of the Junior Room are learning so much about Halloween this month.

Today’s activities included threading for Junior Infants, cutting and sticking letters for Senior Infants, cracking a code for 1st and 2nd and in mixed groups pupils were tasked with making 3D spooky Halloween houses. A superb day’s work by anyone’s standard!

The pupils (and staff!) estimated how many marbles Anne packed into this jar! All will be revealed at the end of the week!

The pupils of 1st – 6th classes had a great time at the Lego workshop, showing great creativity making modifications and improvements to the instructions!

We were delighted to welcome Eileen and Donncha from Bricks4Kids to our school for Lego workshops as part of Maths week activities today! The pupils of Junior and Senior Infants had terrific fun building clock towers (it was every bit as challenging as it sounds!)

The pupils of the Junior Room are keeping very busy doing a variety of Halloween themed activities!

The pupils of the Junior Room had great fun playing with new sets of Lego today!

The old favourite toys were still popular!

The talented pupils of Junior Infants – 2nd class engaged in Sugar Painting recently with wonderful results! Their efforts really brighten up our hallway!