Please enjoy a snapshot of some of our work during September.

Junior and Senior Infants

1st and 2nd Class

3rd and 4th Class

5th and 6th Class

We would like to welcome our new Junior Infants to big school. We wish them all the best as they take their first steps into education.

Junior and Senior Infants.

1st and 2nd class.

3rd and 4th class.

Junior Infants, Senior Infants, 1st class and 2nd class had a great day in Woodfield House.

3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class had an action packed day in Dunmore East Adventure Centre.

Junior and Senior Infants.

1st and 2nd class.

3rd and 4th class.

5th and 6th class enjoyed a very educational trip to Ballycrystal on Monday 24th April where they took part in Citizen Science activities including kick-sampling, photo posts, the Litterbug app, and the CrowdWater app.

A team from UCD guided the pupils as they examined the landscape and how it can change over time-this can be recorded using Photo Posts. They identified the three main rock types found in the Blackstairs area-Granite, Slate and Schist.

Taking kick samples from the local River Urrin, the pupils found “good insects” in the form of the Stonefly, the Mayfly and the Caddisfly which means that the water is very clean. Thankfully no “bad insects” in the form of Snails, Leeches or Waterlouse were found as these would indicate that the water is dirty and polluted.

They used the Litterbug App- an app used to record pollution in the environment, allowing for litter hotspots to be identified.

The pupils completed the Nature Bingo Worksheets throughout the morning identifying all the local flora, fauna and rock types along their journey.

We hope the pupils take the local knowledge gained and share it with family and friends now and in the future. Keep an eye out for photo posts/information posts which will be popping up around the local area in the near future as part of the overall programme being run.

We are very grateful to have been given the opportunity to participate in this programme. This trip was organised and funded by the CUPHAT Programme including the cost of bus hire

The Hurling 365 initiative has been a great success this year. Every Tuesday for the last 6 weeks our pupils in classes 3rd – 6th have been enjoying an early start to their day and getting in some early exercise.  Thank you to The Duffry Rovers club for organising the 365 initiative and for their strong continued support to the promotion of Gaelic Games in our school.