⭐✨'Reach for the Stars'⭐✨
Welcome to Senior Infants
with Ms. Kinlough and Ms. Creed
✨Important reminders✨ Golden Time - Friday afternoon
✨P.E. - Tuesday morning
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Happy Christmas!
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It certainly was a fun filled last few days in school. We did our 12 Days of Fitmas activities each day and had our Santa Dash on Monday.
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We even had our photo taken with Santa (see below)! All the boys and girls received a telephone call from Santa - all the way from the North Pole. We could hear the bells ringing in the background as Santa tried to get Rudolf to wait as he spoke to us!! It was so exciting.
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This week we also enjoyed watching our School Nativity and were very proud of our performance singing 'Gloria'. We also watched the Helix Panto which was very funny! Today we enjoyed our hot chocolate with marshmallows.
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Here are a few photos taken during the week. Don't we look great in our Christmas jumpers!
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Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and best wishes for 2023.
🎅🏻🎅🏻Christmas Concert 🎅🏻🎅🏻
✨✨It is that wonderful time of the year!! ✨✨
We were so thrilled to be able to perform in our Clonburris Christmas concert after missing out for the last two years.
We had so much fun getting ready for 'our concert debut' - we hope you enjoyed the show last night. The boys and girls were super and we are so immensely proud of each any every one of them.
A massive thanks to the mams/dads and grandparents for how amazing the children looked in their costumes and face paint.
Thank you so much too to Mr. Whelan for singing/playing the guitar and for helping behind the scenes before and after we were on stage. Thanks also to Miss Dempsey and Brenda for all their help and support on the night. It is so much appreciated. And finally, to the parents who helped with supervision - a huge thank you.
We hope the pictures below give you a flavour of what was a wonderful evening.
We have started the 12 days of Fitmas in school - why not join in at home too? Here is the schedule for the 12 days. The children loved doing the Crazy Santa Dance today. You will find it on youtube.🎅
See us here all looking amazing in our Halloween costumes. Happy Halloween everyone!!!
We combined Science with Art when we explored which colours could be made by mixing paint using primary colours. We discovered how to make purple, green and orange!
We had great fun together on 'European Sports Day' and enjoyed playing football and dodgeball. We also did relay and beanbag races, javelin throwing and much more!
To celebrate Friendship Week, we each designed a 'Friendship House'. We learnt a poem called 'Friends at School' and enjoyed listening to the story 'Sharing a Shell' by Julia Donaldson.
This is just some of what we got up to on our first week back to school.
We have also learned a poem called 'Little Black Beetle'. Why not ask your child to recite it to you at home?
Little black beetle
Was sitting on a rose
Down he fell
On the postman's nose
'Oops!' said the beetle
'Excuse me please!'
'Oops!' said the postman
'I'm going to sneeze!'
'Ah-ah-choo!'
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The boys and girls are learning a new poem 'as gaeilge'.
They love it! Here are the words. Why not say it with them at home...
Cnag ar an Doras
Cnag ar an doras,
Is féach isteach.
Bain díot do hata and siúil isteach.
Suigh ar an stól,
Is ith do lón,
Is conas atá tú inniú?
Welcome back everyone. Welcome to Senior Infants. It was wonderful to see all the boys and girls returning to school on Wednesday 31st of August. So many of them have taken huge growth spurts and lots of new hair styles too! Looking great!
Ms. Kinlough's Junior Infants
2021/2022
⭐✨'Reach for the Stars'⭐✨
Important Notices: PE is on Wednesday afternoon.
Golden Time is Friday afternoon. Remember to send in a toy from home!
ENJOY THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS
It is hard to believe we have already reached the end of Junior Infants. It has absolutely flown by. It feels great to be getting back to a more normal type of school year while we still deal with Covid. Hopefully next year it will be even better.
Our new classroom is set up and ready to go!
Ms. Creed and I are very much looking forward to teaching everyone. I know the boys and girls will all continue to do very well academically and enjoy a great year in Senior Infants enjoying lots of fun activities with their friends.
The pictures below show the big move across the hall to the Senior Infants room!! For all those who were out during the last week of June - we will be going into room 4 (first room on the left off the senior infant corridor).
Thank you to everyone for your support and kindness in Junior Infants. It is so much appreciated.
See you all again at the end of August - enjoy a well deserved lovely holiday break. ✨✨
😊😊Bye Bye Junior Infants..... hello Senior Infants 😊😊
Holidays are coming...... silly season is here!
🥈🥉Medal Presentation🥇🥈🥉
Well done to everyone for taking part in the Junior Infant sports day. You were all brilliant. A big thank you to the parents and grandparents who came along to cheer on the boys and girls for their first Clonburris Sports Day.
🏃🏻♀️ Active Schools' Week in action........🏃🏻♂️
Active Schools' Week
Everyone has been having great fun this week. Well done to all those who joined in the WOW (Walk on Wednesday).
We also took part in a 'wake up - shake up' - what a lovely start to the school day. We will take part in another one on Friday morning.
Today the boys and girls played dodge ball, tennis, hurling. They also ran an obstacle course, played x's and o's and more.
A huge thank you to Mr. Murray for organising the different events and a big well done and thank you to the 6th class boys and girls. You did a great job.
Our School Tour
We were so lucky to be able to go on our school tour this year. We were also blessed with lovely weather. The pictures below give a flavour of our day at Newbridge Farm. Thank you so much to Ms. Carolan and Ms. Donlon for your help on the day - it was very much appreciated.
😎Sponsored Walk
Thank you to those who have already returned their sponsorship walk money. It is much appreciated.
The children loved their walk around the local area and the rain stayed away which was a nice bonus.
Thank you to Ms. Carolan who accompanied the class also.
Summer is Here!
Lovely to see the beautiful weather and the lovely butterflies!
Our Visit to the Library
There was great excitement on Friday May 6th when we visited the library. For some of the boys and girls it was their first time travelling by bus. Then they got to see lots of books and they each selected one book to bring back to the classroom.
The library has huge resources as well as a sensory area along with meeting rooms. It is a great venue.
Many thanks to Ms. Kerins for arranging the trip for everyone.
Easter Bonnets
Well done to everyone who brought in amazing hats today. You did a fantastic job. Thanks to all the parents for your creative input!🙂🙂
A huge thank you also for supporting the Easter raffle. Well done to Senan who won two prizes.
During the month of March we had great fun with World Book day, Spring Walks, Seachtain na Gaeilge and preparations for St. Patrick's Day.
Well done to Callan who was our Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine. Maith thú -
Getting ready for St. Valentine's Day........ with some artwork.
🎨🎨Art Time ..... Painting St. Brigid's cloak. 🎨🎨
Try this at home........
This is a piece of work we have been doing in the classroom. It is something that can also be done at home. The children really enjoy it and it gets them concentrating on what letters match the sounds and then putting those letters together to make a word.
Grandparents' Day
Hopefully we will be in the position next year (post the Covid era!) to have our usual celebration of Grandparents' day when they will get to visit us in the classroom.
We thought of all our grandparents - those here with us and those in heaven.
STORYTIME......
The children have really enjoyed story time with a difference recently. It is lovely for the whole class to see parents reading the stories. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. We really appreciate it.
So far the children have heard - Monkey Puzzle, Zog and the Flying Doctor, Going on a Bear Hunt, Room on a Broom, Mr Mens' Adventure in Egypt and Jingle and the Friendly Puppy. If anyone else would like to record a story, we would be thrilled to receive them.
Enjoying the Christmas Panto from The Helix
Tomorrow we have the Santa Dash. It is part of our '12 days of Fitmas' in Clonburris.
It will be a fun day and remember it is also a no-uniform day.
I will post up pictures tomorrow.
Santa Train...... with a difference, during yard time today! Well done Odhran Greene from 5th class for getting it going.
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The 6th class children have been very busy getting organised for the Clonburris Christmas Fair. The pictures below show just some of the stands at the fair. More pictures to follow tomorrow showing the boys and girls enjoying themselves.
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Great to see one of our past pupils - Ethan - perform on the Late Late Toy Show. We are very proud of you!
Look at those numbers and the letter d!!!
Oíche Shamhna👻🎃👻🎃👻
Happy Halloween everyone - enjoy the break.
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The children have been learning these words : cailleach, cnónna, pumcín, hata dubh, cat dubh, pota dubh, púca, damhain alla.
They have also been learning this dán as Gaeilge..... why not try it at home?👻🎃👻🎃👻
English
We have been learning about the number of syllables in words.
Ready Set Go Maths
Look how much we have grown!
🏆 A fun day of sport 🏃♀️🤸♀️⛹️♂️
Huge thanks to Mr. Murray for organising a great day of sport for everyone recently. It was like a day in May with the beautiful sunshine. Thanks also to the 6th class boys and girls who provided great assistance to everyone and were so warm, kind and patient with the infant classes. Well done everyone!
SPACE WEEK ⭐ ⭐ 🌙🌙
We have enjoyed learning about the planets for Space Week and the children loved The Planets Song which you can play at home on Youtube. It begins with 'I am the sun.......'
Thank you everyone for returning the forms giving permission for pictures of the children to be used online.
Enjoy the following pictures showing the boys and girls in their art class.😊
