st. ailbe's NS

5th & 6th Class

Ms. Hartigan is working her magic with 5th and 6th class again this year, with a busy group of 26 pupils plus some of the boys from Íontas class joining in. Ms. Hurley is also on hand to support and ensure that each child is reaching their full potential in their final stretch of Primary School.

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Maths

Fun with Fractions Fifth and sixth have been learning to categorise fractions, find equivalents, simplify and change mixed to improper and vice versa.

Science week

We had visitors from Mary Immaculate college visit our classroom. We were making rockets in our class with paper, sticks and tape.. Everyone learned about drag, the drag force and fins on the rockets. We learned how to make triangle fins for rockets. We learned that...

Term one so far

We’ve had a busy first first term with report writing about whales, Halloween, maths hands on activities and the start of Christmas prep.

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Wellbeing

The schools’ Well-being initiative is underway in every class for the month of September. We have been CONNECTING with friends and family through phone calls, text messages, playing in the yard, getting to know others and sending postcards. Children in sixth class...

Working with clay

Working with clay

We had great fun experimenting with clay. We are really enjoying learning about the Stone Age period in Irish history. So we imagined we were children in Neolithic Ireland, tasked with making pots while parents were hunting or taking care of animals.

6th Class News

6th Class News

Everyone is hard at work exploring new and exciting the themes in class. Our first theme for this year is the Stone Age. So far we’ve looked at Mesolithic Hunter gatherers and moved onto Neolithic farmers. We linked in with Art and drew the Megalithic tombs found in...