Monday, November 9, 2020

Guess Who?

 Our class have been busy with portrait drawing in Art this month and have put their skills to good use to create imaginative Crazy Hair portraits of themselves. Here are just some examples from the class, have a look and see if there are any new hairstyles you may wish to try at home!!




School Timeline

 We have been busy in the senior room updating our school and parish timeline and finding an appropriate area to display it in. It has now been fully updated to include many major events in the history of our school and parish right up to St Thomas' recent 3 in a row success and is on display in the Tom McGarry Hall! 




Wednesday, October 14, 2020

 4th, 5th and 6th class have been busy this month learning and implementing the steps involved in Report Writing. Here in Peterswell, we always try and link our report writing with events that have happened in the children's school lives recently. That has been a challenge recently as our trips out of school have been curtailed. With that in mind, our class held a class league in hurling/camogie and we used this as an area we could report on. We used newspaper match reports to help us generate the language and structures for our reports and had lots of fun cutting out our favourite articles!!

I and The Village

 Recently, we have been studying the art created by Marc Chagall. We learned about his early years growing up in a small village in Belarus before moving to Paris to study Art. We discovered how he became passionate about cubism and surrealism in Paris but retained fond memories of his childhood in Belarus which he expressed in his painting 'I and the Village'. Here are some of our versions of Marc Chagall's work looking back on happy memories of our own childhoods so far!



Report Writing

4th, 5th and 6th class have been busy this month learning and implementing the steps involved in Report Writing. Here in Peterswell, we always try and link our report writing with events that have happened in the children's school lives recently. That has been a challenge recently as our trips out of school have been curtailed. With that in mind, our class held a class league in hurling/camogie and we used this as an area we could report on. We used newspaper match reports to help us generate the language and structures for our reports and had lots of fun cutting out our favourite articles!!

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Senior Room - April

Hi everyone!

This was a very short month (much to the children's dismay I'm sure!), but we still got in some nice and fun activities.

Religion

We discussed the Easter Story during Religion and gave our opinions on the treatment of Jesus and how he must have felt at the different points in the story. The children drew their own map of 'Jesus' Journey to the Cross.' We also studied the Nicene Creed, which a lot of them recognised from Mass.



Art

The children worked together to create an Easter display over the last two weeks. Last week we designed our own Easter eggs and this week we drew our own Easter bunnies. The children came up with beautiful and colourful designs and they are all so different!


Tests

The children have been working very hard since our last break in February and have learned a lot. Over the course of this week they are being tested in English, Gaeilge, maths and SESE. Please try to have your children in all this week, if possible, to allow them to get their Easter tests done. 

Well done to all the boys and girls in the Senior Room for all their hard work and diligence over the term. You have all earned a nice break. 

May you all have a happy and safe Easter!

Beannachtaí Dé agus beannachtaí na Cásca oraibh go léir 😊