‘Classrooms’
Blue Day 2017-Here’s a Tip, Stop That Drip!
On Friday 17th February 2017 St. Fergus’ National School held a ‘Blue Day’ as part of our Water Green Flag Initiative. Every pupil from Junior Infants to 6th class, as well as staff members, wore blue in order to raise awareness of the need to conserve or save water. During our Friday Assembly we discussed and recapped on the different ways we ...
Curragh Chase LEAF Day
On Thursday 9th February 2017, Rang 1-Rang 4 visited Curragh Chase courtesy of L.E.A.F.-Learning About Forests. This was a follow on trip from our visit with Rachel Geary last month. It is also part of our ongoing efforts to maintain our Green Schools Status. We left the school, by bus, at 9:30am, praying that the day would stay dry! Thankfully ...
January in the Infant Room
January was a busy month in the infant classroom. Junior and Senior Infants were very busy learning all about the weather. Have a read below to see what we got up to 🙂 In Gaeilge we were busy learning about an aimsir. We learned lots of vocab, rhymes and songs. We even sang one of our songs as Gaeilge for ...
Our Percussion Workshop in the School Halla
The beating of drums filled the air as the pupils of St Fergus’ NS participated in a Drumming Workshop with Martin Schaerer of Percussion Workshop Dingle (http://www.percussionworkshop.ie/index.php), on Monday 6th February 2016. Martin, a native of Switzerland took each class for 45 minutes and used a variety of drums to introduce use to rhythm and beat. We used everyday phrases ...
Our visit from Geoff Hunt, Heritage in Schools Expert and Rachel Geary, L.E.A.F. Co-ordinator today.
What an exciting day for the nature lovers of St Fergus’ NS today. We were delighted to welcome Rachel from L.E.A.F. (Learning About Forests) and Geoff Hunt to the school to share their knowledge and expertise with us. Rachel told us about the many native trees in Ireland and about some of the creatures and plants that live in the ...
Baking with Rachel at St. Fergus’ N.S.
Thanks to Rachel Adams for sharing her amazing culinary talents with the boys and girls of 3rd and 4th class today! Beautiful smells filled the corridors of St Fergus’ National School as the chocolate cupcakes cooked in the oven. They were delicious….and only 179 calories a bun!!! Yummy!
Science Week
During Science Week, First and Second class spent a lot of time working on some small experiments. We mixes “chemicals” to give us a number of reactions. Our favourite experiment of all was our Lava Lamps. We began by pouring, water, vegetable oil and food dye into an empty water bottle. Each of us chose our favourite colour for our ...
Lemon Volcanoes!
Below are some details and photos of the ‘Lemon Volcanoes’ experiment our super scientists got up to during Science Week:) Lemon Volcanoes What we used: Lemons Baking soda Washing-up liquid Trays A knife Food colouring What we did: Miss Walsh, Miss Stack and Trish prepared the lemons by slicing the top/bottom off the lemons with a knife to make them ...
Dancing Raisins!
As part of Science Week the Junior and Senior Infants participated in some exciting experiments. Below are some details and photos of the ‘Dancing Raisins’ experiment our super scientists got up to 🙂 Dancing Raisins What we used: • 7 Up (or other clear fizzy drink) • Clear plastic glasses • Raisins What we did: • Filled the glass with ...
Autumn Adventures!
We have been very busy learning all about autumn in the infant classroom. One afternoon we decided that we would take advantage of the beautiful autumn sunshine and go on a nature walk to find signs of autumn! Have a look at some of our photos from our Autumn Adventure:)
