Junior Infants have been reading the popular story ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson.

We then wrote our own books about the characters.

Enjoy reading some of our pages!!

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Junior infants have been busy creating posters to seek help for the lost pet, Finn in their storybook!

5th class are learning about MSW logo, which is a basic form of computer programming. MSW logo fits in with the Mathematics curriculum and helps develop children’s spatial awareness. To learn more about logo visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

All 5th class pupils can download Logo on this site

http://www.softronix.com/logo.html <—– Go to this site and click the ‘Setup Kit’

Since September 5th class have been participating in Dissolving Boundaries. Through this programme the class are paired up with children in the North of Ireland. Durrow have been communicating with the children in the North through a website where they have been posting in forums, blogging, creating wikis and video conferencing with the other school. This week the children in Durrow finally had the opportunity to meet the children they have been paired with. The face to face meeting took place in Tanagh in Monaghan . The children took part in team building tasks, canoeing, jumping in bog holes and going down the mud slide. All the children had a great day and enjoyed meeting their partners.

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1st class made some Easter Bunnies from card and decorated them

1st Class Art

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1st class got very creative and made some amazing pictures using different types of material

First Class Art

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Junior Infants!!

The Green Schools committee was set up in our school to help the environment. We want to reduce the amount of waste in our school. In doing this we also hope to reduce the amount of litter in our yard.

We started by getting rid of the handtowels – 5^th and 6^th class got rid of them first and then we worked our way down to 2^nd class. We replaced the handtowels with reusable hand cloths which we keep in our school bags.

We check our bins every Wednesday and Friday and the class with the best bin gets a prize. Some of the prizes include treats, a free homework voucher for the class or extra P.E.

There are lots of children on the Green Schools Committee. Miss Gaughan and Ms.Kenahan are on it too. Our committee meets every Thursday to discuss our developments and concerns.

The Green Schools Committee