We had a great morning at Christian Brothers Nursery where we enjoyed a story and rhyme time together and some games in the school hall. We can’t wait for our next play day!
This afternoon we used paint to print our Fairtrade farmer pictures 🎨🎨
Big well done to the girls. The girls did a fantastic job mentoring selected P3 children for their reading. The 4 girls were awarded with a goodie bag at the the end of the programme. Fantastic work!
On Monday, the P7 classes enjoyed a fantastic trip to Queen’s University, Belfast as part of our Robert Hart project. The trip was organised by David Weir from Craigavon Historical Society and funded by The National Lottery. Our day started with a lovely Spring walk through Botanic Gardens and a visit to the Palm House to see lots of beautiful flowers and plants. After that, we continued on to the Tropical Ravine and were lucky enough to walk through both the Temperate and Tropical zones, and to see the various different plants and flowers from all over the world. We then visited the Naughton Gallery were we got to see the silverware that Hart had been gifted during his lifetime.
We had a quick stop for lunch and then it was time for our visit to the Special Collections Library, situated inside the McClay Library. In here, the children listened to Dr Emma Weisz, a researcher on the Robert Hart project at Queen’s. We also had the opportunity to view some of Robert Hart’s diaries and have a go at reading them. This was very difficult. Other artefacts relating to Robert Hart were also on display: paintings, photographs, music sheets, coins and much more.
We had a wonderful time at Queen’s and were tremendously lucky to have been given the opportunity of going on this trip.
Our class studied the abstract work of artist Sean Scully and created paintings using his style. We also used chalk pastels to create a picture of a potato plant, relating to our work on the Famine. The children were able to use layering to create different colours and effects in their pictures.
P7 took part in a Sentinue workshop where they had to program a car to follow a route on a floor mat. They worked in pairs to develop a set of instructions to guide the car around a tricky route involving roundabouts without going ‘off-road’.
Lots of fun was had by the children as they explored their indoor and outdoor learning areas.
Our topic of learning this term has been 'Toys' and during WAU we found out that before there were TV's and computer's in our homes, Puppet Shows were a popular means of entertainment for children. We had great fun making our own wooden spoon puppets to use in our Role Play Puppet Theatre. Don't they look fabulous!
