Junior Infants had such a lovely, festive visit to Charleville Mall Library this week, where Anne, the librarian, read us two stories, let us explore all the books and do some colouring to decorate their Christmas tree!
Category: Junior Infants
Ms. Bermingham’s Junior Infants have been learning all about caterpillars for the past few weeks. We even had some caterpillars join our class! Today, we were finally able to release our butterflies in our wonderful school garden. It was lovely to have 6th class join us as we let our beautiful butterflies go. We told them to say a special hello to Ollie for us.
It is hard to believe we are almost halfway through the year. Junior infants have settled into ‘big school’ so well. Ms. Bermingham is so proud of them and how much they have learned so far. This month, we learned all about the North and South Poles. We were Polar Explorers in our role play corner where we travelled to the Arctic/Antarctic. We made igloos with our blocks and sensory snow. We also played with water and did some floating and sinking experiments. The children have learned so many new words relating to our Polar theme, like “hatch”, “huddle”, “flipper”, “frost”, and “waddle.” It is great to hear them using them in class with one another.
We were so excited to get hot lunches this month and the boys and girls are loving them! They get so excited for lunchtime! We also celebrated Stephen’s birthday this month and surprised him by singing ‘Happy Birthday’ and making him lovely birthday cards.
We can’t wait to see what the rest of the year will bring.
Junior Infants are well and truly in the festive spirit after a brilliant day today! We had fun looking for our Elf on the Shelf, had our Christmas dinner and ice-cream, sang Christmas songs, and watched our very own Christmas performance which you can watch by clicking here or on the link below. The boys and girls in Junior Infants have had a brilliant first term and are so excited for Santa to come very soon.
Nollaig Shona gach duine!
Ms Bermingham, Stephen and all the girls and boys in Junior Infants
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Ms. Bermingham’s Junior Infants were so excited to welcome a very special visitor to their playtime today. Garda 
Rob from Fitzgibbon Street Garda Station very kindly came to visit the boys and girls in Junior Infants who have been learning all about the work Gardaí do. They have been very busy working in our Garda Station role play corner, playing with traffic in small world, making Garda cars in arts and crafts, and learning lots of rhymes and songs about policemen and women. Garda Rob showed the children his uniform, walkie talkie and handcuffs. He took the time to speak to the children about his job and answer all of their questions. He even worked with our very own mini police officers in our station today. Thank you Garda Rob for all the work you do and for taking the time to come and visit us. 
Inspired by the brave and beautiful Adam King on the Late Late Toy show, Junior Infants made virtual hugs! ❤️
Sending hugs to those who need it most at this time.
The Junior and Senior Infants went to Puddenhill Farm and Play Centre for their school tour. They had so much fun!
We have been playing with water in our own pond and are learning about the life cycle of the frog.
We have a Travel Agents in our classroom where we are booking and researching holidays, making lists for holidays and exchanging money.
We are building Sydney Harbour Bridge this week and will be building other famous landmarks and buildings in the coming weeks. 
This week’s junior pupils of the week and most improved children made salted caramel chocolate brownies! Yummy! Well done to them all and keep up the great work!
The boys and girls loved dressing up today! They all looked fantastic! 
The junior pupils of the week and most improved children had great fun making chocolate chip cookies as a treat. Well done to them all!
Evan the Elf was busy at work when boys and girls were gone home!
The children have been learning all about keeping safe! They made WANTED posters, Identity posters and took part in a disguising activity!
Junior Infants had a great time collecting different coloured leaves! We love Autumn colours!! 🙂
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Jonathan | Layla |
| Senior Infants | Eva | Kacper |
| 1st Class | Tymon | Narcis |
| 2nd Class | Ermun | Sean |
| 3rd Class | Temuulen
Alex |
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| 4th Class | Katelyn
Kai |
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| 5th Class | Shannon
Grace |
Calvin |
| 6th Class | Quessia
Christian |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 4th Class with 15marbles!!
There were 84 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 27 Senior Students with Full Credits.
Well Done!!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Evan | May |
| Senior Infants | Martin | Isabelle |
| 1st Class | Ricky
Hugo |
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| 2nd Class | Leah
Tengis |
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| 3rd Class | Alicia H | Anand |
| 4th Class | Calum | Abbie |
| 5th Class | Alex | Lennon
Clinton |
| 6th Class |
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Sha Sha | Mia |
| Senior Infants | Eva | Toni B |
| 1st Class | Joy
Dora |
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| 2nd Class | Ben | Cooper |
| 3rd Class | Makeala | Alisha S |
| 4th Class | Calum
Abbie |
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| 5th Class | Shannon | Craig |
| 6th Class | Codie
Daniel |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 2nd, 3rd & 5th Class with 13marbles!!
There were 87 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 44 Senior Students with Full Credits. Well Done!!
3rd Class have had a wonderful World Book Week.
We’ve spent extra time reading every day in school and at home.
We took a trip to Eason’s bookshop to use our tokens to get free books.
Here are some pictures of us doing paired reading for the Junior Infants in the library.
World Book Day was last Thursday. Third class went to the library to do paired reading with the Junior Infants.
We picked out books that we thought Junior Infants would like. Some of the books we read were: Pants, Room on the Broom, Cinderella, Henry Hugglemonster, Spot the Duck and One to ten and Back Again. All of them were colourful, with loads of pictures and easy for young children to understand.
We read the books to the Junior Infants, we showed them the pictures and we asked them questions about the books. We asked them to guess what the book was about, we asked them about colours, we asked them did they like the book and what their favourite character was.
It was nice to read to children that are younger than us. It was a good experience. We hope the junior infants enjoyed it as much as we did.
Congratulations to all who had full attendance. Keep it up!!
Miss Barron.
Junior Infants are having another busy week in Ms. Heverin’s group sorting and matching!
We are sorting new things this week including clothes pegs, porcelain shapes and lollipop sticks.
We also love doing our maths in an interactive way on the computer!
Here are some photos of us as busy as bees………….
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- Holly
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- Layla
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- Layla
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- Amy Lee
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- Holly
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- Jasmine
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- Amber
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- Jasmine
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- Holly
Here are some photos of Junior Infants having great fun playing their maths week games…………………
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- Crocodile Teeth game!
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- Gruffalo Snakes & Ladders; Kyle and Ami
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- Amy Lee and Martin
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- Alfie and Amy hoping Incy will make it to the top of the pipe!
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- Amber putting teeth on her crocodile!
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- Kasper and Amy Lee playing the crocodile teeth game.
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- Jasmine playing ‘Teddy Bear Dice Roll’
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- Katie moving Incy up the drainpipe!
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- Amy & Eva sorting sets of objects.
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- Alfie & Haliun matching sets that have the same amount.
Junior Infants have been working SO hard in their Maths groups with Ms. Bailey, Ms. Lynch, Ms. Duffy and Ms. Heverin.
Here is Ms. Heverin’s group hard at work today!
Junior Infants are busy bees sorting as part of Maths this week!
Here we are hard at work!
We have done some fantastic things today in Junior Infants to celebrate our 100th Day of School! We read 100 words on our board and then celebrated reading them by dividing 100 jellies between us all!
We made a snake with 100 cubes, completed 100 seconds of silence, and thought of 100 things that we can be happy about!
As part of Anti Bullying Week we saw a puppet show called Manny the Magnificent Mouse. To celebrate the work we have done during Anti Bullying Week we will be having a Teddy Bears Picnic this Friday in school.
Thank you St. Patrick’s National School for a lovely day! We really enjoyed your performance and meeting each class. Looking forward to seeing you all again next year 🙂
We had loads of fun with Ms. Heverin’s 6th Class on World Book Day. The 6th Class pupils chose books to read to us in small groups. Then they helped us to create images of different parts of the story. Great fun was had by all!
Today we made Rice Krispie buns in school. If you would like to make some too, follow our instructions below! You can look at the photos of us making them also…
What you need:
1. Rice Krispies
2. Chocolate
3.Paper Cases
4. Bowl
5. Spoon
What you do:
1. Melt chocolate
2. Pour in Rice Krispies
3. Mix with the spoon
4. Put the mix in to the cases
5. Let the buns set
We made sandwiches in school yesterday with Ms. Lally. These are the steps to follow if you want to try out our recipe!
1. Get 2 slices of bread.
2. Butter the bread.
3. Put on the ham.
4. Put on the cheese.
5. Fold your sandwich.
Here are some pictures of us making the sandwiches. We really enjoyed eating them when we went home – some of us even toasted the sandwiches and watched the cheese melt!
Junior Infants have just done some wonderful Christmas Art with Enda! Some of us made fabulous Christmas cards, others made hanging snowmen and the rest of us decorated wooden snowmen and trees! Thank you Enda and parents who helped!
Hi everyone! We hope you all enjoyed our show on Friday! We had been practicing really hard! We liked dressing up and performing our songs. Thank you to Demi, Cara, Alice and James who helped us with the difficult parts of the show!
Hello everyone!
We have been very busy doing dot painting and pointalism in school over the last few weeks. We have made a jungle scene in our classroom – feel free to come in and have a look! Here are some pictures of us painting…
We are practicing a lot for our Christmas Concert. We would love if everyone would come to see The Xmas Factor! We will not put up any photos of us practicing as we would not like to ruin the surprise!
We have been so busy since we started school in August! We have completed three weeks of Kidstalk with some parents and grandparents – so far we have read ELMER, WERE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT and THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR. Here are some of the kidstalk photos:
We have done a lot of work in First Steps over the last few weeks with the help of Ms. Lally. Here is some work we did on narration with The Three Little Pigs last week, we even made cupcakes as a treat for winning the marbles in the jar competition!
Parents: Don’t forget our Halloween party on Friday! See you there!
Hello and a big welcome to all our new Junior Infants!
We had a great but tiring week in school last week – it took us a while to explore our new room and play with our new toys!
This week we have started our work in all our new books. We are making a really big effort and trying hard!
Watch this space for our photos! Miss Caffrey
We had a great time copying the work of artist Jackson Pollock this week. We dipped marbles in different coloured paint and rolled them around on trays that had our pages stuck to them. It was so much fun! We look like we are concentrating very hard!!
Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class had a nice treat on Thursday! Dublin City Council put on a performance for us in the hall! They were very good at acting as the cat and the dog and it was very funny!! We had a great time!
Junior Infants had great fun orienteering as part of the P.E curriculum. We had great fun working in pairs and were excellent at recording all the clues!
Our Junior and Senior Infants had egg hunts where parents helped us to find
our eggs! It was really difficult to find the eggs matching our stickers, but we did great searching and had 5 eggs each to enjoy afterwards!
We had great fun doing our scratch drawings.
First we coloured really hard on the page with lots of different crayons.
Then we painted over it with black paint (with some washing up liquid mixed in to make the paint stick better to the crayon).
We left it to dry and then we scratched out our colourful designs and pictures using paper clips!
Junior Infants are working really hard at their literacy learning sounds and words. It’s great fun!
Junior Infants had a great time exploring the construction strand of art. We collected lots of boxes and worked in groups to create fantastic structures! Some of us might be builders when we grow up! Just like Bob the builder!!
Junior Infants and 3rd class paired up for some reading for book week! The children in Junior Infants were very lucky to have the older boys and girls read beautiful stories to them. 3rd class are great readers!!
We had great fun with the feely bag to guess what things were made from.
We know all about stone, plastic, metal, wood, wool and glass!!
