Maths For Fun has started in 1st class!! Last Thursday the 16th of March we had lots of fun playing different Maths games.
All the children got a turn at every game and everyone really enjoyed themselves.
Children played ‘Sum Swamp’ whereby they were practicing their addition and subtraction skills and ‘Tell the Time’ where all the children showed off their knowledge of the o’ clock and half past.
Mrs. Nolan had great fun getting involved in ‘Rockets and Comets’ as the children loved telling her how to play! Ms. Byrne had great fun explaining ‘Tangrams’ to the children and hiding from pictures!!!
A big thank you to the parents who helped with Maths For Fun last week.
We cannot wait for Thursday to come around again!!
A Gift to All Families
A handy “Tips to Help with Homework” was designed by Scoil Ursula parents during a Family learning Course in the Parents Room.
They hope to will be useful to you and your children. All families will soon receive a copy.
Next Family Learning Course-“Brush Up On English” starts this Wednesday March 1st at 12.15. Contact Eileen Nolan for a place.
Lunch is provided and all courses are free to parents and family members of Scoil Ursula.
Operation Transformation will start in Scoil Ursula on Wednesday the 1st of March.
All children will participate in different activities every morning for ten minutes. Activities will include: skipping, basketball games, dodgeball, playground games etc. Teams will rotate and enjoy a new activity everyday.
On Fridays all students and staff will learn a new dance taught by Ms. Byrne, Ms. Glavin and Ms. Crowley! I’m sure your child will tell you all about it!!
Let’s work together in school and at home to continue making Scoil Ursula a fitter and healthier place.
Many of the boys and girls in Junior Infants have begun creating their personal souvenir of Junior Infants.
The children, along with their parents and under the careful guidance of our Art expert, Helen, have printed one of their hand prints in clay. Next week, they will paint them black and Helen will add a special touch to each hand print. We can’t wait to see the finished product.
Week 2
The mums, dads and children painted the hand-prints black and with the help of Helen, pressed gold paint into the hand-print. Helen also wrote the child’s name and the date they made their hand-print on it.
Well done everybody!
On Thursday 8th of December, Helen and Mrs. Nolan came in and carried out an art lesson with both parents and students in fourth class. In the weeks leading up to the lesson the children collected kitchen roll. The children enjoyed the art lesson and their work is displayed in the classroom.
The children in 3rd Class have had great fun recently when parents visited their classroom on Friday mornings to play some Maths games with them.
Ms. Lemasney and the children had started learning all about Multiplication and were trying really hard to be the best in the school at their Multiplication Tables. Thirteen parents of 3rd Class worked with Clare Hatcher in the Parents Room over the course of six weeks to find games which would help the work of the teacher and make Multiplication easy and fun.
All of the adults tried new games and found that the children were enjoying the games so much that they forgot they were actually learning Maths!
Eileen Nolan gave each parent involved a Maths pack to use at home and it has been reported by both parents and children that it has helped at homework time. The children were sad when the Friday mornings with parents came to an end but they still have great fun working hard at Maths with their teacher.
Once again, teachers, pupils, families and community members participated in the One Book One Community reading project during September and October. The books read this year were “Dog Lost” by Ingrid Lee for classes from 3rd to 6th and “Piper” by Emma Chicester Clark for all the younger children.
Mams and Dads came to the classrooms for Art & Craft sessions, workstations based on “Piper” and to hear all about caring for dogs. It is so nice when the adults join the children in school.
Visits from DogsTrust, Dogs for the Disabled and Maxi Zoo took place. We are all so kind to dogs in Scoil Ursula and really know how to care for them.
All the classes showcased wonderful Art work and three children from every class were chosen as winners with Julia Poltorak from 6th Class taking the Overall Art prize.
Families worked together at home on designing posters . The theme was a lost dog. Many wonderful entries were submitted. The Hyde Family ( Ava 3rd Class ) and the O Donovan Family (Alisha 3rd Class) were Runners Up in this Family Competition with the Fanning Family (Alex 4th Class) taking top prize. Congratulations to all!
Scoil Ursula was represented in an Intergenerational Quiz by four boys from 5th & 6th Classes-Marty O Brien, Josh O Hare, Daniel Lynch and Sean Morrissey. The boys displayed an in depth knowledge of “Dog Lost” and did their school proud.
Many thanks go to all of the families and staff members who supported the old clothes collection which helps to fund the project. €743 was raised in November towards next year’s project.
A special thank you also to Lynda Lynch, Mum to Daniel (5th Class) who was our photographer at the Quiz and Prizegiving for all the local schools in Mahon Community Centre on Tuesday October 25th.
We can never underestimate the value of losing oneself in a good book so hopefully the children in Scoil Ursula will continue to enjoy reading for a long time.
Happy reading everyone!
An Invitation to all Parents & Family Members
- Christmas Craft with 2nd Class
Thursday December 1st 1.30-2.30
- Aunty Poppy with 1st Class Thursday December 1st & 8th 9-10.30
- Maths For Fun with 3rd Class
Friday December 2nd 8.50-10.15
- Christmas Craft with 6th Class Tuesday December 6th 1-2.30
- Christmas Craft with 4th Class Thursday December 8th 1.30-2.30
- Cookery Class for Adults
Tuesdays 9-11.30 Starts in January
- Homework Tips for Parents to be introduced by parents and for parents in Parents Room, early 2017
- English for Speakers of Other Languages, Wednesdays 9.30-11.30, January 2017
Information on any of the above can be obtained from Eileen Nolan,
Home School Coordinator
Click here to see the Parents page of our website.
1st class had a very exciting day today as Auntie Poppy came to visit us. However, she did not come alone, Ed was with her! We all had great fun listening to Ed and Auntie Poppy.
Ed is fantastic at telling stories!. Many children got to join Ed and Auntie Poppy at the top of the classroom and help Ed decide what rooms were in his house. The children were great at explaining to Ed what items you would find in each room. Ed loved talking about his house today!
Ed set the children a task of creating their own house and we all had great fun doing this. The children’s houses are hanging up outside their classroom for anyone to come and see. I’m sure they would only love to describe their house to anyone who comes along.
A huge thank you to all the mums, dads and helpers who came in today to help us out. Auntie Poppy will be joining us in 1st class again for the next two Thursdays (1st and 8th of December) We cannot wait to have more fun with Ed and Auntie Poppy.
Junior Infants in Scoil Ursula are very lucky to have the wonderful people of Happy Talk working with us this year.
We are half way through our Happy Talk sessions for Term 1 and we are working hard on our language and communication skills.
Our mums, dads and helpers have been working on Modelling and Expanding with us. These are very important skills that will help improve the way we communicate.
We have been working extremely hard on our listening skills with the help of Nibbles. We are excellent at spotting when Nibbles is not showing us his listening skills.
Our listening skills are:
Eyes are looking.
Ears are listening.
Mouth is closed.
Hands are still.
Feet are on the floor.
We can practice these skills at home and in school.
Thank you to our adults and Niamh from Happy Talk for coming into our classroom every week!
