A special visitor in Junior Infants...

We had a very special visitor in Junior Infants today! His name was Jim and he works in Dublin Zoo! He told us lots of interesting things about the animals that live in Dublin Zoo. He showed us some pictures of the animals, we saw elephants playing in the water, monkeys up the trees and meerkats sunbathing!
He also brought some things for us to touch and feel, like an ostrich egg, some animal skins and an elephant foot!
We had a lot of fun touching the different things and learning all about animals.

Yellow Flag Developments!

The Yellow Flag Committee are organising an Intercultural Week after the June bank holiday. Each class will have to do projects on two countries. There will be different activities on during Intercultural Week. Each day every class will take part in something. We are looking for parents or relatives to help out during this week. If anyone is interested please contact the school; help is very much appreciated. The next step for the Yellow Flag is for the classes to think of a slogan or rap to represent the diversity in our school.

Happy Faces in Junior Infants

Look at all the happy faces in our new Junior Infant classes!

We got off to a great start on our first day of school.

It was a busy day, with lots of stories, games and new toys to play with.

Some people even came to take photos of us for the Bray People!

We're all so excited to be in Junior Infants and ready for lots of fun and learning with our new friends.

 

A Special Visitor!

On Thursday we welcomed a special visitor to the school - Ms McHale's beautiful baby girl, Amelie! All the teachers were very excited to meet Amelie and it was great to see Ms McHale again, too. Amelie is now 3 and a half weeks old and is a happy and content little baby. We can't wait to meet her again. Congratulations Ms McHale! 

A visit from Dogs Trust

We had a lovely visit to school from the gorgeous boxer Jake and his owner Fiona. They taught us all about dogs and now we are dog experts. 'Dogs Trust us'. What a brilliant day we had!

World Book Day in Junior Infants

A late post to celebrate World Book Day!

 

We had a fantastic week in Junior Infants celebrating books and our favourite characters. We read lots of new stories such as Dr. Seuss 'The Cat in the Hat'!

The 5th and 6th class girls came down to read us lovely stories. It was very exciting listening to the big girls reading.

On Friday something strange happened in Ravenswell. There were no children in school, but we had lots of book characters! We had princesses, Pippi Longstocking, Alice in Wonderland, Little Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio!

Have a look at the video to see all the fun things we got up to! 

 

The Postman Visits Ms Collins

Ms Gifford came to teach us all about America

Ms Gifford is visiting our school for three months from America.  She is working with Ms Dillon, but last week she came to visit us in Ms McHale's class to tell us all about where she is from.

She showed us a slideshow with pictures of lots of famous things in America like the Statue of Liberty and Disney.


We knew lots of things about America and some of us have family who live there.

We also learned a new American song called Yankee Doodle.  Here are the words to the song:
Yankee Doodle went to town; A-riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his cap; And called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up; Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step; And with the girls be handy.

Windows on the World: A visit from the Kenyan Ambassador

We had a big day in the school on Thursday.  Over the past few weeks, 4th, 5th and 6th class have been working on their Windows of the World project in preparation for St Patrick's Day. This year our school has been given Kenya as our country. 4th, 5th and 6th class have been learning all about the country, the culture, the people, the geography, the animals and the art work.

To help us celebrate Kenyan culture the Kenyan Ambassador to Ireland, Catherine Muigai Mwangi, came to visit our school. We worked really hard to decorate our school in preparation of the visit. We had balloons, bunting, ribbons and flags in the Kenyan colours - red, black and green. All our pupils lined up at the front of the school and they waved their Kenyan flags to welcome the Ambassador.


The Ambassador planted a tree outside the school to commemorate her visit. She then went to visit 4th, 5th and 6th class to talk to them about life in Kenya. The girls had lots of questions for the Ambassador, and the Ambassador brought some gifts from Kenya for the girls. It was an excellent visit.

Over the next few weeks the girls will continue to learn about Kenya and they will prepare their display for their Windows on the World shop front. We can't wait to see it.