J1
We had a very busy week. The first thing we did on Monday was going to the Zoo. On the way to the learning and discovery centre we saw a peacock and a parrot called Billy. We saw apes walking on a tightrope. We saw gorillas. One gorilla was fat and one gorilla banged on the glass.It was very funny. There were teenagers and they were scared and screamed!
Our guide Jim told us interesting things about the rainforest and the elephants. Some of us were amazed because we saw a stuffed bat and an elephant skeleton. We saw chameleons and turtles, tortoises and crocodiles in the reptile house.
We learned about the fruit bat and the sloth. After our picnic we went to look at the giraffes. Then it was time to go home. Written by the girls in J1.
We also did some more gardening. The radishes are doing well and the sunflowers are looking good. The strawberries are growing stronger every day. We also had our Irish dancing festival. We were dancing jigs and reels. Thank you Ms Keane for teaching us to dance so well.
J2
On Sunday 12 of the girls in J2 made their First Communion. We all had a great day and enjoyed the party in school and all the special lunches and parties we had that afternoon. On Monday we came back to school tired, but still very excited!
Wednesday was our Irish Dancing Festival and we danced lots of different types of jigs and reels. We were absolutely super and we got a certificate at the end to congratulate us on our wonderful dancing.
This week we also put together our very first good book – maths. It was nice to see all the work we had done this year and we are very proud of our books!
J3
We enjoyed planting in the J3 flower bed this week and have been watching out for green shoots! We look forward to seeing the sunflowers, ‘Lollypop’ flowers and herb plants appearing (and to planting more)! All the recent rain is helping!]
We have been working hard in ORFF for the summer concert next Thursday at 7.30pm in the Senior school concourse and look forward to our performances.
In Maths we have been concentrating on learning 3D Shapes and their nets! We had to think what 2D shapes are needed to make a 3D shape!
Playground equipment: On Monday we were delighted with the new playground equipment. There were balls, bats, hoola-hoops, goals for football, skipping ropes all to play with. Thank you very much to JACA!
J3 are really enjoying our last term’s class novel, ‘Kaspar, Prince of Cats’ by Michael Morpurgo. We are just about to read how The Titanic comes into the story and this will bring us into our final project on the incredible Titanic!
The Irish Dancing Festival was great fun to be apart of on Wednesday. Everyone enjoyed each performance and we thanked Miss Keane for all her hard work too!
We were really pleased to welcome Francesca Smurfit who visited us in J3 today. We look forward to getting to know you Francesca and to having you with us in J4
Happy weekend everyone!
J5 - Swan Family Group
This week we worked on our Olympic Projects and finishing off any work we needed to complete for our good books.
Monday: This morning we started designing our book covers. Each book will cover a different subject
and we have illustrated our covers with aspects of the many themes we learned about this year.
As it is coming close to the end of the year, and next week we be the last Help money collection
we began researching charities. There are many worthy causes but later in the week we will
select one.
Tuesday: As part of PE we began playing Tag Rugby. We started off getting used to the tags and then the
ball, by passing to each other in a line. We had a music lesson with Miss. Fitzgerald, we played
the Orff instruments. In our French lesson with Miss. Lyons we played French bingo and the
Number game. In the Number game each person says a number in French and then the person
who is standing beside you says the next. If you get it wrong you have to sit down!
Wednesday: Some of the J5s took part in an Irish dancing festival, in which they preformed a reel and a
jig routine.
Thursday: In assembly Lauren Ashmore and Helena O’Neill were awarded the Irish Dancing award. Later
that day we took part in our interclass swimming gala. It was great fun and Team one were
declared the winners. We then put the finishing touches to our model Olympic Villages.
Friday: In assembly we celebrated Aisling’s Birthday. Also some of next year’s senior school prefects
attended, and told us about the important role they play in school. It was very interesting! Later we
filmed our Irish drama “An Clár”. We also finished our Olympic project presentations which we will
present to our classmates on Monday.
By Lucy and Rebecca
J6 – Oak and Bluebell Family Groups
This week J6 have presented their Show and Tell projects to the rest of the class. Some of the topics covered were animals, history, treasured belongings, technology and interesting hobbies. The projects used Keynote, posters, books and models. We enjoyed researching and presenting our choice of projects.
Lauren Ashmore and Sarah Malone participated in the AIJS short story competition. Lauren Ashmore was highly commended for her story “The Butterfly Shadow”. Well done to both girls! The Irish Dancing Festival took place on Wednesday afternoon. Eight girls from J6 competed in the festival. There was a joint first place this year because the adjudicators couldn’t decide between two girls. The winners were Lauren Ashmore and Helena O’Neill. Congratulations to everyone who participated.
Today, Thursday 17th, we have a swimming gala amongst our class and we are looking forward to it.
