Our School Tour

We had a wonderful time in Pottery Barn today on our school tour in sunny Portmarnock!
Have a look at us painting our plates and throwing a pot!

Our Nature Treasure Hunt

Here we are in our groups participating in our class nature treasure hunt. We had lots of fun looking at the different shaped leaves and identifying which trees they belong to.

First Holy Communion

2nd class would like to say a big thank you to everybody who helped to make our special day so fantastic.

Our News outdoors!

Well it's a sure sign summer has arrived. 1st & 2nd enjoying 'Our News' in the blissful summer sun! Long may it last.

Our herb garden

Here we are busy planting our sumptuous summer herb garden. Log in again soon to observe our herbs in full bloom!!!

Busy baking!

We've been learning about the story of wheat. One of our classmates lives beside a farm where wheat is grown and harvested.
We learned that once the wheat is harvested it's sent to the miller where it will be ground into flour. We decided to use this flour to make bread for our biodiversity breakie!

Replanting our sunflowers!

We've been busy bees replanting for biodiversity!
Our sunflowers grew so much that we had to replant them. This will give their roots more room to grow big and strong.

Growth in the biodiversity garden!

Yesterday we brought home some freshly budded plants for our biodiversity garden. We noticed that the plants had outgrown the pots they were in.
Their roots we tangled and they desperately needed lots more room to grow. We replanted them in our biodiversity garden.

Looking for changes...

1st&2nd class decided to go back to the garden centre to see if we could observe what changes might have occurred. We noticed that the frogspawn was still frogspawn but had grown bigger!
We also notice there was lots of fresh frogspawn that was obviously smaller!

We couldn't resist picking up a plant or two to help 'liven up' our biodiversity garden!

Our visit to the Garden centre

Today we went to visit the garden centre. We saw lots of living things in their natural habitat. We observed the frogspawn and remembered to return it to the pond!
We saw lots of budding plants and trees with tiny buds.

Water Transport

We observed how water is absorbed from the root and travels up through the stem of the plant to the leaves.
Look at our funky coloured celery!!

Our trip to the National Botanic Gardens

Today we went to the national botanic gardens. We saw lots of cool and interesting different species of flowers and plants. Here we are in the 'rainforest'

Preparing our Pancake feast!

Here are second class preparing the ingredients to make the batter for our pancakes! Roll on Pancake Tuesday!!!

First Friday Swim!

Finally, our first Friday swim day is here!! We had a blast splashing, playing and of course swimming. Here we are, absolutely exhausted after our fun filled swimming session!

Green Fingers!!!

Here we are getting our hands dirty!

Biodiversity in Our Classroom!

Today we've been learning about the life cycle of the sunflower,and here we are getting ready to grow our own!