Junior Infants 2020-2021
A big welcome to our new Junior Infants & what a great start we’ve had! Check out some of the activities we’ve been doing:
Our school tour to Newbridge Farm 🐑 🐐 🦚
Sports Day 2021 🏃♂️
We had such great fun learning all about Music with Yvonne. We played instruments, learned the ‘Tonic Sol-fa’ scale of ‘Do, Re, Mi’ with hand signals & we are now all ‘Beatles’ fans with our new songs; ‘Here Comes The Sun’ & The Yellow Submarine’.
Here’s a glimpse of what we learned, enjoy!
The Ice - Cream Van paid a visit today.
Delicious 🍦
The Early Start have chicks 🐥 in their classroom and we got to see & pet them. Thanks Karla & Karen 👍
Our caterpillars changed into beautiful ‘Painted Lady’ butterflies & we got to release them today 🦋
Active schools week
We are having great fun taking part in our ‘11 at 11am’ exercises & our daily challenges. We also started Dance class with our teacher, Sly.
We have started Music 🎵 class with our visiting musician Yvonne. We had great fun using instruments 🥁 today!
Happy Easter boys! 🐣
We painted and printed
Easter baskets 🧺, got to have an Easter egg hunt & the Easter Bunny came to visit! 🍫
We are learning about the life - cycle of a butterfly 🦋
Check out our cool caterpillars 🐛
Thanks Ms. Nolan 👍
Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️
Welcome back boys!
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas & New Years. As you are aware, schools are closed for the month of January so we have to do remote learning from home. Everyone should be on SeeSaw but if you have any difficulties let me know.
Our email is:
juniorinfants@virginmarybns.ie
Looking forward to hearing & seeing your great work.
Thanks!
Ms. Duane.
Oh, how lucky are we? Santa came to visit the Virgin Mary BNS today!! The excitement! 🎅🎄
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Click the movie clip above for proof that the boys have promised Santa they’ll keep their room tidy 😉🎅👍
Ready for our Christmas Performance - well done boys! 👏 🎅🎄🎶
We got to watch our first online Pantomime from the Draíocht Theatre today 🎅🤶 🎄
Getting into the festive spirit🎄🎁 -
Fun & games at Santa’s Workshop 🎅in Aistear.
Anti - Bullying week
& Road Safety Awareness week
16th - 22nd November
& Road Safety Awareness week
16th - 22nd November
We got to taste different types of fruit 🍈🥝🍍 today. Some were sweet & some were sour & some of us even enjoyed the grapefruit!
Thank you Liz & Ms. McHale for all the fruit!
We are working on Mindfulness & got to use the Mindfulness room today 🧘♀️
It’s Science week!!
Get your Scientist 👨🔬 👩🔬 hat on!!
9th - 13th November 2020
Skittle experiment - mixing colours
Floating and Sinking
& Osmosis
Experiments 🧪
The winners of the pumpkin decorating competition in Junior Infants were the following Super Stars 🌟
Happy Halloween everyone...
Have a safe one! 🎃👻🧙♀️
Here’s the adventures we had today....
Have a safe one! 🎃👻🧙♀️
Here’s the adventures we had today....
Oh we’ve had spórt agus spraoi this week - Snakes & Ladders, Halloween 👻 Aistear, decorating pumpkins 🎃 & making chocolate 🍫 apples 🍎
Maths Week 2020
We had great fun sorting today during our groups.
Check out our first few weeks!
Addition
Friday April 24th; School trip!!
Thursday, April 23rd; reading, writing & spelling
Reading words and plurals; Wednesday April 22nd 2020
Home School Videos! Take a look and let me know how you get on!