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May 20, 2025School life, STEM, by

Junior & Senior Infants’ School Tour to Explorium

On May 19th, our Junior and Senior Infants classes set off on a very exciting adventure to Explorium, Ireland’s National Sport and Science Centre! From the moment the children arrived at school, there was a buzz of excitement in the air. With bright smiles and …
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May 19, 2025Outdoor Learning, , by

Creativity with stickyweed – Junior Infants – 16th May 2025

We are noticing really interesting things. We made sticky weed crowns. We played games and climbed. We made leaf prints with clay. Someone had a special nature birthday. We made a nature birthday cake and danced around it, finishing with cleaver birthday tea.
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May 19, 2025Outdoor Learning, , by

Sticky weed fun and leaf prints – 16th May 2025 – 1st class

The journey up to base camp is full of learning and movement. We stopped off in the meadow. On the edges was lots of stickyweed (aka cleavers, goosegrass, stickybacks etc). We started by looking closely and noticing interesting things about the stickyweed plant. We noticed …
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May 19, 2025Outdoor Learning, Uncategorized, , by

Bealtaine and the fairy tree – Junior Infants May 9th 2025

Junior Infants are learning so much about the forest through observation, curiosity and wonder. Our job as leaders is to follow that interest and support the learning that they are drawn towards. There was a lot of fairy magic in the woods this week. We …
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May 19, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

Celebrating Bealtaine – 9th May 2025 – 1st class

The hawthorn tree or fairy bush or May tree was our focus this week as we were celebrating Bealtaine, one of Ireland’s fire festivals celebrating the start of the summer. The bluebells are also known as a fairy flower and some stories tell of the …
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May 12, 2025Outdoor Learning, , by

Dandelions – wishes and faces and more – Junior Infants – May 2nd 2025

Journey to basecamp Junior Infants always notice interesting things on the way to our basecamps. Dandelion magic Dandelions are a very generous plant for children. They can colour with them, make wishes with them, make land art faces with them, make tea with them and …
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April 6, 2025Outdoor Learning, Uncategorized, by

6th class – Bee-ing natural and grateful

This week was the last week before the 6th class students become assistants for the younger children. They have demonstrated leadership skills in the last few weeks, learning games to teach the younger children, noticing things in nature to show them, figuring out how to …
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April 6, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

4th class – Session 6 – Busy Bees

We can forget or just not realise how important outdoor play is in childhood (and beyond). This page from the Forest Fridays book is here to remind us. The full book is available on https://www.dspns.ie/scaip/. This week, as always, the children had lots of ideas …
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March 31, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

6th class – welcoming Czech visitors

This week pupils from the Czech Republic who had been in Irish schools during the week came to Forest Friday. They were on their school tour to explore different kinds of education in Ireland. On Thursday they spent the day in DSP so it was …
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March 31, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

4th class – 28th March 2025

It was a windy and bright day in the forest today. The gorse was in full bloom and we noticed the dark patches on the sea and figured out that it was probably shadows from the clouds overhead. The children know the structure of the …
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