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October 23, 2023Outdoor Learning, by

2nd Class – Session 7 – Bringing the Enchantment of Samhain Indoors

When rain thwarted our forest school plans, we brought the enchantment of the outdoors inside our school. With our Samhain celebrations just around the corner on October 27th, we used objects collected from our forest to create decorations. One exciting activity was making oak gall …
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October 23, 2023Outdoor Learning, PTA, School lifeby

Weekend Meitheal – Saturday 28th October – 2-4pm School Garden Club

The school garden club is looking for volunteers to help get our raised beds ready for planting winter crops and our flower beds ready for exciting garden projects.  Bring: Suitable mucky clothing/footwear, gardening gloves, your own spade/shovel  Children welcome but please be aware that they will need to be supervised and there will …
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October 16, 2023Outdoor Learning, by

Senior Infants – Session 6 – A Letter from a Deer and the Sleeping Fawn Game

This week in Forest School, senior infants recieved a letter from a friendly deer living in the Wicklow woods. She told us all about her favourite foods and secret hideaways where we might spot her if we look really closely! We also learned about how …
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October 16, 2023Outdoor Learning, by

2nd Class – Session 6 – Fawns, Crafts and Oak Gall Ink

This week in Forest School, we had a fantastic time exploring the woods. We learned how fawns stay safe by using their coats to blend in with the forest and even played the Sleeping Fawn Game, where we had to stay very still, just like …
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October 9, 2023Outdoor Learning, by

2nd Class – Session 5 – The Great Minibeast Hunt

This week at Forest School, we searched for signs of badgers and explored under rocks, logs, and tree bark to discover invertebrates like woodlice, millipedes, beetles, spiders, ants, grasshoppers, caterpillars, and ladybirds. . After collecting some of these fascinating bugs in containers, we observed their …
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October 9, 2023Outdoor Learning, by

Senior Infants – Session 5 – Brigid the Badger’s Request

This week, senior infants received a letter from Brigid the Badger asking for our help in ensuring there would be lots of tasty invertebrates for her to enjoy in the forest. Armed with magnifying glasses, we embarked on a mission to search for these hidden …
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October 4, 2023Outdoor Learning, by

2nd class (4) – discoveries and colourful flags

We end each session with gratitude. Our brains are wired to remember negative things more strongly than positive things. Studies show that expressing gratitude can have benefits such as supporting physical and mental well-being, boosting self-esteem, and enhancing sleep quality; all of which contribute to happier, …
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October 4, 2023Outdoor Learning, by

Senior Infants 4 – foxes and nature’s colours

We made beautiful colours from leaves, berries, flowers, mud and charcoal. We also used the berries and leaves to make some tea. We played games and climbed and created. We explored and discovered many treasures. We had sit spot and a closing circle where we …
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September 27, 2023Outdoor Learning, by

2nd class Session 3 – ropes and berries and deepening connection

We had another active day becoming pine martens and discovering berries. We climbed with the ropes, threaded berries, wrote to grandmother tree, built dens and played games. We were creative and imaginative and kind. We challenged ourselves and each other. We had fun. We learned …
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September 26, 2023Outdoor Learning, by

Senior Infants 3 – pine martens and berries & gratitude

We are grateful for:
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