Be in with the chance to WIN 1 of 6 incredible ULTIMATE DAYS OUTin Killiney, Dalkey, Glasthule & Dunlaoghaire sponsored by our generous local businesses! Help raise funds to fix our school pond, making it child-safe and full of wildlife again! Prize Draw will be 
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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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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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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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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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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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In Senior Infants we have been busy bees learning all about plants, growing and minibeasts over the past few weeks. We learned about the different parts of a plant and created and labelled our own mixed media flowers. We then explored what plants need to 
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Purchase your ticket online for the DSP Spring Market and avoid the queues! Family tickets are available for €3 You can buy your ticket at this link: https://buy.stripe.com/9AQ4jmcWm91x4Pm00a An honesty system will operate on the day for those who have purchased tickets online.  Many thanks for 
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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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Spirits are buoyed up not only by the sunshine and fine weather but also by the physical and creative achievements of our DSP children! As a school community we are very proud of all our children who, no matter whether they win or lose, are 
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