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June 11, 2025Uncategorized, , by

Our Visit to Leinster House – by the Student Council

On the 5th of June, we, the Student Council, went on a very exciting trip to Leinster House in Dublin. We got the bus into the city and had to use our Leap Cards. The journey took around 45 minutes, but it felt like forever… …
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Junior Infants – drawing hogweed and meeting goats – June 2025

Getting to know common hogweed Common hogweed is a plant that is very common and beneficial for lots of pollinators. And as you can see below we found evidence of a leaf miner enjoying the benefits of hogweed. It’s like the leaf miner is drawing …
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1st class June 2025 – Goats and Hogweed

Getting to know Common Hogweed This week we were noticing and exploring Common Hogweed. We smelled it. We looked closely. We asked questions. We drew it. We didn’t touch it though as its sap can irritate some people’s skin. Hogweed’s flowers are pollinator’s friends. The …
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June 6, 2025Uncategorizedby

Jolly June!

Ribbit Ribbit Raffle Raffle! Hop Hop Hooray!! Much ‘gratitoad’ to you all!! Your kindness is ‘un-frog-getable’! A huge thank you to everyone who supported our raffle which raised €7,765 for the refurbishment of our pond area. The pond has always been a major focus in …
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1st class – 30 May 2025 – Enquiry based learning with elder

Getting to know the elder tree We met the elder tree today. We smelled her flowers and leaves. We touched her smooth young bark and her older bumpy woody bark. We wondered. We heard stories and had a letter from the elder tree via the …
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Junior Infants – 30 May 2025 – Elder affordances

Affordances of nature In Forest School, “affordances” refer to the opportunities and challenges the environment presents, influencing how individuals interact with it. These opportunities, like a fallen log or a sticks, invite actions like climbing, jumping, or creating, fostering physical skills and promoting engagement with nature. Discoveries …
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May 26, 20252nd Class, Uncategorizedby

Paintbrushes, Potions & Passports – A Week in 2nd Class!

We have been learning all about length in 2nd class. We had great fun jumping as far as we could and using a metre stick to measure how far we jumped. Then we used cubes to measure different parts of our bodies and compared them …
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May 26, 2025Outdoor Learning, , by

Making fairy houses – 1st class – 23 May 2025

Noticing In Forest School, we take time to really notice the beauty of nature. Playing Playing hide and seek in Forest School isn’t just fun — it also helps the children develop important skills like spatial awareness, proprioception, camouflage problem-solving, patience, and cooperation, all while …
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Fairy magic in the woods – Junior Infants – 23 May 2025

This week we were exploring, meeting the gorse plant and building fairy houses. Gathering resources for fairy houses First we gathered resources that might be useful for building with. ‘This could be a roof.’ ‘I could use this to make a blanket.’ ‘I’m not sure …
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May 20, 2025Uncategorizedby

DSP Ultimate Days Out Raffle!!

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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