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May 26, 2025Outdoor Learning, , by

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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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 15, 2025Uncategorizedby

Senior Infants – Minibeasts and growing

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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May 14, 2025School lifeby

DSP Spring Market May 24th

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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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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