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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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May 6, 2025Uncategorizedby

Summer Term Pride!

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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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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March 25, 2025Uncategorizedby

10 Years of DSP Forest School – A Celebration!

Forest School creates a space where our children can learn, explore, question and reflect. A place where they use their student voice to inspire each other and us. It’s a space where they climb, dance, laugh and play. Where joy runs wildly and freely and …
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March 15, 2025Outdoor Learning, Uncategorized, by

4th class – hammocks, tea, weaving, clay and games

We had a lot of variety today. The children can arrive tired at the end of a week and after a walk up hill from school. One child said at the start, ‘I’m soooooo tired. But I know that’ll change as soon as I’m at …
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March 15, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

6th class – Session 3 – swings, knife work, cooking and visitors

March 14th 2025 We continued with playing games that we can teach the younger children. Today it was bat and moth. We noticed that some children prefer to be the bat with a blindfold and trying to catch the moth with ‘echolocation’ and others prefer …
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