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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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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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