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​September - December 2025

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The Junior Infants, Senior Infants and 1st Class have been working so hard this term  and we are now very excited to start the countdown to Christmas.

Our theme for the past month has been Polar Explorers, which the children have really enjoyed. During playtime they explored ice, took part in role-play as explorers using a tent along with woolly hats and scarves, and even created polar bears using newspaper. We also learned about famous polar explorers and were particularly fascinated by the McCarthy brothers from Kinsale, who travelled to Antarctica.

As part of Science Week, we investigated magnetic and non-magnetic materials, carried out sinking and floating experiments and launched a balloon rocket to explore forces and air pressure.

Last Thursday, we had a wonderful trip to Kinsale Museum. Cal gave us a fantastic tour where we discovered the Kinsale Giant’s Chair, the old courthouse, a harpoon used by one of the McCarthy brothers and some Lusitania memorabilia. We also admired the beautiful Christmas tree in the town and we finished our visit with a delicious hot chocolate in Centra Café.

Well done to all the children for their hard work this term. We have shared so much learning and so many laughs together. We are already looking forward to everything that awaits us in Term 2!

 

 

October 2024

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Senior Infants 

We are excitedly teaching the new maths curriculum here at St. Multose NS! This curriculum aims to ‘present a fresh vision for children’s mathematical learning that is characterised by playfulness, creativity, challenge, risk-taking, collaboration and opportunities for reasoning and solving real-life problems.’ (Maths Curriculum, NCCA)

The Senior Infant Class was given a challenge: Show the number 6 in as many different ways as you can. They were very creative and clever when we worked with this number. Some of the ways they chose to show 6 was making the number in play dough, writing the word -six, counting up to this number, using sticks to make tally marks, drawing pictures, addition and subtraction math facts.  We had a fun day playing with the number 6!

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October 

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This month we have been learning a lot about Autumn. We went on a nature walk around the school to look for signs of Autumn. We found loads of helicopter seeds. We also found mushrooms, pine cones, oak leaves, conkers and much more. We have been learning about The Little Red Hen and the harvest. We even made our own bread. The best part was tasting it. We loved the delicious brown bread, butter and jam. Yum, yum!

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Hallowe'en Aistear has been a highlight for us. We loved carving our own pumpkins and playing with Oblek. We were fascinated by how Oblek could change state from liquid to solid and visa versa. We did lots of Art too! We cannot wait for Oíche Shamhna!  

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September 

Junior and Senior Infants have had a wonderful first month at school. We have been busy learning everyone's names and getting into routine. In PE, we have been learning some playground games so that we can play these with our friends during break time. We have also learned some new dance moves in PE. We love to dance to 'Scatman'! 

Our class mascot 'Ginger' arrived to say hello. She is going to teach us how to become excellent listeners! She has already played lots of class games with us and taught us new poems with actions.

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 We made our very own playdough and started Aistear. We love Aistear. Aistear is learning through play. This month, we are getting to know our new friends in our Aistear groups. The main theme in Aistear is 'Myself and My Family'. We have been working on writing our names, building with spaghetti and marshmallows, building our own homes, drawing self-portraits and dressing up as our family members.

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We also had our very first swimming lesson in Kinsale Hotel and Spa. It was very exciting going on the big bus with our friends. Lots of boys and girls were very brave in the water! 

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