Oh we had great fun today learning about Jackson Pollock and creating our own abstract action art using drip painting. Since Pollock spread his canvas on the floor to create a painting, Ms Corbally spread a table cloth on the floor at the back of the room and we created our paintings there. We really enjoyed it and the paintings look great on the wall outside our classroom. 

We had so much fun in the playground today. We earn minutes towards Golden Time every day for working hard and following the rules and this week we earned 20 minutes in the playground. 

We love seeing our work go up on the Writing Board! 

We have been talking all about ourselves in class for the past fortnight. We have learned lots of interesting things about each other.
We created Shape Me pictures using different shapes and coloured card.
We also made a game of Guess Who. We wrote facts about ourselves and other children and staff in the school have to see if they can guess which person in our class it is. They check if they are right by lifting the card and seeing our photos. 

The characters from Inside Out are helping us to learn all about our emotions and feelings and different names for each emotion.

P.E. day for Ms. Corbally’s 2nd class will be Tuesday. The children will be required to wear their school tracksuits with a plain white polo t-shirt and plain runners to school every Tuesday. 
Children may also wear their school tracksuits on Mondays.

Welcome to a new school year. The Oaks are in 2nd class now and Ms. Corbally is our teacher. We are looking forward to a great year! 

We have had a wonderful last term in the Oaks and have achieved so much. In Aistear we looked at the Post Office, Clothes shop and the Beach. We planted our potatoes in March and harvested a good crop in June..Mr. Dowling came and taught in May and we took part in the Riverbank Junefest Art Exhibition. We had great fun in Active week and when we visited Wallaby woods for our tour. Everyone worked hard to achieve their gold certs and really enjoyed Fun Friends. In Science we looked at Forces- Push and Pull and hunting for Minibeasts. 

​I wish to thank you all for a wonderful year and all your support throughout. I wish you all a fantastic summer and all the best for the future. Slán go fóill!

Well folks, we finally made it to December! I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support this term and to wish you all a happy, peaceful and restful Christmas and New Year. We've packed a lot in in the last two months and below is a small sample of what we got up to- Aistear: School and Santa's Workshop, Light experiment in Science, making our schools in Art, congratulating the children who have not missed any days and of course, the Christmas Performance. I hope Santa is good to you all, Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir.

It's been a busy couple of months here in the Oaks. We've enjoyed being doctors, nurses, receptionists, patients and playing the role of different family members in Aistear. We opened our front door to some scary Trick or Treaters and everyone loved dressing up. We had loads of questions for John who gave a great demonstration on wood turning and the different uses of wood.He gave us a present of a bat he made in front of us and everyone will get a chance to bring it home to show our families. We hope you have a fun filled Hallowe'en and a restful midterm break.