Each Friday we will post some of the work the children had got up to that week. Our Star's of St Anne's

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28-April-23

🌟Stars of St Anne's✨

Fri 19th May

Miss O'Reardon's Senior Infants studied Space, Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 mission, planets, star constellations, rockets and astronauts.

Miss Farrelly's 1st and 2nd Class produced beautiful Sunflower Art.

Mr. O'Connor's 6th became bakers with Susan and baked delicious cupcakes.

Fri 28th April

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Miss Nulty's 5th Class and their fabulous WW2 Fact Ball Projects.

Miss Smith's/Miss.Conlan's and Miss Farrelly's 1st and 2nd Classes trying out our Active Walkway.

Miss O'Reardon's Senior Infants went Under the Sea in Aistear, read A Whale's Tale, learned about sea pollution and celebrated Earth Day.

Ms.Smyth's/Ms.Murray's Senior Infants worked really hard on their Space Topic and tried out the Active Walkway.

Ms.Mc Mahon's Junior Infants explored Capacity outdoors.

Mr.O'Dowd's 4th class followed the Active Schools Committee with Junior Infants.

ActiveSchools #outdoorlearning #learningthroughplay

Fri 24th March

Ms O'Neill's Oak Tree Class created beautiful Easter baskets using papier-mache which they will use for their Easter egg hunt next week.

Ms. Clarke's Holly Tree Class have some new students-caterpillars! The pupils have spent the week observing their changes, going on minibeast hunts, and classifying minibeasts according to their features.

Ms Walsh's 5th Class partook in a group art project based on the rainforest. They also created comic strip reports based on the 1916 Easter Rising.

Miss O'Reardon's Senior Infants enjoyed Buddy Reading with 6th class. They read books as Gaeilge this week.

They also made spring tulips in art.

Ms. Murray's/Ms.Smyth's Senior Infants enjoyed Gaeilge book buddy reading with 6th class. They worked on their garden project and sowed seeds in the heptagon house. In Aistear they enjoyed selling flowers in their flower shop.

Mr. Quigley brought our Senior boys to a local soccer tournament. They played very well and enjoyed their day.

Fri 17th March

Sports at St.Anne's is flourishing. Thank you to Mr.Quigley and Ms.Smyth for bringing the girls to a soccer blitz on Wednesday.Despite the terrible weather the girls had a great day. They never complained, gave it their best and we are all so proud of them. They had two wins on the day and the hot chocolate back at school was well earned! Thank you to Mr.Quigley for training our pupils after school and to Bailieborough Celtic Club for donating bibs, cones and footballs to our school also.

Mr.O'Connor's 6th Class made a splendid array of shoebox stories.

Ms. Walsh's 5th Class have been studying World War 2 and were reading buddies to the infants this week.

Mr. O'Dowd's 4th Class enjoyed a library visit to hear Irish stories and song.

Miss Farrelly's 1st and 2nd Class learned all about weight in Maths.

Mr. Payne's Rowan Tree Class produced some superb shoebox story art.

Miss O'Reardon's Senior Infants learned about the farm in Aistear and may have worked on special surprises for mammies (sshh!)

Ms Smyth's Senior Infants enjoyed Lá Glas and planted some peas.

Phew- We have been busy!

We hope you enjoy our video

Fri 10th Feb

Thank you to Ms Stafford and our fabulous parent volunteers for the work they've started in painting our new Heptagon House.

Miss Farrelly's 1st and 2nd Class and Miss Mc Gurren's 4th Class created some lovely Valentine's art.

Ms.Smyth's and Ms.Murray's Senior Infants made their own play dough and worked on procedural writing.

Mr. O'Connor's 6th class worked on fabulous Titanic projects.

Ms Clarke's Holly Tree Class learned about the Post Office and the people who work there. They wrote their own letters and envelopes and went to the post office to buy stamps.

Miss O'Reardon's Senior Infants worked on the weather station in Aistear. They also created Banksy inspired umbrellas.

Ms.O'Neill's Oak Tree Class took a trip to the coffee parlour for some lovely treats.

Miss O'Reilly's Junior Infants worked on the doctor's surgery in Aistear learning about the work of doctors and nurses and built their own hospitals in their construction corner.

Miss Nulty's 5th class did a wonderful job making constructions of the GPO.

Mr. O'Dowd's 4th class worked on acting out emotions and feelings using scenario cards in SPHE.

#stannesnsabú #teachingandlearning #outdoorlearningenvironment #innovative

⚽Fri 27th Jan🛴

Mr.O'Dowd took a leaf out of Dermot Bannon's book and along with his 4th Class used the Cubism technique to redecorate the classroom cupboards.

Ms. O'Donnell's and Ms. Somerville's 3rd Classes enjoyed a training session with FAI soccer coaches organised by Mr. Quigley.

Miss Farrelly's 1st/2nd class celebrated Grandparents Day for Catholic Schools Week by making lovely cards.

Ms. Somerville's/Ms. O'Donnell's 3rd created stunning Mona Lisa art work their study of Italy.

Miss Smith's 1st Class got scientific with their student teacher Miss Mc Kiernan.

Miss Mc Cusker's Hawthorn Tree Class made beautiful clay penguins for their Antarctica project.

Miss O'Reardon's Senior Infants worked on "The Cafe" theme in Aistear, celebrated Grandparents Day for Catholic Schools Week and learned all about the Chinese New Year of the rabbit.

#teachingandlearning #art #scienceforkids #ActiveSchools #aistear #wellbeing

Fri 20th Jan

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🚢Miss McIntyre's 6th Class wowed Ms. Fay with their superb Titanic project presentations. They researched the history of the famous ship and were hugely innovative in their presentations, displaying many formidable skills such as team work, skill sharing, oral language proficiency, voice projection, listening skills and ICT/Art/written work excellence. A huge well done to each of the project groups.

👩‍⚕️Ms. Lawson Clarke's Holly Tree Class learned about people who help us. They role played the doctor's role and made their own xray pictures.

㊗️Miss Farrelly's 1st/2nd Class created Chinese New Year Art based on the year of the rabbit.

☔️Ms.Smyth's/Ms.Murray's Snr Infants enjoyed paired reading and worked on the theme of weather by becoming weather reporters, building weather stations and painting rainbows.

🐧Miss O'Reilly's Junior Infants enjoyed learning all about the Arctic this week.

historyisfun #scienceisfun #artwork #funschooling #aistear #wellbeing

Fri 13th Jan

HELLO 2023. We are back with a bang for the New Year!

THIS WEEK'S Stars of St.Anne's:

Ms Mc Mahon's Junior Infants worked on the numerals 1, 2 and 3.

️Miss Farrelly's 1st/2nd Class had fun in maths games time.

Miss Conlan's 2nd Class created and designed a Winter Wonderland.

Ms Rogers' Ash Tree Class enjoyed sensory play.

Ms Mc Cusker's Hawthorn Tree Class learned about the Arctic and Antarctica and made snow scenes for the animals.

Miss O'Reardon's Senior Infants made fireworks from chalk pastels to celebrate the new year and painted handprints for 2023. They also made snowflakes with sponge painting.

Miss Martin's Apple Tree Class used instruments and worked on comprehension skills through running and skipping activities.

HAPPY 2023 everyone.

Fri 16th Dec

𝕴𝖙'𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖔 𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖐 𝖆𝖑𝖔𝖙 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖒𝖆𝖘 @St. Anne's National School Bailieborough

Christmas art, gingerbread men, Advent wreaths, Christmas decorations, winter walks, hot chocolate, Santa signs, snowman lanterns, Christmas songs for parents, Santa's post office, sorting and wrapping presents.

Brought to you by:

Miss Conlan's 2nd Class, Ms Mc Mahon's Junior Infants, Miss Mc Gurren's 4th Class, Ms Walsh's 5th Class, Ms O'Neill's Oak Tree Class, Miss Martin's Apple Tree Class, Mr.O'Dowd's 4th Class and Ms.Smyth's/Ms.Murray's Senior Infants.

Fri 9th Dec

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2D shapes, penguins, cafe trips, basketball skills, Christmas stories, voting, Student Council and Alexmay's homemade crib were just some of the activities happening on this busy busy week. Thank you to Ms O'Neill, Ms Lawson Clarke, Miss O'Reardon and Miss Farrelly for the pictures.

Meanwhile the rehearsals for our TWO huge Christmas shows continue.

Don't forget:

A LITTLE NATIVITY

Tuesday 13th Dec 7pm

St.Anne's Church

HOSANNA ROCKS

Tuesday 20th Dec 7pm

St.Anne's Church

🤾‍♀️Fri 25th Nov🥇

Miss Conlan's 2nd Class have been learning about buildings and construction. They made their own houses from recyclable materials.

Ms Walsh's 5th Class extracted the DNA from bananas. They discovered that bananas and humans have 50% of their DNA in common!

Ms O'Donnell's 3rd Class used clay to write their names in Ogham like the Celts

Miss O'Reardon's Senior Infants looked at houses in the past in history this week and in pairs. In art they created pop art houses and homes inspired by the artist James rizzi. Today they did nice activities for the toy show tonight!

The Active School Leaders who kept all of the pupils active at break times.

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Our 5th Classes along with Ms de Búrca and Ms Walsh enjoyed learning about the plants and animals to be found in the wetlands beside the school on Friday. This was part of our Biodiversity theme for Green Schools organised by Ms Stafford, our Green Schools leader. Thank you to Eilish Mc Gowan and Goshte for this very interesting talk and exploration of our local area.

😋Fri 18th Nov🥰

Miss Martin's Apple Tree Class had sensory play with ice and shaving foam,

matched their shapes with Elmo and played teamwork games.

Mr. Payne's Rowan Tree Class built a super bird table. They placed it outside their classroom window and bought bird feed so they can watch the birds every day.

Mrs Mc Cabe, Mrs O'Kane and Aurelita are working on LIFT OFF TO LITERACY with groups in Miss Farrelly's 1st/2nd Class this week.

Camogie/Hurling training with Miss Farrelly continues after school.

Mrs Mc Cabe and Miss Conlan have the whole school singing in preparation for our amazing Christmas shows.

As part of Anti Bullying Week Miss McIntyre's 6th Class analysed the lyrics in the song ‘Where is the love?’ and created posters to promote kindness and respect for each other.

Ms Fox's Junior Infants have been engaging in the Ready Set Maths Station Teaching Programme with Mrs O'Kane and Mr. Donnellan. They also constructed their dream homes during their study of houses and homes.

Ms.Murray's/Ms.Smyth's Senior Infants acted out the story of The Three Little Pigs using their own handmade masks and houses.

Ms Lawson Clarke's Holly Tree Class continued their exploration of the Arctic by practising snowy yoga and engaging in sensory activities based on Arctic conditions.

Mr.O'Connor, Miss McIntyre and Mr Quigley accompanied both 6th classes to a rugby blitz in Kilnaleck.

Miss Mc Gurren's 4th Class practised their Hurling and camogie skills.

Ms Mc Mahon's Junior Infants worked very hard in the construction area in Aistear making houses based on their study of Houses and Homes. Dermot Bannon eat your heart out with all of our super talented Infants!

Well done to our dedicated staff and pupils-another fantastic week's work completed. ️

🥳Fri 11th Nov 🤗

Miss Martin's Apple Tree Class worked on sensory stations with rice, pasta, shaving foam and goup.

Bhí na páistí i rang a cúig le Ms de Búrca ag obair go dian ar a dteanga ó bheal i ranganna Gaeilge. Éistigí le Olivia, Dzeisika, Henri agus Ethan ag caint go soléir faoi ‘Me Féin’. Maith sibh Bainígí sult as! WATCH OUR VIDEOS IN STORIES.

*Mol an Óige agus tíocfaidh sí*

Ms Mc Cusker's Hawthorn Tree Class did experiments with water.

Ms. Smyth's/ Ms.Murray's Senior Infants studied different types of houses based on the story of the Three Little Pigs, constructed their own houses from straw, sticks and bricks and learned about adding in the story of 6 outside with number lines and chalk.

Ms O Reardon's Senior Infants were celebrating World Kindness Day which happens on 13th November by putting the I into KIND.

Ms Lawson Clarke's Holly Tree Class began looking at a new topic this week- The Arctic. They explored the globe to see where it was, and where it was in relation to Ireland. They tried to make icebergs out of gloop, and created fluffy polar bears using forks.

Miss Farrelly's 1st/2nd Class practised throwing and catching in PE and made penguins with oil pastels.

#learningisfun #autismawareness #ActiveSchools #bailieborough

Fri 28th Oct

SPOOKS OF ST.ANNE'S

The whole school had Feel Good Friday and danced outside at lunchtime in their costumes, organised by our Active Schools Committee. Mario, Luigi and even Mrs Brown and Winnie joined in!

We composed spooky tunes with Micheál Gaskin.

Miss Mc Gurren's class made spooky lanterns and treats.

Ms Murray/Ms.Smyth's Senior Infants class had pupils of the week and Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine along with Halloween games and fun.

Mr.Payne's Rowan Tree Class learned how to facepaint with Melissa.

Mr. O'Connor's 6th Class, Ms Walsh's 5th Class and Miss Mc Cusker's Hawthorn Tree Class had lots of Halloween fun and games.

Ms O'Neill's Oak Tree Class carved pumpkins, made potions working on capacity, did procedural writing, made skeleton art and composed Halloween songs.

Ms Martin's Apple Tree Class did sensory art and had a disco with Ms Clarke's Holly Tree Class.

Miss Farrelly's 2nd class learned skeleton angles in maths and 1st and 2nd made toffee and chocolate apples.

Ms Mc Mahon's Junior Infants made potions in the Witches Kitchen, built spooky castles, made Incy Wincy spiders and found the fáinne in the Barmbrack.

Ms Fox's Junior Infants had a scarecrow múinteoir, carved pumpkins, did sequencing tasks, tasted barmbrack and bobbed for apples.

Miss O'Reardon's Senior Infants did skeleton cotton bud art, watched Room on the Broom after reading the book, made a recipe for good friendship and made pumpkin mosaic art.

Mr O'Dowd's room were taught by a skeleton and had lots of Halloween fun and games.

#halloween2022 St Anne's National School- Parents Association

Fri 21st Oct

St. Anne's National School Bailieborough has been super busy for Maths Week 2022.

Take a look at some of the highlights!

Ms Fox's Junior Infants learned how to code using Bee Bots.

Miss Farrelly's 1st/2nd Class went on an outdoor scavenger hunt, did a Daily Noggin task and played fun maths games.

Ms Walsh's and Ms de Búrca's 5th Classes joined up to use their "Maths Eyes" on an outdoor maths hunt. They searched for lines, angles, 2D and 3D shapes, and Odd and Even numbers in the environment.

Ms de Búrca's 5th Class did a shop in Lidl from their classroom! They answered maths puzzles based on the Lidl catalogue in groups-they found some great value deals!

Ms O'Neill's Oak Tree Class looked at 3D shapes and Patterns and went on a scavenger hunt to find these in nature.

Ms. Somerville and Ms O'Donnell's 3rd class played maths games with cards and dice and played interactive maths games on the Chrome Books.

Miss McIntyre's 6th Class learned about Averages in maths. They measured each other in groups and worked out the average heights of each group.

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As well as Maths Week, we have been really busy with all of the other subjects-take a look!

️Ms Walsh's 5th Class went on a local history tour around Bailieborough with Mr.Donnellan. They visited the old workhouse and Church of Ireland ruins. Thank you Mr.Donnellan!

Ms de Búrca's 5th got ready for Halloween week by carving some pumpkins.

Miss Conlan's 2nd class created beautiful hedgehog collages in art and studied card games from the past in History-they learned how to play "Go Fish". It is really fun!

Mr.O'Dowd's 4th class wrote poems in the style of Wes Magee's poem "The Witches Brew". They have a new star of the Week and Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine. Well done girls!

Ms Fox's Junior Infants arrived to school on Monday to see their classroom transformed into a pumpkin patch shop and spooky potions lab. They sequenced the life cycle of the pumpkin and practised some Halloween yoga moves.

Ms Lawson Clarke's Holly Tree Class made a spooky witch's potion. They wrote down all of the ingredients they used. They uncovered magnetic items in their sensory trays and painted pumpkins with paintbrushes and droppers.

Ms O'Reardon's Senior Infants worked on lots of Halloween activities in Aistear. Room on the Broom character sequencing, Small World in the tuff tray, a potion station in Role Play, building haunted houses in Construction, and creating their own broom in Art.

Ms O'Sullivan's 3rd class finished their fabulous charcoal forests today.

Miss Mc Cusker's Hawthorn Tree Class are having a lovely time working on Halloween activities including making lovely candy apples.

Miss McIntyre's 6th studied solids, liquids and gases in Science and did experiments to record the differences between the 3 states.

Ms Murray and Ms Smyth's Senior Infants made some spooky ghosts in Aistear this week.

⚡Fri 14th Oct💥

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Another busy and productive week:

Ms Mc Cusker's Hawthorn Tree Class went shopping for ingredients and made some delicious treats.

Ms Murray's/Ms.Smyth's Senior Infants worked on the Autumn theme in Aistear and chose a Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine.

Mr.O'Connor's 6th class worked on Native American projects and Wonderful World art.

Ms Fox's Junior Infants worked on jumping and throwing in PE, made Autumn leaves using the Pointillism technique, made hedgehogs with leaves from their nature walk and drew their favourite part of the story, "Don't Hog the Hedge".

Mr Payne's Rowan tree class made a bird feeder and completed puzzles.

Ms Mc Gurren's 4th Class went on a lovely nature walk.

Ms Walsh's 5th Class created Tim Burton inspired portraits.

Mr.O'Dowd's 4th class worked on Halloween pumpkin art.

Ms Lawson Clarke's Holly Tree Class sang the song 5 little pumpkins and were inspired to use paper and apple printing to create pumpkins on a gate.

Ms O'Reardon's Senior Infant class studied Autumn in Aistear through an Investigation station, a sand station, a construction station building homes for hedgehogs and studied hibernation in SESE and art.

Well done to our camogie team and Miss Farrelly on competing in a game in Laragh this week.

📕Fri 7th Oct 📘

🐝👨‍💻Ms Walsh's 5th Class have been learning how to code using Bee Bots in ICT lessons to improve their Digital Literacy. Today they created obstacle courses and had to code their Bee Bots correctly to enable them to travel through the obstacles correctly. They want to remind us all that EU CODE WEEK begins this weekend and to get involved! https://codeweek.eu/

🔬🌿Ms Daly worked with Ms Somerville/Ms O'Donnell's 3rd class this week on Science/Living things. They are investigating how the amount of water you give a seed makes a difference to how well it grows. They have made prediction and we are looking forward to seeing completed reports boys and girls.

💜Fri 30th Oct 💛

Miss Farrelly's 1st/2nd Class for exploring the Ukrainian and Portuguese languages on European Day of Languages on Monday.

Ms. Rogers Ash Tree Class for working on the theme of Autumn and creating their very own Autumn Sensory Tray.

Miss Mc Gurren's 4th Class for trying out lots of European languages on Monday.

Ms Lawson Clarke's Holly Tree Class for going on Autumn hunts with checklists, working on letter formation, making goop and using conkers to make snails.

Miss O'Reardon's Snr Infants for their work on colour wheels and their Autumn Aistear theme.

Miss McIntyre's 6th Class for their Inner Outer self portraits.

All of the children who are taking part in Mr.O'Connor and Miss McIntyre's Athletics Club each Wednesday after school.

#inclusion #europeandayoflanguages #autumnvibes #DEIS #physicaleducation #MakingLearningFun

🔴Fri 23rd Sept🔵

1. Mr. O' Connor's 6th Class for their Self Portraits.

2. Ms. O' Neill's Oak Tree Class for their self made sensory classroom.

3. Mr.O'Dowd's new 4th Class Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine and Star of the Week.

4. Miss O'Reardon's Snr Infants for their Crepe Paper Self Portraits, work on Creation and Light and Dark in Science.

5. Ms. Fox's Junior Infants for visiting the library, having DEAR reading time and working hard on their Fine Motor Skills and maths sorting in groups.

6. Miss Smith's 1st Class for taking art class outdoors and using natural materials from our school garden to create clay portraits.

7. Ms Smyth and Ms Murray's Snr Infants for visiting the library, studying the school environment in Aistear and designing a brand new school uniform in Art.

8. Ms Somerville and Ms O'Donnell's 3rd Class for their self portraits agus an obair scríofa iontach sa téama Mé Féin.

9. Miss O'Reardon's 3rd class for their art work and song singing.