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Our Lady of Lourdes National School, Inchicore, Dublin

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17th Jan 2025

A Great Start to 2025 in Our Class!

We’ve had an amazing start to the new year in Ms. Turner’s 3rd Class! Here are some of the highlights of what we’ve been doing so far:

Learning to Embroider: We had so much fun learning how to embroider with hessian and wool. It was tricky at first, but we all got the hang of it and created some really cool designs.

Mini Water Cycles: In SESE, we made mini water cycles in a bag. It was so interesting to see how water evaporates, condenses, and falls as precipitation—all inside a plastic bag on our classroom windows!

Our Trip to Richmond Barracks: We went on a trip with Mr. Gallagher’s class to Richmond Barracks. The exhibition we saw was called “The Archive Within Us”. It was all about history, stories, and how archives help us remember the past. We learned so much and asked loads of questions!

We’re excited to see what the rest of 2025 will bring and can’t wait to share more of our adventures with you soon!

 
 
 
 
20th Dec 2024
We had a beautiful Christmas celebration in the Mercy Secondary school last Tuesday. 
The children sang Christmas songs depicting the story of the Nativity, while 1st class did a freeze frame of the nativity scene. 
It reminded us all of the true meaning of Christmas and why we celebrate it. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20th Dec 2024
We have had so much fun in 2nd class this December. From earning all of our marbles and having a pyjama party, decorating our Christmas door and having a disco it has been very exciting! We hope everyone has a great Christmas!!
 
 
 
 
19th Dec 2024
We are having our annual Christmas Doors competition across the school. Children have been busy decorating their classroom doors. These will be ready for judging by David Brock, our local estate agent. 
 
 
 
 
19th Dec 2024
6th Class has had a very busy few weeks leading up to Christmas. As part of their community project, some students joined Helen to begin work on the construction of a house, while the rest of the class focused on designing a Christmas door for the school competition.

Later in the month, they worked with graffiti artists to create signage for the outside of the door, adding a unique touch to their design. They also had the chance to interview members of the school community, learning more about the history of Inchicore and the flats.

To round off the month, we had our school concert and they visited the rock climbing center in Tallaght, where they put their climbing skills to the test. It’s been a productive and engaging time for the class!🎄✨

 
 
 
 
11th Dec 2024

Parents Christmas Crafts morning with Senior infants

We had a lovely morning with parents in senior infants this week where we made Christmas Wreaths. Both parents and children thoroughly enjoyed working together to create and decorate their festive wreaths.

 
 
 
 
11th Dec 2024
Fourth class have been working with Deirdre the artist in our creativity project . Here are some photos of the amazing work the children have completed. It has been great fun and the class learnt so much over the last few weeks
 
 
 
 
10th Dec 2024
We have had a very busy first term in 2nd class. We got to take part in Creativity in the Classroom! Using clay the class designed all different animals and created a zoo enclosure. They also used different drawing tools to create fabulous pictures. As part of Creativity in the Classroom we also got invited over to Goldenbridge Cemetery for an art exhibition, and we had great fun!
For Science week we engaged in different experiments. The first one was to create a bridge that wouldn't collapse holding a copy book and the second one was making a parachute for an egg. The excitement in the classroom while participating in these experiments was electric!
 
 
 
 
10th Dec 2024

We have Been very fortunate to be one of 7 schools to receive ‘Free to be me’ Little Library of approximately 100 books.

Children’s Books Ireland aim to build a love of reading. The ‘Free to be me’ project enables our students see themselves reflected in a book, as well as learning about the lives of others, who’s experiences and perspectives might be different from their own. Here is just a sample of the books. The little library is on display on corridor 3. Each child in our school will also receive a book of their own to take home before Christmas.
 
 
 
 
4th Dec 2024
The students in 5th class are very busy at the moment researching a country in Europe. The class are working in pairs to look up interesting facts about the country such as the population, famous landmarks, their favourite foods, their flag and many other interesting facts. 
Alongside this, the class were also learning about Thanksgiving and filled out their gratitude cups including everything that they are grateful for. 
In history we are learning about Rosa Parks and some great discussions took place around segregation in America. 
Lastly, we are busy practicing our songs for our Christmas concert which takes place in the church on the 17th of December.