Gallery – Fourth Class

Ms Brennan’s 4th Class learned all about Medieval Ireland and then designed and created Medieval Castles

Ms Alvey’s class were busy with some lovely art in preparation for the School Opening.They are pictured waving their flags on Friday morning. Well done to them all on a fabulous performance! Also pictured: their May Altar and lovely artwork of Mary as well as a few groups telling the weather forecast as Gaeilge!

Art work by Ms Brennan’s class in preparation for the Official School Opening

Ms Keane’s class had a great month in March- World Book day, Seachtain na Gaeilge and had a play from the Draíocht in school. They still managed to learn about 3-d shapes and magnets!

Ms Alvey’s class created some funky Easter Bunnies and the Quiz Team enjoyed some pizza as a treat for all their hard work! We wish them the best of luck on Sunday in the RDS.

Ms Brennan’s Easter Bunny Art

Ms Brennan’s St Patrick’s Day Art

Ms Brennan’s class mixed with Ms Alvey’s class for a Seachtain na Gaeilge Quiz

Ms Brennan’s 4th Class using cars to discover forces and simple machines: ramps.

World Book Day art from Ms Brennan’s 4th class

Ms Alvey’s class enjoyed Book Week. We created book covers based on our favourite books and researched and wrote about our favourite authors. David Walliams was a popular choice! We also have a lovely Lent display in our classroom with our Lenten Kindness Candles.

Ms Aherne’s class have been busy researching Italy and creating team projects.They are all set to win a pizza making day at the end of the week!!
They ae very proud of their classmate “The Quizmaster” representing St. Mochtas in the Credit Union Quiz

Ms Keane’s class planted crocuses in October and they have finally started peeking out. They had lots of fun with clay. They continued the tradition of making St Bridget’s crosses on the first of February.

Pancake Tuesday – Ms Alvey’s class enjoyed some pancakes after doing some procedural writing in English and also reading the instructions as Gaeilge.

Ms Alvey’s class made some lovely St Brigids Crosses, Valentines clay candle holders and created some portraits inspired by Cubism by Picasso.

Ms Brennan’s class completed Science projects on ‘The story of firsts’ which included learning about the first heart transplant, the first mobile phone and the first tools

Conor in Ms Brennan’s class completed a project on the flags of the world. He presented his project to the class and also discussed the different airlines that flew into each country.
The class then completed a flags of the world quiz.

St Brigid’s Crosses from Ms Brennan’s 4th class

Winter landscape art from Ms Brennan’s class

Ms Alvey and the whole class are very proud of the boys who represented the school in the Credit Union Quiz. Well Done boys!

Ms Brennan’s Class with one of the winners from the U11 Credit Union Quiz team and another boy who also represented the class on the other U11 team

Ms Aherne’s class had fun ‘Coding around with Botley’

During January Ms Keane’s class designed their own towns and wrote about them in Irish. Then they typed up their descriptions.
They worked on winter trees and creating a Picasso inspired portrait in Art.

Ms Aherne’s class

December Pictures from Ms Alvey’s Class – Christmas Jumper Day, Panto in the Halla, Dance in P.E – all the 4th classes enjoyed some Irish Dancing thanks to Ms Aherne!

Ms Brennan’s Class enjoying Hot Chocolate as a reward for all their hard work during this term. They enjoyed it watching the Panto

Ms Brennan’s Class wearing their Christmas jumpers to raise money for Barretstown

Some penguin art from Ms Keane’s class. They also had great fun during science week!

Ms Brennan’s Class using the Chromebooks to research famous scientists as part of Science Week. They enjoyed science week with a demonstration from Ms Alvey on the Bewitched Egg

November has been another busy month in Ms Alvey’s class. Here are some pictures of them enjoying the Library, supporting France for the World Cup, remembering in November, their winter penguins, taking part in a Toy Show quiz and designing some jumpers for Ryan to wear on the night! And of course, enjoying Science Week – with Eoin winning the Paper Aeroplane competition!

Ms Keane’s class used nature to make art, inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. Static electricity helped make our “ghosts” levitate! We had lots of fun on dress up day.

Happy Halloween from Ms Brennan’s class

Ms Brennan’s class participating in some Maths games for Maths Week. They also completed a crack the code challenge in class with Evie and Ryan winning a prize for all the class

Ms Aherne’s class

Ms Alvey’s class were busy creating some pumpkin art and also designing a Halloween costume for their teacher. In Gaeilge, they wrote some Oíche Shamhna acrostic poems agus bhí siad go híontach :)The boys and girls also showed our support for the boys football team!