Junior  & Senior Infants  Class Blog

Spring is in full bloom in the Junior and Senior Infant classroom 🌸🌺

Our annual Christmas performance takes place next week. Hope to see you all there.

Junior and Senior Infants had great fun participating in Maths Week this year! Working in pairs, the boys and girls played a tower-building game using a dice. Each roll decided how many blocks they could add to their tower — there were lots of giggles, teamwork, and careful counting as they tried to see who could build the tallest tower without it tumbling down! They also enjoyed a colourful Skittles sorting activity, where they grouped the sweets by colour and displayed thei

Our junior and senior infants found calm and fun indoors this morning through indoor yoga!

We hope everyone is having a great summer. We will be delighted to welcome back all our pupils next week. We especially look forward to welcoming our junior infant children who will be starting their first day in school!

We had a lovely time exploring the sea shore today. We discovered lots of little crustaceans and various types of seaweed. We also covered a little local history on the way there!

We are thrilled to announce that our school has been awarded its 10th Green Flag, this time for Global Citizenship – Food and Biodiversity! This prestigious achievement reflects the hard work and dedication of our entire school community in promoting environmental awareness, sustainable food choices, and the protection of biodiversity. Through a variety of projects, from planting crops to exploring food miles our students have shown incredible commitment to making a positive

Junior and Senior Infants had a great day out at Graune Pet Farm for their annual school tour! The child were ful of excitement as they explored the farm, meeting and feeding animals. There were smiles and laughter all around – and plenty of curious questions about the animals too! By the end of the day, after so much fun, sun and fresh air, it was no surprise to see some very sleepy faces on the bus ride home. A quiet coach and a few nodding heads said it all – a day well sp

The weather didn't get in the way as we had a thoroughly enjoyable Sports Day with lots of fun team games and activities. We are very lucky to have our yard, pitch and soft play area for these days.

Healthy eating is very important in Rathlee NS and we are really enjoying participating in this year's Food Dudes Programme which encourages us to eat more fruit and vegetables at home and in school. Well done everyone!

We all love reading in Rathlee NS and this year's Book Fair has been a tremendous success. Thanks to everyone in our school community for your support.

We were delighted to participate in the Easkey St. Patrick's Day Parade. The children dressed up in environmental themed costumes and played their tin-whistles. Thank you to all who took part and all the staff in our school who helped on the day.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

Junior and Senior Infants enjoyed their pancake filled morning in school today!😁

Junior and Seniors Infants went on a search for signs of Spring and New Life in our school yard 🌸

At break we took some photos. We were very excited to spot a small nest in a tree in the front yard. We painted some lovely spring flowers in our art class.

Junior and Senior Infants were learning all about how to use the internet safely, with tips from Buddy, the internet safety dog. Buddy taught the children a song to remind them of ways to be safe when using the internet🎶

We are really excited to be hosting our annual Enrolment Evening on Tuesday January 28th. We are really looking forward to meeting the children and parents in our community as they take the first step in their primary school education.

Wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas from the staff and pupils of Rathlee National School

We explored data this week using smartie sweets. We sorted all the smarties into coloured sets and then counted each of the sets. We coloured block graphs to display the contents of our smartie box. We had great fun and enjoyed having them as a treat after the maths activity.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our chosen charities - Vincent De Paul and the Red Cross Childrens' Gaza Appeal.

Junior to 2nd class had a wonderful trip to the Hawkswell Theatre to see “The Snowman”. Thank you to all involved in the show. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

Junior and Senior Infants are enjoying their brand new cosy reading corner!

The Infant room were busy creating 2D Shape Monsters for Maths Week 2024

We had great fun harvesting our potatoes. Our potatoes grew very well in the grow bags. We steamed the potatoes and served them with salt and butter and sprinkled some herbs from the garden. They were delicious.

We had a very exciting day on Friday. The children wore their Halloween costumes to school and also brought their pumpkin creations in for our annual competition. There was fantastic creativity. Well done to the prize-winners in each classroom. Thank you to our hard working Parents Association on organising this fun activity. Later in the day, we went to Kilglass for the Scary Wood Walk which was very spooky!

Wishing all our school community a happy, safe mid term break

Rathlee NS looks forward to welcoming all the boys and girls, especially our new junior infants back to school next Monday for the start of a new school year!