by Little Island National School | Apr 21, 2015 | Junior Infants 2014/2015, Latest News, Uncategorized
Before the Easter Holidays the children in Junior Infants planted broad bean seeds. The instructions told us to plant indoors between February and May and gradually accustom the plants to the outdoors. the time to harvest the broad beans is in June/July. Max managed...
by Little Island National School | Mar 27, 2015 | Active School Flag, Latest News, Sixth Class, Sixth Class 2014/2015
Well done to the 6th class boys and girls teams who qualified for the finals of the 5 a side soccer in Turners Cross. Both teams played exceptionally well and topped their groups. It is a huge achievement to get the opportunity to play in Turners Cross representing...
by Little Island National School | Mar 26, 2015 | Senior Infants 2014/2015
We love art so much in Senior Infants that we decided to try making paper maché easter eggs – no easy feat!! However, everybody did a super job; take a look below to see our efforts and the beautiful brightly-coloured eggs that we created!! ...
by Little Island National School | Mar 24, 2015 | Junior Infants 2014/2015, Latest News, Senior Infants 2014/2015
What an amazing night!! the Junior and Senior Infants entertained us with their fun performance of Springtime songs. There were yellow chickens popping out of eggs and seeds growing up from the ground into beautiful flowers. The children put in so much effort and...
by Little Island National School | Mar 16, 2015 | Senior Infants 2014/2015
We have been watching for signs of Spring in Senior Infants: we have seen new flowers growing, rabbits in our garden and noticed that the sun is shining! To see if it Spring was REALLY here, we decided to plant some seeds. Seeds need water and sunshine to grow so we...
by Little Island National School | Feb 19, 2015 | Latest News, Travel Flag
On the 11th of February we had our COW launch. It was a hugely successful day with 137 pupils travelling to school using either a bike/ scooter/ flicker or roller blades. All the pupils (and some of the staff members!) dressed up in black and white clothes for this...
by Little Island National School | Feb 2, 2015 | Latest News
Minister for Education, Jan O’Sullivan, wrote to all schools to praise us for our excellent work. The Literacy and Numeracy Strategy, launched in 2011,set targets to be achieved by 2020 but these targets were achieved by last year. Parents, staff, pupils, Board...
by Little Island National School | Feb 1, 2015 | Latest News, Travel Flag
On Friday the 30th of January an ecar came to the school. The pupils had already learned all about ecars during the ‘Green Machines’ workshop which was provided by Sandy McGroarty in December. As the ecar is entirely run on electricity, it is therefore...
by Little Island National School | Jan 14, 2015 | Junior Infants 2014/2015, Latest News
I am sure we have all thought about trying to be more healthy. The children discussed all about the healthy habits they have, for example swimming, running, walking to school, dancing, sleeping, playing soccer and football with friends, even playing in the snow!!!!...