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Room 16
Welcome to Room 16!
Hello and welcome to Room 16’s webpage! We have 29 children in our class, and our teacher’s name is Ms. Leahy.
What is Aistear?
The Junior Infant classes in our school do something called Aistear… and it’s really very simple. We’re learning through play! We have differnt topics throughout the year, and we learn about this topics by playing and working together at our different stations. Here’s an idea of what the different stations are:
The Sand/Water & Playdoh Station
At this station the children can get their hands dug into our sand or water tray and experiment with feeling and touching different textures. During their playdoh time they are encouraged to use the dough to create models of whatever topic we’re talking about that month.
The Junk Art/Creative Station
At this station we use lots of different things to create pieces of art that represent something in our Aistear theme. Sometimes we use paper, sometimes we use boxes and bottles, and sometimes we use a mix of all of those things! If your child brings home their Junk Art make sure to ask them about it. To grown ups their art work might be a bit confusing… I find if you say “Oh that looks great, tell me about it” you’ll soon find out what your child has made 🙂
The Small World Station
This station is exactly as it sounds, we create small worlds! The children use miniature animals, dolls, furniture, blocks and tracks to create a world based on reality or their imaginations. They use ideas from the Aistear theme to create their world.
The Building Station
Here the children put on their hi vis jackets (we’re very safety conscious!) and head to the building site. They use lego, straws, wooden blocks, soft blocks and links to build lots of different things to represent items in the Aistear theme.
The Pretend Corner/Socio-Dramatic Area
Here the children let their dramatic side shine! They pretend to be different people from different places, and create an imaginary area that they work in. They have to act out their role, chatting to other characters and solving problems.
Parents Invitation
Junior Infant Parents are invited to a tea/coffee morning Wednesday 19th September.
For details click link below.
Junior Infants Booklists 2014/15
BOOKLIST FOR JUNIOR INFANTS 2014/2015
ENGLISH
Exercise Your English A1 – Introduction to Cursive Handwriting (Edco)
(ISBN : 978-1-84536-602-5) – €7.30
Jolly Phonics Pupil Book 1 – Black and White A4 Version
(ISBN : 978-1-84414-162-3 ) – €2.80
MATHS
Planet Maths – Junior Infants (Folens) – €11.50
SESE
What a Wonderful World – Junior Infants (C. J. Fallon) New Edition- €8.55
These books are available for purchase in Cill Dara Educational Supplies, Easons or Farrell’s Book Shop :
An amount of €110.00 to cover the cost of the following has been paid.
Cost of the use of English books
Cost of Art and Craft materials
Cost of Photocopying
Cost of Equipment & Materials
Cost of maintaining I.T. equipment
Cost of distributing the lunches for the year is €10.00.
Cost of 24 hour insurance cover is €8.00.
This money can be paid to the office between 9.00 a.m. –2.00 p.m. ideally on the following dates:
1st & 2nd July 2014
1st & 2nd September 2014
7th & 8th October 2014
The school is moving towards being a digital school. We have registered for Digital school status which will mean we are positioned to provide the highest standard in Information Technology experience. With the help of a volunteer father who gives most generously of his time we have made great progress. The updating of equipment is essential and we have no budgetary allocation for it. We are therefore asking parents to make a further contribution of €10 per child (included above) towards the updating and replacement of equipment such as Interactive Board bulbs, tablets (of the computer kind!) and software licences (for example the Mathletics licence for 400 users which children got a lot of use and benefit from cost the school €2,354 this year).
All children should have all their books by September 1st.
Please label your child’s clothing and all other belongings.
Tracksuits are available in Kidstuff, Main Street, Newbridge and the Back to School Store, Cutlery Road.
For September there is a special arrangement for Junior Infants.
Your child will attend school on either Monday 1st September or Tuesday 2nd September. They will all attend from Wednesday 3rd September.
The Junior Infants will finish everyday at 12.00 up to and including Friday 19th September 2014.
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School Tour :)
We had a brilliant (if a little soggy!) day on the farm today. We met lots of different animals, fed some of them and held others. Plus we had a fantastic time in the play area. There was lots of rain, but also lots of toys so we didn’t really mind.
Ms Leahy was so proud of all of us on our school tour. Everyone was so good at listening and being kind, and we had a fabulous time. Have a look at our photos (teacher was a little bit snap happy….)