Easter seemed to arrive very early this year, but after learning all about spring in Aistear for the month of March, the Junior Room were very excited to start some […]
March Aistear 2023 – Spring
March finally marked the start of Spring which means in SESE we started with Geography to explore our school grounds looking and listening for signs of spring. The children really […]
Lá Fhéile Pádraig 2023
St Patrick’s Day is always a huge celebration in St Thomas’ and this year was no different! On the 16th March, bhí Lá Glas againn. Tháinig gach duine ar scoil […]
World Book Day
On Thursday 2nd March, the children of St Thomas’ donned costumes to celebrate their love of reading for World Book Day 2023! A much-loved day in our school calendar, the […]
February Aistear 2023 – The Pancake Café
For the shortest month of the year, the Junior Room has been very busy learning all about the Pancake Café. In Play Time, we started the topic off in Construction, […]
Valentine’s Day 2023
The children took part in some exciting activities this year to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Firstly, they created some abstract prints by sandwiching blobs of paint between paper and squeezing it. […]
Pancake Tuesday 2023
The day the children have been counting down to finally arrived – Pancake Tuesday! The Junior Room started the day by practicing their fine motor skills and cutting out different […]
Aistear – January 2023
We were very excited to start our new theme of ‘Clothes’. In History, we learnt about what children wore in the past and compared that to today. We focused on […]
Happy New Year 2023
Happy New Year! Here in the Junior Room we welcomed in the new year the best way we know how – with lots of Art! To kick things off, we […]
It’s Christmas! December 2022
What a busy month it has been in the Junior Room! There were Policemen, Policewomen, Roman Soldiers and angels in attendance in the Junior Room, along with appearances from Mary […]