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First Class

Causey Farm

Teddy bears picnic

We made 'summer sundaes'

Earthworm hunt

Junior Achievement

In first class we have just completed the 'junior achievement' programme.  Every Friday our junior achievement mentor Heather would teach us all about living and working in the local community.  We even got to be entrepreneurs for a day and received  a special certificate of completion for all our hard work. 

Little Leprechauns!

Is brea linn Gaeilge!

Learning about road safety

Healthy eating in 1st class

Picture

Valentine's Day 2018

Catholic schools week 2018

The theme for this years Catholic schools week was 'family'. We wrote class acrostic poems about our individual families and our school family. 

Relaxation and yoga

Food Dudes

We have started the 'food dudes' programme in our school. It is so important to eat lots of fruit and vegetables in order to stay healthy. Each day we will taste a different piece of fruit and vegetable.

Maths fun

First class are learning to measure using a variety of instruments.  Look at how good we are working in teams!!!

Blow Painting

Drama 'freeze frames'

Can you guess the fairytales we are trying to display?

We made clay snowmen

​Christmas fun in room 1

A visit from Santa Claus

Bualadh Bos!

Irish dancing

The girls have started learning Irish dancing. They're getting a little better week by week. Take a look at how they're getting on.

Three in a row!!!

First class have won the golden boot once and the silver boot twice for travelling to school in a green way!!

Silver boot winners!

Virgin Mary GNS is a 'green school, and so we try to be as environmentally friendly as we can, even in the way we travel to school each day.  As we were the second best class for travelling to school in a green way (mainly walking, and cycling to school)we were awarded the 'silver boot' award for our efforts.
Picture

In November we remember

As November is remembrance month, we erected a small remembrance tree in our classroom to remember all our loved ones who have died and gone to heaven. Each girl took one tag and wrote down the names of her loved ones that she wants to remember. Each morning we say a special Hail Mary for them. 

Report writing in first class

We are learning all about report writing in first class. In pairs, we are working on animal projects including projects on  dogs, cats, horses, penguins, fish, ladybirds, monkeys and rabbits. We used the tablets to do some research on the animals first. Take a look at how we're doing so far.

Halloween fun in room 1

We had lots of fun on dress up day for Halloween. We played lots of fun games and came to school in some really spooky costumes. Can you guess who is who?

Fun at camogie

Check out our wonderful skills we've been learning each week at our camogie lessons. 

2D shapes hunt

Due to the bad weather, we had to undertake our shapes hunt indoors. But even the rain couldn't spoil our fun. Take a look at how we got on and see how many 2D shapes you can see...

A visit from 'Sam Maguire'

We had a special visit from John Small of Ballymun Kickhams fame with the Sam Maguire cup.

Little visitors in room 1

Since the arrival of a certain fairy family, there have been strange happenings in room 1...from eaten biscuits and fruit to nibbling of lunches.  Our theory was proven even more by the appearance of magic fairy dust and little footprints in our classroom. Look and see...

Autumnal Art

We were inspired by the beauty of Autumnal colours to create our very own Autumn trees.
                                            "Autumn leaves are falling down,
​                                              Red, Yellow, Orange and Brown"

UP THE DUBS!!!

We had our annual 'Lá gorm' in the run up to the All Ireland final 2017 and all of the girls came to school dressed in their best blue attire. We learned all about the famous landmarks and people of Dublin as well as spending time creating some fantastic posters for the Dubs. Take a look at how we got on...

Welcome to first class!

Welcome to the Virgin Mary GNS first class page. Here you can keep up to date with all of the wonderful activities we're doing at school. Take a quick tour around our classroom and meet the girls. Do you see anybody you recognise? 

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Shangan Road, Ballymun,
Dublin 9, 
​D09 T2X6.
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