Junior Infants were busy last week with their sorting and matching maths exercise. Sorting and grouping activities are a great way for children to unwind and help them to develop important teamwork skills, such as working together and listening to one another.
The beds in the school garden have had little love and attention over the summer and are ready for planting! Stay tuned to see what the children will be growing this year!
We’d like to give a big shout out to our newest members of John Scottus! Welcome Junior Infants!
Junior Infants had a super time on their school trip to Airfield Farm last week. They saw sheep, hens, pigs, cows and their resident fostered donkeys, Conal and Carroll! They also saw all the wonderful plants growing in the organic food garden. They have lots of ideas to bring back to our Secret Garden!
Senior Infants went to Dublin Zoo on Monday and they had a fantastic time! They saw giraffes, rhinoceroses, painted dogs, tortoises and many more animals! They received lovely feedback from the zoo who were impressed with their impeccable behaviour and excellent questions! Well done Senior Infants!
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Last week Fifth Class tuned into an Inspiring Ireland, Inspiring Students Zoom interview with jockey Rachael Blackmore, first female winner of the Aintree Grand National. They listened to Rachael’s story, what inspired her, how she handles failure and much more!
Today Senior Infants Yellow received a certificate to congratulate them on coming 1st in their category for the Dublin Simon Community colouring competition they entered in December!
The picture was a message of hope for people sleeping rough over Christmas.
They celebrated today with an ice cream 🙂 Well done Senior Infants Yellow!
The Irish Young Philosophers Awards were announced yesterday and…We have a winner!!!!
And a highly commended!!! With 4 of the 12 finalists coming from JSNS!
Congratulations Savannah Phoenix Munroe on her project ‘Is Race a Social Construct?’ and winning the overall primary category and to Cara Griffin receiving a Highly Commended for her project, ‘Is Going back to normal after lockdown a good thing?’. Congratulations!!!
Fantastic News!!
In this year’s Irish and International Young Philosopher Awards, 4 of the finalists in the 5th & 6th Class Category are all from John Scottus National School!
The winners will be announced tomorrow at 1.00pm so stay tuned!
Fingers crossed for our philosophical finalists!
More information can be found here
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Last week Junior Infants had great fun exploring visiting the vet-an tréidlia, in their Aistear curriculum. Aistear is the early childhood curriculum framework for all children from birth to 6 years, using four interconnected themes to describe children’s learning and development: Wellbeing, Identity and Belonging, Communicating, and Exploring and Thinking.
