Intercultural Week and Latvia Project

We learned about Latvia for Intercultural Week. Artur's mum came in to talk to us and answer our questions. We learned how to find it on the map, about its plants and animals and spied some creepy crawlies that have been trapped in amber for thousands of years. Then we had a feast of food on Friday. Thanks to all our wonderful parents for sending in food. It was delicious!

St Patrick's Day

We had great fun celebrating St. Patrick's Day and watching the performance of our Irish dancers and school band. We really embraced the wearing of the green!

Grandparent's Day

We were delighted to welcome our grandparents and family to our classroom on Wednesday. We made some handprint art and coloured some special pictures for them. We asked them questions about their memories of school and we also performed two songs. We love our grandparents and learn so much from them!!

Mindful Movements

We have had several Mindful Movements sessions the last few weeks with our teacher Michelle. She guides us through a series of poses and movements and we are learning to better control our breathing, our bodies and our minds. It is also great fun. We love the crocodile pose....snap, snap!!

Operation Transformation Walk

Our Doughiska community has a new walking club and on Monday morning, all the boys and girls in our school and Merlin College joined them for a walk around the football pitches. First, we did our stretches in the yard and then we posed for a huge group photograph. We were then led out by our school band. It was wonderful way to start our week!

Getting ready to go...

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Marian and Yaz visit our school

We had two very special visitors to our school last week. Ben's nana Marian is blind and she came in to talk to us about the challenges of life with visual impairment. Yaz, her guide dog also came with her and we saw how he was able to guide Marian around obstacles.It was wonderful hearing about his work and we learned not to pet guide dogs when they are working. Thank you Marian and Yaz!!

Christmas Jumper Day

Our school won the Christmas Jumper Photo competition with Gorta! We will receive a signed Irish soccer jersey. Thank you to all our parents for your support!