Ms. Southern

February- Friendships/Vale
Examples of items covered for this month include-
Social sight signs and symbols, household bills, timetables, finding factual information etc.
Reading Strategies- context, sound prediction and decoding
Maths- Weight/Capacity/Budgeting
Stories- St. Brigit/St. Valentine/Myths & Legends
Prep. For Confirmation- Attended Mass x2 (Confirmation will take place on Saturday March 30th.)
Art-Valentine Cards/Valentine Mobiles/Valentine Napkin Holders
Cookery Class- Bread & Butter Pudding/Valentines Cake
PE- Action songs/Dance & Movement
SPHE/PERSONAL CARE - RSE PROGRAMME
Senior Girls Group -Swimming - In The Park Hotel
Senior Boys Group - Computers
Class went to see "HAIRSPRAY" in The Friary

January 2019 Themes for this month are Winter & Toys
Samples of work for our Winter Theme-
We covered a range of literacy work around words associated with Winter.
We have just completed a project on China, one of the things we learned is that 2019 is the year of the pig.
We are looking at temperature in Maths at the moment.
We are focusing on shopping and looking at the cost of everyday items in Maths.
Art- We made a Winter Mobile and designed some really nice Posters using the Winter Theme.
We made hot chocolate with some butter cookies as part of our Winter Theme.
Toys
We completed a wide variety of work using "Toys" as our theme across all subjects.

Literacy - Reading, writing and oral language
We looked at the history of toys/toys now and then/toys that are still popular today
We designed some posters in Art advertising a toy fair and we made a fairy tree collage

We used a range of mixed media materials in Art this month with some fantastic results.

DECEMBER

Well done to Aoibhe, Susan & Holly, they won 1st. prize in the second stage of The Chapter Level of the Credit Union Art Competition. They will now go automatically to The National Final which will take place in February 2019.

SOME EXAMPLES OF STUDENTS WORK FOR DECEMBER

We did lots of Literacy work in relation to our themes this month.

Occupation & Music

We made some beautiful YULE LOGS under the guidance of Ms Lynch.

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We made our Cake Boxes in Art Class.

October - Theme Autumn/Halloween

Literacy - How to write a party invitation.

November - Samples of work

We are learning about directions.

Literacy - We wrote about our mid-term break under different headings and discussed it in class.
We looked at a selection of jobs that people do and discussed what type of service they provide.
Numeracy - We are covering time(the clock) for November, we are also doing lots of work on budgeting.

Samples of work covered for the month of September

Literacy - Writing party invitations
Addressing envelopes
Literacy words/terms associated with the themes
Numeracy - We are working on number for this month
Life Skills Numeracy - Going out with shopping lists and pricing products in the supermarkets
Personal Care - Looking after our bodies is our focus this month
Art - We have created some lovely festive pieces
Some of us are preparing for our Confirmation which will take place in March, we had our enrollment ceremony last month. Our commitment ceremony will take place at the end of this month.

Credit Union Art Awards

September - Theme School/Family

Samples of work for September