At our Christmas assembly, our class joined with Miss Feeney’s 1st class to learn & perform ‘Feliz Navidad’. We even learned a dance to go along with it. We all had great fun learning & performing the song at our whole school assembly before Christmas. Check this out below!

1st class have had a wonderfully wholesome December, getting into the festive spirit! We have had a wonderful few weeks preparing for the holidays. We posted our Christmas carepack letters to our ‘penpals’ & there was huge excitement walking to the post office & posting letters ourselves! We created lots of fabulous winter & Christmas art, such as snowglobes & Christmas wreaths. We ‘elfed ourselves’ as part of the school Christmas door competition – and room 4 won the junior classes section for most festive door! A massive well done to 2 of our girls who placed in the local Credit Union Art Comeptition that we participated in earlier this year. At our Christmas assembly, we also performed Feliz Navidad with some actions with Miss Feeney’s 1st class.

I wish each of the girls & their families all the best for the Christmas holidays & hope you all have a fabulous, relaxing Christmas break. A massive well done to each of the girls in room 4 on their progress so far in 1st class. We look forward to seeing what 2025 brings in the new year!

1st class have had a great few weeks back since the mid-term break! We have hit the ground running with our writing to socialise genre, we have signed up to write letters & Christmas cards to ‘pen-pals’ as part of Carepack.ie. The girls have been so excited and invested in their letter writing – we have planned, drafted, edited & published our own letters, ready to be posted! We also celebrated Science Week, where we undertook a variety of cool experiments in the classroom such as making walking water & rainbow rain. The girls made predictions beforehand & then documented the results like real scientists! We also had great fun that week at our biodiversity workshop & at the 6th class science fair in the halla.

We had our olympian visit from Noel Hendrick to our school on November 19th. There was huge excitement and anticipation for his arrival. We researched his canoe slalom event, made designs for his canoe & made Ireland posters and flags. We also learned the Haka Gaelach & Amhrán na bhFiann – which the girls loved.

November was also when we celebrated Friendship week, such a wonderful week in our school. It was fabulous to see the girls treating each other with kindness & care throughout the week. Our secret friend reveal on the Friday was a big hit, along with our ‘coffee morning with Ms. Feeney’s class! As always, we have been busy bees with our art, it’s great to have such a creative bunch in room 4. We made & designed our own cardboard houses from cereal boxes & made Winter trees using winter coloured paints.

On October 25th we had our annual Spooky Walk at Bunscoil Bhríde, there was such excitement leading up to the day! 1st class were so looking forward to dressing up for the occasion & they all looked AMAZING! It was such fun walking through the town & wonderful to have so much family & friends to greet us on our way. It was a great way to start our mid-term break! Check out our photos below to see the fabulous costumes that were on show for the day!

1st class in room 4 had a super week in school celebrating maths week! We had great fun taking part in a variety of maths activities – showing us that maths really is all around us! We took part in daily maths games in class, used our ‘maths eyes’ to find hidden maths in a huge maths week circus poster & completed a=our school maths trail outside in pairs.

We also were lucky to get to the halla for a maths activities showcase with Ms. de Faoite’s 6th class, as well as our own 1st/2nd class maths quiz. All the girls had a super week & it was great to see them have so much fun exploring & using maths in different ways!

1st class in room 4 have had a super first half-term! We have taken part in loads of activities & have had loads of fun!

In literacy we have done lots of practice on our reading, comprehension skills and phonics. Everyone has been working really hard so far & it is wonderful to see the progress made! We have daily maths stations working on counting skills, combining numbers, maths games/activities and problem-solving skills. The girls are really enjoying our cursive writing so far this year & it is lovely seeing their writing develop!

We chatted about signs of Autumn & went on nature walks outdoors to identify signs of Autumn. We learned about the Irish legend of Finn McCoul & the Giant, as well as the story of the Giant’s Causeway. We also listened to a wonderful read aloud story called the Leaf Man, before creating our own ‘leaf men’ using Autumn leaves we collected outdoors. We learned all about light this month, including sources of light, how shadows are made & how white light can be splt into the colours of the rainbow.

Finally, we also celebrated Maths Week this month, taking part in a variety of maths activities/games throughout the week. We played maths games daily, completed our school maths trail outdoors & even participated in a 1st/2nd class maths quiz in the halla. Everyone had great fun taking part in different activities and recognising maths is all around us.

We are hopeful that everyone has a great mid-term break before returning to school for another fun-filled half-term!

1st class have had a blast in room 4 so far this year! The girls have all settled into 1st class really well (even with the extra hour!) It has been lovely getting to know each other at the start of a new year. Our days have been jam-packed with learning, discussion & fun activities.

We have been revising our phonics sounds & writing about our news each week. We also have started cursive writing which the girls were so excited about. In maths, we are working on our number skills & counting & some algebra as well as solving simple maths problems in our problem-solving copies. We have great discussions about how to go about solving problems! As Gaeilge, we have learned all about the theme of ‘mé féin’ through the characters of Síofra, Seán agus Oisín. We really enjoy using Gaeilge in the class, especially cluichí & drámaíocht!

In SESE, we have had lots of discussion about or families & the stages of life for history. We had a wonderful show & tell activity this month where the girls brought in their own special artefacts & explained why they are special to them. In geography, we chatted about our community in Rathangan & all it’s lovely amenities, including our favourite place to go. We also went on a senses nature walk around the school grounds & recorded what we came across using our senses. We conducted an experiment in science to understand the concept of dissolving, as well as discussion around the benefits of recycling & why this is so important for our planet.

We celebrated National Fitness Day later this month & we had a great time taking part in different relays & activities with Ms. Feeney’s 1st class outdoors. We also got out to our fabulous school garden to remove all the weeds so our bed is ready for planting in the new year. We are so lucky to have such a creative & imaginative class in room 4, who have been creating some gorgeous artwork to decorate our classroom. Check out the wonderful work & creations we have made so far this year below!

Also, a big shoutout to one of our girls who managed to win us all a pair of socks in a competition she entered!

Welcome to Miss Gleeson’s 1st class blog! Stay tuned for lots of pictures of what we get up to in room 4!

6th class had a great day out in Prosperous for the annual Cumann na mBunscol basketball blitz this year. 12 of the girls made the trip to take part & we had a brilliant day. The girls competed against a number of primary schools across Kildare & we played in 3 games on the day, just falling short of reaching the semi-final. A tremendous effort by the girls!

It has been a pleasure working with such a great gang of girls this year for basketball – their dedication, teamwork & positive attitudes throughout were amazing. It was a great day out for all as part of their final year at Bunscoil Bhríde. We wish them all the best & hope they carry their basketball journey on to secondary school too!

Our basketball season started in November 2022 as we took part in the Cumann na mBunscol basketball league. We have had a massive turn out from the senior classes, with over 40 girls participating in training each week with Ms. Dineen & Ms. Gleeson.

We had a very successful outing in the league this year, making it to the semi-finals! We played teams from Caragh NS, Prosperous & Castledermot. All the girls showed great commitment & teamwork throughout the season and they worked so hard. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be for us on the semi-final days but everyone tried their absolute best & enjoyed the experience.

On March 9th our 6th class girls participated in a basketball blitz in Prosperous. The girls displayed a super turn out on the day but unfortunately it didn’t go our way in the end. Well done to all of the girls that took part, we still had some super scores on the day and we are so proud of their efforts throughout.