On Friday rang a 3 went to the National Art Gallery. We saw Caravaggio, Jack B. Yeats, The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife, Monet and much more. We finished with some sketching of Military Manoeuvres. A great day out.

Rang a 3 loved World Book Day. Some of us dressed up as our favourite characters and others dressed up a potato as their favourite characters.

Rang a 3 have been learning all about the weather. We made weather instruments and went out to record the weather.

Rang a 2 agus a 3 were very lucky to go to the young Einstein show at the Lexicon in Dun Laoghaire. The experiments were very interesting and the boys learnt about electricity, animation, non-Newtonian fluids and much more.

The boys made super hot air balloon Valentine's Day cards. Who is going to be lucky enough to receive one???

The boys practiced the pencil roll, egg roll, James Bond roll, forwards roll and backwards roll this week.

Rang a 3 agus a 5 had a great time reading their Scríobh Leabhar to each other. Maith sibh buachaillí.

Congratulations to these two boys, who both won awards for their short-films at the Arclight Film Awards. We are so proud!

Inniu, léigh Rang a Cúig a gcuid leabhar Gaeilge le Rang a Trí. Bhí áthas orainn ar fad am a chaitheamh le chéile agus ár gcuid léitheoireachta agus scríobhnóireachta a thaispeáint. Maith sibh a bhuachaillí! Today, Rang a Cúig read their books as Gaeilge with Rang a Trí. We loved spending time together and showing off our reading and writing. Maith sibh a bhuachaillí!

This week rang a 3 have been learning all about 3D shapes. The boys enjoyed a 3D shape maths trail and making prisms and pyramids with match sticks and blue tack.

Rang a 3 made printing stamps last week. Each stamp had and abogiginal symbol on it. This week we used them to make group and whole class aboriginal stories.

The whole school are really enjoying the active breaks challenge. Every day we are being active and doing the Croke Park movement break videos.

Rang a 3 enjoyed practicing balancing in pairs this week.

Rang a 3 had a bring in a teddy day. It was lovely meeting all their furry friends!

Rang a 3 are loving gymnastics. We also had our bimonthly trip to the library.

3rd class did a great job on their Aboriginal art work. Maith sibh buachaillí.

On Wednesday the whole school celebrated our school's 125th anniversary. We had a wonderful celebration with songs, speeches, poems, planting of a tree and raising of our new flag.

3rd class enjoyed experimenting with aboriginal dot painting this week.

On Fridays rang a 3 have game time as a treat. We now have a pool table and table tennis in our classroom!

Rang a 3 enjoyed exploring print this week through free play. They worked in pairs to make print patterns.