Good afternoon to all members of the Ballinteer ETNS community! I hope that all of our pupils have had an enjoyable, engaging first month in school. The corridors and classrooms are so full of colour and life as the children’s art and project work has …
Every Wednesday Junior and Senior Infants come together in the hall for Infant Singing. Some of our favourite songs include Icky Sticky Bubblegum, Boa Constrictor and the Horrible House!
Lisa’s class experimented making name spirals and abstract shape art!
We are learning to write as Gaeilge i Rang a Dó and exploring the theme ‘Mé Féin’ (Myself). Féach ar ár gcuid gruaige álainn!
Senior Infants have been making new friends in September and talking about what family means in their classroom. Look at the wonderful reflections in our spéaclaí! Senior Infants also designed their own glasses just like Benjamin in Benjamin and the Super Spectacles!
Third Class have returned to the new school year with beautiful art to liven our corridors.
From the 13th to the 17th of June we held our Active Week in school. This included activities like; Zumba, scavenger hunts, sports day stations, discos, yoga, basketball, picnics, an astro dance party and of course, ice-cream. We all had a blast!
Muireann’s Sixth Class have been learning all about the 1916 Rising this month. We researched projects and presented them to the class for our homework. We have been reading the Gerard Whelan novel “The Guns of Easter” which is a historical fiction novel set in …
Congratulations to all of the athletes that represented us so well at the Cumann na mBunscol Áth Cliath athletics competition today at UCD. This is the yearly event that usually happens in Santry but it was moved this year because of upgrade works. We were …
Junior Infants have been really enjoying their first Aistear theme of “The Doctor’s Surgery”. They particularly love the Role Play area. The receptionists are extremely busy at their desks taking calls, making appointments and greeting patients as they arrive. The doctors and nurses have been …
Junior Infants have settled in really well to the routines and daily life of school. They have been busy learning about rhyme and syllables in English, learning about 2-D shapes and also about sorting items by various properties (size, shape, colour etc.) in Maths, and …
3rd Class have been learning about how families can be different but all share the same love. We learnt about the LGBTQIA+ Community, identified our special words called pronouns and we had so much fun writing, performing in and creating this video. Please watch and …
In January, Senior Infants enjoyed lots of activities around the theme of ‘food’. We discussed the different kinds of foods, our likes and dislikes and how food is important for giving us energy and keeping us healthy. Our Aistear role-play area was a Café/Restaurant. The …
Our Aistear theme in Senior Infants for December was The Arctic. The children really enjoyed learning all about the Arctic Circle, it’s animals and the people who live there. Our Aistear stations were; role-play, construction, junk art, sensory play, playdough and art. In the …
On the 6th February the children will come to school for the 100th day of the school year since we started back on 29th August. There will be lots of fun, number-related activities taking place throughout the day to mark the occasion: 100th Day activity …
