Bodyke National School

More Halloween fun was had in the Junior Room..

We designed and carved pumpkins, we made Halloween Lanterns, we went on the Halloween Hobble around Bodyke in our fantastic costumes…thank you to Malone’s shop for our treat along the way! We had a spooky lunch, watched Room on the Broom and finished the day with a Halloween Boogie 😉

Well done to everyone for making such a fantastic effort with your costumes…as for Ms Ryan…what was she thinking ?????? 😉

Happy Halloween everyone and enjoy your well deserved break!

We were delighted to invite Fergus Barrett from Leave No Trace Ireland to the school this week to run his Outdoor Ethics Education Programme.

Leave No Trace is designed to promote and inspire responsible outdoor recreation and is based on 7 principles:

• Plan Ahead and Prepare.
• Be Considerate of Others
• Respect Farm Animals and Wildlife
• Travel and Camp on Durable Ground
• Leave What You Find
• Dispose of Waste Properly
• Minimise the Effects of Fire.

Click here for more information on the programme.

As part of our Active School Plan, the children all took part in a treasure hunt of Bodyke village, looking for Halloween inspired clues and carrying out the activity that best matched each clue. The children had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed their hunt.

At Lunch-time the children continued to practice their hopping and jumping for distance over hurdles. While in the Junior Room the children were engaged in a Halloween dance.

Great participation for all involved!!!

Happy Halloween!

We had great fun in the Junior Room today for Maths Week. We made shapes on the Geoboards and on the ipads, added our totals for the beanbag toss, practiced our patterns on the beads, and made sequences with the camels. Here are some photos from the fun..

We were so inspired by our library visit last week to meet author and storyteller Dereck Mulveen, that we created and wrote about our own robots. There might be a best seller out of us yet!

We have been covering the Athletics Strand of the PE Curriculum. We really enjoyed using the hurdles as part of our PE lesson. We are concentrating on improving our running technique also. Remember “Head up, Pump you Arms, High Knees!!”

In the Senior Room ,we were learning about different plant groups. We went on a visit to the nearby forest and collected samples from some plant groups such as mosses, ferns, flowering plants and trees. We used some reference books and websites to help to to identify the plants back in the classroom. We remembered to follow the safety rules when walking on the road and wore our high vis vests….Be Safe, Be Seen!

We are looking forward to starting the Leave No Trace Programme with Fergus Barrett on Wednesday 25th October.

The Leave No Trace schools programme is a curriculum intended to promote sustainable use of our public lands, through application of the seven principles of Leave No Trace.

For more details, check out the websites http://www.leavenotraceireland.org/ and http://www.leavenotraceschools.org/

As part of the Children’s Book Festival, our class visited Scariff library, to meet with Author and Storyteller Derek Mulveen, and we were treated to a fantastic reading from his book ‘Oisin the Brave – Robot Island’ .

Oisin the Brave and Orane the Dragon go through the Dolmen of Time on an adventure that sees them travel across many seas and meet many strange creatures.The children’s imaginations were ignited with exciting characters and beautiful illustrations by Derek Mulveen.

Click here to watch a short video.

We were so excited when we got back to school that we drew our own robots and have started writing our own stories!

Thanks to Derek Mulveen, Scariff Library, and our Parent’s Association for subsidising the cost of the trip!

More Aistear fun was had in the Junior Room, with the children taking on the roles of Gardaí arresting suspects, firemen and fire chiefs tackling dangerous fires and pulling people to safety, and a team of doctors to help save casualties…Here are some photos of the fun…