Wednesday 7th June 2017
Ms. Hunt and Ms. Campbell's Junior Infant classes paid a visit to the Bray Sealife Aquarium.

Thursday 8th June 2017
We held the Fundays Ice-cream day in aid of Down Syndrome Ireland. All the children enjoyed a refreshing ice-cream sandwich. We raised a total of €253. Big thank you to the parents that helped out on the day.

Friday 9th the June
All classes took part in the Leinster Rugby Training.

Monday 12th June
Ms. Cronin's Senior Infant class paid a visit to the Pine Forest Arts Centre in Glencullen.

For the second year running we have been awarded the prestigious Science Foundation Ireland Discover Science and Maths Award. This is a fantastic achievement by our Junior and Senior Infant classes who put together some excellent project work over the course of several months.We will now be able to display our second, Plaque of STEM Excellence, for 2016/17 academic year. Well done to all our children and teachers, Ms Hunt, Ms Cronin, Ms Campbell, Ms Pappas and Ms Kuntz for all their hard work.

Below is a link if you want to take a look at what the children had to do to secure this award.

http://greystonescnsscience2017.weebly.com/

Grace Garde is a independent nature educator who specializes in bringing children outdoors to explore their local environs with a natural heritage interest.
 
Grace, works along with the curriculum to help children engage with their local environment through outdoor learning and hands-on activities, providing a greater understanding of the seasons and stimulating all their senses. These visits will build confidence and Pupils will learn about ecosystems through site visits to local habitats using simple scientific sampling and interactive fun nature-based games."

Wednesday afternoon saw all our classes take part in a Céili outside in the wonderful sunshine. There was a great turnout of parents and everyone had craic learning to dance. The children were the stars of the day and showed off their dancing skills with style.
After the Céilí the children, parents and teachers took part in celebrating the Hindu Holi Festival throwing coloured powdered chalk at each other. All went home tired but exhilarated after a fun afternoon.

On Friday 3 March, we celebrated world book day. There were some fantastic characters from favourite books in each of our classes. The children all made a terrific and imaginative effort with their costumes and it was a very enjoyable day for all. 

It was with great excitement we began our Operation Transformation Day yesterday and welcomed a great turnout of our parents to school to join in with our 10 @ 10. This was an Operation Transformation initiative where all of the children, teachers and parents got active for 10 minutes at 10am. We were very fortunate to be able to call on Lesley Anne to lead us in a Zumba session which was great fun and you can see from our link below everyone really went for it. The Teddy Bears loved it to!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hslKTfc-rQ

We then had 5 stations of activities which all of the children joined in and there were no doubt some tired children going home at the end of the day. Well done to all the teachers who organised such a great day!

We were delighted to welcome Yvonne, who is dental hygienist at Glenageary Dental Care, to visit us recently. She spent some time with each class showing them how to keep their teeth in tip top condition. She also explained the importance of avoiding sugary treats which can really damage our teeth. After, the visit to show the children that healthy treats could be every bit as delicious as sugary ones we put together some amazing fruit skewers. You can see more pics at our gallery.

 The children had a great day last week as we took part in the Shoebox appeal. This was an opportunity for our pupils to learn that some children around the world are far less fortunate than themselves. We were delighted to receive such a great response from our parents and you can see from our pictures that the children had a great time putting the gift boxes together.

It was quite the sight this morning as hordes of ghouls, goblins and super heroes advanced on our little school. Parents stood smiling around the yard as we welcomed the little terrors into their classes and looked forward to a day of fun and games. Our teachers had gone all out as well and looked every bit as frightening!


A big word of thanks must go to Jnr Vip Parties (www.jnrvipparties.com) who came and painted everyone of our 77 faces today - and you can see from our pics that Paula did a wonderful job. You can see more pics from the day at our gallery.

The children had a blast and we are very thankful to all of our parents for going to so much effort with the costumes. It was a great way to mark the close of our first half term of 2016-17 and we look forward to the next 7 weeks in the run up to Christmas. To all of our parents/guardians and children please have a restful and enjoyable week off!

We really got into the Halloween spirit today when our Parent Teacher Partnership, Floral Art Greystones and the Vanilla Pod Carrickmines combined to give our children a great Halloween experience of pumpkin decorating. Many thanks to all who helped out scooping out the pumpkins and of course those helpers who worked with the children today, Adrienne from Floral Art and Heather and Fiona from our PTP.

Once again many thanks to Floral Art Greystones for providing the flowers and expertise today and to the Vanilla Pod in Carrickmines for providing the huge number of pumpkins.

Please go to our gallery for a look at some of the amazing creations from today.