Citywest & Saggart

Community National School

Senior Infants Room 5: What a Difference a Year Makes!

It was Intercultural Day in Citywest & Saggart CNS today. Each child completed a project on a country of their choice and during the week we learnt some fun facts about countries including Spain, France, Russia, Egypt and Poland. We learnt how to say hello, goodbye and thank you in French, Spanish and Russian. Some of the children dressed up and everyone looked very smart. Please click here to see how much the children have changed since Intercultural Day last year in Junior...

Junior Infants Room 2: Free Writing

The children in room 2 continue to develop their writing skills through explicit handwriting and writing lessons, as well as through play. They are beginning to spell words by themselves to the best of their ability. This is happening a lot as the children record orders in the CAFÉ. Today, somebody ordered pizza and a...

Junior Infants Room 2: Construction in Play

This month, the children in room 2 have been making marvellous constructions using the jaggo blocks. Houses, hotels, schools, and even entire cities are being built in our classroom. Building activities such as these really help the children develop their spatial awareness, as well as positive attitudes towards team work.  Have a look at some of their...

First Class Room 7: Around Ms Doyle in 80 minutes!

First Class were so lucky to have Ms Doyle visit us last week and tell us all about India. We used a KWL chart to find out about India. We interviewed a parent from our school community, a pupil from Junior Infants and Ms. Doyle. Ms Doyle is Dylan’s aunt! Ms Doyle went all around the world in 80 days and she spent a lot of her time in India. India was her favourite country! Ms Doyle helped us to find out the answers to our questions we had about India and she also brought it lots of interesting artefacts from India. She helped us break any stereotypes we may have had about India and even showed us all how to wear a sari. Ms Doyle told us that both women and men wear saris. Men wear saris in the dessert to help protect their eyes from the sand. Ms Doyle had the most interesting photos from her travels. We learned about some charities that Ms Doyle worked tirelessly with. We thank Ms Doyle for her community efforts at home and spending time with us. First class really enjoyed having Ms Doyle as their teacher for the visit. Ms Doyle used to work as a teacher in England! For photos of Ms Doyle’s visit please click...