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Welcome to Junior 6! Hello everyone! Welcome to our class webpage. Darragh, Dougie, Emily, Dara, Mati & Ciara are inviting you to keep in touch with their class webpage and see all the great work and activities they will be engaging in over the course of the academic year, under the guidance of their teacher Patrick and SNAs Bernie & Karen. Together, we will make a superb team - working well, being kind & helpful to our friends & most importantly, keep safe, well & happy in our new class! Happy days ahead for us all in Junior 6! |
January 2021
Happy New Year from all at Junior 6! A strange start to the new year but we are remembering the importance of keeping safe and well. With this recent school closure we must take measures to protect ourselves and our families as best we can. So for now, we are working and learning from home.
We will continue to work hard for our parents and families. Patrick, Bernie, and Karen will be available to help us via phone calls and Zoom Meetings too! Patrick will email our parents links to these meetings. It will be lovely to see everyone! It is important to remember that we will be back in school soon again and that we will see our friends and teachers then. So until then we will remember our class rules & most importantly keep safe & keep well!
We will continue to work hard for our parents and families. Patrick, Bernie, and Karen will be available to help us via phone calls and Zoom Meetings too! Patrick will email our parents links to these meetings. It will be lovely to see everyone! It is important to remember that we will be back in school soon again and that we will see our friends and teachers then. So until then we will remember our class rules & most importantly keep safe & keep well!
*** Update - Wednesday 20th January, 2021. ***
Wonderful work being completed at home by all the pupils in Junior 6. Lovely to be engaging well with our remote learning packs as well as the extra activities linked to whole school Zoom assemblies & our own class Zooms meetings. We've heard that our teacher & SNAs are very proud of us all and told us to 'keep up the great work'!
Check out some photos of us working well at home.
Check out some photos of us working well at home.
*** Update - Tuesday 19th January, 2021. ***
Our theme this week is all about Owls. On Monday during our Zoom class, Bernie read the story of the 'Owl Babies' by Martin Waddell. It is one of our favourite books! We will work hard at home completing all these lovely owl themed activities.
Click on each link below and happy learning!
Click on each link below and happy learning!
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Some interesting facts all about Owls. Click on the video to find out more!
Storytime with the wise old owls!
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Some Music from our owls! We all love music in Junior 6!
A lovely arts & crafts activity to work on at home
Working from Home!
We all have our 'remote learning packs' at home now so we will continue to complete all the lovely activities that are enclosed in this pack. We can also look at some of the links below if we want to check out some more exciting online activities & resources.
http://www.mathschamps.co.uk/
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english-time-fillers/bingo
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
http://www.mightybook.com/
http://www.storylineonline.net/
We all have our 'remote learning packs' at home now so we will continue to complete all the lovely activities that are enclosed in this pack. We can also look at some of the links below if we want to check out some more exciting online activities & resources.
http://www.mathschamps.co.uk/
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english-time-fillers/bingo
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
http://www.mightybook.com/
http://www.storylineonline.net/
Photo Gallery - Working from home
Great work from Junior 6 pupils this week. Enjoy the photographs of all their hard work completed at home.
December 2020
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Season's Greetings!Holidays are here! What a great first term in Junior 6 - all working hard and progressing well! Our teacher is very proud of us all!
Happy Christmas to all from us all in Junior 6! See you in the New Year! |
What a busy month we've been having! Lots of preparation for our online Christmas Concert - we focused on a photostory segment which was accompanied by one of our favourite Christmas songs. Here are some of the great moments captured on camera by the staff in our class.
And here is the final product! Happy viewing!
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S.P.H.E & Literacy
Here we are off to post our letter to Santa. You can tell it was a wet windy day but we have heard it safely arrived at the North Pole! Hurray for that! |
Visual Arts
Here we are busy making Christmas photo baubles for the lovely tree in our classroom. Great little workers we are! |
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Christmas Display Boards
A Special Visitor!
Well, we were all delighted and excited to hear that Santa Claus could visit our school - we just had to wait for the date to be announced. So with great delight, he safely landed on the school roof on the 16th of December! What lovely gifts he brought us too!
Christmas Gifts!
This year, we made lovely Christmas floral arrangements for our families. Hopefully they all loved them!
November 2020
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We are all delighted to be back in class after a lovely Mid-Term Break. We said 'goodbye' to Autumn before our break and we welcomed our new season Winter on the 1st of November. What a difference a few days makes to the outside environment. We were all sorry to see the last of the Autumn leaves on the tree outside our classroom window but we know that before they can return in the Springtime, we have to look at it's bare branches for the Winter season.
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Circle-Time meets Geography & Art!
We all enjoy circle-time each morning. We talk about who is in school today, the day and date, the season, the current weather and a schedule of activities for the day. We spoke about the new season and what clothes we need for the chilly days. Later in art class, we created a poster of winter clothes. All posters are displayed on our classroom display board alongside our 'Winter Word Wall'. Needless to say, we are all excited about a certain event that occurs in December! By looking at our word wall, have a guess at what that event might be!!
S.P.H.E. & P.E.
What a great sight to see that we all hadn't forgotten the health education lessons relating to Coronavirus. We were straight back to washing our hands, using the hand sanitizer and cleaning our workstations. As well as remembering to cough and sneeze into our elbows.
Check us out below .......... Junior 6 Covid busters!
Check us out below .......... Junior 6 Covid busters!
We also continued to keep healthy by dancing to some running music! Great fun we had too but we were all exhausted after it!
We've all noticed how cold it has been since we returned to school in November. In circle-time, we linked our SESE lessons with Art. We learnt about seasonal changes and things that are 'hot & cold'. We also spoke about one of our favourite movies - 'Happy Feet'. In art class, we made our very own penguins and gave them a name of our choice. Check out all the happy penguins!
S.E.S.E. & Numeracy - Science Week 8th-13th Nov.
We all love carrying out experiments in Junior 6. As this is National Science Week, we carried out lots of different experiments this week which linked in with our Numeracy lessons. We needed to measure different liquids for the experiments. We also created bar charts at the end of the week to represent who liked each experiment. Great work by all!
Check out some of our great experiments we carried out during Science Week!
Check out some of our great experiments we carried out during Science Week!
October 2020
We all love the month of October. Lots of fun things to look forward to - Baboró, Mid-term Break & Hallowe'en! We began the month continuing with our Autumn theme. Some of our lessons focused on the theme of 'A Scarecrow'. Here we are working on making our own individual scarecrows for our display board. Check in to see the finished product soon!
In Music & Drama classes, we pretended to be scarecrows and danced along to the song 'Dingle Dangle Scarecrow. We make a great bunch of scarecrows! In Communication & Literacy class, we all enjoyed the story 'The Scarecrow's Wedding' by Julia Donaldson, one of our favourite authors.
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We have been so busy completing our scarecrows for the display board in the corridor. It was a very tricky task but the staff helped us create superb scarecrows! Let's hope no crows visit St. Joseph's or they will be very scared!!
Baboró 2020 comes to St. Joseph's!
There was great excitement in our school when Baboró came to visit! What a great show we all participated in. Huge thanks to Phillida & team. We all thoroughly enjoyed the experience!
Hallowe'en Activities!
One of our favourite times of year has arrived! We have been very busy creating some lovely Hallowe'en art, reading some Hallowe'en themed stories as well as incorporating Hallowe'en into our Drama, Music & Numeracy lessons.
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Goodbye Autumn! We went on a nature walk around the school grounds to mark the last month of Autumn. When we return after Mid-Term break, it will the season of Winter. What a lovely photo of Junior 6 pod under a lovely autumn tree!
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Check out our lovely Hallowe'en display board. Lots of scary witches taking flight on their broomsticks and casting spells around a caldron. We also made some spooky black cats.
Hallowe'en Costumes & a new teacher!
On Friday the 23rd of October, we had our annual dress-up day for Hallowe'en. A little different this year in that we had a Junior and Senior parade outside, showing off our lovely costumes. It was great to see everyone dressed up. We also had a new teacher this morning - Mr. Gobbles! He told us he ate Patrick but we weren't too sure about that as he wore the same jacket as Patrick. It was good that Mr. Gobbles wore a face mask though - he obviously heard about the pandemic! Thankfully, he didn't stay too long & Patrick was back to us after snack. Phew!
Check out our great photos below.
Check out our great photos below.
Happy Hallowe'en from all in Junior 6. Have a good rest over Mid-Term break and we will be ready again for plenty more exciting activities in November. Stay safe and keep well!
September 2020
We are all thrilled to be back in our school again! We are working hard in our classroom making sure we remember to wash our hands, cover our sneezes and keeping a safe distance from each other. Our teacher tells us we are doing a great job!
Music Class with Cormac |
Autumn Art |
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On Tuesday morning, we welcomed back Cormac to our class for music. We all sat 2 metres away from each other and played lots of different instruments. It was great fun!
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We've been very busy on our Autumn theme since we returned to school. Lots of work on trees, leaves and animals we see in Autumn.
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Here is our classroom with all our socially distanced workstations. We are working very well at taking responsibility for all our own belongings. We are continuing to be very careful about remembering to keep all our own belongings to ourselves and not share them with our friends. The staff tell us we are doing a great job!
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This week in music class we learned how to play the bodhrán to some traditional Irish music. Check us out ......... we would make a great band!
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We are progressing very well with work on on Autumn theme. This week we learnt about 'the hedgehog' and made some cosy leaf beds for them to sleep in. We also revised all the words associated with the season using our word mats. Our display board in the classroom is looking great!
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Celebrating Culture Night 2020
Friday, the 18th September is Culture Night. Here in Junior 6, we watched some video clips of previous Culture Nights in Galway. We also watched the 1994 Riverdance performance and tried our own version after! Great fun!
