Our School Inclusion Tree

We have worked hard this year and last year in our school, towards achieving the Yellow Flag for inclusion in our school. Everyone in our school is unique and different and come from various backgrounds, but we know that everyone is included and our differences are accepted and celebrated! This is our school Inclusion tree that symbolises that uniqueness and celebrates our individuality! All of the children in our school stamped their fingerprint on the tree to make the leaves!

Our Indoor Forest Garden

Múinteoir Karmel and Múinteoir Damien have been working really hard in our school to make a beautiful indoor forest garden for all the children and grown-up's to enjoy! They have added some beautiful flowers, trees, plants and other living things to our garden. We can use of our senses to experience and enjoy the garden, from listening to the beautiful outdoor sounds like singing birds and gushing water, to smelling the blossoming spring flowers, to looking at the budding trees and plants around the garden. We love our school garden so much and some of us have even brought some things from nature to add to our garden! We can't wait to see the garden as it changes during the spring season!

Operation Transformation Walk 2017

We had a very exciting start to our week this week! On Monday, all of the boys and girls from our school and from Merlin College joined together to take on a walking challenge! Some of our mums, dads, grandparents, sisters and brothers joined us too and shortly after 9.00, over 800 of us took off walking around the park in our local area! We had great fun warming up in our basketball court first and got a great kick out of exercising in our local area!

Dina Schools

This week Wally came to visit our classroom and told us about how he was frustrated on Friday at golden time, because he had nobody to play with. He took 3 feel breaths to keep himself calm but he was still feeling lonely. So then he thought very hard and decided he would ask the others if he could play with them. He was very happy to join in with the others in their game. In our class we did role plays to act out what happened to Wally and the children in our class were very good at letting Wally play. We like to include people in our class and make sure that nobody is left out at games and on yard.

Buddy Bench

We love using the new buddy bench on our yard! When we are alone or have nobody to play with, we can sit on the buddy bench and other children invite us to play with them. If there are a few of us on the bench, sometimes we play together!

Learning about Poland

The children have been learning all about Poland for the International Festival we are having, to work towards getting our Yellow Flag! Some of the parents very generously gave their time to teach the children songs, poems and dances and read traditional Polish stories to the children.