Christmas fun

The Garda band came to our school to play Christmas songs, we had a great time singing along and dancing. To our surprise, Santa also arrived on the day. Our classroom Elf, Elfie left us chocolate lollies in the classroom,20191218_104503 20191218_104530 20191218_105211 20191218_105159 20191218_105134 20191218_132531 20191218_104534 20191218_132520 20191218_132509 from Santa to enjoy.

Visiting the Crib

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Christmas Crackers Hunt

Today Edward the Elf hid Christmas crackers around the classroom with the boys’ names on them.  The boys had great fun looking for their cracker and discovering their present.

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Christmas in St John Bosco JBS

We had such a fun Christmas filled day today!

We wore our Christmas jumpers, sang Christmas carols with the local garda band and had a surprise visit from Santa and his gift bearing elves. Can you see our smiles from ear to ear?

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Christmas jumpers and cracker hunt!

We had good fun today wearing our Christmas jumpers and we also had a Christmas cracker hunt in the classroom. The boys had to find a cracker hidden in the classroom with their name on it. Also, the Garda band visited us to play Christmas songs which was great fun. While they were here we had a surprise visit from Santa Claus!

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Future Artists

Yesterday we had a very special visit from a very successful artist who is also a past student. He had a lovely chat with the boys and we discussed his amazing paintings.

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He displayed a collection of his work in our school yard called ‘Dhá Mhilseáin’ and we loved it! His work can be seen in the Draíocht in Blanchardstown where he is the artist in residence.

Hey Ewe!

Today we had our Christmas play and the boys were wonderful! We loved narrating the nativity story through song singing!

Here are a few pictures of us practicing❄

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Inspired by Elfie (Our Elf on the shelf) the boys constructed Christmas trees, fantastic job boys!

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Practising our oral language skills in English and Gaeilge

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The Clock

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