07 June 2025

Active Week 2025

Junior Infants had the most fantastic time during active week. We started off the week with 6th class doing our walk a mile with a smile, On Wednesday we had our welly throwing competition, well done to our two winners. We also did our sponsored walk in the field that day. On Thursday we went to the Old Rectory in Croom for our school tour, we had the BEST day! On Friday, we had our first Knockes Sports Day! Despite the weather we got to enjoy all the activities and finished the day off with an icecream! Thank you Mr. Shanahan for all your hard work organising active week!

30 May 2025

Did someone say brownies??

A huge thank you to Mr. Shanahan who taught us all about how to bake yummy chocolate brownies. We chatted about the ingredients that we needed and all the different steps we had to take to bake them. We were shocked at how much sugar and oil were needed for brownies and it helped us understand why it's not a good idea to have treats all the time but every now and then is ok!

30 May 2025

Medal Winner!

Congratulations to this fantastic girl on winning her first ever medal!! She was thrilled showing us her medal and her classmates were very impressed! Well done!!

30 May 2025

Trophy Winner!

Congratulations to this superstar performer on her second time winning this trophy! Well done!!!

23 May 2025

Rainy Day Games

As much as we love to play outside during our break times, we have just as much fun playing with our rainy day games inside when we can't go out!

19 May 2025

Mr. Sun please don't go!!

We have been enjoying some of the fabulous weather here in Junior Infants. Last week we went on a 'Summer Senses Walk' where we used our sense of smell, sight, touch, taste (imaginary taste) and hearing to discover all the wonderful summer aspects around our school. We had a chance at the end to draw pictures of everything we saw, heard, smelled, imagined we could taste and touch in our lovely field. We hope the sun comes back soon!

19 May 2025

Welcome to Knockea!

We are so lucky to welcome a new member to our class this year. He has settled right in since his first day and it's like he's been with us since the very beginning. Welcome to Knockea and enjoy the adventure :)

15 May 2025

Gaeilgeoir na Míosa - Mí Aibreán

Maith thú!! Bhí an cailín seo ag canadh agus ag úsáid a chuid Gaeilge tríd an mhí agus ag éisteacht go cúramach sna ranganna Gaeilge!

15 May 2025

Student of the Month - April

Congratulations to this superstar after all his hard work and effort in being a good friend and sharing during the month of April. He always uses his lovely manners and is very helpful to his teachers. Well done!

12 May 2025

GAA Training

We are so lucky to have a coach coming in on Wednesdays to teach us some Gaelic football skills. We are a very talented bunch!

22 April 2025

Gardeners in the making!

In April we learned a little bit about what plants and flowers need if they are to grow. We learned they need water, sunlight and soil. We planted some cress seeds in pots with some soil, watered them several times during the day and made sure they had lots of sunlight for two weeks. All our hard work paid off and look at how it grew! We're hoping to plant some sunflowers after the Easter break now that we are professional gardeners! Well done everyone!!

22 April 2025

Gaeilgeoir na Míosa - Márta

Bhí an buachaill seo ag déanamh obair iontach i rith an mhí Márta sna ranganna Gaeilge. Bhí sé ag cleachtadh na focail agus na frásaí nua agus ag éisteacht an t-am ar fad. Maith thú!!!

22 April 2025

Student of the Month March

Huge congratulations to this fantastic student in Junior Infants who is our Student of the Month for March. She has been doing fantastic work always helping her teacher, practicing her sounds and reading skills and making a huge effort to be kind and share with her friends. Well done, we're so proud of you!

22 April 2025

Crazy Hair Day

Our Junior Infants went above and beyond for our Crazy Hair Day fundraiser! We thought we'd add some crazy face poses in too!

11 April 2025

Easter Egg Hunt

Junior & Senior Infants received a very special email from the Easter Bunny saying he had been around the school last night and left a little treat for them.

07 April 2025

Our first trip to the field

We had a great time heading off to the school field today for the first time. We had PE in the field where we played loads of games and had so much fun using all the space to practice our throwing skills. We hope the sun is here to stay!!

07 April 2025

Rugby Star

Congratulations to this superstar in Junior Infants who brought in his medal to show us all. He won it at a rugby blitz at the weekend, well done!!

28 March 2025

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the Junior Infant Mammys!! A small gift for you went home in our bags and we prepared a little song for you too!!

28 March 2025

A visit from Anthony Galvin

Junior & Senior Infants had a lovely visit from Anthony Galvin today. He told them all about The North and South Poles and about Tom Crean the explorer. The children loved it and they loved seeing all the clothes an explorer would have to wear if they visited The South Pole.

25 March 2025

Capacity Fun

This week we are learning about capacity and using our estimation skills. We looked at the chalk box and the clay box and estimated which box would hold more water, we estimated the chalk box would because it looked bigger. We tested our idea by filling it with the cups. We needed 12 cups to fill our chalk box and only 9 for the clay box so we were right! Then we had a race outside trying to fill our box before the other team! Well done everyone, we think they might have heard our cheering all the way down in Ballyneety!!

23 March 2025

We rocked 'Lots of Socks'!

On Friday we celebrated World Down Syndrome Day, we wore odd and colourful socks and created our own! Well done everyone!!

18 March 2025

Medals, medals and more medals

Well done to these fantastic superstars winning medals over the last few weeks! Keep up the fantastic effort!

18 March 2025

Gaeilgeoir na Míosa - Feabhra

Bhí an buachail seo ar feabhas ar fad i rith an mhí Feabhra. Bhí sé ag canadh a amhráin, ag úsáid a frásaí nua agus ag rá a focail nua ag aon seans a bhí aige! Maith thú!

18 March 2025

Student of the Month - February

Congratuations to this fabulous star who was our Student of the Month for March. She has created some beautiful art pieces and is always so kind to her friends and a great girl to follow all the rules and listen to her teacher. Maith thú!