STEM
As part of Engineers Week , the children were given various STEM challenges using Lego. The children had to work as a team to carry out the challenge and created amazing structures! Engineers in the making!!
Lá Glas - Seachtain na Gaeilge 2025
Seachtain na Gaeilge 2025 came to a close with a whole school Ceilí in the halla. The children practised their dances with their classes over the last few weeks and came together for a wonderful celebration of our Irish Culture and language. The dances included Siege of Ennis, Waltz of Limerick & Shoe the Donkey.
Greensmyth Cup Winners!!!
Fourth class pupils were awarded the Greensmyth Cup for the month of February. This award is voted by the staff when a class are showing great effort in their school day. The pupils were awarded the cup for their respectfulness to eachother, good manners, great effort in class and in the yard to help eachother.
Student of the Month - February
Congratulations to our student of the month for February. Well done to you!
Buddy Reading with 4th Class
As part of our celebrations for World Book Day, 4th class came to our classroom, we showed them our favourite book and they helped us to read our books. It was such a lovely visit. Go raibh maith agaibh, Rang a Ceathair!
World Book Day 2025
Knockea Student Council 4th class
Well done to our two elected pupils who will represent 4th class on the Knockea N.S. Student Council.
Golf Lesson 1/6
Awards for February
Well done to our Gaeilgeoir na Míosa & Student of the Month for February
4th class assembly
Fourth class hosted the assembly for this year last Thursday. They performed with so much energy and gave it everything they had. Acts included Peigí Litir Mór on the tin-whistle, a host of musicians displaying their talents, a rendition of An Fear Cheoil, gymnastics, displays of sport skills, a puppet show teaching pupils about Bullying and so much more! Have a look at the photos to for yourself. Well done to all the boys and girls!
Focus fun Bottle Flipping!
The boys and girls really enjoyed the recent warm up game in PE. The Bottle Flip Game involved four teams. If you managed to flip the bottle the right side up, you could move the ball from the marker to the next position. First group to move through all markers won! This game required focus, collaboration and hand eye co-ordination skills. There was huge excitement during the game.
A much needed brain break!
4th class are working on dividing three digit numbers by one digit. After a great effort this morning, a much needed brain break was enjoyed by the class.
Student of the month & Gaeilgeoir na Míosa for December
Well done to our Student of the Month for December
Gymnastics
We have got off to a great start in January enjoying Gymnastics as part of our PE curriculum.
Happy Christmas everyone!!!!
What a day to end the holidays! Christmas jumpers, table quiz and karaoke involving an impromtu dancing train around the room!
Christmas Maths Quiz
The children really enjoyed their Christmas Maths quiz today over zoom with Mayo Education Centre. They were excellent at the questions and challenged themselves throughout to make the questions harder!
Student of the Month & Gaeilgeoir Na Míosa
Well done to our pupils in 4th class for winning Student of the Month & Gaeilgeoir na Miosa for the month of November.
Dress the Christmas Tree
We had great fun today playing a game called Dress the Christmas Tree
Music Generation
We are very busy with Linda composing our own Christmas song! Have a listen to our efforts!
Jumble Sale 2024
What a day! One of the best yet in Knockea!
Bake Sale
The children had a great choice of treats today. Thank you to all the parents who donated delicious treats today!
Golf Lessons
Golf Ireland visited the school today to do golf lessons with 4th class boys and girls. Following on from their successful pilot sessions in the West Munster region, Golf Ireland is hosting another series of “Golf Taster Sessions” specifically designed for 4th class and older in the greater Limerick area. These sessions aim to introduce the students to the game of golf in a fun, engaging and safe environment.
Maths Week
4th class had a very busy and enjoyable Maths week. We started off the week with a Maths trail with 2nd class using our school environment to answer questions and solve riddles as we walked around in groups. We continued with our Maths stations with our support teachers and are really progressing well with the topics. We are doing Data this week in our Maths class and decided to survey all our classes with several questions including What is your favourite colour? What is your favourite ice-cream? What is your favourite sport? What is your favourite subject? What is your favourite hobby? What is your favourite animal? This was great fun and it was great to find out this information. We really enjoyed our online zoom quiz this morning and answered questions about sweets, heights of Olympians, how many pringles in a tube, what height is the tube and estimating the weight of a puppy!
Maths Stations & Guided Reading
4th class pupils are really enjoying Maths stations twice a week. There are three teachers in the room working at stations to help with several topics in the Maths curriculum. Stations include problem solving, daily 10 questions on the whiteboard, revision work on the previous weeks topic, card games using tables and the topic of the week reinforced in small groups with the class teacher. This is a great chance for the boys and girls to practise their maths skills while having fun at the same time.