Last Friday Marcus and Caroline visited “Schola Europaea Bruxelles III”. The European School of Brussels III (Ixelles) is one of the four European schools in Brussels and numbers approximately 3000 students. Our visit was facilitated by the Anglo Saxon departmental head teacher, Déaglán. His pupils were kind enough to prepare a song for us and tell us about their curriculum. They study a chosen European language at primary school level and many children have chosen to study G

Friday October 20th will be a day the children of Grace Park will remember forever. We had a special assembly where we welcomed Dublin and St. Vincent's star Shane Carthy. We were also delighted to have Emma Byrne GPO and Tony O'Connell the juvenile chairperson at St. Vincent's GAA in attendance. We were delighted that Shane answered all of our questions and he even asked the children some questions of his own! We learned that Shane was a Dublin, Leinster and All-Ireland cha

We had lots of fun in Grace Park ETNS this week celebrating Outdoor Classroom Day. Luckily the weather was great and we enjoyed spending time outdoors. For English we used stones to practice our letter formation. We even practiced our blending to make some words! We have been revising our sorting skills in Maths, so sorting Autumn items outside was a great idea for Outdoor Classroom Day. We sorted conkers, acorns and autumn leaves. It was great fun, and we even found a worm t

Senior Infants had so much fun on outdoor classroom day. We spent the entire day outside in our lovely surroundings exploring nature and learning all of our subjects outside. We had a fun maths trail and enjoyed going on a shape hunt and a number hunt. We spent 2 minutes counting how many cars passed our school on the road. We counted all the way to 20! We were sorting and counting leaves, conkers, acorns and chestnuts. The parts of the tree were explored in S.E.S.E. We learn

This week we found out that we will be affiliated with St. Vincent's GAA club for all our Gaelic games activities. Emma Byrne will be coming into the school for GAA coaching every Thursday with all the children in the school. The plan is to start off with Gaelic football and then to work on our hurling skills later in the year. It is coaches like Emma working in schools all over Dublin that have Dublin GAA winning the All-Ireland in recent years. Below is a copy of the St. Vi

Dia dhaoibh a chairde! It is hard to believe we are into our second month of Junior Infants! This week in Grace Part ETNS we have been very busy. In Maths we learned all about matching items that go together. We matched lots of things in our classroom like books and pencils, cups and saucers and schoolbags and books. We also learned the song 1,2, Buckle my Shoe. Everyday we practice counting to 100, and we are getting very quick! In Gaeilge we learned all about our Bosca Lóin