News
Taylor Swift eat your heart out! These girls will give you a run for your money in a few years time! 😄 Junior Infants singing our 'How's the Weather?' song during our morning meeting. 👏🏻
We had fantastic fun at our first Parents' Zumba session this morning. We will be running for another 5 weeks every Wednesday morning so please get involved. A fantastic way to get fit in a fun way. So many smiles and laughs this morning! Thank you to Grainne Fox for leading us!
Register today to secure your place at the Sports Inclusivity Conference happening in the Imperial Hotel, Dundalk on November 9th from 10am-1pm. Free resources, refreshments and much more. ![]()
Fill in this quick form to secure your place:![]()
forms.gle/w6T5qpp5CcUhDiLBA![]()
Registration closes November 1st.
Happy Halloween everyone!! Thank you to our fantastic Parents' Association for all their work preparing our Halloween Disco in aid of St Vincent de Paul. The children had a blast. What a wonderful way to start our Halloween break! Special thanks to DJ Karl Collins for bringing in his equipment and giving his day to bang out the tunes. Also thanks to Dealz Dundalk and Boyds stores for donating decorations. Have a happy and safe Halloween break everyone!
Freaky Friday in Junior Infants for a fun filled day before the Halloween midterm break! ![]()
![]()
We started the day with a brilliant disco, thanks to the Parents Association! 🕺🎶 We saw some amazing dance moves. After that, we made a witches alphabet stew for our phonics lesson. Next, we played lots of Halloween games together. We made a big spider's web by throwing a ball of wool to each other. We were blindfolded and played pin the nose on the pumpkin and pin the bowtie on the skeleton. We played 'Pass the Pumpkin' (Pass the pumpkin round and round. Listen to the spooky sounds. Oooh, oooh. Will it stop on you? BOO!) Next, we did some pumpkin bowling, which was great fun! (Video will be posted next!) We listen to a story called, 'How Many Sleeps 'til Halloween?' and had a fashion show to show off our brilliant costumes! ![]()
![]()
To calm things down in the afternoon, we had our very own classroom cinema. Teacher surprised us by setting up our chairs in cinema rows, closing all the blinds so it was dark and having a cup of popcorn on our seats for us to enjoy whilst we watched a cartoon of 'Casper, The Friendly Ghost'. ![]()
![]()
Happy Halloween, everyone! ![]()
🧙🏾♀️🎃🦴🕷👻
We had a week jam packed with Halloween themed fun activities for Junior Infants! ![]()
![]()
🎃👻🕷🧙♀️🦴![]()
![]()
We had lots of Halloween morning and afternoon play. ![]()
![]()
In Maths, we did some colour sorting using haunted houses. We sorted pumpkin pictures by shape. We sorted Halloween objects by size, smallest to the biggest. ![]()
![]()
In Geography, we learned about houses and different types of homes. We labelled parts of the house and built our own houses using blocks and Duplo! 🏠![]()
![]()
In Science, we did an experiment where we put bicarbonate of soda, vinegar and food colouring into a pumpkin. It caused a chemical reaction where it bubbled and fizzed up and poured out of his mouth! 🎃![]()
![]()
In P.E, we played a fun game of Witches Tag and of course continued the theme of Halloween in our poetry, songs, art, and Irish vocabulary! ![]()
![]()
We also had a special little birthday girl this week! 🎉🎁☺️ ![]()
![]()
Keep an eye out for our Halloween dress up day photos which will be posted later! 🧙♀️
Congratulations to all our attendance award winners for October! We look forward to more winners in November along with our 'Be in to Win' whole school attendance initiative in November! Well done all!
Congratulations /Comhghairdeachas to our Award Winners for the month of October.
Redeemer Girls National School is looking for a part time caretaker/cleaner.![]()
(20 hours a week)![]()
![]()
Apply by letter enclosing a short CV and references by email to applications@redeemergirlsns.ie.![]()
![]()
Closing date is November 1st.
Our final Walking group will take place tomorrow! Come along for fun, exercise and prizes!
Halloween fun has hit the Junior Infant classroom since last week! We had lots of fun exploring some new play activities with a Halloween theme to work on our fine motor skills!![]()
![]()
In Maths we worked on equivalence and did great work sharing our playdough balls and maths manipulatives equally! 👍🏻![]()
![]()
We enjoyed listening to the story, 'Room on the Broom' by Julia Donaldson and had great fun using the props and masks to act out the story. We also did some fabulous retelling of the story in our own words using our new story stones. ![]()
![]()
We continued our pizza themed play and made some fabulous junk art pizzas using a variety of materials. We also enjoyed some Halloween themed colouring of pumpkins and witches and made some very cute little ghosts to tie in with our phonics learning of the letter 'g' sound. 👻![]()
![]()
We have been enjoying delicious apples at snack time most days thanks to a very kind neighbour of our teacher who's apple trees have provided him with lots to share this year! 😊🙌🏻
What a wonderful couple of weeks Senior Infants have had! From GOAL Jersey Day to a nature walk through Icehouse Park, STEM week including a most welcome visit by Mums, Dad's and Grandparents to play maths games with their little ones. We'll done girls!
Our new Student Council holding their first assembly on Anti-Bullying. Well done girls!
Junior Infants had great fun trying out some activities for S.T.E.M week! They were fantastic at sharing their materials and working together as a team to solve the problems! Well done girls!
3rd and 4th Class had a fantastic STEM Week! We learned all about fractions, we started to grow our own crystals and we had a visit from local DJ Karl who told us how important maths can be in his job ➕➖✖️➗
The girls from 2nd/3rd and 6th class working on open ended number problems during STEM week. Well done 👍🏼 #oide #mathsweek
1st and 2nd class had a blast working together and learning new things during STEM week! Well done on the great work to all involved! 🔭🔬🧮🎲
6th class extracted DNA from a banana yesterday as part of STEM week; did you know humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas? 🍌 🧬
Early Start Read to Succeed - for the last two weeks these wonderful parents and family members have come in to read with their child and learn arts and crafts activities they could do at home. We're looking forward to 2 more weeks of Reading fun!!
Reminder - our walking group continues tomorrow morning at 9am!! New walkers of all fitness levels always welcome!
We had a lot of fun together in Junior Infants last week! 😁 We were very excited to explore our new role play area: The Pizza Restaurant! 🍕 Lots of wonderful interactions between customers, waitresses, and chefs took place! We did an amazing job of building the pizza restaurant with our Duplo blocks, made beautifully decorated chefs hats and our favourite activity was making our own pizzas using home made playdough and lots of loose parts as toppings. ![]()
![]()
We loved singing our new songs, 'Five Little Pumpkins' and 'Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree'. A lot of fun was had strengthening our finger muscles and exploring the number 4, making 4 apples, 4 bananas, and 4 balls to make a snowman (one of the kids' suggestions! 😀) We also practised counting using a ball pendulum and explored lots of matching puzzles and matching activities in Maths. ![]()
![]()
A little reminder: Could you please send in a large old t-shirt to cover your daughters uniform during art, water/messy play. Thank you! 👕 Hope you had a great weekend and we're looking forward to seeing you on Thursday at 1pm to play some Maths games!
Congratulations to all our Attendance Award winners for September! Remember Every School Day Counts. Keep up the efforts and there will more rewards every month!
Hello October! Can you believe our little Junior Infants have completed their first month of school?!! And what a great job they have been doing, learning lots of new things, building friendships, and developing their skills of sharing and turn taking! ![]()
![]()
This week, our girls enjoyed singing the nursery rhyme, 'Hey Diddle Diddle' and our Maths song, 'Five Little Monkeys'. They practised counting from 1 to 5, starting with 1 as a whisper and gradually getting louder as they counted to 5. Then they counted backwards from 5, starting at their loud voice and getting to a whisper by zero! 😁 They also did lots of classifying in Maths. We sorted animals into land animals and sea animals. We sorted teddies into big, medium, and small. We sorted buttons by shape. We sorted objects into hard and soft. And we sorted cubes by colour. We also did some fun counting activities during our morning play. 😊 ![]()
![]()
In geography, we learned about night and day. In religion, we learned about creation and how God made day and night, land and sea, plants and animals. We will explore this more next week! We played lots of new fun games in our new P.E. hall! ![]()
![]()
We had lots of free choice play this week and got to play with Teacher's puppets, barbies, musical instruments, magna doodle boards, stampers, stencils, and magnetic tiles! What a fun week! 😁🙌🏻
Congratulations /Comhghairdeachas to our super award winners for the month of September 🏆✨⭐️
Please come along to our Parents' Association AGM next Wednesday 9th October at 9am!
This week, Junior Infants had lots of fun exploring different play activities to help them learn their 2D shapes! ![]()
![]()
We also had a lot of fun with a variety of autumn themed play activities, the highlight of which was when the girls got to go on a nature walk to collect fallen leaves and make their own 'pat mat' sensory bag with autumn treasures inside! 🍁🍂 ![]()
![]()
Have a great weekend!
Cairde had a fun filled first month back at school. We welcomed a new pupil into our class and we are delighted to have a new friend to play with!
This week, Junior Infants explored making patterns! They did a great job on this topic! ![]()
![]()
We had fun singing the 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' nursery rhyme, and we made our own sheep using cotton wool! Pulling the wool apart was a good workout for our finger muscles! 👍🏻🐑 ![]()
![]()
We learned more about Autumn and enjoyed singing our new song, 'All the Leaves are Falling Down'. youtu.be/uu4ojfxOFXQ?feature=shared![]()
We used corks to paint and print autumn trees! 🍂 🍁![]()
![]()
We also turned our home corner from a kitchen into a bedroom and had great fun taking care of our new babies and using the cot and bunk beds!![]()
![]()
Please tag Junior Infant parents so that they can see our wonderful work! Thank you! 😁
Take a look at some of our beautiful Junior Infant artwork! We have drawn the cutest self portraits with beautifully painted colourful backgrounds. We have used spoons to splat cotton wool balls filled with paint to create colour explosions. We decorated our stars and made lovely homes for our corridor displays. We also painted and printed colourful handprints for a memory to take home soon. 😍 We hope you like them! 🎨
Week 2 round up! Another fun week in Junior Infants! ![]()
![]()
This week, we continued sorting activities in Maths. We worked on sorting by colour but also sorting by shape and sorting by size. 👍🏻 ![]()
![]()
We did lots of practice of our nursery rhyme, 'Humpty Dumpty', and worked collaboratively to sequence the rhyme in the correct order. We also worked together to build Humpty Dumpty's wall from plastic cups and attempted to balance an egg on top! We had lots of fun with this activity. ![]()
![]()
In our play activities, we are exploring the theme of the home. We played with the dolls house for small world play, used home themed playdough mats for sensory play, made homes using lollipop sticks for arts & crafts, built homes using the giant polydrons for construction play and of course used our home corner for role-play! 🏠 ![]()
![]()
We also did another colour experiment using Skittles to make a rainbow! Lots of prediction, observation, and discussion skills developing in our little Junior Infants! 🙌🏻😊
Weekly round up from Junior Infants! 😊 (Week 1 - delayed due to Facebook uploading glitches)![]()
![]()
In Geography, we had fun exploring the seasons and dressing our friends up in appropriate clothing for summer & winter! ![]()
![]()
In Maths, we explored sorting lots of collections with a focus on sorting by colour! ![]()
![]()
We learned our first letter sound and, of course, did lots of playing to strengthen our fine motor skills and work on sharing and turn taking! ![]()
![]()
We hope you like our photos! 🥰
St Brigids Pipe Band is a fantastic local group involving some past pupils. They have provided demonstrations for our pupils I the past and would love to see new members of any age. Contact information on the poster.
Today, our Junior Infants tried their very first experiment! We have been learning our colours and doing lots of colour sorting in our Maths lessons, so today we explored colour mixing. We made predictions about what would happen when the coloured kitchen roll was placed in water. We were amazed when we placed 2 pieces in the water and a brand new colour was created! (red + yellow = orange 🧡/ red + blue = purple 💜/ blue + yellow = green) 💚![]()
![]()
To try this at home, check out this video from Sprinkle in Learning. 😊👍🏻![]()
![]()
www.instagram.com/reel/C9NOq5RsMgA/?igsh=MWV1MG5qNmd1dXp0NA==
Thank you to Eva Aspin Ravda at Tesco and all those of you who supported the School through the Blue Token Community Fund in the Long Walk in Tescos.
A dreary Monday morning with the wet weather was brightened up by the arrival of a new little lady to Junior Infants! 😊 Here are photos of some of today's activities. In Maths, we continued working on sorting by size/colour/ shape. You could practise this at home with your daughter using your cutlery. Ask your child to sort the spoons into one group and the forks into another group or sort the big spoons into a group, the small spoons into a group, the big forks into a group and the small forks into another group! This is a great way to learn through play! 😊👍🏻![]()
![]()
In Geography, we learned about the 4 seasons. We discussed the weather and used playdough to make clouds and sunshine to strengthen our hand and finger muscles before we start learning to write! 😁
There have been lots of busy little bees in Junior Infants this week! 🐝 We have done great work on our fine motor, pre-writing, counting, and sorting skills! We have also had great fun learning new songs in Religion & Maths. We have worked very cooperatively during our Morning Meeting, Circle Time, and Brain Break activities! 😊
✏️🎒🎉 Junior Infants First Day of School 🎉🎒✏️![]()
![]()
A massive welcome to our fabulous new Junior Infant girls! We are so excited to get to know you over this school year! Here's to an exciting year ahead! 😊👍🏻🎉
Congratulations and Comhghairdeachas to our final award winners of the year. Wishing you a wonderful summer. We will return on Wednesday the 28th of August.
We had a fun last day together in Junior Infants! We decided to take some fun selfies to remember the silly times we've had together! 😄 Each girl came up with their own selfie pose! 🤣 A big thank you to Ms. O'Sullivan and Lidl for the delicious fruit platters! Thank you so much to all the parents for your continued support this year and the beautiful end of year cards and gifts. I truly appreciate it. It has been wonderful working with your daughters this year! The BIGGEST thank you of all goes to them! I will miss them but look forward to seeing their journeys in the future. Happy summer holidays! 🌞😁❤️ ~ Mrs. Mc Nally
6th class graduation 2024 👩🎓👨🎓well done to everyone involved! Best of luck in the future, you will be greatly missed! 🎓🎓🎉
Cooling off on a hot day with a little ice cream treat for the best girls! 🥰🍦
What a fun school tour in The Crystal Maze today! Junior Infants had such a great time that there were lots of naps on the way home! (And some on the way there, too!) 😴 😆
Happy Father's Day to all of our Redeemer dads and father figures! We appreciate all of you! We hope you had a great day! 😁🫂![]()
![]()
Please tag any dads of our girls. 🥰
Junior Infants' final play theme for the year is pirates! 😁🏴☠️🦜![]()
![]()
We had good fun this week sailing the high seas in search of treasure, and using our telescopes and swords in case we encountered other pirates! 😉 ![]()
![]()
We loved searching for buried treasures in our sand area, playing with the toy pirate ship in our small world play area and using the playdough to make pirate themed items. We also made paper plate pirates for arts & crafts which we'll share with you next week.![]()
![]()
Hope you enjoy our pics! 😄
On the 11th of June 2024, we celebrated our 2nd ever Cultural Day. Flora from Culture Connect came in to speak to whole school about Cultural Diversity and help us understand the importance of respecting other's cultures. After school we had our first ever Cultural Fair and we had an amazing time!![]()
![]()
There were 8 countries represented - Pakistan, Nigeria, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Ireland and Slovenia. We had an African stall with cultural outfits and music as well as performances from a wonderful group of pupils who performed a Nigerian dance and Aidan Moore and his daughter, Síofra who played songs on the ukulele.![]()
![]()
The food and information provided at the stalls was amazing and huge credit goes to the volunteer parents from each country who worked so hard to provide a great experience to all who attended. The event was very well attended and there was a lovely atmosphere in the hall.![]()
![]()
Thank you once again to our parent volunteers, our parents' association who provided Tea, Coffee and refreshments (they were very busy!) and to all members of the community who contributed on the day (there are too many to mention). A special thank you to EK Fuels (Custom Coffee), School Completion Program (Niall Weldon) and Pimi's Food Store (Peter Folikwe), Castletown Road for providing the prizes for the Raffle.![]()
![]()
We look forward to next year and hosting an even bigger and better fair! If you would like to represent your culture/ country, please contact HSCL Niall McArdle.
We have our first ever Cultural Fair in the hall tomorrow after school at 1:40pm and 2:40pm. The children are very excited! There will be food, dance and lots of fun along with a RAFFLE. Please collect your child after school and visit our amazing Cultural Fair!
This past fortnight, the Junior Infants continued to explore our theme of transport with a focus now on cars, trains and boats.![]()
![]()
We had so many fun activities to try: ![]()
![]()
🚗 arts & crafts: making a paper plate car.![]()
🚙 small world: playing with the tuff tray road map and cars. (Geography: following a route)![]()
🚗 play dough: making cars and using lids as wheels.![]()
🚙 phonics: driving the cars and matching them to their correct letter and parking then there. ![]()
🚗 fine motor: car puzzles ![]()
🚙 water play: car wash![]()
![]()
🚂 small world: building a large train track.![]()
🚃 arts & crafts: using sponges and corks to paint & print a train.![]()
🚂 fine motor: train puzzles.![]()
🚃 playdough: new vehicle cutters.![]()
![]()
🛶 arts & crafts: making a paper plate sail boat.![]()
⛵️ water play: playing with small boats and water. (Science - floating and sinking)![]()
![]()
We also had a basket of books based on transport to explore. 📚![]()
![]()
We hope you enjoy looking at our photos! 📸 😊👍🏻
Congratulations /Comhghairdeachas to our super award winners for the month of May 🏆✨⭐️
Phonics homework getting a bit boring? Why not give this game a try...All you need is 3 pieces of card. Write a letter on each card (on both sides so both players can see it). Call out "Boom, clap" in a variety of ways and when you want to call out a sound. The first person to grab the correct card is the winner! ![]()
![]()
You could use this to revise tricky/sight words or cvc words also! 😁 ![]()
![]()
I think you'll agree from the smiles and giggles, the junior infants loved this game! 😄
💕We had a surprise visit today from 6 girls who made their Holy Communion on Saturday! They told us all about their celebrations. I think you will all agree they look beautiful. 💕
A beautiful day for First Holy Communion. Thank you to everyone who contributed to make such a wonderful day for all.
Welcome aboard, RedeemAir! 😉✈️ Our check-in desk and security are ready to help you board your flight! Once aboard, our fantastic cabin crew and pilot will ensure you have a wonderful journey to your destination! 😄🌞🧳![]()
![]()
Junior Infants are exploring the theme of transport and had great fun last week exploring our new airport role play area! ![]()
![]()
We also made playdough aeroplanes, played with a chickpea sensory tray to represent the sky and cotton wool to represent the clouds. We enjoyed having races with our aeroplanes on the small world tuff tray. We also enjoyed putting our cutting skills to work, making our own paper aeroplanes. ![]()
![]()
Today, we took advantage of the windy day and went outside to fly some giant aeroplane gliders, which was great fun!
Please remember to bring all bags of unwanted clothes to school before Tues morning for our cash4clothes fundraiser. This is part of our Green Schools action plan. We are collecting old shoes to donate also. Please bag shoes separately to clothes. Many thanks for your support and enjoy the lovely weather 🌞 💖
We had a fun week in Junior Infants! 😊🙌🏻 ![]()
![]()
Our morning play tasks were focused on Maths this week. Our 5 stations were: ![]()
![]()
🔴 Roll and erase the number![]()
🟠 Make the number 5 in different ways with playdough🟡 practise number formation using chalk and mini chalkboards![]()
🟢 count the correct number of loose parts to match the numbers on the tuff tray ![]()
🔵 turn over a number card and pick up that many lids with the tweezers and transfer them to a bowl![]()
![]()
Scroll across to see photos of us practising our soccer skills, exploring magnetism, our wonderful maths work on ordinal number, doing papier-mache with our artist friend, and painting & printing beautiful sea life!![]()
![]()
We hope you enjoy our photos! Please tag any mums, dad's, nannies, or grandads! 😁
These Parent Forums are a big hit with everyone who has attended one and this will prove to be no different! Very interesting speakers, refreshments and a raffle - What's not to love! Contact HSCL Niall McArdle for more information.
A wonderful event for families with Redeemer Girls' School past pupil and inspirational scientist, Niamh Shaw!
Teacher decided that we had worked so hard on our Maths and Literacy today that we deserved a little treat! 😊 So we went outside for some fun in the sun with the parachute. 🌞 We played lots of games! This one was 'Popcorn'! 😁
3rd/4th class were lucky to have Joan from The Code Lab come into as we begin to learn about coding!
Enrolment is now open for our EARLY START programme, if your child is 3 before September and you would like to avail of a place contact the school on 042-9331975
Hello May! Junior Infants had fun this week exploring making patterns, playing summer Snap! and Summer Memory. They explored symmetry by designing beautiful butterflies with our paint sticks and worked on their fine motor skills with some stencils. The highlight of each day was when each group had a turn making a summer smoothie to practice our ordinal numbers...what ingredient to put in first, second, third etc. 😀 We also had a birthday girl turn the big 5 this week! 🎉
Congratulations to our Confirmandi. Thank you to all the students, sponsors, Miss Leddy Mrs Redmond, Mrs Duffy, Terri, Fr.Mark, Bishop Router, the Boys School choir with Miss Harlin and Niall and all those who made it such a special day.
**Stay and Play in Senior Infants**![]()
![]()
We have had two fantastic weeks of 'Stay and Play' in Senior Infants. Have a look at all the fun we've been having. The girls have loved having their special people in school. Thank you so much to all the parents and family members who have attended and to Ms. Carroll, for all her efforts with the activities and for doing such a great job teaching this wonderful group of girls. See you all next Wednesday for round 3!
A fantastic free event for parents. Dr Mary O'Kane is one of the leading experts in the area of anxiety and there will be great advice given.
We have another fantastic 'Stay and Play' session tomorrow morning (Wednesday 8th May) at 9am for Senior Infant parents. We have a lovely time last week and looking forward to seeing everyone again tomorrow!
Lots of fun in Junior Infants this week to finish off the month of April! 😊👍🏻
Redeemer Girls took part in the National Spring Clean. What a great job! Well done to all.
Junior Infants loved getting dressed up for Redeemer Book Day! Such beautiful costumes and great effort by all! Well done. ♥️
💕 Second Class performing the poem, 'Splish Splash Splosh' for World Book Day! 💕
The girls in 6th class had a lovely day out in Inniskeen learning all about Patrick Kavanagh, his story and work 📖💐