We’ve been learning about how people are different and unique. We talked about hair colour and style, eye colour, height, and of course, skin colour! We learned that skin covers our bodies and comes in a variety of shades and skin tones, but we’re all the same on the inside – we all have a brain, a heart and lungs.

We did different activities to build our knowledge and acceptance of differences, including making a skin coloured rainbow using our NEW skin tone pencils, and drawing self-portraits.

This week, it was Seachtain an Gaeilge. To celebrate, we held a Ceolchoirm in the hall for students and teachers. Each class performed a song. We even had some special performances from some teachers!The boys should be so proud of themselves for standing up on the stage and singing their song as Gaeilge! Bualadh bos for Prefab 12!

In preparation for St Patrick’s Day, and in celebration of Seachtain an Gaeilge, Ms Sawyer held a céilí in the school hall! Céilí dances are a traditional form of Irish folk dancing.

Our library visit was postponed last week because of the poor weather conditions. Luckily, we were able to join Ms Carr’s class and go to the library this week! The librarian read The Gruffalo to us, which is one of our favourite stories! We browsed through the huge selection of books, coloured a picture for the library’s colouring competition, and even got to check out some books to bring back to school! Experiences like these show your children what the “real” world is like, and allows them to practice functional life skills.