Aistear

Young children learn best through hands-on, active and meaningful learning experiences. In our Junior and Senior Infant classrooms we provide a play-based, stimulating and active learning environment that can allow children to flourish and reach their full potential. We do this through the use of the Aistear Curriculum Framework.
The framework also provides guidelines on supporting children’s learning through partnerships with parents, interactions, play, and assessment. The framework is child-centred and supports play-based learning through enjoyable and challenging experiences. This enables children to grow and develop as confident and competent learners. Aistear is an Irish word meaning ‘journey’, and reflects that children embark on a life long journey of learning from a very young age.
The children in our infant classroom continue to flourish through the use of the Aistear Curriculum Framework.
Junior Infants Sports Day fun!
Engineering Week
Look at our amazing engineers and builders at work in room 4! They discovered that this design was more stable and secure and they could build a taller structure as a result!
Construction Site in room 4- Engineering Week #STEM
Cutting skills- We designed a detached house. Room 3 and 4 are so happy to be back with our friends! We designed bungalows, semi detached , detached and terraced houses for play time. We planned some designs and worked as a team. We made sure they had a sturdy...
Play time in room 4- March
Autumn in Junior Infants
A Spider Web Hunt Autumn is here and we love crunching through the leaves in Autumn. We gathered lots of leaves 🍁 in red, green yellow, orange and brown. We are using the leaves in our creation station in the play session. It was a foggy morning and we went...
A Glimpse into life int Junior Infants
We are having so much fun in Junior Infants. The most important part of our day is the play session. We are learning to take turns, share, problem solve,...
What a busy week in Junior Infants!!!
We were very busy in Junior Infants this week. We were playing, making new friends, reading, drawing, painting, dancing and lots more. Here is a little glimpse of our week. [video width="1280" height="720"...
Our First Full Week in Junior Infants Room 1
We had so much fun this week. We were very busy, playing, making new friends, listening to stories, drawing, colouring, playing with play doh, climbing outside and lots more. Check our week in this Glimpse. [video width="960" height="540"...
A glimpse of a day in room 2!
A Glimpse into our First in Junior Infants Room 1
Our First Day in Room 1
We are so proud of all the Junior Infants coming to school for their first day. We had the most amazing day. We smiled, laughed, danced, played, ate our lunches and made lots of new friends.