Our Blog Posts - Third Class

Third Class has been getting creative with self portraits, name art and acrostic poems. We drew ourselves and added pictures of things that matter to us. We also turned the letters of our names into colourful artwork. For our acrostic poems, we used each letter of our names to begin a line about ourselves. Our display is full of different faces, interests and ideas. It is a lovely way to get to know the people in our class!

Third Class has been learning about myths and legends through the Irish story The Children of Lir. We talked about the characters and the magical part of the story, then practised retelling it in our own words. The story inspired our art display. We painted paper plates to make the water and sky, added colourful shapes, and created swans with soft cotton feathers. Each pupil made their own version of the scene. We hope you enjoy looking at our Children of Lir artwork!

Our corridor is full of colourful hot air balloons! We made our artwork to celebrate the Irish Hot Air Balloon Championships at Lough Key Forest Park in Boyle.During the championships, balloon pilots and their crews come together for a week of flying challenges. The event has a special connection to Boyle: the championships first came here 50 years ago, in 1976. Inspired by the balloons in the sky, the children painted blue backgrounds, added fluffy cotton wool clouds and use

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Well done to all the boys and girls of Rockfield who took part in some fun races at our end of year sports day. Everyone had such fun at the egg and spoon race, the three legged race, the sack race and the wheelbarrow race. Here are some picture of the winners of the running races.

Third class really enjoyed reading the novel “The Wreck of the Zanzibar” this term and created some lovely art work based on it 🐢

Some of the lovely work completed by 3rd class this term 🎨

3rd and 4th class finishing off their 6 weeks of swimming lessons in Sligo Sports Complex today 🏊‍♂️

Despite the rainy conditions 3rd and 4th class had a great day at the Tag Rugby Blitz 🏉

Some of the lovely art completed by 3rd class in Term 1 🍂 🦬