Greenpark Road trip to Ravenswell Primary School

Greenparks Pre-School
 Trip to Ravenswell!

On Monday the 2nd March, the children going to Ravenswell school in September took a trip to visit their new school environment! This is part of our transitions program whereby we aid the children in getting ready to move over to primary school.

On the day we went over we met Kerrieann, home school liaison in Ravenswell who showed us around the Junior Infant rooms, the children were introduced to the Junior infants teachers as well as getting to see The Marian Center's Homework club rooms.

The children really enjoyed our trip over and are really looking froward to starting in September.

We 'd like to thank Brona from Specs and Ravenwell school for facilitating this trip over. Transitioning into a new School environment can be a very big change for children so being able to visit the school before they move over can help to reduce any anxieties that children may have about going to 'big school'.

Ballywaltrim Pre-School 
 Outdoor Adventures

The children love to go on Nature Adventures and see what treasures they may find from different types of leaves,trees and wild flower's to the doodie fairy tree where children give up their soother to the Fairy's.

The children also love to take a walk over to the local Park and enjoy challenging themselves and playing together on all of the equipment.

DECORATING THE PRE-SCHOOL IN BALLYWALTRIM

The children decided that the Pre-School need a little bit of brightening up and added their own art work to the walls. Emergent Interests with our budding artists :) 

What we did in October...GP Road Morning Group 

We were incredibly busy in October in our morning pre school session! We  learnt all about the season Autumn, with some of the children going on the hunt for conkers and looking at the leaves to explore all the autumnal changes that occur.

Recycling was also another big theme that emerged throughout the month of October. Denise's group got very interested in recycling and all about how plastics can impact not only on the environment but also on the animals in the sea. Every day the children were talking about how "plastic can really hurt the baby turtles". It was great to see the children get really involved and engaged in a theme that has a lasting impact. This then culminated in a trip over to the peoples park to see a new mural on the clubhouse in the People's Park.