Ballywatrim After School Baking .

🍩BAKING TREATS🍪

 This week the children have been busy baking 

Marian Centre Afterschool Workshop .

Traveller Education Work Shop

 This week we had a workshop run by Christina from The Travellers Education Group she told us all about the history of Traveller's in Ireland and answered any questions the children had .

She also read the children a lovely story about the life and ways of a Traveller and the children drew some lovely pictures on canvas , the children enjoyed doing this workshop we will be running other workshops in the future .  

Ballywaltrim afterschool

St Peters after school 09/05/2023

Traveller history workshop 

Ravenswell 25th April 2023

Irish Travellers are a minority ethnic group.  This status was recognised by the Irish State on 1st March 2017.  The Equal Status Act refers to Irish Travellers in the following way: “Traveller Community’ means the community of people who are identified (both by themselves and others) as people with a shared history, culture and traditions including, historically, a nomadic way of life on the island of Ireland.” (Equal Status Act, 2000: Pt.1 S.2).

Here are some of the interesting facts we learned about the Traveller community

They have their own language called Cant here are a couple of the Traveller words;

Girl : Lackeen

woman : Beoir

Man : Feen

Dog : Komra

Doctor : Sikdur

 Christina and Ellen gave the children beautiful canvases to draw images of what they had learned from the workshop.

 The children drew some wonderful pictures and Christina will display them at a exhibition in Dublin the near future.

We would like to thank Christina and Ellen for their wonderful workshop and we hope to see them soon when the children will get their artwork returned to them after the exhibition. 

BW Pre-School Science Month

🌏 Our Little Scientists🌏 

Welcome back to all our children and families after a lovely break we hope everyone had a lovely Easter. 

We had a relaxing first day back on Monday and let the children just enjoy each others company ,the weather was lovely so we had some great fun outside .

This month the children in Catherine and Linda's group are exploring science around us , this is such an interesting theme and helps the children to understand the world around them, they have been learning all about Volcano's.

They made lovely clay volcano's and painted them ,there has been lots of talk of new words learned during this activity. We also made edible volcano's that the children enjoyed making and eating using ice-cream cones and syrup. we look forward to exploring this topic next week as we create a working volcano experiment using bread soda and vinegar .

Tracie and maria's group are learning about taking care of the planet earth in honor of earth day on the 22nd of April, the children have been learning about recycling and how it helps the earth ,we have also learned the importance of saving water and looking after the environment .

Its amazing how much they already know. We have been looking at how we can help the earth on a daily basis. they are very interested in the blue part of the earth the ocean and the large fish, sharks and whales that live in it. We will see where this theme takes us next week.