Avoca National School – S.N. Phádraig Naofa

Planting at our school

01/06/2010

In October 2009 our school planted daffodils, snowdrops and crocuses. A gardener and  some members of Avoca tidy towns came to help the pupils plant bulbs. Nearly all of the pupils brought in a trowel and planted the bulbs along the front of our school on the bank. All of the pupils enjoyed watching how the bulbs started to grow into beautiful spring flowers. It makes our school much nicer to look at from outside.
A special thanks to all those who provided the daffodils for us last autumn,  especially Rossa Moore and Avoca Tidy Town members.

Our school recently got a new playground for the junior and senior infants at the back of the school. The playground is connected to our new extension. In the playground they have a small red and yellow house with a small climbing frame. They also have a garden and on the walls they have a weather chart, a date chart and a height chart they also  have drawings of dolphins painted on the ground. All the little children enjoy their new playground very much.

Thank you to those who helped build it and especially to the fund raising efforts of the parents in the school.

Playground

1st and 2nd class would like……….

1.Multi coloured footprints
2.A hopscotch patch
3.X’s and O’s
4.Circle game
5.draw able stepping stones

Hopefully, with the parents help, these goals can be made possible to achieve.

                            
Vegetable planting

On April 26th 2010, two people from Glanbia (Ashford branch) came into our school to teach 3rd class how to plant vegetables. The vegetables were kale, lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, sweet corn and sunflowers. All of these were planted in our school garden. They let the children bring home a small pot of sweet corn each. 3rd class and the infant classes will also be planting the sunflowers in class. Hopefully the children will notice the growth of the vegetables at home and in school.
Our school would like to say a special thanks to Glanbia, (Ashford branch) for helping 3rd class with the garden.

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