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Autism Class

Halloween Fun

 

 

 

Social Outing

 

We love to get out and about... you'd never know who you might meet! It was great to bump into Garda McCrossan. He let us turn on the flashing, blue lights.

 

 

 

 

 

September 2017

 

A very big welcome to all our pupils.  We hope your year will be filled with fun and laughter.

 

Birthday Boy

Wishing one of the children in our class a very happy birthday.  Hope you had a lovely weekend.

 

Autumn Board

 

Look at our beautiful Autumn Board.

Can you see who is hiding in the leaves?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Birthday Boy

Wishing one of the children in our class a very happy birthday.  Hope you have a lovely weekend.

 

 

Sports Day

We really enjoyed our annual sports day which was held in Emerald Park on Wednesday the 31st of May 2017. There was loads of different stations set up and we really enjoyed going around them all.  Throwing the welly, penalty shoot outs, long jump, obstacle course and lots more.  We had a brilliant day. 

 

Holy Communion Preparations

One of our children is celebrating his First Holy Communion on Saturday.  Look how well he has been practicing!

We hope you have a lovely day.

 

GAA Coaching

We are enjoying our coaching with Kevin Martin from the Killybegs GAA Club.  He is helping us to improve our skills and we are having fun too.

 

 

 

Birthday Boy

One of the boys in our class celebrated his 10th birthday recently.  Happy Birthday!

 

 

Birthday Girl

Congratulations to one of the children in our class who celebrated her birthday recently.  We hope you had a lovely day.

 

 

Our Summer Board

We are all enjoying the beautiful sunshine today and decided to paint big bright yellow suns for our Summer board.

 

 

Happy Easter

Wishing you all a very happy Easter.

We made pizza

We put tomato puree on top of the pizza base.  Then we put on cheese and we finished it with pepperoni.  It was delicious!!

 

St. Patricks Day Concert

Bhí an-sport againn ar scoil inniu. Bhí ceolchoirm againn sa halla. 

Bhí muid ag ceol "Níl sé na lá".Bhí cúigear de na cailiní ag damhsa agus bhí beirt as rang a ceathar ag seinm an veidhlín.Tá súil againn go mbeidh lá ar dóigh agaibh uilig amarach. Lá Fhéile Pádraig Shona daoibh uilig!

 

https://youtu.be/y2ylGZog-A0

 

 

St. Patricks Day Art

We made beautiful St. Patricks Day cards at school.  We used green paint and sponges.  We put the paint on our cards using the sponges.  We had loads of fun.

Happy St. Patricks Day Everyone!

 

 

PE with Transition Year Students

Today along with the Special Class we went to the tech to join transition year students for PE.  We really enjoyed our time there.  We played games, played with the bean bags and did loads of running.  A big thank you to the transition year students for all their help.

 

 

 

World Book Day

We celebrated world book day on Thursday the 2nd of March 2017.  Our teacher read us a story and we really enjoyed it.

 

Pancake Tuesday

Today we made pancakes at school.  We mixed flour, eggs and milk together in a bowl.  We poured the mixture onto the pan.  They tasted yummy!

 

 

Our 1km walk

Today we started our walk a kilometre it took us eleven minutes 32 seconds to walk a kilometre. It was a cold, dry day so we weren't hanging about.

 

Operation Active

During the months of January and February our class participated in Operation Active.  We have been getting active with John every Tuesday in the hall in preparation for our school 1km walk when the weather improves.

 

 

 

MS Readathon

Two of our students participated in the MS Readathon.

Well done!!

 

 

Operation Active 10@10

https://youtu.be/AH1szVx1t0s

 

On Friday 10th February 2017 we participated in 10@10 and had great fun. We are feeling great!

 

 

Gymnastics

We had great fun today in the hall doing Gymnastics.  We joined with the Special Class.

 

 

 

Our Spring Board

 

Playing Games

Children from 4th class came down to our classroom today to play games.  We had great fun.

 

Santa came to visit!

We wish everyone a very happy Christmas and peaceful New Year.

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Cooking

 

 

 

Christmas Art

 

 

St Mary's Parish Carol Service

On the 14th of December 3rd and 4th class together with the class for children with Autism and the Special Class represented the Niall Mór N.S in the St Mary's Parish Carol Service.  We sang "Do you see what I see?" and "Go tell it on the mountain".  We enjoyed ourselves and our parents, families and teachers loved it and were proud of us.

 

December PE

During the month of December Special Class and Autism Class joined together to complete some lessons in gymnastics. Below are some photographs of us making different body shapes, balancing and our favourite rolling on the mats and making different types of rolls.

 

 

P.E.

The Special Class, 1st class and the class for children with Autism were running, jumping, balancing, throwing and having lots of fun together in P.E. during November.

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to one of the children in our class who turned 5 today.  We hope you had a lovely day.

 

PE - Indoor Athletics

On Thursday 24th of November our class along with the Special Class joined together for indoor athletics.  Firstly we did our warm up.  Then we did relay races, throwing beanbags and throwing the rockets.  We really enjoyed our mornings PE session.

 

 

 

Winter is Here!

We made a 'cool' Winter collage.  We all painted and decorated two pairs of mittens.  We used cotton wool, sequins and crepe paper. 

Doesn't it look nice.

 

 

We made pizza

We went to Centra and bought the ingredients we needed to make our pizza.  We bought the pizza bases in Ainsworth butchers. 

First we cut the pepperoni.  Then we spread the tomato puree on the base.  We sprinkled cheese and pepperoni.  We cooked it at 180 degrees for 15 minutes.  It was delicious.

 

 

 

Happy Halloween

We had a great day at school.  We all dressed up for Halloween and had a party.

 

 

Halloween Art

 

Shoe Box Appeal

One of the children took in a shoe box for the shoe box appeal.  I hope the child who receives this gift has the same happy smile as the child giving it.

 

Our Social Outing

Every Friday we go out to eat.  Today we went to the Tara Hotel.  We each order our own toast, remembering to say please and thank you!  Then we went to the playground.  We had so much fun.  Look, we all huddled together in the tunnel. 

We are all friends!

Happy Friendship Week.

 

 

Our Handprint Birds

We made handprint birds at school last week.  We used the sponge to rub the paint on our hand.  Then we pressed in onto the paper.  We painted the branch using brown paint.  We added the eyes, mouth and nose.

 

 

September 2016

A very big welcome to all our pupils.  We hope your year will be filled with fun and laughter.

 

 

 

Look at our beautiful Autumn Board.

"The Greatest Oaks were once little acorns".

 

 

 

Happy Holidays

We had a fantastic year together at school.  Hope you all have a lovely Summer.  We look forward to seeing you all in September.

 

 

Ahoy Cafe

We went for our social outing to Ahoy Cafe on Wednesday.  We had ice-cream floats.  They tasted so good.  We really enjoyed our trip to Ahoy Cafe.

 

 

Mars Bar Rice krispie squares

We made mar bar rice krispie squares.  We cut the mars bars, butter and chocolate into pieces.  We melted all the chocolate and mixed it together with the rice krispies.  We place the rice krispie mix onto the tray and covered the top with chocolate.  We put the tray into the fridge to cool.  They tasted so nice. 

 

 

 

Our Planting

Look, our plants are growing, we are looking forward to seeing them growing into big tall sunflowers at home!

 

Sports Day

We really enjoyed our sports day.  We played with the bean bags.  We tried to score goals on Oliver.  We played tennis, parachute and javelins.  Check out our photos in our gallery.

 

Our school tour

We went on our school tour on Friday the 3rd of June to Castle Adventure Farm in Ballyshannon.  We saw lots of different animals.  We even got to feed the baby goat.  That was so much fun.  We played outside on the climbing frame, sand pit and loved going down the slides.  We also played in the indoor play area.  The lady took us on a ride on the tractor.  We had such a fantastic day.  Check out our photos in the gallery.

 

 

Our Planting

We did some planting in our class yesterday.  We put the compost into the flower pots using a spoon.  We put some water in afterwards.  Then we put the seeds into the compost.  We can't wait to see our flowers bloom.

Lego

One of the children in our class made the Marvel Super Heroes Lego Avengers Hydra Showdown piece.  He followed the instructions and did a fantastic job.  Well done.

 

Active Week

 

 

 

Out and About

We went for a lovely walk today.  We were looking for signs of Spring.  We saw beautiful daffodils, buds and lots of colourful flowers. 

Afterwards we went to Mrs. B's coffee shop.  We enjoyed a snack there.  We were so good. 

Then we went to the playground.  We had so much fun.  We took turns on the see-saw, slide, swing, zip-line, tunnel, climbing frame and high steps.

 

Signs of Spring

 

 

Mrs B's coffee shop

 

Fun at the playground

 

 

 

St. Catherine's Soccer Club

David Conwell, Brian Dorrian and Pat Byrne brought the two cups the St. Catherine's Senior team won last year into our classroom.  We all enjoyed a question and answer session with them.

 

Goodbye and Good Luck

Two of our students are moving to a new school.  We wish them well and hope you both have loads of fun in your new school.  We will miss you.

 

 

Happy Birthday

One of our students celebrated his 14th birthday!

 

Impossipuzzle

Look what one of our students made.

Well Done!

 

It's Spring Time

Look we made a great Spring picture together.  We traced our hands to make spring flowers.  We made lambs, rabbits, butterflies and bumblebees.

Hope you like it!

 

 

Keeping Active

We are very busy working towards our Active Flag.  Ryan from the Donegal Sports Partnership is doing PE with us along with our friends in the Special Class.

 

 

 

Some of our children join John Conwells PE session also.

We also take regular walks in our local community.

Just like the Beatles!

We are having lots of fun!

 

 

Cheque Presentation

A Big Thank You!

The South West Donegal Autism and Aspergers Support Group gave us €500.  We really appreciate your generosity and kindness!

 

Our Trip to the Fire Station

On Friday the 15th of January we went to the Fire Station.  We met Fireman Shaun Curran and he showed us all around the Fire Station.  We saw:

where the firemen change their clothes

the fire engine

the meeting room

and the control room

 

We had a brilliant day.  Thanks so much to Shaun Curran for showing us around.

 

 

Impossipuzzle

One of the students in our class made the Impossipuzzle.  It took him three days to make it.  Well done for all your hard work.

 

Santa came to our school

 

 

 

Signs of Christmas in Killybegs

Take a look at our photos.  You will see lot sof signs of Christmas.

 

Christmas Art

We made Reindeer Faces.  First we painted two paper plates brown.  When they were dry we put on a red nose, eyes and antlers.

They look great!

 

Christmas Tree Celebration

St. John's Church are celebrating 190 years.  To make this they will have 190 Christmas Trees in the Church.  Our class along with The Special Class, 3rd Class, The Junior and Senior Language Classes  made Christmas decorations.  We used cookie cutters to cut shapes from bread and dough, pasta, nuts and oranges were also used to make beautiful decorations.  The children all took part and really enjoyed the experience.  On Monday last we decorated three trees in St. Johns Church. They look really nice.  Thanks to St. John's for asking us to take part in their celebration.

 

Presentation of Cheque to Class for Children with Autism

 Following the very successful Mayor's Ball Killybegs Mayor Mark Nesbitt along with Anne Marie Burke came to the school on 22nd October to present a cheque for the fantastic sum of €5,112 to the Class for Children with Autism. Many thanks to Mark for choosing to donate the proceeds of the ball to our class. Sincere thanks also to everyone who supported the event and to everyone who contributed so generously.  

 

Official Opening 

The official opening of the new Class for Children with Autism, new mainstream classroom and improved and upgraded playground facilities took place on Friday, 6th November 2015. The ribbon was cut by Niamh Kennedy, County Councillor and Thomas Pringle T.D. marking the opening of these much needed facilities at the school and the new premises were blessed by Fr. Colm Ó Gallchóir. The event was attended by the architect Dominic Whoriskey and John Mc Hugh, Builder, members of the Board of Management, local school principals, parents, friends aswell as the schools staff and pupils. 

 

Our Winter Display

We had loads of fun at school making our Winter display.  We used our handprints to make the trees.  We coloured our wee Robins and used cotton wool for their bellies. 

We used cotton wool, shaving foam and glitter to make our snow.  We put some holly on the ground.

Happy Halloween

 

Halloween

We had great fun learning about Halloween.  We made scary pictures.  We had to glue a black moon, a black bat , a haunted house, a grave-stone and a bat to make a cool picture.

 

 

 

 

 

  

Our Autumn Trees

We made an Autumn Tree together.  First we gathered leaves.  We choose Autumn colour of orange, yellow, brown, red and green.  We painted our hands and printed them onto our painted tree.  Then we glued on some leaves. We hope yo like it!

 

 

 

 

 

The Playground

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Five Senses

Our theme for September is Our Five Senses.  We are learning about our five senses.  We have learned that we use our eyes to see, our ears to hear, our nose to smell, our tongue to taste and our hands to feel.

Today we had great fun smelling and tasting different foods.  We tasted lime, lemon, orange, syrup, sugar, salt and rice krispies.  We learned that lime, lemon and oranges are sour, bitter and juicy.  We also learned that the sugar and syrup are sweet. The rice krispies are crunchy and the salt did not taste nice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 2015

 

 

Picnic Day

On Tuesday the 23rd of June we went for a lovely walk.  The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day in Killybegs.  We went along the shore road and seen all the big boats.  We had our lunch with us so we sat at the picinic bench beside the Tourist Office Information Centre.  We had a brilliant day.

 

 

Fundraising day in the Bank of Ireland

Yesterday we were invited to the fundraising day in the Bank of Ireland.  They had face paints, music and refreshments all in aid of St Vincent de Paul.  We had so much fun getting our faces painted and listening to the music. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Art - The Smartest Giant in town

Our theme for June is Julia Donaldson.  In Art today we made our own Smartest Giant in Town.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cooking Toasties We made toasties at school.  They were so tasty!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Out and About

We go out and about in our community every day.  We really enjoy going for our walk.  We go into the bank, post letters, go to Sweet News, Centra Shop and Cara Pharmacy.  We get to do loads of jobs and meet new people every day. 

 

Gruffalo Art Our theme for the month of June is Julia Donaldson books.  We love reading all her books.  One of our favourite is The Gruffalo.  In Art we made our own Gruffalo Masks.  We had loads of fun doing this.

 

 

 

 

Gruffalo Crumble

We made Gruffalo Crumble at school today.  It tasted yummy!

 

 

 

 Ingredients:

 4 Cooking apples or 8 eating

3tlb sugar

170 grams plain flour

75 grams caster sugar

75 grams Margarine 

 

 

 

Method:

Put the apples in a saucepan with a little water and cook on a low heat until apples are soft.  Rub the margarine and flour together to form breadcrumbs.  Stir in the sugar.  Spoon the cooked apple into a pie dish.  Spoon the crumble mixture on the top.  Cook oven at 180C for 30 to 45 minutes. 

While the crumble was cooking our teacher read us the Gruffalo Story.

 

 

Themes for June

 

Our class love listening to Julia Donaldson stories.  This month we are focusing our learning on four of our favourite books - The Gruffalo, The Smartest Giant in town, Room on the broom and Stick Man.

 

Our Butterflies

Watch our beautiful butterflies being released!

 

Our Caterpillars

On Tuesday the 21st of April our little caterpillars arrived.

 

Friday 24th of April.  Look how big our caterpillars are getting.

 

Monday 27th of April.  They are getting bigger.

 

Wednesday 30th April

 

Tuesday 5th of May.  Our caterpillars have climbed to the top of the cup and attach themselves to the paper disk under the lid.  They will hang in a J shape, shed their exoskeletons one last time, and harden into chrysalides.

 

The chrysalides are fully hardened.  We have safely moved them to the Hatching Habitat where they will emerge as Painted Lady Butterflies. 

After 7-14 days, our Painted Lady Butterflies have emerged from the chysalides.  The butterflies wings have softened and crumpled.  The butterflies have slowly stretched and forced liquid into their veins to strengthen their wings.

The wings have expanded, the butterflies have began to join the two halves of the proboscis together.  The proboscis is like a straw slit in half down the length of the straw. 

We placed sugar and water inside the habitat along with fresh fruit for the butterflies to eat.

 

 

 

Our Easter Baskets

Easter is nearly here! Horray!

Our class made Easter Baskets.  We used modroc material to make the moulds.  Once these were dry we painted the pots.  We filled the pots with easter goodies for our families.

We hope they enjoy!

Happy Easter Everyone. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Happy Mothers Day 

 

 

 

 

 Art

Our theme for March and April is Spring and Easter.  We enjoyed making spring flower pictures.  We used different colours of paint and printed the flower heads using forks.

 

 

 

 

Our Valentines Art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heart to Hand

One of our students supporting Heart to Hand

 

February Theme - Three Little Pigs

Our class were working on the theme of The Three Little Pigs.  We enjoyed making our wall display.

We used straw, sticks and sandpaper to make our houses and we used paper plates, plaint, paper, pens and wool to make the characters in the story. 

We were busy practising our writing and re-telling the story of the three little pigs.

Pancake Tuesday

We went to the Tara Hotel today for our social outing.  We ordered toast and pancakes.  The pancakes tasted yummy!  We really enjoyed them.

 

 

 

 

Three Little Pigs

The children enjoyed retelling the story of the 3 little pigs using the interactive whiteboard.

 

 

Throwing and catching

We had fun practising our throwing and catching skills.

 

 

 

 

Interactive White Board

The children helped to retell the story of Goldilcoks and the three bears pictures and also enjoying using the interactive white board to read the story to the class.

 

Our Goldilocks pictures 

We made trees using our fingerprints.  We added the three bears to the picture.

 

 

Goldilocks and the three bears

Our topic this month is Goldilocks and the three bears.  Our class have been busy making a wall frieze of Goldilocks and the three bears.

The children coloured in the characters of the story and we made a sensory cottage using porridge.  Also the children decorated trees using sponge and paint.

 

 

 

 

 Theme for January

Our theme this month is Goldilocks and the three bears.  We enjoyed colouring in the characters of the story. 

 

 

Cheese, Onion and Potato Pasty

We love to bake every week.  We were busy baking cheese, onion and potato pasties.  They tasted yummy! This is the recipe we used.  Try it out and enjoy. Ingredients 450g/1lb packet of puff pastry 2 medium potatoes 1 medium onion 8oz/220g grated cheese 1 egg salt and pepper   Method 1.  Peel and chop the potatoes into small chunks. 2.  Cut onion finely. 3.  Mix the potatoes, onion and grated cheese in a bowl. 5.  Dampen the edge of pastry with water and fold over and crimp edges. 6.  Lay pasties on floured baking sheet - brush with milk or beaten egg. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes.

 

Santa came to visit our class

 

 

Happy Christmas

The staff and pupils in the class for children with autism would like to wish everyone a very happy christmas and a peaceful New Year.

 

Winter Trees

We made winter trees using our handprints.  We put brown paint on our hands and pressed our hands down on the blue paper.  We painted the bottom of the tree white and used white cotton wool as snow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Favourite Toys and Games

Each child got a turn to bring the camera home to take a photo of their favourite toy or game.  We also had to name the country the toy/game was made, what material it is made from and its main shape. Do you like our photos?

 

 

 

Gingerbread Art

Our student teacher did art with us today.  We made gingerbread men using different types of materials; felt, sugar paper, paper and googlie eyes .  It was great fun and they look great!

Gingerbread Man

Our student teacher made gingerbread men with us today.  First one of our students told the story using props.  Then we all helped to make some! Our recipe 75g butter, 50g caster sugar, 2 egg yolks, half teaspoon bread soda, 50g golden syrup, 250g plain flour, half teaspoon cinnamon, half teaspoon ground ginger. Turn the oven to 180/gas mark 4.  Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy.  Add two egg yolds to the mixture.  Stir in the bread soda and the golden syrup.  Sieve in the flour, cinnamon and ground ginger.  Knead the dough and allow it to chill for 30 minutes.  Roll out the dough and cut it into shapes.  Put the shapes on a greased baking tin.  Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.  Cool on a wire rack. More photos in the gallery.

 

Class for children with Autism

In our new purpose build class for children with Autism we strive to provide the highest education possible for our children. We are fortunate that our space allows for excellent facilities which include a spacious station based classroom, and a state of the art Occupational Therapy room, a fully fitted kitchen and a shower room.

The stations/areas in the classroom include: individual work stations, a computer station, a music/art/drama station, a listening station, circle area, sand/water play area, library area, an interactive whiteboard, one-to-one teaching table and a group work table.

Each child’s needs and interests are assessed and then an individual programme is designed to address their needs. A range of proven methods are implemented across these programs i.e. TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic & Related Communication Handicapped Children), PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System), Lámh (Sign Language) and ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis techniques). Using these methods we follow the national curriculum, with a particular emphasis in SPHE (Social Personal Health Education) encouraging independence and communication.

Integrating with the mainstream school is also an important part of our programme and this is done in a programme tailored to each child’s individual needs.
We also provide a social development programme, where we bring the children out and about in our local community.
Our Occupation Therapy room is fitted with lights, large mirrors and other OT (Occupational Therapy) materials, is where our children can relax, play and carry out their OT programs and fulfill their sensory needs. We facilitate their OT programs in conjunction with their Occupational Therapists. We also liaise with Psychological Services, Speech and Language Therapists and Autism Therapists.

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