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Big Idea- Decisions, clothes and materials.

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Big Idea- Decisions, clothes and materials.

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Ciara Reilly, Lauren McCabe.
Junior Infants.
History- The history of clothes and the evolution of clothes. And why people chose to wear the clothes they wear.
Science- the different materials used the make clothes and their properties.

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Amy Rafferty, Sophie Griffith and Lea Mooney
Senior Infants
History; - Story - Someone famous for music or sound reasons [more research to be done here]
Geography - weather - sounds associated with different weather
Science - sound

Integration - Music, Art, PE, English [phonics]

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Matthew Comerford, Aoife Gogan, Amy Costello.
1st and 2nd Class.

History Strand: Myself and My Family.
History Strand Unit: Myself, My Family, When My Grandparents were Young.

Geography Strand: Natural Environments.
Strand Units: The Local Natural Environment.

Science Strand: Living Things.
Strand Units: Plants and Animals.

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Kaylin Leggett, Roisin Campbell and Anna Lawless.
1st/2nd Class

History: Stories- Exploring ancient Africa

Geography: Human environments- Exploring modern day Africa

Science: Plants and animals of Africa/ Properties of materials- materials used to make clothes, furniture, building etc in Africa and why they choose these materials.

We choose Africa as we felt it can be a topic that is taught to children with a focus on poverty and drought and we would like to give the children an opportunity to explore modern day Africa as well as its history.

Possible Integration: Drama, Art, SPHE and English, Music

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Big idea : Just like us, everything around us grows and changes! 

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Big idea : Just like us, everything around us grows and changes! 

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Aoife, Megan & Cliona (Group B)

Science: Growth and change in living things, plants - nature walk, how plants grow etc
Geography: Seasonal changes in our local area. Looking at pictures of different seasons in our area - talking about weather, suitable clothing etc
History: How our area has changed over time, examining pictures, different roles people had etc
Additional Subjects:
SPHE: How we have changed. (discussion incorporates oral language & literacy)
Visual Arts: Collecting leaves on nature walk for collage lesson.
Gaeilge: An Aimsir

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Sarah Kearns, Kate Myers, Andreea Frona.

History: Continuity & change
- Transport from the past. Looking at what and how it has changed.
Timeline of development.

Science: Forces - Push and pull
/ Design and Make

Geography: Homes - Journeys to and from home
Looking at how we get around
Traffic Survey

Further Integration: Art, Math (Data), Music (Exploring sound in the environment).

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Amy Wall, Diarmuid Carroll & Noor Nashat (Group A)
Junior/Senior Infants
Geography:
Strand: Human Environments
Strand Unit: People and places in other areas
Science:
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants & Animals
History
Strand: Story
Strand unit: Stories

Integration: Visual Arts, English & Drama

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Dearbhla Travers & Éimhín Quinn - Group B
History
Strand: Myself and My Family
Strand Unit: 1. Myself 2. My Family
Strand: Story
Strand Unit: Stories
Geography
Strand: Natural Environments
Strand Unit: The Local Natural Environment
Strand: Environmental Awareness and Care
Strand Unit: Caring for my Locality
Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand Unit: Plants & Animals
Possible Integration
English, SPHE, Drama, Visual Arts.

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Jade Farrell & Alanah Hayden (Group B)
Geography
Strand: Natural Environments
Strand Unit: The Local Natural Environment
Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand Unit: Plants & Animals
History
Strand: Story
Strand Unit: Stories

Related Content: myths and mythical creatures, learning of the important of story telling in the past and how the natural environment influenced these stories, how our environment today still shows and represents these historical, mythical stories and ideas.

Possible Integration: Drama, English and Art can be clearly and easily integrated.

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Síofra Hanley, Adhna Nic Gearailt & Ciara Smyth - Group C
History
Story - Stories
Skills - Working as a historian
Geography
Human environments/Natural environments - People and places in other areas/The local natural environment
Skills - a sense of place & space, geographical investigation, maps, globes & graphical skills
Science
Materials - properties & characteristics
Skills - designing & making, working scientifically

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Niamh Ryan, Diarmuid Gavin & Anna Carr (Group A)
History
Strand: Working as a historian
Strand Unit: Time and Chronology
Strand: Story
Strand Unit: Stories
Geography
Strand: Natural Environments
Strand Unit: The Local Natural Environment
Strand: Environmental Awareness and Care
Strand Unit: Caring for my Locality
Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand Unit: Plants & Animals
Integration: PE/ English/ The Arts

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Cian Mahon, Ciarán Rowney, Ronan Birch
Junior/Senior Infants
History

Strand: Story

Strand unit: Stories

Skills and concepts: Working as a historian.

Time and chronology, using evidence, communication

Geography

Strand: Natural Environments

Strand Unit: The local natural environment

Skills and concepts: Geographical investigation skills

Questioning, observing, investigating, experimenting, recording and communicating, sense of place.

Science

Strand: Materials

Strand Unit: Properties and characteristics of materials

Skills Development: Working scientifically

Questioning, observing, predicting, recording and communicating

Additional Subjects: Gaeilge, Music, Drama, Arts, English, SPHE

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Jessica Goggins, Katie Lyons, Kieran Murray
Geography
Strand: Human Environments
Strand Unit: Living in the local community
History
Strand:Myself and my family
Strand Unit: Myself
Science
Strand: Materials
Strand Unit: Materials and change
Additional subjects: English, Maths, Drama, Music and SPHE

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Jane Friel, Nicole Gallinagh, Laura Murrin (Group C)
History
Strand: Story
Strand Unit: Stories
Science
Strand: Materials
Strand Unit: Properties and Characteristics
Materials and Change
Geography:
Strand: Living in the local community
Strand Unit: People at play

Integration- English, Visual Arts, Drama, Music, S.P.H.E

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Ann D'Alton, Kelly Steele , Tierna Maguire
History : strand : story , strand units: Time and chronology
Geography : strand : natural environment, strand unit: the local natural environment
Science: strand : materials
strand unit: properties and characteristics of materials

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Ruaidhrí Collins, Shane Ó Cinnéide, Kevin Prís

Possible definitions:
The way you are expected to behave/act.
Being in charge of something/to blame for something.
Taking charge and acting independently.
Responsibilities can change with age/profession/other circumstances.

1st/2nd class

History: Strand – Myself and my family (how have my responsibilities changed as I have grown up)
Myself and my Family + Story (what responsibilities did students have fifty years ago)

Geography: Strand – Human Environments – People at work (who is responsible for what in the local area)

Science: Strand – Environmental awareness and care (what are our duties in relation to caring for the environment)

Other subjects: SPHE (growing and changing, making decisions)

Literacy (write new commandments/laws that should be followed, read “What if everybody did that?” or “Is the future my responsibility?”)

PE: Team games – Everyone had a role/responsibility on the team

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Shauna Caffrey and Sinead Bainton
Group A

Geography: Environmental awareness and care

Science: Living things- Plants and animals.

History: Story (local place)

other subjects:
English- Oral language
Maths- simple data
Visual Arts/Aistear- Junk art
Religion-
SPHE-Myself and the wider world-developing citizenship

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Martina Gildea, Grainne Gilroy, John Murphy (Group D)
History: Clothes worn in my past and in the past of my family.
Strand:

Myself and my family

Strand units:

Myself

My family

Geography: Clothes for different weather.
Strand:

Natural environments

Strand unit:

Weather

Science: Materials used in clothing.
Strand:

Materials

Strand units:

Properties and characteristics of materials

Materials and change

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Eimear Long, Sarah Buckingham, Paula Gorman (Group A)
History:
Strand: Story
Strand Unit: Stories
Geography:
Strand: Natural environments
Strand unit: Change
Science:
Strand: Living things
Strand unit: Plants and animals
Additional subjects include visual arts, music, she and English

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Alannah, Megan and Conor (Group C)
History:
Strand: Story
Strand Unit: Stories
Geography:
Strand: Natural environments
Strand Unit: Planet earth in space
Science:
Strand: Living Things
Strand Unit: Myself

Additional subjects include Drama, Visual Arts, Maths and English.

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Orla, Jason & Eoghan (Group B)
Science: Energy and Forces: Light
Geography: Natural Environments: Planet Earth in Space
History: Story: Stories
Additional Subjects: Art, English, Drama, SPHE.

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Big Idea/ Theme: Artic (Senior Infants) 

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Big Idea/ Theme: Artic (Senior Infants) 

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Cliodhna, Tara & Jonny (Group B)

History

Stories: Story

- become aware of the lives of women, men and children from different social, cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds

- discuss the chronology of events (beginning, middle, end) in a story

- express or record stories through art work, drama, music, mime and movement and using ICT

- display storyline pictures showing episodes in sequence

Geography

Human environments: People and places in other lands

- develop some awareness of people living in other areas

- acquire some awareness of different types of homes in places outside the locality

- become aware of some links between the school or local community and people in other places

Natural Environments: Weather

-discuss the suitability of different kinds of clothes for different weather conditions

Science

Living things: Plants and animals

- become aware of animals and plants of other environments

Energy and forces: Sound

- recognise and identify a variety of sounds in the environment

- identify and differentiate between high and low sounds, loud and soft sounds

- explore ways of making different sounds using a variety of materials

Additional Subjects: Irish, Maths, Art, Drama, English, SPHE

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Eimhir Mullins Ní Cheallaigh, Rachel Fenlon and Orla Macken (Group B)
Geography: Natural Environments, Change
Science: Living things, plants and animals
History: Story, stories
Additional subjects: SPHE, Art, English.

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Mairéad Griffin, Jennifer Feerey, Georgia de Barra (Group C)
Junior/Senior Infants
History:
Myself and my family-Myself

Collect and examine simple evidence (First toy, favourite toy)

Compare toys used by parents/grandparends noting development and things which have stayed the same

Geography:
Human environment- Living in the local community

Become aware and discuss play spaces (at home, school etc.)

Suggest ways in which these places can be kept clean and safe

Make simple drawings of these places (immediate surroundings and journeys to or from these places)

Science-
Energy and forces: forces

explore through informal activities with toys forces for example pushing and pulling, squeezing etc.

Explore how the shape of objects can be changed used different forces ( pushing, pulling, sqeezing, throwing, dropping etc.)

Investigate how forces act on objects (experiment with different materials, group objects that float or sink, push into water etc.)

Other subject areas:
Irish- Mé Féin
English- My favourite toy, inventing a toy
Maths- Sorting, Classifying
Visual arts- Clay
SPHE- Myself

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Grace Kenny, Molly Nelson & Kiah Geraghty (Group C)
History: Myself - how the child has grown/changed
Science: Biology of humans growing
Geography: Local community changes
Related concepts: belonging & growth

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Big Idea: Exploring ourselves and our local environment.

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Big Idea: Exploring ourselves and our local environment.

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Aileen, Anna and Meaghan. (Group A)
History: Myself- Explore and Record significant personal events and dates.
Science: Plants and Animals - Explore Plants and Animals in our local environment.
Geography: Myself and My Community- Explore and discuss his/her membership of the family, school and local community.
Additional Subjects: English, Visual Arts and SPHE.

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Alanna, Annie, Gillian
Science - Human processes, process of life for plants and animals, Materials and Change (wet vs dry)
Geography - Local environment (seasonal changes & permanent changes) Weather, Local community.
History - Myself (personal events), Timelines, Stories.
Additional subjects: Music, Visual Art and SPHE.

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Space