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On Friday April 5th we celebrated Autism Awareness Day. The whole school dressed up in blue and donated 2 euro each to help raise funds for communication iPads for our class. There were lots of delici ...
We have had lots of fun listening to songs about St. Patrick’s day such as I’m a Little Leprechaun, the Leprechaun dance and Green for St Patrick’s Day. We made lots of lovely crafts ...
Spring is finally in the air and we have had lots of fun listening to Spring time songs about the flowers in bloom, baby animals and the colours that are all around us. We painted paper plate ladybird ...
We had a lovely day making our Valentine’s cards for our Mummys and Daddys. We pasted colourful squares into the love hearts on the front which read ” I love you to pieces” and on th ...
When we were learning about the letter J, we painted multi-coloured jellyfish on paper plates with colourful crepe paper tentacles. We also tied in learning about lots of sea animals by playing with j ...
Birthdays are a very special time and what better way than to celebrate with a big yummy cake and party with your classmates! Everyone enjoyed watching the candles being blown out and eating chocolate ...
For Story-time we listened to an animated musical version of the Three Little Pigs. Music and animation holds our attention much better than listening to a narrated story so we really enjoyed this mus ...
We just want to wish all our students and their families a very holly jolly Christmas! From Lisa, Niamh and Louise 🎄🎁🎅 ...
We have had lots of fun shaking the bells and making them jingle along to one of our all time favourite Christmas songs as well as shaking the maraccas and playing on the xylophone! Listening to music ...
We have been very busy making lots of festive crafts for the season such as painted Christmas trees with stuck on jewels, paper plate snowmen, a sponge painted Winter tree scene with finger painted no ...
Some of our small Dublin fans were lucky enough to see the Sam Maguire cup today. Some of the teachers were very happy about that too 🙂 ...
Working on our fine motor skills includes building up the strength in the muscles in our fingers and hands. There are lots of different fun activities to help us do this such as pinching pegs, pushing ...
We have had great fun dressing up in different costumes for Halloween, from skeletons to princesses, and from Spiderman to cute witches! We enjoyed a little Halloween party and got to take home a tri ...
We had great fun today on our sponsored walk around the school yard where we got to explore new areas of the playground! We jumped in the piles of leaves and threw them in the air as well as hearing t ...
We have lots of fun working on our gross motor skills in the sensory room! We climb up and down the slide, jump on the trampoline and have fun on the swings. Best of all we get to jump into the ball p ...
Welcome to all our new children who started in our ASD Early Intervention class this September. They have all been settling in very well and exploring their new classroom, playing with jigsaws, shape ...
Our class had a very exciting trip to KidSpace Indoor play centre in Rathfarnham. The children really enjoyed climbing over obstacles and up ladders, jumping into ball pools and sliding down the big s ...
We had great fun trying out new activities for Active week this year including outdoor mini golf, football and bowling. Some of us even started stretching and learning some yoga moves! Some of the chi ...
This week we were learning about different occupations. We looked at pictures of teachers, dentists, pilots, astronauts, farmers, doctors etc and listened to Bounce Patrol’s song A-Z of occupati ...
When we were learning about Easter, we listened to lots of songs about chocolate eggs and Easter egg hunts as well as the Easter bunny. Some of our favourite songs include Hippity Hop and Easter bunny ...
The week leading up to St. Patrick’s Weekend was Seachtain na Gaeilge where we learned about St. Patrick’s Day and listened to lots of fun songs about leprechauns, rainbows and pots of gol ...
Every Wednesday morning, some of the Junior Infant children come to visit and play with our class. This is to help with developing our social skills, especially for those of us who will be moving on t ...
Despite the big snowstorms that blew in over March, we been busy learning about Spring and creating beautiful seasonal crafts. We listened to a spring time story on You-tube and made lots of lovely s ...
All the children throughout the school really enjoyed the celebrations for Intercultural Day. Every class created projects on many different countries to represent and celebrate the various Nationalit ...
We had a very fun run up to Christmas in our class! We decorated our Christmas tree, listened to lots of festive Christmas songs, both old and new, made lots of lovely crafts like Santas, reindeers a ...
Sam Maguire came to visit our school and made a very special visit to the ASD classroom. Both students and teachers were very excited to see the cup up close and in person! Up the Dubs!! 🙂 ...
Here in the ASD preschool we had so much fun dressing up for Halloween! We dressed up as pirates, witches, the Incredible Hulk, a dinosaur and Spiderman. Even the teachers dressed up as scary witches ...
Last Friday we had our sponsored walk through the school fields. Thank you to all who donated money! We had great fun making and jumping into piles of Autumn leaves, throwing them in the air and singi ...
Last year, we did a lot of fundraising to have an Interactive Panel installed in the ASD preschool and thanks to all the wonderful efforts of the parents, staff and wider school community, we had our ...
Welcome to the preschool class for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. We are six happy, active and creative kids who have settled really well into our class. We are very busy learning our ABCR ...