Junior Infants News
Junior infants 2020/2021
We would like to welcome our new junior infants to Scoil Iósaf. They have settled in so well and are enjoying every day of school life so far. Here they are pictured recently in their pods with their muinteoir Mrs. Fiona Power.
Infants visit our local playground, castle and river Arra!
Friday, June 14th, junior and senior infants walked all the way to the town playground. We had great sport there! We then went to visit the Desmond castle. After spending some time here we went through the "magic door" which led us on to the river side! We were...
Skipathon 2019 – junior and senior infants
Infant School Tour 2019!
On Wednesday June 19th junior & senior infants travelled to Camp, Co. Kerry for their school tour. We visited Sandy Feet Farm where we saw lots of various farm animals, played in their fabulous playground & sensory garden and drove go karts. We even got a ride...
Little Limbo and Little Obstacles!
The Junior and senior infants really enjoyed active week with Limbo and obstacle courses on the yard. The committee helped them and they had great fun. Integrated with our athletics and outdoor and adventure strand! They had a great time!
Outdoors & adventure in May!
For the month of May we are focusing on “outdoor and adventure” as part of our whole school Physical Education plan. Junior infants took to the field for “straw relays”! Each team had to collect their allocated straw colour but you could only collect one at a time!...
We love Stations!!
In Junior Infants we love stations and learn so much from each other during this time. We have such fun whilst learning during our literacy & numeracy stations!
Athletics / Running in Junior Infants
Did you know that children learn more physical skills in their first 6 years than at any other point in their lives? These are called basic or fundamental...
Bunny Hop in aid of the Down Syndrome Centre
This is our second year to take part in the "Bunny Hop"! Junior & Senior Infants had great fun hopping around our school yard...