A note from Tim
Dear children and parents,
A belated Happy New Year to everyone in our school community. By now we have all settled back into the school routine and I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone the very best for the next term of the school year.
It is going to be a very busy term with swimming having already started as well as the return of numerous sports sessions to the school. We hope you all enjoy these experiences and it is great to now be heading into Spring!
Our Parent’s Association have done fantastic work this term and we want to thank them for organising the brilliant Pajama Day Fundraiser which the children loved. Thanks must also go to all the parents for contributing to the fundraiser because all of your donations are going to have a huge impact in affording resources for the children.
We are also delighted that the Parent’s Coffee Morning is returning to the school on 16th February and would be thrilled to have as many parents as possible to come along and meet other parents in the school.
Finally, I want to commend and celebrate all of the children in our school. They have been working extremely hard in class and one thing I have been very impressed with is all of our Star of the Week winners this year. The teachers have spoken so highly of all of you and the high standards you set in the school.
Keep up the great work everyone!!!
Tim
Classroom Updates
Báetán’s Setanta Class
Báetán’s class has been learning to identify, clap along and play instruments to the rhythm of a song. We practiced creating our own rhythms and enjoyed using the boomwhackers to play show off our different rhythms.
Mark’s Setanta Class
Mark’s class have been enjoying playing different board games each evening. Playing board games helps us with turn taking, winning and losing, following rules, focusing on details, using our fine motor skills and also just having fun! One of our new favourites is Shark Bite!
Ben’s Junior Infants
Ben’s class has made a great start in their learning to read journey. We have now learnt 9 letters and the sounds they spell. We are practicing in the morning learning more letters, and how to read and write. We have also been using a variety of different tools to help us learn about numbers, patterns and sorting in maths.
Our theme for this month is the doctors and the students are having a blast playing together being doctors, nurses, receptionists and patients.
Cormac’s Junior Infants
Cormac’s class have had great fun playing with the Doctor’s Surgery. They have been learning about X-rays, otoscopes and stethoscopes! Some of them would like to be doctors or nurses when they grow up!
The boys and girls are also so very excited about learning to read, write and spell words! They are reading and writing words already!
Meredith’s Junior Infants
Meredith’s class had great fun wearing their pyjamas for the PTA pyjama day. Thank you to all the parents who donated; we are very exited to be going on a school tour in the spring!
The children have also been busy learning new letter sounds and putting those together to make words and sentences. They have also been learning about the hospital and putting what they have learned into practice in the dramatic play area.
Ciara Nee’s Senior Infants
Ciara’s Senior Infants have been out of this world this term! We have been learning all about Space and we are loving it! For Aistear, Senior Infants have been very imaginative in creating their own spaceships from Lego and playdough, as well as dressing up in astronaut outfits. We also wrote letters from space to our parents, which was an incredible first attempt at letter writing. Have a look at the TETNS facebook page for some pictures of our ‘out of this world’ artwork!
Emma M’s Senior Infants
Emma’s Senior Infants have settled back into routine wonderfully and have been having a fantastic time back in the classroom. The children were bursting with excitement as they learned all about Space, especially during Aistear. They built rockets using Lego, bricks and playdough, created their very own galaxies, and even transformed a cardboard box into a rocket ship ready for blast-off! The children loved taking on the roles of astronauts, wearing their handmade space helmets as they zoomed through space on exciting adventures.
In Art, the children put their creative minds together to make beautiful winter owls. There was plenty of hooting, laughter and fun echoing around the classroom!
Kim’s Senior Infants
Kim’s Senior Infants have had a fantastic start to the new term. We blasted off into our Space theme for Aistear and have been busy exploring planets, rockets and all our exciting space toys and equipment. The children loved diving into imaginative play while learning lots of fascinating facts about outer space.
In Maths we have also been learning all about weight. Using our classroom weighing scales, the children enjoyed investigating and comparing the weight of different objects from our very own classroom!
Ciara Ní S’ 1st Class
Ciara’s first class have had a great start to the term. We have been learning about time, Tom Crean, Rivers & Lakes , exploring spring, and here is our hatching chicks artwork. This week we also began our swimming lessons, which everyone is excited to continue over the next few weeks!
Eimear’s 1st Class
Eimear’s first class had a wonderful start to 2026. We have been busy learning about Tom Crean, Antarctica and lots of different animals as you can see in the photo attached below. We have also explored place value and the past tense in English. We would like to wish you all a lovely midterm break.
Orla’s 1st Class
We had a great start to term 2! The children have been learning all about giraffes, the Antarctic, and a variety of amazing animals.
The children had their first swimming lesson on Monday and they were very excited! They had a great time and are looking forward to going again.
Eoin’s 2nd Class
Eoin’s class has been studying about planets in Geography and made 3D planets using paper and chalk during Art. In Science we were experimenting with what materials will float or sink in water. We also made animals and silhouettes of safari landscapes as we were studying about the continent of Africa. In Literacy we were understanding about Narrative writing. We are reading Georges’ Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl and are enjoying reading aloud the characters with different styles of voices. We also grew cress for our SPHE lesson to teach us how to look after others and ourselves.
Hannah’s 2nd Class
Hannah’s 2nd class had a great start to the new year. They have been exploring the theme of space. In History they learned all about Neil Armstrong and the moon landing. They wrote some amazing diary entries pretending to be Neil Armstrong on the day that he landed on the moon. They also explored how light travels in science using torches and classroom materials. They have been working hard on time in maths and descriptive writing in English and even created and described their own monsters! They worked with their groups and created amazing planet projects and presented them to the class! They had so much fun playing table tennis during our table tennis takeover!
Méadbh’s 2nd Class
Méadbh’s class has been very busy since returning in January. We really enjoyed learning about space and worked in groups to create projects about different astronauts. We did some research on the ipads and then created posters and also completed some space – inspired art. Everyone worked really well together.
In literacy we learned all about procedural writing and we created a recipe for rice krispie buns and tested it out! We are also enjoying the book ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ at the moment.
In maths we are learning about 3-D shapes and we had great fun constructing 3-D shapes with matchsticks and playdough.
Emma McN’s 3rd Class
Emma’s Class have been working really hard so far this term!
We have been looking at how we can be good friends; making recipes for good friendships and making compliment flowers. We gave each of our friends a compliment by writing it on one petal.
In Art we have been looking at Pop Art and made Love Hearts inspired by the sweets!
In History we researched Technology of the Past. We each made our own pop-up projects.
In February, we have been encouraged to read more. Emma gave us a challenge to read 5000 pages as a class in the month of February. We hope we reach the goal and get a FUN DAY FRIDAY!!
Keith’s 3rd Class
Keith’s class have started 2026 by learning all about analogue and digital time. The class have really worked hard to figure out analogue time. In Irish we’ve been learning stór focal faoin aimsir. We were lucky enough to have a visit from Caitlin who told us so much about life in South Africa and got us up dancing to Waka Waka – This Time for Africa! In art, we were inspired by Retrofuturism and we built space-age buildings that would belong in a city of the future. We also really enjoyed learning how to play table tennis after Paul set up tables so we could practice our skills.
Paul’s 4th Class
This term in Maths, we’ve been having lots of fun exploring measurement in practical ways. Using iPads, we linked our learning with PE by recording our standing long jumps, measuring how far we could jump and watching our techniques back in slow motion. We also used apps to explore perimeter, measuring and investigating a range of objects and items around our school. We used our measurement skills to be architects too and designed our dream bedrooms with all the right measurements given.
In History, we learned all about the Aztecs. We created Aztec clothing using paper and different materials and even made traditional Aztec hot chocolate in the staffroom! It included chilli, cocoa powder and vanilla extract, while it was interesting to try, it wasn’t overly popular in the end!
Shane’s 4th Class
This month, Shane’s class started swimming lessons in the National Aquatic Centre.
In maths, we have been exploring the properties of 3D shapes. We all chose a different way of representing what we learned; some people built models, some people created posters, some people wrote quizzes and some people drew graphs.
In history, we learned about the ancient Aztec civilization. We researched the various elements of their civilization such as; location, customs, buildings, food, gods and goddesses and clothing. Our favourite activities from this topic were making Aztec hot chocolate using 99% dark chocolate, vanilla and chillis and creating traditional Aztec costumes using various art materials!
Aisleen’s 5th Class
It’s been a very busy term in our class! We’ve started swimming lessons in the Aquatic Centre and a rugby coach has been coming in to teach us skills in rugby. We’re really enjoying participating in movement breaks and learning all about the history of Croke Park.
In Maths, we’ve been enjoying quizzes and we’ve really focused on decimals and length. Our class loves quizzes and we love having a Quiz Morning every Friday. Teacher Orla sends around quizzes every week and we can get quite competitive!
We discussed Internet Safety and we’ve started to design posters to convey how important it is. We also discussed technology through the ages and had a little quiz on it!
We are going to go on our SESE tour shortly and we are currently learning all about dinosaurs.
We really enjoyed the PJ Fundraiser the PA organised. Very cosy.
Written by Aisleen with contributions from Grace, Rían and Felicia.
Mallorie’s 5th Class
Busy term in Mallorie’s 5th class. We started our swim lessons for PE which the children were fantastic at. They came well prepared and organised.
For the month of January there was a huge focus on food and nutrition in our class. The children made a great effort to improve their quality of lunches to ensure they are getting a healthy balanced diet everyday. We took a trip to Lidl to buy ingredients for cooking that they did for homework. Mallorie was incredibly impressed with what was produced by the children and hopes the children continue to take a keen interest in healthy eating and cooking.
We are also currently studying the topic of Dinosaurs and linking it in with SESE, English and art lessons. We will be going on a SESE tour to Dublin Zoo to participate in a Dinosaur tour where we hope to gain the skills of becoming a scientist and a historian.
Internet Safety day was recently, lots of lessons and discussions on this topic have been had in the class. We linked that in with Valentines where the children enjoyed spreading positivity in the class by learning to become positive bystanders and creating PAL-entines cards and art for each other. See picture attached of the children exchanging their cards.
Well done on a great term!
Claire C’s 6th Class
This half term we have been learning about internet safety. We now know about cyber bullying and how it affects people. In maths we were also learning how to convert fractions decimals and percentages along with finding the surface area of 3D-shapes. In Geography we worked in groups to research a European country of our choice and present our projects to our peers. To celebrate the Winter Olympics, in STEAM we made skiers using tinfoil,pipe cleaners, lollipop sticks and tape and we tested the skiers to see which one could travel down a ramp the fastest. We also studied the fascinating facts about World War 2 where 50 million people died. In Gaeilge we have been working very hard learning our Briathra Neamhrialta agus frasaí as Gaeilge.
Aisling’s 6th Class
This half term has been full of exciting learning and exploration. After our trip to Croke Park, we used the knowledge we gained on our tour to support our GAA group projects, exploring the history and importance of the organisation in Irish sport and culture. Using our geography skills, we also investigated Dublin’s future Metro system, planning and selecting our own routes while working within a set budget. We really enjoyed taking part in the Table Tennis Takeover, and in art we explored silhouettes through our Hurler on the Moon inspired paintings. To finish the term, we have been practising the song Killeagh as Gaeilge and are looking forward to performing it for Seachtain na Gaeilge.
Francis’ 6th Class
Francis’ class enjoyed rugby coaching over the last few weeks; while it was a new sport for many of us, we made an effort to try our best!
In Geography we decided it was well past time that Dublin’s metro got built and so we designed and budgeted a metro system for county Dublin with a budget of €500million. Some of the suggestions were rail-ly good!
We’ve also started the aquatic strand in PE which is going swimmingly.
In Geography we were assigned a random US state and have designed travel brochures highlighting the state’s best features! It was our Maine focus for the last few weeks.
Active Schools TETNS Table Tennis Takeover
Our Active Schools Committee recently organised a brilliant Table Tennis Takeover event for pupils from 2nd to 6th Class and what a success it was!
The event gave pupils the opportunity to learn more about table tennis, develop new skills, and most importantly, have lots of fun while being active. Throughout the day, the assembly space was buzzing with excitement as pupils practised their serves, improved their hand eye coordination, and took part in friendly games with their classmates.
Table tennis is a fantastic sport for developing balance, concentration, coordination, and quick decision-making skills. It also encourages teamwork, resilience, and positive sportsmanship, all qualities we love to promote in our school. It was wonderful to see pupils of all abilities getting involved, supporting one another, and enjoying the challenge.
A huge well done to our Active Schools Committee for organising such an engaging and inclusive event. Their leadership and enthusiasm ensured that the day ran smoothly and that everyone had the opportunity to participate.
We hope this event inspires even more pupils to pick up a paddle and keep active!
100 Days of School 25/26
Monday 9th February marked 100 days of school for our students. Forty students in Tyrrelstown E.T.N.S. managed the fantastic achievement of being present for all 100 days. They were presented with a certificate and a small treat in recognition of their 100% attendance record. Well done to all of them!
To learn more about how attendance is recorded and managed in our school, click the following link;