N.D.M.N.S

Term One 2022

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Come see all of the wonderful things that happened this term....

A Message from

Mr Walsh

Dear Parents and Guardians,

What an exciting term we have had here at North Dublin Muslim National School. This term has seen us continue to grow as a community. We have welcomed over 90 new children and six new staff members to the school this year, and have grown to 16 mainstream classrooms for the first time.

We were delighted to host several parent coffee mornings this term; it has been great to see so many of you at the school for these. We have taken the first steps to re-establish our Parent Association, and we look forward to working with the PA committee throughout the year. A massive thank you to the parents who have agreed to get involved with the committee. We will be exploring other ways of getting parents involved more in day-to-day school activities as the year goes on.

Our Student Council and our Wellbeing Committee have been working tirelessly this term. Classes have been well represented by their reps, who have put forward great ideas to improve our school, and have led fundraisers for Muslim Sisters of Éire and Islamic Relief. Plans to create a sensory garden at the school are at an early stage, and I’m sure the Wellbeing Committee will keep us up-to-date on those developments and how we can help.

Needless to say, a huge amount of hard work has taken place in classrooms this term. Children have been working extremely hard, and this can be seen in the work they are producing and their engagement in lessons. So many children have already received certificates of achievement during our weekly awards and monthly assemblies, and we know that there will be many more on the way in terms two and three! Our return to in-person assemblies has also given classes an opportunity to perform for each other, and we have had some fantastic performances so far this year – we can’t wait to see what the rest of the year brings!

I hope that this term’s newsletter gives you a sense of the amazing work that happens at the school each and every day. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter (@ndmns) for the latest news from school.

Wishing you all a wonderful Winter Break!

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04. Junior Infants Red
with Ms. McKay

06. Junior Infants Yellow
with Ms. O'Hara

08. Senior Infants Pink
with Ms. Butler

10. Senior Infants Green
with Ms. Ronan

12. 1st Class Purple
with Ms. Kelly

14. 1st Class Orange
with Ms. Culleton

16. 2nd Class Blue
with Ms. Morrissey

18. 2nd Class Gold
with Mr. O'Donoghue

20. 3rd Class Dearg
with Ms. Beatty

22. 3rd Class Buí
with Ms. Roe

24. 4th Class Bándearg
with Ms. McAuley

26. 4th Class Glas
with Ms. Faughnan

28. 5th Class Corcra
with Mr. McCormack

30. 5th Class Oráiste
with Ms. Fullam

32. 6th Class Óir
with Mr. Gleeson

34. 6th Class Gorm
with Mr. Farrell

36. Rainbow Room
with Ms. Craven

38. SET
with Ms Wehrly & the SET team

40. Student Council

41. Wellbeing Committee

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Hello from Junior Infants Red :)

All of the children are well settled in and it feels like they have been here at NDMNS forever! We have been working hard on our fine motor skills with lots of fun hands-on activities to help support our froggy fingers for excellent handwriting skills. We have learned lots of phonics and can already read some simple words by sounding out and blending together our known sounds. We have even started our very first reader in our English stations in class. We are also working hard on our cursive writing. It is very tricky, but with continued practice at school and home, we will be experts in no time!

We have worked hard on lots of number work, number formation, number order, and sets of numbers. We have learned two and three subject patterns and learned about length as well as 2D and 3D shapes. We even designed our very own scary shape monsters. Children have enjoyed many art activities from autumn to winter themes, as well as including the restaurant and space themes we have studied during our aistear playtime. 
We were also very lucky to have Peered Reading and science experiments with students from the 3rd class coming to visit us on Fridays.

Children's friendships are continuing to grow and develop, as are the pupil's own confidence, organisational and communication skills. The daily routine is well established and the children all deserve a well-earned Winter break. Wishing everyone a nice break and see you all safely in the new year fit and healthy inshallah :)

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Junior Infants Red & Ms McKay

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Hello from Junior Infants Red :)

All of the children are well settled in and it feels like they have been here at NDMNS forever! We have been working hard on our fine motor skills with lots of fun hands-on activities to help support our froggy fingers for excellent handwriting skills. We have learned lots of phonics and can already read some simple words by sounding out and blending together our known sounds. We have even started our very first reader in our English stations in class. We are also working hard on our cursive writing. It is very tricky, but with continued practice at school and home, we will be experts in no time!

We have worked hard on lots of number work, number formation, number order, and sets of numbers. We have learned two and three subject patterns and learned about length as well as 2D and 3D shapes. We even designed our very own scary shape monsters. Children have enjoyed many art activities from autumn to winter themes, as well as including the restaurant and space themes we have studied during our aistear playtime. 
We were also very lucky to have Peered Reading and science experiments with students from the 3rd class coming to visit us on Fridays.

Children's friendships are continuing to grow and develop, as are the pupil's own confidence, organisational and communication skills. The daily routine is well established and the children all deserve a well-earned Winter break. Wishing everyone a nice break and see you all safely in the new year fit and healthy inshallah :)

Junior Infants Yellow & Ms O'Hara

What a fantastic start to the year!
I want to begin by saying how proud I am to be teaching such a wonderful bunch in Junior Infants Yellow this year! They are all as friendly, hardworking, and full of character as each other! Every day is an adventure that I can't wait to start. This term we have been super busy - the children have settled into school very well and I am thrilled to see that they made so many great friendships so early in the year, we really are like one big team!

Maths:
The children have been super busy working away as Mathematicians learning all about sorting, making, and matching sets. As well as that they have spent time investigating with measurements, making estimations, and then getting hands-on and measuring to see how accurate they were. They have also truly enjoyed Ready, Set, Go stations and playing the wonderful games that help them to understand numbers.

Language:
I am very impressed by how quickly the children have taken to learning their sounds and using their initial sounds to blend and sound out small CVC words and begin their road to reading. They have also shown great work on their fine motor skill development and have really gotten the hang of correct pencil control and using the ''Froggy Finger Grip".

In Gaeilge, the children have made huge improvements, and they have been making lots of effort to greet each other and Ms. O'Hara in Gaeilge and say Slán at hometime! They have great retention for the vocab that they have learned and love to sing all the Irish songs that they have learned.

SESE:
The children have really enjoyed SESE so far this year, they especially enjoy Science and getting to do Science experiments. We have been super lucky this year to come together with our friends in Junior Infants Red to do some large-group science experiments. Recently, we all enjoyed a trip to the hall to learn all about static electricity and even conducted our own to make tissue paper butterflies flap their wings! How exciting!!

Aistear:
Without a doubt, Aistear time is a keen favourite with all of the class! During Aistear the children have gotten a chance to explore different themes such as; The Restaurant, At Home, and most recently, Space and Winter. In Aistear the children have the option to take part in many different activities of structured play such as; the Sand Table, Roleplay, Art, Building, and many more. Aistear is a great time for the children to learn to work on their social skills and learn how to develop their oral language, reasoning, and discussion skills in a playful environment.

We can't wait to see what adventures await us in the next term.

Junior Infants Yellow & Ms O'Hara

What a fantastic start to the year!
I want to begin by saying how proud I am to be teaching such a wonderful bunch in Junior Infants Yellow this year! They are all as friendly, hardworking, and full of character as each other! Every day is an adventure that I can't wait to start. This term we have been super busy - the children have settled into school very well and I am thrilled to see that they made so many great friendships so early in the year, we really are like one big team!

Maths:
The children have been super busy working away as Mathematicians learning all about sorting, making, and matching sets. As well as that they have spent time investigating with measurements, making estimations, and then getting hands-on and measuring to see how accurate they were. They have also truly enjoyed Ready, Set, Go stations and playing the wonderful games that help them to understand numbers.

Language:
I am very impressed by how quickly the children have taken to learning their sounds and using their initial sounds to blend and sound out small CVC words and begin their road to reading. They have also shown great work on their fine motor skill development and have really gotten the hang of correct pencil control and using the ''Froggy Finger Grip".

In Gaeilge, the children have made huge improvements, and they have been making lots of effort to greet each other and Ms. O'Hara in Gaeilge and say Slán at hometime! They have great retention for the vocab that they have learned and love to sing all the Irish songs that they have learned.

SESE:
The children have really enjoyed SESE so far this year, they especially enjoy Science and getting to do Science experiments. We have been super lucky this year to come together with our friends in Junior Infants Red to do some large-group science experiments. Recently, we all enjoyed a trip to the hall to learn all about static electricity and even conducted our own to make tissue paper butterflies flap their wings! How exciting!!

Aistear:
Without a doubt, Aistear time is a keen favourite with all of the class! During Aistear the children have gotten a chance to explore different themes such as; The Restaurant, At Home, and most recently, Space and Winter. In Aistear the children have the option to take part in many different activities of structured play such as; the Sand Table, Roleplay, Art, Building, and many more. Aistear is a great time for the children to learn to work on their social skills and learn how to develop their oral language, reasoning, and discussion skills in a playful environment.

We can't wait to see what adventures await us in the next term.

Senior Infants Pink & Ms Butler

We have had a fantastic first term in Senior Infants Pink!

In Literacy, we revised most of our letter sounds. We have been working so hard to practice blending letters to read and write words. We have also been spending lots of time learning our Dolch Words and practicing putting them into sentences. There has been such an improvement in all the boy’s and girl’s reading and writing. This term, the children in 4 th class read stories to the Senior Infants, this was brilliant and the Senior Infants loved hearing new stories!

In Maths, we have had so much fun playing Ready, Set, Go games at our weekly stations with Ms.Lydon. We have learned to count, to order numbers, to make sets for each number and to sort various sets and describe them. We also learned about 2D and 3D shapes. During STEM week, we did a shape hunt around the school to look for different shapes we could find. The boys and girls found so many shapes around the school and drew what they found.

Our play themes this term were The Doctor’s Surgery, The Hospital, Goldilocks’ and the Three Bears and the Opticians. Everyone in the class was amazing at playing in role as doctors, nurses, opticians, customers and patients. We did lots of artwork for each of these themes and the children loved making glasses for the Opticians. We even got to perform our role play of Goldilocks and the Three Bears in groups for each other! During our play time, we worked on our writing at the free writing station, we made Jigsaws and created constructions using blocks.

In SESE, we explored the season of Autumn. We had so much fun on our nature walk and collected lots of things to put on our investigation station. The children found conkers, leaves, acorns, and sycamore seeds. During Stem week, we completed experiments with the 4th class and got the chance
to play board games they created for us! I am so proud of everyone’s progress this term. I am really excited for another great term after Winter break and wish everyone a happy winter break!

Well done everyone!

Senior Infant Green & Ms Ronan

Senior Infants Green have had so much fun together in Term 1. All the boys and girls have settled back into school so well and everyone has been working extra hard at following the rules and being kind friends. 


We have learned so many new things in Senior Infants and the boys and girls love being creative and using their imagination while learning. We have been working extra hard at our handwriting and reading this term. We are so excited to start reading our books after the Winter break. We became doctors, nurses, and surgeons when we learned about the hospital and we learned all that opticians do. We explored the weather and became scientists at the weather station.

The boys and girls had a lot of fun reading with our 4th class partners. We explored literacy and engaged with different books and stories. We also took part in science experiments with our partners as part of STEM week. We became movie stars when the PDST came into our class to film us as part of the 'Good Practice' videos and we showed them how super we are at using iPads and tablets during our learning. 

We have had the best fun in Term 1 and the boys and girls have been super, making their teacher proud of them every day. We are very excited to see what new things we learn after the Winter break. Wishing you all a very enjoyable Winter break, the boys and girls deserve a rest after all their hard work!