To engrave senior infants drawings into the sea stones we are using a mask material and cutting out a stencil of each child’s drawing and […]
Collecting Stones
We have chosen and prepared the drawings from the three senior infant classes to engrave on to sea stones. Today we chose suitable stones from […]
Fifth Class, Shell Middens.
A cliff collapse in 1992 revealed evidence of a Stone Age settlement to the north of Greystones in the Rathdown area. A shell midden and […]
Preparation for Fifth Class- Clay
Today we went along the North beach to collect clay for the fifth class workshop on Friday. Along the base of the cliffs clay can […]
The National Museum of Ireland
If you’re in Dublin during the Christmas holidays have a visit to the National Museum of Ireland in Kildare Street to see original objects from […]
How long will sixth class bronze fish last? – Sixth Class
We had a lovely relaxed time with five, sixth class pupils you were absent for the session of making wax fish. As we were looking […]
Studying Beaker pottery – Fifth class
The Beaker Culture c. 2,500 – 1,700 BC. introduced ceramics, the earliest metal work, and arrowheads into our culture. Their arrival marked the end of […]
The Lost Wax Technique, Sixth Class
Today we began with a youtube video of a school in Carlow who work in bronze with us to produce a wonderful sculpture in front […]
Bronze Age Charlesland
By working on ideas and materials similar to the Bronze Age with fifth and sixth classes we would hope that they will be aware of […]