Curriculum Work

Step 5: Curriculum Work

The boys and girls in Merlin Woods Primary School have been busy learning about the things we can do to protect the earth and to make it a cleaner and safer place for us to live.

All classes have learned about the things we can do to reduce, recycle and reuse waste materials. In Junior and Senior Infants the children reuse empty boxes and cartons on a daily basis to create pieces of art. The children enjoy using their imaginations to create pieces of art with empty boxes they have brought in from home.

All classes in the school participated in the Food Dudes Programme at the beginning of this year. Eating more fresh fruit and vegetables every day is an important part of sustainable living.  The children learned about the benefits of eating fruit and vegetables over processed packaged food items.

Múinteoir Eimear’s First Class learned about the benefits of walking to school for their health and for the environment. The children have made a special effort to increase their daily step count by walking to school.

Our senior classes completed comprehensions and small projects learning about how modern life is impacting and affecting climate change. The children learned the negative impact of air and water pollution on our world and the world we share with other animals. The children in Fourth Class learned about the forest fires in Australia and how it impacted on human and animal life there.