Using art is a great way to support learning in many different subjects. It can also help children to be more creative. Most children learn best through playing or creating. This week during Maths Week the children in the Senior Room brought an artistic twist to their maths activities.
The children in Miss Daly’s room created these wonderful autumn artworks using pastel chalks this week.
The children in the Junior Room have put the finishing touches to these beautiful clay hedgehogs and pinch pots.
The children in the Junior Room had a great time working with clay to create these beautiful clay hedgehogs and pinch pots.
The children were inspired by Kandinsky’s Houses in Munich to create their own beautiful abstract art using chalk on paper.
The beautiful flowers we picked a couple of weeks ago have been pressed and dried. It was now time to identify their English, Irish and Latin names and present them on acid free paper. Stephanie from Heritage in schools showed the children how to arrange and display the pressed flowers. The children then created lovely artworks with the remaining flowers.
We have some wonderful artists here at Togher N.S. The Dunmanway Agricultural Show judges were amazed by the beautiful artworks created by our children as part of their Art Competition. These artworks will be on display at the Dunmanway Show.
The children created some beautiful prize-winning artworks for the Cork Bike Week competition.
The children in the Junior Room had a lovely morning foraging and identifying flowers ready for pressing with Stephanie from Heritage in Schools.
Flower pressing is an age old tradition with many varations. Stephanie from Heritage in Schools visited Togher N.S. to explain some of the many ways that flowers can be pressed and presented to create beautiful displays and artworks. The children in the Senior Room were soon busy foraging and identifing the local flora for their flower pressing projects.
