Category: Our Lady’s Hospital School

At the beginning of this academic year 2019/2020, I encouraged the pupils to consider what their hopes and dreams were for the coming months.   Each pupil traced an outline of their arm on some coloured card, which they then cut out. They then had an opportunity to write on these hand shapes what they hoped […]

There are two activities that I’ve completed with my students. In the first activity, I’ve given the students images of under the sea creatures and asked them to trace the lines in the images using their pointer finger while counting to 10 and breathing in through their noses and out through their mouthes. In the […]

This week in OLHS we’ve been exploring dot art in the infants classroom. Cotton bud painting is relaxing, very simple and requires very few resources. It promotes fine motor skill and pincer grip development, concentration and focus amongst children of all ages and abilities.  Our junior and senior infants began their cotton bud painting activities […]

The post-primary students at OLHS wanted to share their favourite card game. We often finish off a classroom session with a card game. We believe that they are great for helping our students socialise in an environment that can be quite isolating.

We built a positive wall of post-its for eveyone to enjoy 🙂