Recent blog posts

  • Co-operation! 2020-02-14 - The school’s core value for February is co-operation and the children of D7ET have been busy working collaboratively and learning about the value of teamwork. This week, classes grouped together […]
  • Co-operative Games 2020-02-14 - Our school’s core value for February is co-operation. Many classes used the whole school focus on co-operation as an opportunity to participate in a wide variety of co-operative games (and […]
  • Yard Games in D7ET 2020-02-12 - Every Wednesday, our Active Committee have been co-coordinating and leading games with the younger classes. This encourages everyone to have an active break and introduces new games to try out. […]
  • Junior Infants Nature Hunt in Grangegorman 2020-02-10 - The sun shone on the three Junior Infant classes as they went on a nature hunt last Wednesday to Grangegorman looking for signs of the changing seasons.  The children used […]
  • Daily Mile in D7ET 2020-02-06 - The whole school from Junior Infants to 6th Class have been taking part in running our ‘Daily Mile’ each school day. It has improved our fitness, energy levels and sometimes […]
  • Exploring Polar Regions: Katrina’s Senior Infants 2020-02-06 -
  • Intercultural Day 2020 2020-01-31 - We celebrated our Intercultural Day on Wednesday 29 January. Each year on Intercultural Day, we use a different theme to explore and celebrate all of the cultures present in our […]
  • January in Junior Infants 2020-01-31 - Have a look at what we got up to in room 2 this month!
  • Intercultural Day 2020-01-29 - We had a great Intercultural Day. We learned about all the different cultures in our class and located the countries on a map. We had three wonderful visitors who told […]
  • Katrina’s Senior Infant Class Winter Walk 2020-01-29 - Senior Infants went on our Winter Walk to Grangegorman. We were on the look out for birds, Winter clothes, holly, snowdrops and daffodils, frost and ice and the signs of […]
  • Our new Sensory Path! 2020-01-28 - We are so excited in D7ET to introduce our new Sensory Path! Children, parents and staff have all been having a go this January and we would like to share […]
  • Comm-ocean in 6th class! 2020-01-27 - Over the past number of weeks, Ruth’s 6th class has been diving in to all things water-y. From choreographing highly entertaining synchronised swimming dance routines to composing poems about the […]
  • 6th class gymnastics 2020-01-16 - In November and December, all classes were busy engaging in the gymnastics strand. Have a look at some of the great work they did!
  • The strands of the PE curriculum 2020-01-16 - There are 6 strands in the PE curriculum; Games, Gymnastics, Dance, Aquatics, Outdoor and Adventure and Athletics. This year as part of the Aquatics Strand, 4th classes are attending weekly […]
  • All Weather Pitch in Smithfield 2020-01-16 - There is a new all-weather pitch in Smithfield near the fruit markets and the pupils of D7ET have been getting great enjoyment from their visits there. We are very lucky […]