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March 25, 2025Uncategorizedby

10 Years of DSP Forest School – A Celebration!

Forest School creates a space where our children can learn, explore, question and reflect. A place where they use their student voice to inspire each other and us. It’s a space where they climb, dance, laugh and play. Where joy runs wildly and freely and …
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March 15, 2025Outdoor Learning, Uncategorized, by

4th class – hammocks, tea, weaving, clay and games

We had a lot of variety today. The children can arrive tired at the end of a week and after a walk up hill from school. One child said at the start, ‘I’m soooooo tired. But I know that’ll change as soon as I’m at …
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March 15, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

6th class – Session 3 – swings, knife work, cooking and visitors

March 14th 2025 We continued with playing games that we can teach the younger children. Today it was bat and moth. We noticed that some children prefer to be the bat with a blindfold and trying to catch the moth with ‘echolocation’ and others prefer …
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March 8, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

4th class – Session 2 – Cloud School

Today we had Cloud School. ‘Are we really in a cloud?’ ‘I always wanted to be in a cloud.’ ‘It’s so magical. It feels like anything could happen.’ Going back to the same place week after week allows us to know it in a way …
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March 8, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

6th class – Session 2 – hammocks, tarps and games

Hammocks Today we were learning how to put up hammocks with tree straps and carabiners. This will be really helpful when they are assistants for the 1st class and Junior Infants. There’s lots of problem solving and awareness building in this activity. They needed to: …
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March 8, 2025Uncategorizedby

Celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Inaugural Meetings of Dalkey School Project Friday 28th February 2025

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! WHAT A DAY!!! What a celebration!! So much joy and appreciation!! The Celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Inaugural Meetings last Friday created a wonderful opportunity to let the founders of our very special school know how much we appreciate the legacy …
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March 4, 2025Uncategorizedby

DSP Masterminds

The U11 and U13 DSP quiz teams have had a very busy and successful few weeks. On February 15th both teams participated in the CUDA Schools Quiz local qualifier in Cherrywood Educate Together. The students all did themselves and the school proud on the day …
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February 28, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

4th class – short and sweet session

4th class arrived late to the Forest but for a very good reason – celebrating 50 years since the founding meeting of DSP! So we went straight to our base camp and got down to the serious business of exploring and playing, building and creating, …
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February 28, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

6th class learning to be assistant leaders

The sun was shining its welcome to 6th class as they started their final DSP Forest School sessions. There was a real gladness and gratitude for being back in the forest with their friends. We started by playing a few games. As they are beginning …
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February 15, 2025Uncategorizedby

Lots and lots of love in the school community this week.

From artwork and wellbeing discussions & plans to our gardening and sustainability initiatives. There was a lot of love, support and care on show. In a week when the Dept/NCSE yet again failed to provide assurances, our children felt the support and love of the …
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