Blazing a fairy trail at Firies NS

THERE was no little excitement in Firies National School last Friday as pupils dressed up as elves, fairies, knights and wizards, all to match the magical nature of the school’s fairy trail, the culmination of hard work by the pupils themselves.

Principal Claire Doyle explained the school plans to add to the trail in times ahead having already made indoor and outdoor fairy doors, origami butterflies, clay toadstools, fairy clothes, stories and poems matching the theme, and much more besides.

“It also provided opportunities to integrate subjects across the curriculum, such as literacy, numeracy and all classes were able to participate,” Ms Doyle said. “This project sparkled with creativity and imagination and the children thoroughly enjoyed it.”

Photos by Michelle Cooper Galvin Clockwise from top: Pupils of Firies NS all ready for the opening of The Fairy Trail in Firies National School on Friday; Pupils Harry O’Flaherty and Maria Scanlon try out the ‘worry hand’; Pupils Aoibheann Pavlovic, Kate O’Connor, Olivia Prendiville and Zoe Lei; Harry Potters Pupils Luca Mulchinock, Leo Fox, Lorcan O’Mahony, Fabian Mrotek, Michael O’Brien and Adan Buckley.