From an urban high school to a rural Irish elementary school

This morning I woke up and drove to the school I am going to be doing my placement for my education class this semester. I am going to be at Eagles Nest National school working in a kindergarten through third grade classroom. I will go ten times this semester for four hours each day. Eagles Nest is a two classroom school with kindergarten through third grade in one room and fourth through seventh grade in the other room. What shocked me more than the fact that there are only two classrooms is that the principal and the vice principal are the two teachers. I will be working with the vice principal this semester. Eagles Nest also received a national grant two years ago to build a computer lab and is one of the only schools in the area with computers for their students. It is going to be a very interesting semester working with such young students but I am very excited to see what it is like!

After spending an hour at the school, I got a lift back to Tully Cross and the older students at Eagles Nest put on a performance for all of the Aquinas students. They began by playing a few songs on the tin whistle and then the students danced two Irish dances for us and then acted out a play for us.

I am so excited to start my placement soon!