6th class had a great day at the basketball blitz in the convent gym in Roscommon. The girls won all their matches and are through to the County semi final. The boys won 2 out of 3 matches but lost out to a very strong team from Castlerea. We are looking forward to supporting the […]
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We did S.T.E.M activities for Valentine’s Day For engineering, we had to design and make a chocolate box out of lollipop sticks. At another engineering station we had to make a heart out of Lego. It was not as easy as we thought. For Maths we used shapes to make Valentine’s pictures of hearts, cupid […]
Some experts for 5th class recently came to our classroom to teach us about scratch as part of Discover Science. We really enjoyed learning how to do some programming on the ipads!
The 5th class children had great fun working with clay. We moulded the clay to make pencil holders and ended up with some very creative designs!
We were learning about the Vikings for the last fortnight. We split up into groups of four and did projects. Everyone got one section to research about and write down the facts about it. One person did Viking origins, another did Viking raids, another researched Viking settlements and another person learned about the Vikings in […]
To earn the school’s next Discover Science award, our class made bird feeders as part of the ‘taking care of our environment’ section. We had so much fun making them and hanging them on trees around the school.
On February 14th, Valentine’s Day, Junior Infants got the chance to surprise their Mummies and Daddies with some yummy chocolates! First we melted the chocolate, then poured it into heart shaped moulds and finally added the marshmallows. We had to (patiently) wait for them to set before decorating our heart boxes and filling them […]
6th class took part in ‘I’m an Engineer get me out of here’ in the production zone. They were able to ask questions and live chat with 6 engineers who took part in the event. They voted for their favourite engineer and Diane won in the end. She got €500 to invest in a project […]
We made weather machines with Mobilo, spring pictures with playdough and lots of words! We made rainbows in art. Also we set up a news and weather station. We used microphones and even had a camera!