Today, the children celebrated Halloween by dressing up and playing traditional Halloween games. There was ducking for apples, bobbing for apples, pin the hat on the witch, cutting the flour and many more. There was also lots of Halloween art with a whole litter of black cats appearing in first and second class! We wish […]
We all had great fun today at our very own Science fair. Declan Holmes from Science Ireland set up ten experiments in the hall. 5th and 6th class were shown all the experiments and were given the task of demonstrating them to the whole school. Each class went to the hall and, in small groups, […]
3rd and 4th class have been exploring the history of Halloween using the 1930s Folklore Commission School’s Collection on the Dúchas website. The collection has stories about all aspects of life in the 30s, including Halloween customs and traditions. The children used the child friendly search engine Kidrex to search for Dúchas.ie. From here they […]
Maths week is in full flow and all the children have been exploring Maths in really active, interesting ways. Ms. Donoghue organised a maths trail around the school grounds for 3rd to 6th class. The children had tasks such as measuring the length of the school playground, taking a tally of cars passing within 2 […]
This week 3rd and 4th class have been exploring 3D shapes as part of their Maths lessons. In order to consolidate their new found knowledge, they were set the task of creating 3D shapes using marshmallows and cocktail sticks. What a delicious way to learn about Maths! ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]