Entries Tagged as 'Scratch'

Thursday, December 8th, 2016

Milltown NS in the papers!

We were delighted that The Tuam Herald did a piece on our recent success at the Galway Science and Technology Festival. Thanks once again to Ms. Dalton and her 5th and 6th class. We are all very proud! If you want to have a read, the article can be found in The Tuam Herald this […]

Friday, December 2nd, 2016

A brrrrilliant experiement

Because of the freezing temperatures we have been having, Mr. Casby’s class decided to test out which liquids freeze-oil, washing up liquid, milk, water or vinegar. Firstly, the children examined the liquids and then predicted which liquids would and wouldn’t freeze. The liquids were poured into an ice-cube tray and put in the freezer. After a […]

Tuesday, November 29th, 2016

Science and Technology Award winners 2016

Sunday was another historic day for Milltown NS. Ms. Dalton’s fifth and sixth class represented the school in the Science and Technology Festival in NUIGalway with their Scratch projects and won the award for technology! The children put so much work into the projects-making the sprites from playdoh, taking pictures and uploading them to the computers, […]

Thursday, October 6th, 2016

Ms. Dalton in Africa

We are so pleased and proud of our 5th and 6th class teacher, Nuala Dalton, who visited Uganda in September as part of Africa Code Week 2016. This involved volunteers from SAP and Galway Education Centre travelling to Uganda to train people to pass on coding skills to students there. It was a great honour to […]

Tuesday, January 26th, 2016

Getting up to ‘Scratch’

3rd and 4th class were busy exploring Scratch today.  Each group had a different script to create and did a great job adding to it and making it their own. Scratch 2 is free to download and a fun way to start programming. [Show picture list]