The children in 5th class had a fantastic day on Wednesday when they headed off on their first tour in a few years! They visited Croke Park and Dublinia.
Here are some photos of the children from Room 26.
Learning, Striving ,Achieving Together
The children in 5th class had a fantastic day on Wednesday when they headed off on their first tour in a few years! They visited Croke Park and Dublinia.
Here are some photos of the children from Room 26.
Vincent in 5th class recently took part in filming for the Irish wheelchair association around changing the perceptions and stereotypes of people with disabilities. The Daisy project (Disability Awareness in schools and youth clubs) will be rolled out in schools around Ireland. This will hopefully change attitudes around people with disabilities by demonstrating understanding, awareness and inclusivity.
Vincent has designed a fantastic inclusive playground:
I made a model of two areas that could be added to a playground. The first section consists of two ramps with a platform in the middle. I think children in wheelchairs will enjoy mounting the ramps.
In the second section, suitable for wheel chair users, I designed a swing set that I think the children would really enjoy swinging from side to side on.
The model was made from hard cardboard, straws, match sticks, masking tape and string. It was decorated with stickers.
I really enjoyed being involved in making this playground.
Well done Vincent!
3rd class went on their first tour since Senior Infants to Astrokids yesterday and had a fantastic time!
The children in Rooms 17 & 18 have been working with the Lego WeDo Science and Engineering materials over the last few weeks. They have built and programmed moving satellites, windmills and Milo the Science Rover.
Take a look at some photos of the children from Room 14 on their school tour to Causey farm.
The children in 5th class Room 27 have been busy making parachutes this week while working on their STEM Egg drop activity. They have been investigating and experiementing about the the effects of air resistence and gravity on their parachute.
First they dropped an egg on its own. Then they tried out their parachutes with their eggs attached using a variety of materials. The times were kept very carefully by the time keepers! They discovered that gravity pulls the object down and air resistance slows the fall. Parachutes are used to slow the fall of an object by increasing air resistance which reduces the effect of gravity!
See some photos and a few videos below.
The children in Room 12 had great fun on their mini-beast hunt last week. They saw ants, slugs, ladybugs, centipedes and spiders!
Take a look at some of the fantastic projects completed by Ms. G. Fay’s 5th class over the last few weeks. They built and programmed Cooling Fans, Moving Satellites, Milo the Science Rover and other scice projects looking at pulling, speed, robust structure, plants and pollinators and preventing flooding. They also worked with motion sensors on their models.
We were delighted to welcome our past pupil Jack Chambers, Minister of State for Sport, the Gaeltacht and Defence, to our school this morning. He was welcomed by Conrad and Alannah.
He took time for a visit to the Hub where children from Senior Infants, 5th and 6th demonstrated some STEM projects and technology use in our school.