Last month in PE the class were working on throwing and aiming. Most students are aware of the game Angry Birds, where a bird is catapulted towards a structure trying to knock it down and get the pigs inside the structure to roll away. The point of this activity is to reinforce throwing cues while having students work together as a team to build a
Learn more »
The middle and senior classes have been following ‘Building Bridges of Understanding’, a reading comprehension programme aimed at giving children the strategies they need to become good readers. By learning about these strategies, children can become more involved in the text they are reading and deepen their understanding of the text. Each week, a new strategy was modelled in the classroom first by Ms.
Learn more »
In History we have been learning about the life of Marco Polo. Marco was a famous 13th century explorer who was just 17 years old when he set off on a voyage to China and Mongolia. It was 22 tears before Marco returned home to Venice. His stories about what he had seen on his travels were so amazing that many people did not believe him. Some
Learn more »
Ancient Egypt We were learning about ancient Egypt. Jaime brought into school papyrus and a miniature sarcophagus. Cillian brought in some photographs of the pyramids. Sam brought a small death mask. Calvin brought in a clay scarab, a beetle thought to be sacred by thee Ancient Egyptians. We looked up where Egypt is on the map. It is on the North East of
Learn more »
Wednesday January 30th was Grandparents’ Day in our school. Some grandparents talked to us in class about their childhood, when they were in school and how it was different to our childhood. We recorded them telling us these stories. Peggy Cromey and Jim Lawlor talk about making sandals, ration books, oranges, gas masks and hoovers. Podcast 6 Jim Lawlor talks about people going to
Learn more »
For the last few weeks in Art we have been practising pencil drawings. We began by looking at examples of drawings and examining how shade and shadow are used to create a 3D effect. We then practised drawing spheres using the techniques studied to create depth. Our next lesson was to draw an apple and a bottle from observation. As we were drawing, we used torches
Learn more »
Third and fourth class studied magnetism recently in Science. We began by revising the poles of the magnets and establishing the reaction when magnetic poles are placed together. Next, we tested a number of different materials to see if they were magnetic or non-magnetic. It was interesting to discover that not all metals are magnetic. Metals which are magnetic are called ferrous metals which
Learn more »
These are six word stories about us. We had to describe our lives, or express our personality, or express our outlook on life in six words. It was quite hard to come up with exactly six words. It’s easier to think of lots of words to describe what you are trying to say, but not so easy using only six words. We put illustrations
Learn more »
The Junior Infants were working on graphs. They each counted all the smarties in a box, they sorted them into sets and then they graphed their results. They discovered that there are lots of combinations of colour in each box as all their graphs were different.
Last week the theme for our lessons was The Ocean. In art class we took dried seaweed, collected from the rocks on the seashore, and glued it onto special ‘under the sea paper’. Then we took small shells, collected from the beach at Strandhill, and glued them on too. We each chose a fish or a shipwreck to paint and, when they had dried,
Learn more »
