STEM

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) are critically important disciplines for modern society. They empower our citizens in so many important ways. Science and Mathematics provide answers to the fundamental questions of nature and enable us to understand the world around us.

STEM News

Learn it Lego 6th Class

On Tuesday 16th January Fergal and Francesca visited 6th class in Killoughteen National School. We were split into ten teams of three. They gave us a Lego set per group and tablets with instructions that we had to follow in order to complete our task. When we had...

STEAM Engineering – 6th Class

Steam Engineering We started the STEAM engineering programme in 6th class at the start of October. Oisín was teaching us about all the various types of engineering and started by describing his own job as an Aeronautical engineer and later showed us the various other...

Table Topper Competition Halloween

Each Halloween & Easter we hold a Table Toppers competition. Three pupils are chosen from each class in 1st – 6th class, after many rounds of tables questions from their teachers prior to the competition. The participants are put through to represent their class...

Lessons in 4th Class

Fourth class have been having great fun with Miss Mann, our student teacher, over the past week. We have enjoyed many active lessons, including making and testing parachutes and a really fun PE lesson in our beautiful new hall. We are so lucky to have such amazing,...

Analog Robotics 2023

'Written by Ella McAuliffe, 6th class 2023' Analog devices came to our school to build robots out of Lego with us. We were divided into groups with three or four people in each group. I was with Kieran Keogh  and Charlie Quinn. We were set a task to build and...

Multi Cultural Day in Killoughteen NS

On Friday, 24th of February, Killoughteen NS celebrated MultiCultural Day. This day was to celebrate and learn about all the different cultures within our school community.  We hoped to deepen our knowledge and therefore further foster respect and open-mindedness for...

Science Week 2022

Science week in Killoughteen N.S saw all classes conducting some very interesting experiments. Both the Junior Infant classes joined together for science stations and completed 4 great activities. They made raisins ‘dance’ by adding them to sparkling water with baking...

Table Toppers – October 2022

On Thursday the 22nd, we had our Table Toppers competition at school. The children are always very excited and look forward to the event. We had excellent tables skills on display again this year by all pupils in all classes. We had 3 pupils from each class selected...

Analog Robotics Competition – June 18th 2022

Analog Robotics competition 2022: When we arrived at Analog Devices they handed us our lanyards with our names and school on them; we were then shown to our work stations by the very helpful staff. We began building the main body of our robot and programmed the...