Useful Websites during COVID-19

Useful Websites during COVID-19

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Junior and Senior Infant School Tour

Today, Junior and Senior Infants went on their school tour to Ballybunnion. It was a fun filled day which began in Checkers Cafe. The children did crazy golf, played in their playground, baked and decorated buns. To finish our day, we went to the beach and made...

Manga High

We have been using Manga High this year on the ipads at school and on our own devices at home. Manga High is a maths website full of different maths activities covering all areas of the maths curriculum. Miss Ryan can set math tasks for us to do or we can do free play...

Exploring Robotics and Coding

In February, 5th and 6th class pupils participated in a coding workshop run by Analog Devices. The class was split into teams and had to assemble a robot using Lego. The pupils then coded the robot to follow an assigned path. The winning team went on to complete in a...

Building Rockets

5th and 6th class pupils were given a selection of materials and had to work together to create the most effective foam rocket possible. Once the agreed rocket was assembled the children were able to incorporate maths by measuring distance travelled versus force. They...
Investigating Molecules in Science

Investigating Molecules in Science

  Using milk, food colouring and washing-up liquid, 4th and 5th class carried out a scientific investigation to explore the presence of molecules in a liquid. First, milk was poured into a plate. Next, drops of food colouring were added. The food colouring was...

Aistear- The Garden Centre (March)

This month our Aistear theme is the Garden Center. Gardening: We planted spinach, lettuce, turnip, carrots, chives, gherkins, lemon balm, radish and even strawberries!! It is great fun watching them grow. We also learnt all about the different flowers you can find in...

Happy St Patricks Day

Junior and Senior Infants were very busy learning about St Patrick and getting ready for the big day. Have a look at some of their photos