Well done to the 4th class boys who made it to the final of the indoor hurling blitz in Bishopstown yesterday. Greenmount NS topped their group and won their semi final to progress to the decider where they lost out narrowly to a strong Ovens NS side. Well done!
Today we were delighted to have a visit from Aidan who came from Gas Network Ireland. He is an engineer. He will be visiting us for the next five weeks as part of Junior Achievement Ireland.
Today we learned about resources. We also played a really enjoyable board game about the different ones!
We are already looking forward to next week where we will learn about entrepreneurs!!
Junior Infants had great fun exploring the sense of taste this week.
Junior Infant’s enjoying their daily movement break.
We learned all about Australia in Geography class. Here are some examples of Aboriginal art designed by us.
As a Christmas treat, we had a visit from the New York Brass Band. We were treated to some Christmas tunes and there was lots of dancing! Our school band joined in for a few numbers. They were amazing☺
Mr. Dooley’s 6th successfully took on the Mannequin Challenge!
Today we made spaghetti and marshmallow towers! First we were split up into groups of four and five. Then we started off by making our base and then working upwards. It was hard but eventually everyone made a tower. The tallest tower was made by Corey’s team which included James, Aaron, Emma and Corey. Everyone tried their best and had lots of discussions and fun!
Written by Darren
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Fun with Catapults!!!
(Written by Rose and Saoirse)
Today in school we made catapults! First we were split into groups of three and four. Secondly we gathered up all the equipment needed {Lollypop sticks, elastic bands and other decorative things}. Some groups had the same design and some were different. After long discussions and lots of planning we finally had a finished product!!! We all sat down on our ‘runway’ for a catapult competition!!! Odhran, Daniel, Jamie and Elizabeth came in first place, Lisa and Lee came in second and three groups came third, so we had another round between them and Rose, Jack and Reece’s team won so that meant they were in third place!!! Great fun was had by all teams!!!
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On Thursday the 15th of December a U.C.C guest came to do science with us. She firstly showed us a model of a brain! Shortly afterwards she taught us about the brain. She told us about the second brain in our stomach, which was very interesting. This controls feelings like butterflies! We learned that our brain is floating in our skull but is protected by a fluid. Multiple pupils tried to break an egg in a container filled with water, which was passed around. The egg represented the brain surrounded by the fluid. It was great fun! We also learned that an average adult brain weighs 1.3 kg and that we have 86 million nerves in our body!! If we had to count these nerves one by one, it would take 3,187 years to count! Lee volunteered to get his guts measured by string! These measured about the length of the classroom! Lots of more information is available on http://apc.ucc.ie. It was a great morning!!
Written by Julia, Damian and Rose
