The order for the Science Apprentice Book Collection has been placed. For those who have ordered the collection, one book, plus a copy of that day’s Irish Independent, will arrive at the school on the 14th, 18th, 21st, 25th and 28th of November.
Making a Water Fountain
Objectives: Explore the effects of heating liquids
Skills: Experimenting, Observing
In this experiment, the children learned that air expands as it is heated. When the half-filled bottle of cold water (with added red dye) was put into hot water, the air inside the bottle expanded and pushed the coloured water into the straw and out the top like a fountain!
It’s that time of year again! This year’s quiz will take place on the 15th of November in Castlerea library at 3:30pm.
This term, the senior room will participate in the Brennans Healthy Heroes Lunch Club. It is a health initiative that will help us achieve our Active Flag. It involves the hosting of a lunchtime club in which children are encouraged to come together, learn about healthy food, share ideas for healthy lunches and participate in physical activity in a social setting. Please remember this initiative and encourage your child to participate in the preparation of his/her lunch.
The funds this year will be used to help redevelop Temple Street Hospital’s Neurology Unit! Together we can help make a difference to the lives of sick children!
For the next few months we will be aiming to achieve the Active School Flag for the school year 2016/17.
What is the Active Flag?
• The Active Flag was launched by the Department of Education and Skills in May 2009 and organised through Mayo Education Centre.
• The purpose of the initiative is to recognise schools that strive to achieve a physically active and physically educated school community.
We will be implementing different sport activities within/outside the school and also encouraging all children to continue with their healthy lunches.
We will be starting ‘Walk a Mile with a smile’ each Wednesday morning at 9.20. The children must bring a tracksuit and runners to school every Wednesday.
You will be able to check what activities the school are taking part in on the website under the Active School Flag section.
Sound Insulation
Objectives: Appreciate the importance of hearing
Explore how sound travels through materials
Identify materials that muffle sounds
Group materials according to their properties (ability to muffle sounds)
Skills: Fair testing, Estimating, Measuring, Investigating, Analysing
In this experiment, the children demonstrated the varying degrees of noise insulation by filling the polystyrene cup with the same quantity of different materials (fair test using cotton, crepe paper, bubble wrap, playdough, tin foil, tissue). While using the same sound source, the child with the beaker changed the contents of the cup. The sound source moved away from the child with the cup until he indicated he could no longer hear it. They then measured the distance at which the sound no longer transmitted to discover the playdough absorbed the most sound and the cottonwool and crepe paper absorbed the least. 
For art, the Junior Room had great fun designing a new dress and hat for Winnie the Witch. Winnie is usually very quiet in Threen N.S but she may sometimes make a surprise visit at Halloween. She asked that we use any fabric and fibre we may have to design a new dress that she could go to the disco on Friday night in Castlerea. So now Winnie will have a great range of clothes to choose from…BUT which one will she choose to wear?
