Congratulations!!!!

We have achieved our Discover Science and Maths Award!!! Our Plaque of STEM Excellence will be sent to our school in June!!! Well to the staff, pupils and parents for all their hard work!!!

Day 3.

We met at 9.10am at the top of the road to all walk to school together for our Walk On Wednesdays. Again we wore our High Vis jackets.

Once we got to school we continued our Run a Mile with a Smile as we have been doing since October. We have our Annual 5k road race on June 11th. This running each week is really helping us to get ready for the day.

  

  

We were super lucky to have Ciara from our local gym Pulse Fitness come to do mini circuits with us. We completed the plank, shuttle runs, jumping jacks, balance positions and squat holds. Ciara has asked us all to keep practicing the above. She also spoke to us about healthy eating and the amount of sugar in foods that we eat.

Playground games-Duck Duck Goose for the Junior Room and Rounders for the Senior Class.

At 2pm we all followed Mary out to the garden with Wayne to help out with planting vegetables and flowers.

    

 

 

Day 2.

Each day the classes wore their sports clothes. Having no uniforms for the week was great fun!!. We started Tuesday morning with DANCE- The Junior room did the Cha Cha Slide and the Senior Room completed The Haka.

  

We were delighted to welcome Sinead and Antoinette from the Ladies Tug of War team. A new sport for everyone to try out, staff and students. They had recently won Gold for Ireland at the indoor UK and Irish Championship in Castlebar. They were able to show this on Utube.

   

The playground games was hockey and active lines.

Active School Week- Day 1

Our Active school Week took place last week (April 24th-28th 2017). We had a great week filled with fun activities and even some sports we had not tried out before.

We started off Monday morning with Drop and Do 10. This included jumping jacks, lunges, burpees, squat jumps, crunches etc.

Following this we were had a visit from Gary Patterson, our county player and a club player for Michael Glaveys. He told the class some very interesting points about his diet and lifestyle when playing at this level. He took the children out to show them some important skills.

At 1pm we all took out our High Vis jackets and met the parents at the front gate. We all took off to walk to the local forest. 

The playground games included- dodgeball/bulldog. Active Homework was continued this week with our Super Trooper journals.

 

  

   

    

 

Discovery Science – Step 5 – Show and Tell

In Abi’s experiment, titled ‘Battery Power’, the bottom of 2 lead pencils were attached to a battery. The pencil tips were dipped in water. Bubbles formed at both pencil tips. More bubbles formed at the tip of the pencil attached to the negative part of the battery. Most of the bubbles were hydrogen and a few oxygen. The pencil tip where hydrogen was forming was attached to the negative part of the battery and the pencil tip where oxygen was forming was attached to the positive part of the battery.

In this experiment titled, ‘Selecting the best paper for separating colours in chromatography’, Maebh cut strips of different paper (equal in length) and dipped them in water. Members of the class formed a hypothesis to guess which paper would allow the colour to transfer best (tussue, card, paper or coffee filter paper). The class came to the conclusion that the coffee filter paper worked best.

 

In Cian’s experiment, the water and mirror acted like a prism, splitting the light into the colours of the spectrum (when light passes from one
medium to another, for example from air to water, its speed and direction change; this is called refraction.) The different colours of light spread out, separated and the spectrum could be seen clearly!

Easter Hunt/Spring Clean

Today, Friday 7th April was a busy day at school. We were busy looking for all the eggs the Easter Bunny had left behind.

After this we got out the gloves and bags and started our Spring Clean in groups. The school is looking super clean now.

   

  

 

Sports Awards for Term 2

Well done to Eddie, Jessica,Joseph and Abi on their sports certificate and prize for competing in all sports activities in Term 2. Keep up the great work.

Also well done to Robert who recently took part in a rugby blitz with Creggs Rugby Club. He got a lovely medal on the day.

   

Suggestions for Active Schools Week 2017

The Active Committee met to count the votes for the sports that the children had put into the suggestion box.

Most of the sports listed have been included on the Active Week Timetable.

The members also completed a questionnaire ‘What Club are you in?’ with the whole school to see if there were clubs we could include for that week.

Parents are asked to join us on Monday 24th April for our local forest walk at 1pm and Wednesday 26th for our W.O.W day at 9.10am.

All children are encouraged to walk or cycle to school for this week.

Sports clothes and runners must be worn each day.

The timetable will be posted soon.