our school tour 2019
On Tuesday, 11th June, 4th class went on their school tour. The groups visited the Botanic Gardens and Bricks for Kidz.
The children showed great excitement and interest in the Botanic gardens as they explored the arboretum, the hot house, the herbaceous borders and the rose garden. In fact, we now have many budding botanists in our group.
The creative juices really started flowing when they visited Bricks for Kidz, as described by one child as ‘a paradise of Lego’. The teachers were blown away by the kids’ creations. They built race horses and a racing track, multi-storey apartment blocks, robotic kangaroos that actually moved and bounced and racing cars that competed in a ramp race.
A huge thank you to the Botanic Gardens and Bricks for Kidz for giving us such an excellent day out. An even bigger thank you to the 4th class children for their exemplary behaviour on the day.
The children showed great excitement and interest in the Botanic gardens as they explored the arboretum, the hot house, the herbaceous borders and the rose garden. In fact, we now have many budding botanists in our group.
The creative juices really started flowing when they visited Bricks for Kidz, as described by one child as ‘a paradise of Lego’. The teachers were blown away by the kids’ creations. They built race horses and a racing track, multi-storey apartment blocks, robotic kangaroos that actually moved and bounced and racing cars that competed in a ramp race.
A huge thank you to the Botanic Gardens and Bricks for Kidz for giving us such an excellent day out. An even bigger thank you to the 4th class children for their exemplary behaviour on the day.
room 18's butterflies
There has been great excitement in Ms. Burns’ 4th class for the past 4 weeks as the boys and girls have eagerly watched the lifecycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly unfold right before their very eyes.
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Lá glas Seomra 16 !
Winners from World Book Day 2019
Eimear and Jakub. R.16
Eimear and Jakub. R.16
January 18th 2019 Room 18- Investigating sounds during science lessons.
The children in Room 18 recently learned about sound and how it travels. We listened carefully to the sounds in the classroom, school corridor and in the school yard, categorising the sounds as man-made or sounds from nature.
We carried out a hearing test in class, where the children closed their eyes and listened to sounds of increasing frequency, from 500 Hz to 20,000 Hz. We're glad to report that the children all have excellent hearing, being able to hear sounds at such high-frequencies as 19,000 Hz. The same can't be said for poor teacher who couldn't hear beyond 5,000 Hz.
We also created model eardrums and tested how stretching elastic bands to different lengths changed the sound when plucked (see photos below).
The children's favourite activity by far, was investigating if sounds travel better through wood than air. They knocked on the tables and listened to the sound through the air, then placed their ears against the wooden table and listened to the sounds as they travelled through the wood. They were amazed at how much stronger the sound were as it travelled through a solid.
The children in Room 18 recently learned about sound and how it travels. We listened carefully to the sounds in the classroom, school corridor and in the school yard, categorising the sounds as man-made or sounds from nature.
We carried out a hearing test in class, where the children closed their eyes and listened to sounds of increasing frequency, from 500 Hz to 20,000 Hz. We're glad to report that the children all have excellent hearing, being able to hear sounds at such high-frequencies as 19,000 Hz. The same can't be said for poor teacher who couldn't hear beyond 5,000 Hz.
We also created model eardrums and tested how stretching elastic bands to different lengths changed the sound when plucked (see photos below).
The children's favourite activity by far, was investigating if sounds travel better through wood than air. They knocked on the tables and listened to the sound through the air, then placed their ears against the wooden table and listened to the sounds as they travelled through the wood. They were amazed at how much stronger the sound were as it travelled through a solid.
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Nature Trail around Scoil Mochua on Wednesday 24th October 2018.
We've been learning a lot about our local environment. We started off with a visit to Tea Lane Graveyard, where we learned about the Church and Ministry of St. Mochua, whom our school is named after.
In lessons, we discussed the small changes we can all make to our daily lives to improve our local environment. We carried out an environmental audit of the school grounds and we are delighted to report that the school is very environmentally aware; by recycling waste, upcycling old tyres as planters, encouraging children to walk and cycle to school, planting to attract pollinators such as butterflies and bees and by creating a bug hotel.
Continuing on the theme of plants and animals in our local environment, we did a nature trail around the school. We identified lots of tree species (Hazel, Silver Birch, Beech. Horse chestnut, Ash and Hawthorn), some fungi and lichens. We learned about the different leaf types (simple, lobed, pinnate, palmate). We used pooters and magnifying glasses to look at the insect life in the leaf litter. Wow, those mini-beasts sure are fascinating.
We calculated the approximate age of different trees around the school. Did you know that on average a deciduous tree grows 2.5 cm per year? If you measure the circumference of the tree in centimetres and divide by 2.5 you can calculate its approximate age.
The weather is something which has also pre-occupied us for the last few weeks. We have been taking daily readings of temperature, wind speed, cloud cover, cloud type and rainfall. Did you realise that we have only had 2mm of rain over the past three weeks? Very disappointing for the boys and girls of Room 18 who were planning on creating a bar-chart of the rainfall for October.
We hope you enjoy looking at the pictures of us on our nature trail below.
In lessons, we discussed the small changes we can all make to our daily lives to improve our local environment. We carried out an environmental audit of the school grounds and we are delighted to report that the school is very environmentally aware; by recycling waste, upcycling old tyres as planters, encouraging children to walk and cycle to school, planting to attract pollinators such as butterflies and bees and by creating a bug hotel.
Continuing on the theme of plants and animals in our local environment, we did a nature trail around the school. We identified lots of tree species (Hazel, Silver Birch, Beech. Horse chestnut, Ash and Hawthorn), some fungi and lichens. We learned about the different leaf types (simple, lobed, pinnate, palmate). We used pooters and magnifying glasses to look at the insect life in the leaf litter. Wow, those mini-beasts sure are fascinating.
We calculated the approximate age of different trees around the school. Did you know that on average a deciduous tree grows 2.5 cm per year? If you measure the circumference of the tree in centimetres and divide by 2.5 you can calculate its approximate age.
The weather is something which has also pre-occupied us for the last few weeks. We have been taking daily readings of temperature, wind speed, cloud cover, cloud type and rainfall. Did you realise that we have only had 2mm of rain over the past three weeks? Very disappointing for the boys and girls of Room 18 who were planning on creating a bar-chart of the rainfall for October.
We hope you enjoy looking at the pictures of us on our nature trail below.
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Maths Problem-Solving Workshop, Celbridge Library, 23rd October 2018
We recently attended a maths problem-solving workshop in our local library. We got to put all our maths skills to the test by working collaboratively to solve a series of challenges and puzzles, all of which gave us clues to the identity of the thief of the jewels from Diamond Dave's. We used time, fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division whilst having a whole lot of fun.
We learned the importance of maths in our everyday lives, not just in the classroom!!!!
We recently attended a maths problem-solving workshop in our local library. We got to put all our maths skills to the test by working collaboratively to solve a series of challenges and puzzles, all of which gave us clues to the identity of the thief of the jewels from Diamond Dave's. We used time, fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division whilst having a whole lot of fun.
We learned the importance of maths in our everyday lives, not just in the classroom!!!!
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Maths Week15th - 19th October 2018
We had a great week exploring lots of fun activities in maths. We took part in a maths quiz, played a series of maths games involving problem-solving, shape recognition, matching analog and digital times, tangram puzzles and geoboards to name but a few.
Here's some pics from our maths quiz.
Here's some pics from our maths quiz.