Third Class have taken the first step in their Steps Engineering Project! Their engineer, Gerry Mc Carthy has come in to brainstorm ideas with the boys. This is very exciting!

Third Class worked really hard on their fractions this morning and had great fun playing their fractions game. Well don boys!

The boys had great fun on their Maths Trail this morning. Well done boys!

Mr Mc Carthy helped Rang a Trí to be engineers for the afternoon and they created some wonderful rockets. Well done everyone!

Third class explored our horse chestnut tree in the garden and the surrounding habitat.

Third class were working really hard exploring patterns this week. Well done boys!

The boys did a great job making their own transformations across their lines of symmetry (pencils). The shapes we have in our classroom help us to visualise the idea the shape is ‘flipped’.

Second class did a great job for this year’s National Spring Clean, up and down St. Patrick’s Road. Well done boys!

A great way to visualise the water cycle in action in our classroom!

Go raibh míle maith agat to the parent who donated this amazing rollercoaster to us for Engineers Week.

The boys’ creativity really showed when our computer teacher, Mr. McCarthy, did an engineering workshop with them. Their marble mazes turned out so well, maith sibh!

We’re watching closely to see if we see any signs of imminent hatching.

The boys really enjoyed our trip to the Lexicon Library for a Junior Einstein Workshop for Engineers Week. They were so well behaved on the Dart, so earned some minutes in the playground too. Well done boys!

Our school tour to the EPIC Museum, in Dublin City, was a great success!

Engineers Week got off to a great start in our classroom with a brilliant show & tell!

Well done to these two boys for solving our subtraction dominoes.

The boys have been using Dienes Blocks to help them understand how to rename when adding and subtracting numbers.

Our Dienes Blocks really help us visualise the numbers when we’re adding two-digit numbers together.

Amazing builds at our school’s weekly LEGO Club!

This test was a very effective way to show the importance of hand washing!

We watched as the gummy bear grew in water over a few days. This process is known as osmosis.

Chemical Reactions, Cocoa Powder Test and Coke & Mentos

Magic Pepper, Microscopic Views & Dancing Raisins

The boys watched the reaction when they dipped a cotton bud with washing up liquid into milk & food dye.

The boys have been learning about light and how different items can be transparent, translucent or opaque. They tested some items in the classroom using torches.

The boys made rainbow spinners to show how the colours of the rainbow can merge together to make white light. Great job boys!

We placed cress seeds in two different cups, marked ‘A’ & ‘B’. Both cups had cotton wool and water. The only difference was light exposure; we put Cup A on the windowsill and Cup B in the cupboard. The results were very interesting!

A great experiment to show how plants drink water.