In Rang a hAon, we have been working very hard on our Gaeilge this month. We have been learning about bia and how to make an order at a café. To put our Gaeilge to good use, we decided to have a Maidin Bricfeasta (breakfast morning) in school! It was great fun. We had waiters, menus and order sheets all as Gaeilge!
Bhaineamar an-taitneamh as !
Third Class are looking forward to tuning in to The Late Late Show to see if Ryan Tubridy’s Christmas jumper is a patch on their fabulous designs!
On Friday, we took part in World Diabetes Awareness Day. World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. It is marked every year on on a day close to 14 November, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922.
WDD is the world’s largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of over 1 billion people in more than 160 countries. The campaign draws attention to issues of paramount importance to the diabetes world and keeps diabetes firmly in the public and political spotlight.
Two of our pupils in 5th class presented a very informative slideshow to their classmates and we all wore various shades of blue to mark the occasion.
Our final post for Science Week 2021 comes from 6th Class. The boys and girls got busy making oobleck, creating electrical circuits, testing whether eggs were fresh or not, simulating the eruption from a volcano and they even managed to blow up a balloon without touching it!
Third Class welcomed a new classmate for Science Week as “Bobby” stopped by to teach us about the bones in our bodies and the different functions of the skeleton and our muscles.
Many thanks to Edel, one of our parents, for letting us borrow Bobby for the week.
In First Class, we combined Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics during Science Week. As we were exploring the topic of construction, we set about building houses. We thought about the three little pigs and which house would be the strongest. We tested out the stability of our houses using a hairdryer disguised as the Big Bad Wolf!
Velocity, osmosis, dissolving and diffusing, capillary action and density were all explored by Senior infants during Science Week. We made balloon rockets, we put gummy bears in water to see what would happen, we watched as a packet of Skittles make a rainbow, we tried to change the colour of some flowers and we even got raisins to dance up and down!
Using our Six Bricks, Juniors have been looking at balance, equilibrium and stability during Science Week. We set ourselves the challenge of making a hanging tower and with lots of teamwork and collaboration, we were pretty pleased with the results!
Why does an egg sink in regular tap water but float in saltwater? The answer lies in the density. This is the concept that 4th Class set about exploring today for one of their experiments during Science Week. They discovered that the egg sank in regular tap water because the density of the egg is greater than the density of the tap water. However, when they added salt to the water, they increased the density of the water and so the egg sank to the bottom!
