Croke Park

Scoil Mhuire played in Croke Park.
We Won !!
Sara, Maya, Hannah, Taya, Kiera and Isabelle played. They were amazing






Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blue Star

Image
Hi everyone! This year we are taking part in the Blue Star SESE programme. According to their website this is " an education initiative for primary school pupils across Ireland. The idea of the Programme is simple: to foster better understanding and knowledge of the European Union and how it affects the lives of Irish citizens among primary pupils through classroom projects and activities."  Here is a link to the website for anyone who would like to take a further look:  http://www.bluestarprogramme.ie/about/ After learning some new information about Europe and the European Union, we split into groups and researched and prepared projects based on various EU countries. We tried to choose countries that we had connection to in the class, such as girls in the class who were born in these countries, or girls who had family members living in certain countries. Have a look at some of our projects:
Read more

STEAM projects

Image
 4th class started the new year learning all about different types of renewable and non-renewable energy sources. They learnt new words like 'hydropower' and 'geothermal'. They also read the story of William Kamkwamba; 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind'. This story is available on YouTube if anyone would like to look at it again. The class were then given a Lego rescue mission. They had to construct a wind-turbine that would rescue their mini lego figurine using only the power of wind. They were given materials that they could use in order to complete this mission, such as milk cartons, skewers, corks and Lego. Here is some pictures of the groups at work: Here is a video of our windmill harnessing our Lego figurine. We decided blowing the fan with our mouths worked better than using any other wind source such as a hair dryer.  Here is a picture of one of the finished wind-turbines: Her...
Read more

April is amazing!

Image
We are really enjoying the month of April. The weather has gotten much better and we even got to eat our lunch as a picnic outside one day: On the 23rd of April we went to the library for an eco workshop as this week is eco week. We made 'seed bombs'. It was great fun!  We have also started to go swimming in the community centre. 
Read more