Engineers’ Week took place between the 25th of February and the 3rd of March. We all took part in Science experiments and K’nex challenges to get us thinking about what life would be like to be an engineer! Third Class wanted to find out more about aeronautical engineering as many of us love to make and experiment with paper aeroplanes. Here is how we carried out our investigation.
Well done to the boys who made a mini-business before Easter and sold some seasonal cards to the staff and parents of the school. The boys had to work with a budget to buy materials and had to create the designs for the cards. They showed great creativity and business sense! We think that they are destined for Dragon’s Den or the Apprentice!
Our boys in St. Peter’s have many interests. Lorcan (Ms. Hyland’s Class) has a particular love of animals. Recently he brought his beautiful dog Star to school. He is very proud of Star and brings her to lots of different dog shows. When Star goes to a show, Lorcan has to parade around the ring with her. It takes a lot of time and love to look after Star. We are very proud of Lorcan and thank him for teaching us so much about how to care for a show dog.
Hello, we are Ms. Brennan’s 2nd Class. This is our first time to do the Discover Primary Science and Maths Project. We are really excited. We completed part two of the project where we designed and made experiments from the Materials strand. We made Lava Lamps. We made a big one for the class and then we all made ones to bring home. We hope you like our project, we will have all of it on the blog very soon!
In the meanwhile, have a look at a video we recorded in class! Just click this link – IMG_0691.
Sixth class are taking part in the Incredible Edibles project, organised by Agri Aware. You can find out more information about the project at http://agriaware.ie/incredibleedibles. Over the next two months, they will be completing a number of tasks related to growing fruit and vegetables.
Task one was to plant the five Incredible Edibles. Pearse and Tautvydas planted potato seeds in bags.
Adam, Dillon and Chris planted carrot seeds.
Blaise, Jake and Luke planted lettuce seeds.
Lee, Ryan and Jamie planted turnip seeds.
We also received strawberry plants in the post, which we’re going to plant together.
We hope to see fruit and vegetables growing before the end of the year. Next job is to remember to water them!
We decided to ignore the snow and wind outside and make our corridor noticeboard come alive with Spring blooms and colour! We worked really hard to make it pretty. Ms. Flanagan helped us with the letters. We are proud of our work!
-Ms. Brennan’s class
A belated Happy Mothers’ Day to all the wonderful women who work in and support our school.
Special thanks to our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters and godmothers who do so much for us everyday.
Ms. Brennan’s class baked some ‘I love Mam’ cookies, what do you think of them?
Congratulations to the following boys who were on the team that won our Engineering Week quiz – Dylan Hampenstall (Mr. Kinsella’s class), Jack Barsoum (Ms. Whyte’s class), Alan Duda (Ms. Byrne’s class), Adam Farrell and Sam Barsoum (Mr. Foley’s class) and Cian Cleary (Ms. Brennan’s class). Everyone really enjoyed themselves and had a great time answering questions about science, technology and engineering.
4th class took part in a Gaelic tournament in Loughlinstown against lots of other schools in January. Even though we didn’t win the tournament we had great fun doing the ‘Leon shuffle’ and celebrating Luke McKeever’s super goal. Our goalie Alan also received great compliments from other coaches watching the games.
4th Class also made Valentines cards for their mothers, grannies, sisters etc. in February (not to mention a few girlfriends but we won’t mention anyone’s names!) We used a mixture of colours, textures and designs to create our masterpieces and Andy impressed us all with his pop-up heart designed cards.
– Written by the boys in Ms. Byrne’s class.
We are hoping to learn a little more about Scratch in computer club this week. Ms. Sexton has already tried it out with her class and recently Ms. Brennan went to a course to learn some more about the programme. One of our favourite sites ‘Seomra Ranga‘ describes it as – ‘… a visual programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art and share these creations on the web. It is a fun and interesting way to introduce software development to pupils’. Scratch is free and was created in MIT in America.
Ms. Brennan showed us this video that is a tribute to Paddy’s new favourite dance craze – the harlem shake! We can’t wait to make our own videos just like this!
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s Junior Infants, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s Senior Infants, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 1st class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 2nd class, click here.
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If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 4th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 5th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by this year’s 6th class, click here.
If you’d like to read about the work by Ms Kane’s class, click here.
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We were the Scoilnet Star Site for December 2013!
