This year Active Schools Week took place from the 29th of May to June 2nd. It included Sports Day, a Hulahoopathon, a Bling your Bike Parade and more!
At the start of the week everybody had a chance to score a goal against some of the teachers in the Penalty Kicks!
We also had a Hulahoopathon and had some great winners! Here are some pictures:
Our Junior Winners!
Our Senior Winners!
Pictures of our Bling your Bike parade:
Everyone had great fun in the Uni-Hoc Tournament, where teams went head to head to win!
The Winning Team!
And Finally to finish up Active Schools Week we had our annual Dance Off, the four winners will be preforming at the fete on Sunday the 18th, don’t miss seeing the winning routines!
The Winners!
Everybody had a great time in Active Schools Week! Can’t wait untill next year, which will be filled with even more active fun activities!
5th and 6th class groups were busy experimenting last week to find mini-beasts. All 4 groups had to make and set 2 “pitfall” traps outside in the school yard. In each pitfall was a piece of fruit and in the other was a piece of meat. The aim was to find out which pitfall attracted more creatures, herbivores and carnivores.
We left the pitfalls for two 2 days and returned to find the results. We learned that the pitfalls containing the meat attracted a lot more mini-beasts than the ones containing fruit. Therefore, our conclusion was that the majority of the mini-beasts in the school yard were “carnivores!”
We had lots of fun this week for Seachtain na Gaeilge. 5th and 6th class learned “The Siege of Ennis”. We practiced for 2 weeks. We had a big céilí in the school hall on Thursday and all the classes showed off their dances. Well done to all the irish dancers who put on a fantastic performance also.
Well done to the boys and girls who played an instrument in the orchestra performance for Seachtain na Gaeilge on Tuesday. It was super to hear everyone playing Irish music together.
The pupils in 5th and 6th class were busy carrying out experiments today. We were testing foods for starch. We used a diluted iodine solution to test various foods and materials. foods turned blue/black when starch was present and , there was no change in colour when starch was absent.
