On Wednesday, the 25th of September, we visited Clogherhead Beach. We witnessed the launch of the new RNLI lifeboat. The pupils took part in a variety of educational and fun activities. It was a great day for everyone involved.
Third Class
Fourth Class represented their survey using ‘meta-chart’ which allowed them to insert the information and a bar-chart/pie-chart would be produced for them. Third class represented their data using cubes and their individual whiteboards.
We studied Vincent Van Gogh, his life and his artwork over the past two weeks. Today we created our own version of one of his most famous paintings ‘Starry Night’.
Shape Hunt
Today 3rd and 4th Class took part in a shape hunt. 3rd class focused on finding shapes they learned about this week, including a pentagon, hexagon and octagon. 4th class focused on the different types of triangles. After we took our pictures we described them using our ‘Explain Everything’ app and we all listened to each teams work.
Last Friday, on the 28th of September, the school traveled to Port Beach. All of the classes engaged with Science lessons as we examined the life found on our coast. Each class also took part in a number of games on the beach which they loved! 3rd – 6th Class were given an ‘Art Attack’ task and the results were amazing. Here are some pictures of the activities 3rd and 4th class enjoyed.Here are some pictures of 3rd – 6th Class throughout the day.
As the weather improves, more and more children have told us that they would like to cycle to school. As safety is so important, we wanted to teach the children how to cycle safely. So Sorcha, our Green School Travel officer spent the day with us teaching us all about cycling and bike safety. She made sure all the children’s helmets were fitted properly and she showed them how to use their brakes correctly. Sorcha also set up drills to help the children with their balance, cycle with one hand off, keep a good distance from one another, cycle two abreast and use the correct hand signalling. It was a really useful and informative workshop. Thanks Sorcha!