Welcome back to a new school year, everyone!
The children of Second Class had great fun using the laptops last Friday. They practised their addition skills while saving lots of Tiny Monsters in the Tiny Monsters Game.
New PE equipment was bought for the whole school to use. The children in 3rd Class tried out the new Hula Hoops and the new Scoop Ball sets on Wednesday, the last day of November. Much fun was had! There had to be some soccer played too, of course.
Work has resumed on our next Green Schools flag. The theme is Biodiversity. A Biodiversity Awareness survey was carried out this week with the pupils in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes. The Green Schools Committee and the Green Schools Coordinator Mrs O’Connor will be working to increase awareness of Biodiversity in all pupils of the school.
In the meantime, we will be keeping up our previous work on awareness of the earlier themes: Litter and Waste, Energy, Water and Travel.
So on the first day of December, the children in 3rd Class opened their Picker Pals kit, got more Litter pickers from our stash of litter pickers, went out and picked litter around the school grounds.
For the recent Science week, the pupils in 3rd class investigated sound by filling glass bottles with various amounts of water. They also created a ‘volcano’ effect using cola and Mentos sweets. They investigated the way that water is able to rise up by capillary action in narrow spaces. They made a ‘Lava lamp’ using cooking oil, water, food colouring and a fizzy tablet. They also watched Science week videos online.
These children in 3rd class very kindly donated shoeboxes filled with lovely things for the recent Christmas Shoebox appeal.
This term we are focusing on Fabric and Fibre, among other aspects of Art. Third class have made pompoms and are also doing braiding, keeping their teacher busy cutting the yarn to their specific colour requests.
We picked leaves, we did leaf rubbing, added lots of little bugs and wrote our own Autumn poems.
Here we have two very happy girls in 3rd class showing us the medals they got at the U8 Camogie Blitz and Fun Day in Murroe in October! Well done, girls!
These 6 boys in 3rd class played a U9 hurling tournament in Craughwell at the start of October. Then they played another tournament in Holycross/Ballycahill and as you can see they are delighted to show us their medals from that tournament! Well done, boys!
Third class had so much fun exploring Tangram puzzles during Maths Week that we had to do a spooky Witch tangram for Halloween too!
