Well done to the school’s representative team who will participate in the County Finals Intel Mini Scientist Competition that will take place in December. Students are Jaime Collins, James Hartnett, Luke Rainsford and Cillian Holmes. During assembly, children spoke about the board game they are designing to combat obesity and to promote activity among young people. Our school received a plaque for participating in the competition and this will be put up in the school.

Today, 5th Class started their journey of the innovative programmee ‘Junior Entrepreneur’. This is the first class in the school to participate in this programme. Today, children brainstormed the word ‘entrepreneur’ and then looked up its meaning in the dictionary. Children also looked up words such as ‘initiative’, ‘enterprise’, ‘tycoon’ and ‘undertaking’. Children drew a picture of what their interpretation of an ‘entrepreneur’ is. They also named local and national entrepreneurs. We had a fantastic start to the programme. Could we have the next successful entrepreneur in the class?

To celebrate Science Week, second class attended a STEM show titled ‘The Scientific Dilemma’s of Dippy the Dinosaur’ in the Lime Tree Theatre in Mary Immaculate College. Children learned about Paleontologists and the intrepid explorers of unchartered territories. They discovered fossils of prehistoric proportions and then used them to unravel the puzzles surrounding the lives of dinosaurs. They explored some mind-boggling dilemmas of the magnificent sauropod: DIPLODOCUS. It was a fantastic event and the children really enjoyed the day!