We were very lucky to have the use of Legoeducation   an app on our i pads.
We  had great fun constructing lots of different models that had various functions.

It was a beautiful Spring morning for our walking bus. We had a great morning walking to school. Bus 1: Left the church at 8:30 am and Bus 2: left The Bailey at 8:35 am. We really enjoyed getting exercise before school and we were helping the environment too. Ms. Lillis's class won the Golden boot this week as they had the most amount of people walking to school. Thank you to all the parents who helped get the walking bus moving again. Hopefully the weather stays dry for our walking bus next week.

We  are hosting our School Museum in the school Foyer for the last week and it will run until the end of next week (Friday 5th April).
We have received lots of very interesting artefacts spanning a large period of History.
Below are some examples of the items on display.  Please feel free to come in and take a look for yourself.
Thanks to all those who made our museum possible by donating their treasured artefacts for display.

As part of engineers week we took on the task of building bridges with paper. We had to test the strength of bridges by checking how many cubes they could hold.  We also make a short and long helicopter from paper and tested their flying ability both inside and outside.  

On Monday, March 25th, both 5th classes were invited to N.U.I.G to visit the Italian department after our six weeks of lessons. After walking to the campus we took part in a quiz to test our knowledge of the Italian language after our lessons.  We were then presented with certificates by the Italian lecturers and finally we  enjoyed  some pizza compliments of N.U.I.G. We really enjoyed our morning and are very grateful   to N.U.I.G and our Italian teachers. Here are some pictures of us with our  certificates and pizza:

We have recently  commenced our Incredible Edibles programme. This is a fun initiative  that allows us to be healthier individuals and guides us through what's involved in  making and growing food. To date we have completed three tasks. We have learned about food origin( where food comes from), identified Irish food products and finally  the planting element. We have planted chives, turnips, spinach, potatoes, strawberries, lettuce and carrots. All of these are steadily growing and we hope to plant them in the coming weeks.
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We recently had a very informative chat  from a Green Schools representative.  During this workshop, we did mini tasks which showed us different ways of Living Healthy and "Going Green." Healthy Food, Healthy Body, Healthy Mind and Healthy Environment were the key themes we focused on.
Healthy Foods- We tried to identify the names of fruit and vegetables. 
Healthy Body- The different functions of body parts.
Healthy  Mind- What we do to have a clear mind and deal with stress.
Healthy Environment- How we can continue to take care of the world around us.
These were awesome tasks!  

We are very proud of our lighthouses that we constructed.Well done everyone!

We were given the chance to   work with beebots.We had great fun trying to figure out how to make them move and to move in the correct direction!

We have been learning about 3-D Shapes in Maths.We constructed our own models   using   match sticks and blu tac.We had great fun.

We were very lucky to have Eileen Grant  come into our class and talk about climate change.

We  had lots of fun  experimenting with our magnets. We tested lots of objects like keys, coins,  cans and paper clips. Some items were attracted to the magnets but some did not attract.   It was lots of fun seeing the objects being pulled towards the magnets. 

Bhí ceolchoirm sa scoil inniu le haghaidh Seachtain na Gaeilge. Bhíomar ag canadh, ag damsha agus ag rá dánta as gaeilge.  Bhain gach duine an taitneamh as.

We learned how to make delicious pancakes  in school and got to help make the   pancake mix. We learned what ingredients and equipment are needed for pancakes. They were   super yummy.

 This week we have been celebrating Engineering Week 2019 in 6th class. We were  very fortunate to have 5 engineers visit our classes over the last few days to talk to us about their areas of expertise.
Our visitors included 2 Biomedical Engineers, an Environmental  engineer, a Sound engineer and an Energy engineer. We learned SO much from each of them and we   can definitely say that this week has heightened both our awareness, along with our interest in the world of engineering. It certainly is a career path that is now on many of our minds!
We would like to say a special thanks to all the brilliant engineers who gave up their valuable time in order to visit us. Huge thanks also to Mr. Cunningham  who organised all of this weeks exciting activities!

We carried out floating and sinking experiments using plasticine, a bowl of water, a banana, an orange, paper clips, unifix cubes and buttons. We tested out the items at different stages, made predictions as to whether the items would float or sink and recorded our results.