Science Exhibition and Maths Trail

We had lots of fun today!! First, this morning, we had a visit from a fantastic scientist (he was so good some of us thought he was a magician at first!!!) There was lots of bangs and even a few fireballs to mesmerize us.

Later on we went on a Maths Trail around the school. Using the Maths we learnt this year, we worked in teams and found the answers.

Treasure Hunt

We went on a Shape Treasure Hunt with Ms Dillions class and found lots of shapes. Can you name the shapes we found?

Sport's Day

We took advantage of the good weather on Tuesday and had our sport's day!

We had lots of fun and everyone did so well, we all got ice-pops! Well done to all the winners of the finals :)

Our School Tour

Last Wednesday we went to Athenry Heritage Centre for our school tour. We learnt lots about the way people lived in Medieval times. We tried Archery, played Tug of War and had a race through a Maze. Then we got to dress up in Medieval clothes and hear stories of how people lived long ago and what happened to people who got caught stealing and other crimes. It wasn't very nice but it was fun to listen to :).

Our butterflies

A couple of weeks ago our five butterflies emerged from their cocoons. After giving them a few days to let their wings dry out, we let them go.

African Week

May 25th to 29th was African Week in school. We spent the week looking at different countries in Africa and the different animals that you can find there. The main country we looked at was Eygpt and we learnt all about the pyramids, the sphinx, pharaohs, sacrophagus and MUMMIES!!

While we were talking about the pyramids, Vivien had a question. He wondered how the people managed to move the big stones. Some children had seen pictures of stones with logs so we decided to investigate. Using a box and lots of pencils we figured out it was easier to move something big and heavy if we rolled it across the pencils. Teacher was very impressed at the way we figured it out.



Janet and Brian brought in traditional clothes from Nigeria and we had great fun dressing up in them. They're really colourful compared to our clothes.

Janet also brought in some photos from her parents wedding in Nigeria and told us about her holiday over there.

In P.E. we played some African games. In this one, the blindfolded tiger had to find the gazelles.

We also listened to Irish and African music and talked about the differences and similarities between them. We also showed the different ways we would dance to them.
Afterwards we made some traditional African Masks that are used in dances.