Classes Involved:

Featured on our log book:

Ms. McLoughlin (2nd), Ms. Coade/Ms. Lally (2nd), Ms. O’Connor/Ms. Lavery (2nd), Ms. Cunningham (2nd), Mr. Faherty (2nd)

Mr. Elwood (1st), Ms. F. Kavanagh (1st), Mr Lane (1st), Ms. McCaul (1st)

Mrs. Greally (SI), Ms. Flannery (SI), Ms. Mullins (SI)

Ms. Fitzgerald (JI), Ms. Ferguson (JI)

Ms. Warde’s class, Mr. Lawless’ class, Mr. Haran’s class

Also involved:

All 1st and 2nd classes visited 2nd class, Room 9 (Sept 19) and Prefab 1A (Nov 19) for Castle (Engineering) Open Days

All 2nd classes had an art environmental workshop with Lara Luxardi (Sept-Nov 2019)

11 classes visited Room 9 Space and Rockets Morning (10/10/19)

All classes in the junior school and some classes from the senior school watched the launching of outdoor projectiles (rockets) (10/10/19)

All 2nd classes had a Scratch Workshop with SAP volunteers (24/10/19)

All classes had a visit from Dogs Trust during science week (Nov 2019)

All 1st and 2nd classes had a visit from the Space Dome during science week (Nov 2019)

STEP 1: Science

(4 hands-on science investigations, with at least one from each of the four strands)

Living Things:

Learning About Soil 2nd class (Sept 2019)
Investigation with Seeds 2nd class (Sept 2019)
Our seeds after 10 days 2nd class (Oct 2019)
Planting daffodils and making skeletons Mr. Lawless’ class (Oct 2019)
Tasting exotic fruits Mr. Lawless’ class (Nov 2019)
Healthy Eating game 2nd class (Dec 2019)
Learning about our senses 2nd class (Feb 2020)

Energy and Forces:

Creeping Colours 2nd class (Sept 2019)
Primary and secondary colours Senior Infants (Sept 2019)
Colour Mixing Senior infants (Oct 2019)
Discovering electricity 2nd class (Dec 2019)
Investigating magnets 2nd class (Dec 2019)
Our Light Box 2nd class (Dec 2019)
Floating fruit 2nd class (Jan 2020)
Diving octopus and a tornado 2nd class (Jan 2020)
The science of sound 2nd class (Feb 2020)

Materials:

Materials Pass the Parcel 2nd class (Sept 2019)
Checking for absorbency 2nd class (Sept 2019)
How strong is a piece of paper 2nd class (Oct 2019)
Investigating different kinds of paper 2nd class (Octo 2019)
Making a fizzy bomb 2nd class (March 2020)

Environmental Awareness and Care:

Materials hunt in our school grounds 2nd class (Sept 2019)
Weeding our school garden 2nd class (Sept 2019)
Autumn Junior infants (Oct 2019)
Lots of science work in Room4 Infants (Oct 2019)
Outdoors in all weather 2nd class (Oct 2019)
All about autumn 2nd class (Oct 2019)
Planting bulbs with Mr. Lawless (Oct 2019)
Autumn fun Junior Infants (Oct 2019)
Water cylce and making clouds 2nd class (Jan 2020)
Incredible Edible seed planting 2nd class (Feb 2020)
Planting with Incredible Edibles 2nd class (Feb 2020)

(and also 2 or more examples below)

Science Speakers:
- Kay Synott and Climate Action All 2nd classes (Oct 2019)
- Visit from a medical scientist 2nd class (Nov 2019)
- Visit from an architect 2nd class (Nov 2019)
- Visit from a quality control engineer (see engineering section)
- Making cheese with a Biochemist 2nd class (Nov 2019)
- All about oral care 2nd class (Nov 2019)
- Visit from an Antarctic explorer 2nd classes (March 2020)
Science Week Event:- An Investigation a Day
- Visit from Dogs Trust: Explore Dog Senses for Science Week all classes (Nov 2019)
- Explosions 1st class (Nov 2019)
- Making a spray 2nd class (Nov 2019)
- Sheeps Wool 2nd class (Nov 2019)
- Testing paper strength 2nd class (Nov 2019)
- Bath science 2nd class (Nov 2019)
- A talking bottle 2nd class (Nov 2019)
- Seeing a sneeze 2nd class (Nov 2019)
- Making boats 2nd class (Nov 2019)
- Space Dome and more (Science Week 2019)
- Space Exploration Dome 2nd & 1st & special classes, senior infants (Science Week 2019)
We are involved in Science Week 2019!

Space Week Event:
- Making foam projectiles 2nd class (Sept 2019)
- Making air projectiles 2nd class (Sept 2019)
- Making toilet roll projectiles 2nd class (Sept 2019)
- Making tiny space booklets 2nd class (Sept 2019)
- Launching balloon projectiles 2nd class (Sept 2019)
- Designing astronaut suits 2nd class (Sept 2019)
- Aistear Space Senior Infants (Oct 2019)
- Launching air projectiles 2nd class (Oct 2019)
- Launching water projectiles 2nd class (Oct 2019)
- Out of this world Senior Infants (Oct 2019)
- All about Neil Armstrong 2nd class (Oct 2019)
- Designing, building and making rockets Infants (Oct 2019)
- Why can’t we hear sound in space? 2nd class (Oct 2019)
- Launching mouse projectiles 2nd class (Oct 2019)
- Launching straw projectiles 2nd class (Oct 2019)
- Asteroids, craters and the end of the dinosaurs 2nd class (Oct 2019)
- Designing and making rockets at home 2nd class (Oct 2019)
- Chemical rockets 2nd class (Oct 2019)
- Launching fizzy rockets 1st & 2nd class (Oct 2019)
- Learning about gravity 1st & 2nd class (Oct 2019)
- All about space 1st class (Oct 2019)
- Launching a sound projecile 2nd & 1st class (Oct 2019)
- Launching stomp and snowman projectiles 2nd & 1st class (Oct 2019)
- Rockets for space week 1st class (Oct 2019)
We are involved in Space Week 2019!

Other External Event/ Programme:
- Lara Luxardi Art Workshop based on Environmental Protection and Climate Change All 2nd classes (Sept, Oct, Nov 2019)
- Exporers Education Beach Safari All 2nd classes have signed up for this in the third term.
- Preparing for our beach safari day (March 27th) All second classes

STEP 2: Technology

(2 or more examples of the children using ICT)

Using a Digital Microscope 2nd class (Sept 2019)
LEGO club 1st and 2nd classes (Sept 2019)
Introduction to SCRATCH 1st class (Sept 2019)
Coding with Bee Bots 2nd class (Sept 2019)
EU Code Week Kodable and Angry Birds 2nd classes (Oct 2019)
EU Code Week Minecraft 1st and 2nd classes (Oct 2019)
Bee Botting in Code Week 2nd class (Oct 2019)
Coding Week Bee Bots 1st class (Oct 2019)
Scratch Workshop all 2nd classes (Oct 2019)
Learning how to Touch Type (Oct 2019)
LEGO club Christmas (Dec 2019)
iPad learning 2nd class (Jan 2020)
Making a Climate Change video All 2nd classes October 2019 – February 2020
Making our own stop motion picture video: Invisible Cities 1st class (March 2020)

We are involved in EU Code Week 2019!

STEP 3: Engineering

(2 or more examples of the children investigating engineering in class or in the local area)

Constructing with 3D shapes 2nd class (Sept 2019)
Catapults and castles 2nd class (Sept 2019)
Castle creations 2nd class (Oct 2019)
Visit from a quality control engineer 2nd class (Nov 2019)
Discovering STEM 2nd class (Dec 2019)
Building with Kapla blocks 2nd class (Feb 2020)
Making mouse houses dioramas 2nd class (Feb 2020)
Engineers Week: Designing and making parachutes 2nd class (March 2020)
Engineers Week: Marshmallow structures 2nd class (March 2020)
Engineers Week: Traffic lights in our neighbourhood 2nd class (March 2020)
Engineers Week: Engineering in the Renmore area 1st & 2nd classes (March 2020)
Engineers Week: Preparing for floods 2nd class (March 2020)
Engineers Week: Making catapults 2nd class (March 2020)
Our accounts of Engineers Week 2020 (March 2020)

STEP 4 : Maths

(2 or more examples of the children using their maths skills as part of their science work)

Making and interpreting a data chart 2nd class (Sept 2019)
Measuring the size of asteroid craters. Correlation between size of crater and height of drop. 2nd class (Oct 2019)
Maths Week: Birthday Data All 2nd classes (Oct 2019)
Maths Week: Target boards and activities 2nd class (Oct 2019)
Maths Week: Maths Trail 2nd class (Oct 2019)
Maths Week: Survey of the Day 2nd class (Oct 2019)
Maths Week: Marshmallow Maths 2nd class (Oct 2019)
Fruit & Veg Tasting Day Number: Ordering & Classifying Number Operations: Counting, Measures: Weights Shape & Space: 2D and 3D shapes in our environment