We are involved in some wonderful computer coding throughout the year.
We are especially enthusiastic at being involved in the LEGO Wedo programme.
Have a look at our posts below.
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Jun.2022
We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded: Well done to all the students, teachers and parents of Scoil Chaitríona Junior for all the hard work (and fun) in our science projects and investigati ...
15
Oct.2021
Our school has signed up to be a part of EU Code Week. We hope to do some coding every day this week. Coding with Bee Bots 1st class (Sept 2021) On Monday we tried Kodable and Bee Bots. http:/ ...
15
Oct.2021
We thoroughly enjoyed coding with Star Wars today. After 5 days of coding on the tablets, we are becoming quite expert at coding. ...
14
Oct.2021
We really enjoyed learning to code with Moana today. We are becoming very good at coding now. Some of us are coding at home too! ...
13
Oct.2021
We are getting good at coding. Teacher explained how to code in Minecraft with a lot of help from Conor. He’s the expert at Minecraft coding. ...
12
Oct.2021
We did some coding today from The Hour of Code with Angry Birds. We are really getting the hang of coding. Why not try this at home? ...
11
Oct.2021
We are really enjoying our first introduction to coding. We are using our mini whiteboards and the tablets to help us code with Kodable and the hour of code. ...
23
Oct.2020
To the Principal, Good afternoon. My name is Jonathan Comerford, I work with Cork Institute of Technology on a project called DojoMór. I am contacting you to ask for your support on behalf of the High ...
22
Oct.2020
We can’t wait to get involved in EU Code Week 2020. Here are some of the programmes tried! Coding with Bee Bots 2nd class (Oct 2020) Coding with Kodable and Angry Birds 2nd class (Oct 2020) Codi ...
22
Oct.2020
We really enjoyed coding with Play Lab. We learned lots of exciting coding and now we can make our own games. We also got a certificate for the great coding work we did today! ...
21
Oct.2020
We are getting very proficient at coding. Today we tried some Minecraft and some Frozen coding. We all write the lines of code on our whiteboards and then one of our classmates tries it out on the ...
19
Oct.2020
We are celebrating EU Code Week this week by trying out some coding each day. We find some really good coding programmes to help us at our level from: Our coding for today was with the programme Kodab ...
16
Oct.2020
Here are some of the many CodeWeek activities in Scoil Chaitríona Junior, October 2020! Scoil Chaitríona Junior’s EU Code Week 2020 Coding with Bee Bots 2nd class (Oct 2020) Coding with Kodable ...
16
Oct.2020
We really enjoy coding with Bee Bots. ...
19
Dec.2019
Another term of Lego club has come to and end. This week we had free play with a hint of Christmas.We will back with a bang in January with lots of building to do. ...
24
Oct.2019
All our five 2nd classes had a visit from some really nice people from SAP (Brendan, Nathan and Brian) to teach us how to code. We used a programme called Scratch, which you can download for free and ...
11
Oct.2019
We are becoming very good at coding now….Good enough to get a certificate! We have spent a few hours over this last EU Code Week learning the basics of coding. We love Kodables, Angry Birds, Ice ...
9
Oct.2019
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8
Oct.2019
More coding, this time with Minecraft. We really love coding! ...
7
Oct.2019
We are celebrating EU Code Week this week by trying out some coding each day. We are inviting another class to join us at each session. We find some really good coding programmes to help us at our lev ...
5
Oct.2019
Hour of Code Here’s how we got on for EU Code Week: Ms. McLoughlin’s 2nd and Ms. Cunningham’s 2nd classes played Kodable and Angry Birds. Kodable Angry Birds Ms. McLoughlin’s 2 ...
4
Oct.2019
This week we’ve been learning about space. Have a look at some of our 2D shape rockets We also built some rockets using Lego, straws, blocks and magnets. ...
18
Sep.2019
We are learning to code. We use Bee Bots to practise going forwards and backwards and turning left and right. We have 6 Bee Bots, 2 computers, one whiteboard, 6 mats and a maze all so we can have Be ...
16
Sep.2019
We are back!! This year Ms. Dunne and Mrs. Greally are the Lego club teachers. Ms. Groarke is on maternity leave. This week we had lots of beginners from first class. We tried to write our names in Le ...
3
Sep.2019
Here are details about how to join our school LEGO club: ...
26
Jun.2019
We love our LEGO WeDo kits and iPads! ...
14
Jun.2019
We at Scoil Chaitríona Junior have achieved our 15th consecutive Science Foundation Ireland Discover Science and Maths Award and are one of the first schools in Ireland to receive the brand new Badge ...
14
May.2019
We programmed our Wonder Dots with our iPads today. We are so fond of our Dots and we LOVE CODING! ...
14
May.2019
It is Tech Week 2019 We used our Bee Bots at 10 different work stations. We really are experts in Bee Bots now! ...
14
May.2019
Here’s our class at our Bee Bot work stations: and working with Wonder Dots and iPads: ...
9
Apr.2019
We use the second class iPads and our Wonder dots to programme our dots to interact with us. We are just learning how to do this, but we are really enjoying it. We love coding, we love technology! ...
27
Mar.2019
Junior First Lego league is nearly upon us again . This year’s theme is Mission moon and our team name is Master Moon Makers. We are very busy building a moon base with a moving part . ...
12
Feb.2019
We really enjoy construction and coding with our LEGO WeDo kits and our iPads. We will try out a few tutorials and then we will design, make and programme our own creations. ...
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