19 Dec.2022

We are becoming skilled at using technology (and we love it). Look at the electrical circuits we can make, and the bee bots we can programme! Here’s a robot made at home that was assembled (with ...

21 Oct.2022

Coding Week

We had lots of fun working with the Beebots in class. Making the Beebots navigate around the mats and our classroom. ...

20 Oct.2022

EU Code Week in Scoil Chaitríona Junior 2022

Our school has signed up to be a part of EU Code Week. We are doing some coding every day this week. MONDAY Coding with Bee Bots, Code Monkey Junior and Kodable 1st class (Sept 2022) TUESDAY Coding F ...

20 Oct.2022

iPads, Lego and coding in prefab 1B

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17 Oct.2022

Coding Week

Last week was coding week and we were busy writing code. We learnt the importance of each instruction being put in the correct order. We had lots of fun and many of the class have bright futures in co ...

14 Oct.2022

Friday’s Star Wars Coding

After a week of coding every day we have become quite expert at it. Today we tried Hour of Code’s Star Wars. We really enjoyed the challenges! ...

14 Oct.2022

Coding in 2nd Class 2a Prefab 3B

This week we practised our coding on beebots and using the coding apps on the School Website. We learned so much and had great fun! ...

13 Oct.2022

We love to code 👩‍💻👨‍💻

First Class enjoyed an afternoon of coding with the Bee Bots. We were so lucky to have helpers from Ms. Glynn’s Second Class help us programme the Bee Bots to navigate new routes. Have a look at ...

13 Oct.2022

Moana Coding on Thursday

Look at how good we are at coding now. We just love coding. Today was a Moana Day! ...

12 Oct.2022

EU Code Week: Wednesday, Minecraft

Our coding is improving. Today we coded with the Hour of Code’s Minecraft. We really enjoyed it. ...

12 Oct.2022

Coding Week

We have been learning all about coding! To kick off coding week, we had lots of fun exploring Light In a Box on hour of code, scratch junior and BeeBot! We we worked together to try and solve some cod ...

12 Oct.2022

EU Code Week 👩‍💻👨‍💻

First Class had great fun this afternoon. They worked in pairs and groups to help Lightbot reach his destination. We love coding in First Class, it is so much fun. ...

11 Oct.2022

Tuesday’s Coding: Beaver Achiever and Angry Birds

We are loving coding. It is very satisfying being able to programme some games by ourselves. Here’s what we tried today: ...

11 Oct.2022

Coding Fun!

We had great fun today in Prefab 1A during our coding stations. We had iPads, the interactive board and the BeeBots. We loved building mazes for our BeeBots and working together to solve some tricker ...

10 Oct.2022

Aistear

Junior Infants are having lots of fun playing together during Aistear! ...

10 Oct.2022

EU Code Week: Monday – Beebots and Code Monkey

It’s EU code week. We are going to do some coding each day this week. Today we programmed our Beebots to go where we wanted them to go. At home we can use this link to try programming Beebots on ...

17 Jun.2022

Discover Primary Science and Maths STEM Award 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

EU Code Week 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

Star Wars Coding

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

Coding with Moana

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

Coding with Minecraft

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

Angry Birds and the Hour of Code

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

Kodable for EU Code Week 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

Coding during the holidays

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

EU Code Week Hour of Code 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

Coding with Play Lab

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

Coding with Minecraft & Frozen

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

Beginning Coding: Kodable & Angry Birds

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

EU Code Week

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

EU Code Week 2020: Bee Bots

We really enjoy coding with Bee Bots. ...

19 Dec.2019

Lego club Christmas

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

Scratch Coding with SAP

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

Coding Again

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

Bee botting!!

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8 Oct.2019

EU Code Week: Minecraft

More coding, this time with Minecraft. We really love coding! ...

7 Oct.2019

EU Code Week: Monday Kodable and Angry Birds

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

EU Code Week 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

Space week

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

Coding with Bee Bots

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

Week 1

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

After School LEGO Club

Here are details about how to join our school LEGO club: ...

26 Jun.2019

LEGO Construction and Coding

We love our LEGO WeDo kits and iPads! ...

14 Jun.2019

Wonderful News

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

Wonder Dots in Tech Week

We programmed our Wonder Dots with our iPads today. We are so fond of our Dots and we LOVE CODING! ...

14 May.2019

Tech Week 2019 Bee Bot Workstations

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

Tech Week 2019

Here’s our class at our Bee Bot work stations: and working with Wonder Dots and iPads: ...

9 Apr.2019

Coding with Wonder Dots

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

Lego league

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

Coding with LEGO WeDo

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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19 Dec.2022

Using our Skills in Technology

We are becoming skilled at using technology (and we love it).

Look at the electrical circuits we can make, and the bee bots we can programme!

Here’s a robot made at home that was assembled (with Dad’s help) by following directions!