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Mar.2023
Look at the great car I made from pieces of fruit. It looks good enough to eat! (but maybe not to drive)! ...
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Mar.2023
We tried planting two pots of seeds in exactly the same way, with one exception. We watered one seed pot but not the other. Can you guess which pot is which? ...
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Mar.2023
We have been looking at instruments that measure weather:- barometer, anemometer, rain gauge. Today we made our own rain gauge. We will measure the amount of rain in teaspoons each day. We had a l ...
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Mar.2023
Ocean Champions23 PDF of our powerpoint Ocean Champions23 Powerpoint presentation ...
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Mar.2023
Bhí an-craic againn inniu, ag gléasadh suas in éadaí glasa. Go raibh míle maith agat do mhúinteoir Ms. Organ as ucht múineadh dúinn faoi uirlis ceol gaelach. Many thanks to Ms. Organ for bringing a bi ...
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Mar.2023
Bhí an-oíche againn anocht. Comhghairdeas mhór. We had a wonderful evening tonight at the awards ceremony for the Féile Scoildrámaíochta, in Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh in Knocknacara. Huge CONGRATULATION ...
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Mar.2023
We are getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day on Friday next. We used our construction skills to make some gorgeous toilet roll Saint Patricks. ...
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Mar.2023
Neil is a mechanical engineer, and he is a dad of one of our classmates. Today he came to chat to us about his job. He was absolutely super, so interesting. We heard about how engineers in the army he ...
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Mar.2023
It is so wonderful to have an uncle and engineer. I interviewed my uncle and found out about his job as an engineer, and also about how his video phone works. I was happy to tell all my classmates abo ...
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Mar.2023
For Engineers Week we made fantastic rafts. We tried them out to see if they would float or not. We even measured weights to see how much weight we could add to our rafts before they sank. It was g ...
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Mar.2023
During Engineers Week 2023 we have been looking at different types of bridges, their functions and their designs. We have learned that triangles and arches in bridges make bridges much stronger. We tr ...
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Mar.2023
Bhí an-lá againn inniu in Inverin ag an bhFéile Scoildrámaíochta. Rinne na páistí go léir gaisce agus bhí na múinteoirí an-bhródúil ar fad! We had a wonderful day today at the Schools Drama Festival i ...
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Mar.2023
We took advantage of the glorious weather today though and went on an Engineered Hunt today. Here are some things we noticed: Letterboxes at different heights, velux attic windows, TV antennae and sa ...
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Mar.2023
It is engineers week. We talked about the job that engineers do, and then we investigated traffic lights. We looked at the traffic lights just outside our school (for cars and for pedestrians), their ...
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Mar.2023
Best of luck to our two drámaí: Fadbh na Mara (Ms. McLoughlin’s first class, Ms. Kavanagh’s second class and Ms. Coade’s hearing imparired class) and Hansel agus Gretel (Ms. Glynn ...
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Mar.2023
We are so thrilled to be on today’s City Tribune with a photo and account of our wonderful performance in Marino on Tuesday! ...
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Mar.2023
Tá Portán agus Octo ag dul abhaile linn anois. Is breá linn bheith ag spraoi leo agus ag labhairt futhu ar scoil an lá dár gcionn. Portán and Octo are going home with us each night. We love playing wi ...
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Mar.2023
We planted our Incredible Edible strawberries and potatoes today. We really look forward to eating both in June! ...
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Mar.2023
We went to see the wonderful performance of Hansel & Gretel by Ms. Glynn’s 2nd class and Ms. Gaffney’s 1st class. It was absolutely superb. We wish them the best of luck in the Féile S ...
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Mar.2023
Seo Seachtain na Gaeilge. D’fhoghlaim muid damhsadh “Shoe the Donkey”. Bhí an-craic againn. It is Seachtain na Gaeilge. Today we learned an Irish dance “Shoe the Donkey” ...
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Mar.2023
We wrote about our trip to Marino . Each of us enjoyed the day in our own special way. Have a look: ...
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Mar.2023
Our Incredible Edibles box arrived. We started planting today. We planted chives, lettuce, turnips, carrots and spinach. All of the seeds look different from each other. They were different shapes a ...
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Mar.2023
We were painting today. We painted pictures of our drama, of our bus journey and of wonderful day in Marino yesterday. Beautiful pictures to show what a happy time we had in Dublin. ...
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Feb.2023
We had the BEST DAY EVER today. Many many thanks to Dr. Sandra Austin and Dr. Claire Dunne who invited us to Marino Institute today, and to Galway Atlantaquaria for sponsoring our bus to get to Marino ...
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Feb.2023
Some of the daffodils outside our classroom have fallen down. Teacher collected three of these and put them into water with food colouring in it. We can’t wait to see what the daffodils will loo ...
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Feb.2023
We are so very excited. We can’t wait to go to Marino tomorrow and to spread our message of responsibility for our environment! Our costumes and sets are ready, our lines and songs are word per ...
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Feb.2023
We wrote to Minister Catherine Martin telling her of our upcoming drama in Dublin. Here is the lovely reply that she sent back to us: ...
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Feb.2023
We were delighted to be able to perform to our parents today. The show was a huge success. Many thanks to all our parents who supported us today, and who helped us get our costumes ready. ...
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Feb.2023
We were absolutely delighted to have had a visit from Dr. Katie O’Dwyer and her team of marine scientists to tell us all about marine birds. In small groups we were able to see each bird and fin ...
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Feb.2023
We are learning about Picasso. Here’s a great Picasso style self-portrait. ...
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Feb.2023
Thank you Fr. Declan for bringing ashes to us today to remind us of Lent which starts today. We are all going to try to do good things for the next 40 days (until Easter). ...
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Feb.2023
We know how to write a letter and we decided to write a letter to President Michael D. Higgins. We know that President Higgins likes history (our play includes the ancient heroes of Ireland). We know ...
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Feb.2023
Many thanks to Ms. Morris’ class for inviting us to come and see the amazing towers they made. All the students were well able to explain how the towers were made, what materials were used, and ...
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Feb.2023
We have a huge welcome to our Erasmus visitor Ann-Cathrine from Austria and Liechenstein. It is so lovely that you have come to visit us and to tell us all about your country and all about your school ...
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Feb.2023
We had a marvellous workshop from Benny Joyce. We heard lots and lots of interesting facts about marine life, and we got to see, touch, feel and explore so many shells, jaws, backbones and other item ...
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Feb.2023
Bhí muid gléasta suas inniu. Tá muid an-sásta ar fad leis an ndráma. We have just a few more costumes that are on their way. We can’t wait to perform for you next week. ...
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Feb.2023
We have two students in our class on the Green School Committee. Today they helped us learn about recycling. They helped us fill in a survey about recycling. We are very keen to do our part to keep ou ...
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Feb.2023
Look at the mini house I designed by myself. I was so happy to show everyone at assembly. ...
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Feb.2023
Today it is all about There are so many people in our lives that we love and that love us too. Today is a special day to send them our best wishes and our thanks. ...
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Feb.2023
Beautiful cards sent with all our love, all our best wishes and all our prayers. Get Well Soon James. ...
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Feb.2023
We are having so much fun with our drama. We love the message that we can do our part to keep our oceans clean. Here’s a quick preview of some of our costumes, songs and photos of our practice. ...
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Feb.2023
Learning how to add is fun when we use boards and blocks. We are experts on tens and units now. ...
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Feb.2023
Even though Japanese people celebrate New Year on January 1st (like us), on February 3rd each year they celebrate “Setsubun no Hi” which is the day the seasons change, a day for throwing b ...
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Feb.2023
It is February 1st. It is also the first day of spring. The weather was lovely tooday. We hope it will continue to be so nice all during spring. Teacher told us about St. Brigid, about how she got th ...
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Jan.2023
We are doing a drama that feature turtles, we are interested in turtles in our Ocean project and we are reading a turle story in our readers. Today we made our own turtles. Thank you Krokotak for the ...
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Jan.2023
Lara came back to visit us again this week. (This is what we did with her last week) We finished our backgrounds and our characters. Today Lara let us take photos, move our characters and take photos ...
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Jan.2023
We carried out an investigation with 3 different balls and a metre stick. We had to figure out how to test which ball had the best bounce. Can you guess how we did this? The polystyrene ball and the ...
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Jan.2023
We are having a wonderful time practicing online Chair Yoga each week. We find this very relaxing and restful. Many thanks to Galway Education Centre for supplying this course to us. ...
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Jan.2023
We were delighted today to be invited to Ms. Griffin’s class in the senior school. This class also worked with artist Thérese, just like us. Their focus was slightly different. They looked at ...
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Jan.2023
We had a wonderful day with Lara today. We have decided on what stories we want to tell through art. Today we worked in groups to paint our backgrounds, and to design and make our characters. Next w ...
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Jan.2023
We had a wonderful visit from the Gardaí today. They were telling us all about being Gardaí, about the jobs they do and also about how to keep ourselves safe on the roads, on our bikes and everywhere. ...
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Jan.2023
Carole from Connemara National Park introduced us to a selection of native Irish animals. It was SUCH an interesting talk, and we absolutely loved seeing and touching the animals. Each of the animals ...
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Jan.2023
Look at the wonderful Winter Jar I made with things I found in the local environment. ...
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Jan.2023
We have made ourselves some winter buddies. Penguins from the South Pole for some winter fun! ...
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Jan.2023
Here’s some interesting information from the Schoolwear Cente regarding our Saving Scheme that might be of interest to you: ...
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Jan.2023
What a wonderful day. We opened our classroom to other 1st and 2nd classes and special classes. They came to see our ocean gallery, the artwork that we have done with Thérese in December and January. ...
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Jan.2023
Lucky Duck was delighted to receive a really wonderful Christmas present. It is a hand knitted blanket to keep him warm over the Christmas holidays. Here’s what he had to say: Go raibh míle mai ...
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Jan.2023
Thérese came to work with us for a final time. We took out the artwork we have done with Thérese and had a good look at these pieces. We had an important talk about our oceans, about how we need to ta ...
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Jan.2023
Look at the wonderful boat made from recycled materials that was made over the Christmas holidays. Well done Mia. That’s a super engineering project! ...
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Jan.2023
We were absolutely thrilled with the package we received from France. We opened it today, while chatting on Zoom with Genevieve’s class, and our French friends opened theirs too. It was SO excit ...
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Dec.2022
As a special Christmas treat we had hot chocolate, cookies and a movie. Many thanks to Ms. O’Connor for organising it all, and for making the “most delicious hot chocolate EVER”, and ...
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Dec.2022
We brought our teddies with us to school today. We played Spelling Board Games and Maths Board Games (addition and subtraction) this morning. Our teddies helped us. It was a lot of fun. ...
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Dec.2022
We are learning all about percussion instruments. Can you identify which is the triangle, the xylophone, the tambourine, the drum, the maracas, the castanets, the rainmaker, the thunder tube, the slei ...
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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 ...
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Dec.2022
We had a lovely visit from Santa and Elf Lorraine today. It was so good of him to visit in this very busy season for him. We had a great chat with him, and we let him know how good we are being. We e ...
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Dec.2022
It is very cold these days. We have been using our radiators to keep warm. Today we had a great discussion about how to stay warm while also saving energy. We read a great book to help us think about ...
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Dec.2022
Today we made a Christmas data chart. We had to choose our favourite thing about Christmas. We made this into a data chart and were able to compare which part of Christmas is the most popular. We even ...
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Dec.2022
We have been trying some great online Christmas games. Our favourite is Here are more SafeKids online Christmas games. Topmarks have some great online Christmas games and activities too. Enjoy! ...
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Dec.2022
Tuesday December 6th We noticed that when we put salt or sugar cubes or icing sugar into warm water it dissolves. We also noticed that it dissolves more quickly if we stir the warm water. We think th ...
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Dec.2022
We made our own versions of the Christmas Story. Look at all our beautiful cribs! ...
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Dec.2022
NEW DATE FOR THE CAROL SERVICE: POSTPONED, DUE TO ICY WEATHER! ...
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Dec.2022
The only piece of homework we had last night was to make a Christmas ornament and to put our names and our ages on them. Then when we find them in our boxes of ornaments in the future we can look back ...
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Dec.2022
We know that seals are very fat. They have lots of blubber. We were wondering whether fat keeps you warm? Here’s what we tried. Teacher put a bowl of cold water outside. In these freezing tem ...
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Dec.2022
We are always very conscious about keeping our teeth nice and healthy. We know that brushing our teeth is very good for keeping them healthy. We think that eating or drinking acids would be very bad f ...
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Dec.2022
We made some lovely Christmas cards from newspaper today. We hope to send these to our new friends to wish them a “Joyeux Noel”! They are going to write to us too. We will be pen pals. It ...
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Dec.2022
We are building on the art that we did last week. We are using coral as our inspiration and we are working so well with our friends. Look at the amazing creations we made today. We especially loved ma ...
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Dec.2022
This year we are doing a project about the sea, about sea pollution and about looking after our oceans. We have met a class in Brittany in France who are also doing the same project. Today we met them ...
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Dec.2022
We are using the sea and looking after our oceans as our theme to help us in our art project. We were delighted to work with Thérese again today. It was so lovely to be able to express ourselves throu ...
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Dec.2022
We were delighted to make a presentation to Galway Hospice. The fundraising was thanks to our Hallowe’en walk and to our staff coffee morning. Well done to all, and especially to Lorainne and to ...
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Dec.2022
Lots of our classes logged on today for a wonderful talk by Danielle Wilcox from the Blackrock Castle Observatory. Danielle had lots of information for us on telescopes, how they work, the pictures th ...
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Nov.2022
Bíonn an-craic ag Lucky Duck sa bhaile agus ar scoil linn! Seo cara new do Lucky Duck. Go raibh maith agat Mia! ...
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Nov.2022
We really enjoyed our drama session today. Today we did some freeze-framing. Each group had fun producing a still image and the audience had to guess what was happening in the scene. Everyone loved it ...
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Nov.2022
We were delighted to be able to watch Mark the Science Guy on a zoom call for science week. He had some wonderful experiments, some of which we can try ourselves. It was nice to hear our name called o ...
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Nov.2022
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Nov.2022
We had such a wonderful day today – combining STEM with art! Ms. Coade’s class and Ms. McLoughlin’s class walked to the beach with our artists eyes. We took clipboards with us so we ...
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Nov.2022
We tried something interesting for Science Week 2022. We each put a gummy bear into a glass of water. (Did you know that you can change the colour of the bear if you put food dye into the water?) Our ...
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Nov.2022
During Science Week we were able to get some raisins to dance. We didn’t need music or disco lights, just 7up. Raisins in water don’t like to dance, raisins in 7up LOVE dancing. What’ ...
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Nov.2022
We were delighted to learn about colours today. ATU sent us a box of colour experiments to try out. We are thoroughly enjoying Science Week 2022! We mixed different colours to make other colours: And ...
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Nov.2022
Thank you to Galway Science and Technology Festival for sending us the Mad Scientist. He did lots of amazing investigations and demonstrations with air. We helped a lot. It was so much fun. We love Sc ...
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Nov.2022
We were so lucky to have a visit from the Messer Scientist today to celebrate Science Week. Have a look at what we got up to. ...
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Nov.2022
Galway Science and Technology Festival is in full swing this week and next week. Many of us went to the festival showcase in the University of Galway yesterday. Our class toy, Lucky Duck went too. He ...
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Nov.2022
We were delighted to welcome artist Thérese to our class today. She is working with the Teacher-Artist Partnership (TAP) programme. We are so happy to be working with her. Thérese will work with us t ...
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Nov.2022
Luck Duck had a great visit to the dentist. We hear that he was really well behaved. We learned a lot about dentists and about how to keep our teeth and gums healthy. Thanks to Emily who made sure tha ...
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Nov.2022
We are reading a story about teeth. Here are lovely toothy monsters we made in art. ...
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Oct.2022
There was great excitement in Rooms 9 and 10 as the children in first classes displayed their autumn and Halloween boxes to the rest of the children in the school. We could answer all questions with c ...
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Oct.2022
Such amazing costumes for Halloween this year in Room 9! We had such a fun day! ...
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Oct.2022
We had great fun at drama time with Ms. O’Connor in the hall today. Lots of fun for Halloween! ...
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Oct.2022
We had a wonderful walk around Renmore in our costumes (thanks Mums and Dads for the help with our great costumes!) We hope we didn’t scare anyone! ...
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Oct.2022
We are having lots of fun in our maths groups. We played with the addition and subtraction tiles, 2D shape snap, tangrams and dice and counter games ...
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Oct.2022
We had a wonderful coffee morning in aid of Galway Hospice. Many thanks to Lorraine for organising such a fantastic event, and to all her helpers for making the hall so welcoming and pleasant. It was ...
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Oct.2022
We had such fun making our autumn boxes. Many of the boxes feature Halloween too. Today we had a chance to talk about our boxes at assembly. We explained how they were made, what materials we used in ...
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Oct.2022
Event registered with Maths Week Ireland 2022 Maths week games in Senior Infants (Oct 2022) Snakes and ladders in R1 Senior infants (Oct 2022) Maths stations in Prefab 4A Senior infants (Oct 20 ...
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Oct.2022
We are celebrating autumn and Halloween by designing and making our own boxes or pictures. We are very proud of them. ...
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Oct.2022
Today we had a joint project day with marine biology students from Atlantic Technological University. We used our walk to the beach as an opportunity to look out for different kinds of houses along th ...
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Oct.2022
There was a partial solar eclipse today (around 30%). Teacher had special glass. It looked opaque but in fact the sun’s image can shine through. The glass is suitable for welders to use when the ...
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Oct.2022
We have a microscope in the classroom. We really enjoy seeing different materials and our hair under the microscope. They look really different when they are magnified so much. Today we examined some ...
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Oct.2022
We want to grow our own seeds, but the weather is turning colder. Plants grow very well in winter in greenhouses, so today we made our own greenhouses. First we chose two plastic cups. We feel that th ...
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Oct.2022
We enjoyed sponging the backgrounds, mixing red and yellow paint to make orange paint and painting on our own silhouettes. They all look so different and so wonderful. ...
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Oct.2022
Here’s our final survey of the week for Maths Week 2022. We have had fun doing these surveys. ...
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Oct.2022
Here’s our Survey of the Day: We love comparing our results to 1st class next door: We went on our Maths trail outside today. It was exciting using our maths eyes with our friends. We finished ...
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Oct.2022
We at Scoil Chaitríona Junior are thoroughly enjoying Space Week 2022 Click on the image above to see our Space Display Day … Space Week 2022 … Here are some of the things we have done: Ma ...
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Oct.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 ...
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Oct.2022
Today’s survey of the day: We used target boards and our mini whiteboards today. We identified big numbers, small numbers, odd and even numbers. We looked at rows and columns. We sorted number ...
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Oct.2022
Look at the 3D construction structures we are making this Maths week! ...
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Oct.2022
We all filled in a questionnaire about our Space Week experiences. We had such fun and learned such a lot. Learning is fun. The teachers in our school and the parents in our class also filled in ques ...
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Oct.2022
Lucky Duck has a new Halloween costume. He looks adorable. Is púca é. ...
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Oct.2022
Here is our survey of today (which we compared to the survey done in Room 10). We love having our say. We played some maths games in PE today. We made groups of 3 or 4 or 5 or 17. Then we made shap ...
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Oct.2022
We like when mini beasts come into our classroom. It is a chance to examine them and see whether they are insects or not. Do they have 6 legs? (only bugs with 6 legs can be an insect!) Teacher found ...
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Oct.2022
We are enjoying Maths Week. Today we had our survey of the day. We made a data chart of the houses in which we live. We also went on a walk to look at the different types of houses in our neighbourhoo ...
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Oct.2022
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! ...
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Oct.2022
We really enjoyed the challenge of our nature scavenger hunt! We found leaves, fungi, berries, conkers, chestnuts, nests, bare trees. We could not find any pine cones or squirrels but we are delighte ...
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Oct.2022
We got some delicious banana bread for our lunch today. Miss Ní Cheallaigh helped us to make a data chart of how popular it was. Teacher just loves the banana bread, but unfortunately it wasn’t ...
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Oct.2022
Look at how good we are at coding now. We just love coding. Today was a Moana Day! ...
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Oct.2022
We are learning all about heat and where heat comes from. Today we compared the heat in the classroom with the heat outside. We used thermometers to measure the heat. Outside (11 degrees) was much co ...
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Oct.2022
Our coding is improving. Today we coded with the Hour of Code’s Minecraft. We really enjoyed it. ...
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Oct.2022
We are loving coding. It is very satisfying being able to programme some games by ourselves. Here’s what we tried today: ...
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Oct.2022
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 ...
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Oct.2022
We had a terrific day today. We loved showing our space boxes to other classes and our parents, and demonstrating about space and rockets. Most of the classes in the school and many of our parents cam ...
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Oct.2022
We were so delighted with our friend the Starship rocket engineer who answered our questions so well that we made him special Thank You cards. He is so inspiring! ...
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Oct.2022
We were so impressed when we went to visit the space box display in Room 15. All the students had made such wonderful displays and were able to explain how they were made and what they know about spa ...
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Oct.2022
These cosmic pictures of the galaxy were made with black paper, light blue paint, dark blue paint, red paint, white paint, sponges and brushes. They look like nebulae or galaxies. After our painting s ...
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Oct.2022
We are prepared to present all we know to all of the other classes in the school tomorrow, and to our parents and relatives. We made absolutely amazing space boxes. Teacher has never ever seen so m ...
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Oct.2022
We are designing and making Space Boxes, often with the help of our families at home. Teacher is SOOOO impressed with the fabulous designs. Some of us might be engineers, designers or astronauts when ...
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Oct.2022
We know that there are lots of volcanoes in space. The largest volcano in our solar system is on Mars (Mount Olympus Mons), while Venus has the largest number of volcanoes (and is the smelliest plane ...
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Oct.2022
We launched balloon rockets in 1st class as part of Space Week. We investigated and discussed how rockets are launched. Then we decided to launch our very own rockets in the classroom. It was great fu ...
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Oct.2022
A huge Thank You to Space Week Ireland who put us in touch with Eóin Tuohy. Eóin is an Irish engineer who works with Éirespás. He was working with ESA (European Space Agency) and he knows all about a ...
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Oct.2022
We love demonstrating about space during Space Week at assembly! It is our chance to show the other 1st classes what we made recently and what we have learned about space. Look at our papier mache pla ...
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Oct.2022
It is nearly Space Week 2022 so we have been talking a lot about space, about rockets, about trips to Mars and about the planets in the solar system. Teacher has a nephew who is a rocket-engine making ...
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Oct.2022
We have been talking about gravity and air resistance. We know that parachutes don’t stop you falling, but they slow your fall to earth when you jump or fall from an aeroplane. Today we were ta ...
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Oct.2022
For space week we launched some fizzy rockets. We know that fizzy tablets react with water making fizzy bubbles of gas. We were able to guess that this gas is Carbon Dioxide. We think that real rocke ...
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Oct.2022
We had fun launching stomp rockets and elastic rockets. We have a snowman rocket and different kinds of stomp rockets. Technically, since they are launched when air is compressed and don’t use ...
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Oct.2022
We had fun outside with Ms.McCaul’s/Ms. C.Fitzgerald’s class and Ms. F.Kavanagh’s class celebrating Space Week by letting off a very noisy rocket (not a rocket at all, but a rocket s ...
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Oct.2022
We joined Ms. McLoughlin’s class and Ms. Kavanagh’s class to launch a fun sound rocket and a vinegar rocket which didn’t work so well for us. We are loving Space Week 2022 IMG_8889 ...
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Sep.2022
We are learning all about space. Today we were wondering “Why don’t we fall off the Earth when it is up-side down in space?” We were also wondering “Why do astronauts on the m ...
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Sep.2022
We have been looking at Horse Chestnut leaves, chestnuts and conkers. These are very different from the sycamore helicopter seeds and the beech seeds that we have found. ...
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Sep.2022
We have been talking about keeping our environment litter free and free from pollution. Each year Galway City Council produce a fabulous anti litter calendar. The pictures in the calendar are gorgeous ...
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Sep.2022
We learned about asteroids, meteors and meteorites. We crashed different sized meteorites (balls) onto Earth (a biscuit tin with sand and a light layer of chocolate powder). They made different sized ...
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Sep.2022
To celebrate Space Week, we made mouse rockets from circles of paper which had been made into cones. We made them fly up into the air by putting them over an empty milk carton and squeezing all the ai ...
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Sep.2022
We made cylinders from rectangles of paper. Then we stuck pictures of rockets on top. We can get these to fly by blowing through a straw. ...
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Sep.2022
We are enjoying reading stories and books about space, rockets and our solar system. Here are some of the books we are reading. ...
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Sep.2022
We are learning all about the planets in our solar system. Today we all got to vote on which planet we like the most. We made a data chart from this information. Here are our results: We compared the ...
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Sep.2022
Each of us designed and made something at home (without any prompting). We are so proud of our designs that we explained our designs to other first classes, to teachers and to our principal Mrs. Daly ...
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Sep.2022
Our reading is improving every day. We love reading. Each day we have fun literacy stations where we learn to read while having fun. Look at our reading books, our clapping syllable game and our story ...
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Sep.2022
We were wondering today how Uranus came to be on its side? If Uranus is a gas giant (which it is), how could an asteroid have bumped into it? Would the asteroid not just have travelled through the g ...
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Sep.2022
We are very impressed with rectangles. From a rectangle we are able to make other 2d shapes – smaller rectangles, squares and triangles. From a rectangle we are able to make 3D shapes – cy ...
26
Sep.2022
A treat for all the stargazers tonight. Jupiter was visible in the sky. It was much brighter than any other star. Did you see it? ...
26
Sep.2022
In preparation for Space Week next week, we have made foam rockets. We used radiator insulation foam, duct tape, and card for the fins. We understand how we can make squares and triangles from rectang ...
24
Sep.2022
We have been looking at different objects to try and figure out which objects are opaque, which are translucent and which are transparent. We were able to sort pictures of objects into these categorie ...
21
Sep.2022
Welcome to Mrs. Daly’s puppy “Moose” who likes to visit us from time to time. ...
18
Sep.2022
We were learning about the organs of the body. It was fun being able to locate and touch the model brain, heart, lungs, intestines, stomach and liver. We learned about what these organs do. We were f ...
15
Sep.2022
We have made some really lovely clay pencil holders. Now they just need a lick of paint! Unfortunately, we have a sad tale to tell…when our lovely holders dried, the clay cracked and fell off th ...
15
Sep.2022
We are very good at designing, problem solving and making. Engineers in the making! ...
7
Sep.2022
Look at the lovely portraits we made in art today. We are very proud of our pictures. ...
7
Sep.2022
We are learning about our senses:- sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. We are trying some interesting challenges that have to be solved using our senses. We used our sense of smell to guess what t ...
5
Sep.2022
We went around our school and around the senior school to see what is growing in the school gardens. We found a bush with lovely red berries (which we won’t eat, but the birds will like the berr ...
5
Sep.2022
Each of us is unique. We each have our own talents and abilities. We each look different. We are very special. Each of us has our own unique fingerprints. Today we printed our fingerprints using sti ...
2
Sep.2022
We made UV bracelets in school today. The beads were all white when we put them on our colourful pipe cleaners, but when we brought the bracelets outside all the beads changed different colours. Tha ...
1
Sep.2022
It is autumn. We went outside to take a look at the apple tree in our school grounds. The apples are ripening. We picked and tasted a couple of the apples. We looked at the seeds to see whether the ...
31
Aug.2022
The cycle bus starts again on Thursday with the plan to run everyday (once the weather allows). The idea is for a group of children with their adults to cycle together in convoy to school… Reduc ...
28
Jun.2022
Wishing all our pupils, parents and staff wonderful summer holidays 2022! ...
24
Jun.2022
We had such a terrific time today in our drumming lessons. It was SO much fun and we were really talented at it! Thanks so much for such a great lesson! ...
23
Jun.2022
Look at the lovely origami seaside scenes we made in school today. We are looking forward to our summer holidays when we might get a chance to visit a beach, hopefully on a warm day in summer. ...
21
Jun.2022
All of our first classes went to the Eye Cinema today to see Lightyear. It was absolutely wonderful and we enjoyed it tremendously. ...
20
Jun.2022
We had an amazing day, in amazing weather. Best tour day EVER! ...
19
Jun.2022
Well done to all our students from 2nd Class who represented our school so well in the Renmore Corpus Christi parade. ...
19
Jun.2022
Wishing all our Dads (and Grandads) the Very Best Father’s Day ever! ...
17
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 ...
17
Jun.2022
A huge “WELL DONE” to the students who represented us so well in the Chity Sports yesterday. We are so proud of you! ...
16
Jun.2022
Low tide and beautiful weather this morning! We headed to the beach for a very exciting beach safari. We have already been learning about marine life, about pollution and the environmental impact of p ...
14
Jun.2022
We visited Ballybane library today where Eileen and her team of lovely librarians showed us around the library and introduced us to the Summer Stars reading challenge. We can sign up (for free) with t ...
14
Jun.2022
We have learned a lot about the sea, and about sea creatures. We have designed and made our own aquaria. Look at the great job we have done. ...
3
Jun.2022
We are learning about the Water Cycle. Here are some links to help us learn: We have been learning about the water cycle. We love the water cycle song, and the story about Drippy the Raindrop. We have ...
3
Jun.2022
We are enjoying summer. Today we painted lovely sea paintings. ...
1
Jun.2022
We had a wonderful day on the pitch. We had sprint races, long distances races, egg and spoon races, three legged races and sack races. We all did our best in the heats and finals and had a really fun ...
25
May.2022
In keeping with our marine theme, we made mermaids and mermen. We would love to really see a mermaid sometime! ...
24
May.2022
We are learning to read the clock (both analogue and digital). We can now tell the hour and the half hour. We can also tell you what time it will be in a half an hour, an hour, two hours etc., or wha ...
24
May.2022
Tagann Lucky Duck abhaile linn gach oíche. Ar maidin togan an rang go léir buaille faoi thuraim céard a bhí ar siúl ag Lucky Duck aréir. Cuireann muid ceisteanna air mar: An raibh Lucky Duck ag̷ ...
20
May.2022
Still on our theme of the sea, today we made some lovely lino print fish. It was exciting to see our fish peep out from under the blue ink. ...
18
May.2022
We are talking about things that live in the sea. Today we made lovely chalk drawings of all these creatures. Have a look: ...
18
May.2022
We had a wonderful walk to school this morning to celebrate National Walk To School Week. Thankyou so much to everyone who participated. We hope it will encourage you to walk to school more often! ...
18
May.2022
We wanted to check different materials to see which material would be best to mop up spills. Here is what we decided to do: We brought in different materials from home to test. Teacher cut up the mate ...
17
May.2022
We know that plants drink water. We had a look at how celery soaks up water. We used different coloured water and observed how the colours were sucked up through the celery to the very tips. We had p ...
16
May.2022
Here are the beautiful spring wreaths and the sailboats we made in class last week. ...
16
May.2022
Dear Parents This is how to set up Aladdin Connect on your devices. With thanks. Aladdin Set Up ...
13
May.2022
Dear Parents and students, We invite you to walk with us on Wednesday 18th of May. We will be departing from 3 different meeting points ( see map) . The departure times are on Aladdin noticeboard. We ...
12
May.2022
Today each student in Room 9 brought one piece of fruit and one piece of vegetable to school. We spent a lot of the day working with these fruit and vegetables. For SESE we looked at whether each piec ...
11
May.2022
We have been talking about floating and sinking and about how boats float. We made some incredible boats at home, and then at school we tested them. They had to meet two criteria: They had to float a ...
9
May.2022
We are watching the weather each day. We are able to read a thermometer (in Celcius) and we are able to check how much rain falls each day. We are enjoying being weather forecasters! ...
9
May.2022
After reading the beautiful story of The Rainbow Fish we all made our own rainbow fish from clay. We love the story and we love our clay fish. Hopefully we will remember always to be kind to others. ...
6
May.2022
We have learned about floating and sinking. We tried to float a sphere of marla. It sinks. If we make the ball of marla into a boat shape, we can get it to float. In fact, we can even get our boats ...
3
May.2022
Teacher had some nice spider plants at home. These spider plants had sent out some runners so we each took a runner (a baby plant) and we planted it. Each of these runners should turn into its own sp ...
3
May.2022
Asking questions, finding answers, helping each other. Education at its best! ...
28
Apr.2022
Look at the lovely spring poems that we have written. ...
27
Apr.2022
Ms. Edwards helped us to design and make bird feeders. We will fill them with birdseed and leave them in our gardens. We hope to attract lots of different types of birds with our feeders. Then we can ...
27
Apr.2022
We have learned how to take part in orienteering challenges. We love looking for clues and solving the puzzles. ...
8
Apr.2022
We have had a lot of fun making toilet roll chicks, fork printed chicks and translucent easter eggs. ...
8
Apr.2022
Look at how big our lettuce, chive, carrot and pea seeds have grown. We are going to look after them at home from now on. ...
6
Apr.2022
We were so lucky to be invited to Ms. Tierney’s Senior Infant puppet show. All the sets and puppets were made by the students, the script was made by the students and the show was directed by th ...
6
Apr.2022
We had a wonderful visit from the Easter Bunny. We each were given a delicious chocolate egg to reward us for all the wonderful work we have been doing this year! ...
30
Mar.2022
Our teacher was one of two Irish primary school teachers representing our country in the European Science on Stage Festival in Prague last weekend. She met other European teachers of science, attended ...
30
Mar.2022
We have made some lovely Easter chick cards. We are really looking forward to Easter. Easy to make easter card ...
26
Mar.2022
We made some lovely bouquets just to show our mums how much we love you! ...
23
Mar.2022
Look at the wonderful car made from fruit. It is definitely good enough to eat! ...
23
Mar.2022
We caught two wasps in our bug catcher. We watched them for a while to see how they enjoyed each other’s company. They did not seem to like each other, and got quite upset when they touched each ...
11
Mar.2022
During Engineers Week 2022 we have been looking at different types of bridges, their functions and their designs. We have learned that triangles and arches in bridges make bridges much stronger. We wi ...
11
Mar.2022
As part of Engineers Week we chose to undertake a STEM challenge: to make catapults. We have got so good at reading that we were able to read and follow directions without any help from teacher. We r ...
10
Mar.2022
It is engineers week. We talked about the job that engineers do, and then we investigated traffic lights. We looked at the traffic lights just outside our school (for cars and for pedestrians), their ...
10
Mar.2022
Look at the lovely leprechauns we made from recycled toilet roll inserts. They are very cute! ...
9
Mar.2022
It rained very heavily all night. This morning the roads and ground are all flooded. We chatted about flooding today, looked up all about floods on our interactive board, then put our STEM skills to g ...
7
Mar.2022
We are really enjoying being young engineers. Today we had a look at teacher’s bicycle. We examined each part and tried to find out what these parts do. Here are some things we looked at: sa ...
4
Mar.2022
Engineers Week begins this year on Saturday, 5th March. We had a walk planned for around our school, looking at local feats of engineering. We took advantage of the glorious weather today though and w ...
3
Mar.2022
We made beautiful 3D cherry blossom paper trees. Cherry blossom flowers are a sign of spring. We love spring! ...
1
Mar.2022
Look what we discovered when we took our learning outside on such a lovely day. Which signs of spring can you spot? ...
1
Mar.2022
We planted strawberries, potatoes and lots of seeds today. We were good at measuring exactly 100mls of water for our soil to expand. ...
23
Feb.2022
We are becoming quite expert at using iPads and tablets. We are getting the hang of coding too. Today we did some block coding with Blockly. It really is fun! https://blockly.games/ ...
23
Feb.2022
We went on a “Signs of Spring” walk to see what we could see. Look at what we found: ...
18
Feb.2022
We have made some lovely circus pictures. Ms. Kyne’s class have made some lovely love bird pictures. It was time to use technology to help us share our pictures. At first Ms. Kyne’s clas ...
18
Feb.2022
We have now finished writing and illustrating our very own books. A huge “Thank You” to artist Lara Luxari for helping us plan, write and illustrate our own stories. We are so proud. Clic ...
17
Feb.2022
In our story about a circus, we saw some acrobats. They are really good at balancing. It is easier to balance when you use your hands to stabilize yourself. We made clowns today, and we used sticky ta ...
16
Feb.2022
We have been reading a story about a circus. We made some lovely clowns and are going to share their story with QR codes. ...
15
Feb.2022
We have begun an investigation into “Flight” and all things that fly. Our project is a joint project with St. Mary’s Primary School, Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. We a ...
14
Feb.2022
We made windmill kites today and we decided to do some scientific investigations with them. Teacher had two examples but the funny thing is that one windmill rotated clockwise and the other windmill r ...
11
Feb.2022
We are writing and illustrating our very own books with artist Lara Luxardi. We are so proud of our books so far. We will finish them properly next week. Click here to see our finished books. We can& ...
7
Feb.2022
We are talking about all things that fly. Parachutes don’t really fly but do help people and things land safely from the air. Have a look at Felix Baumgartner jumping from the edge of space. W ...
1
Feb.2022
We are really enjoying hearing about the Chinese New Year (1st February this year, Year of the Tiger). We know the story of the Willow Pattern, we have seen a willow pattern plate and we have painted ...
1
Feb.2022
We celebrated St. Brigid’s day by listening to the story of St. Brigid’s cloak and the story of the St. Brigid’s day cross. We made our own St. Brigid’s day crosses from strips ...
28
Jan.2022
The Chinese New Year begins on February 1st this year. It will be the year of the tiger. Dragons and Chinese lanterns are part of the festival of the Chinese New Year. We painted some spiral dragons, ...
27
Jan.2022
We are becoming experts at using technology to help us learn. We regularly play educational games or do activities on the school tablets and PDST iPads. Here are the sites we use the most often. Feel ...
26
Jan.2022
Kathan Dudhela was the youngest flight instuctor ever in the UK (at 19 years old) and is currently the youngest flight examiner in the world (at 21). He took time out from his very busy schedule to vi ...
21
Jan.2022
Have you ever wondered how hot air balloons work? Have a look at this video: We used our art time to decorate in collage our own hot air balloons. They look amazing! We were also talking about how we ...
20
Jan.2022
We have been learning about things that fly. We have asked lots of questions and carried out lots of experiments. Today we joined up on Zoom with Ms. Audrey Boyd’s senior class from St. Mary’s P ...
20
Jan.2022
We are learning about hovercrafts. It is easy to make a hovercraft out of an old CD, some bluetack, the lid of a drinks bottle and a balloon. When we rub our hands together we notice that they become ...
14
Jan.2022
We love making words and we love playing board games. It is great fun when we can do both at the same time! ...
14
Jan.2022
We have made wonderful kites from paper, skewers and string. We flew these outside today. We tried to find the best way to get them to fly. With very little wind, we had lots of running to do to get ...
12
Jan.2022
As part of our project on Flight, we made some nice paper aeroplanes today, and we flew them outside. We tried various adjustments to get our planes to fly further. Here are some aeroplanes you can m ...
7
Jan.2022
We are learning about our senses:- sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. We tried some interesting challenges that had to be solved using our senses. We used our sense of smell to guess what teacher ...
7
Jan.2022
We were investigating bubbles today. We looked at what shape they are (interestingly, they are always spherical no matter what shape the bubble wand is), how big can we make them, what colours can we ...
6
Jan.2022
We made paper helicopters today, and investigated the answers to lots of interesting questions: What things in nature use helicopters wings? Which way do our helicopters spin, clockwise or ant ...
1
Jan.2022
Wishing all our pupils, our parents and our staff all the best for 2022! ...
22
Dec.2021
We have all our Christmas lights on our trees. Today we learned lots about electricity. We found out that there are three types of electricity: mains (plug in) electricity, batteries and static elect ...
21
Dec.2021
Ms. Lally’s Glee Club treated us to a wonderful Christmas Flash Dance: All I Want for Christmas is You. They were superb. Well done everyone! ...
17
Dec.2021
Santa and Mrs. Claus came to visit us in our classroom today. It was very exciting. We each got a present of some gorgeous sticky Christmas stickers and we had a long chat with Santa. We can’t w ...
16
Dec.2021
We are learning all about magnets. We tested out what magnets are attracted to (or not). We learned that all magnets have a north and a south pole. We could see that north poles of a magnet are attra ...
14
Dec.2021
We have designed and made our own Christmas/Winter boxes. They look AMAZING! ...
9
Dec.2021
We have been talking about forces. Today we were like Christmas elves. We made our own push and pull pop up Santa toys. They were fun to make and are a lot of fun to play with. ...
6
Dec.2021
The cold weather has arrived! We need to take care on our roads. We know that salt is used to melt icy roads. We did an experiment today to see whether salt, oil, cold water, icing sugar or brown sug ...
26
Nov.2021
We can’t wait for the Late Late Toy Show tonight. We predicted what Christmas jumper Ryan Tubridy will wear. It is such an exciting weekend. We love preparing for Christmas. Watch some TV foota ...
24
Nov.2021
The season of Advent begins next Sunday (28th November). Special advent candles will be lit in every church. In church there is always an advent wreath. It is a circular wreath made of evergreen leav ...
18
Nov.2021
We are really enjoying a story about a library, and have read this wonderfully heart-warming book. Today in art we made our own book-loving monsters. Look at how they love to read too! ...
17
Nov.2021
We had a look at interesting things through the digital microscope. We were surprised to see our clothes, our hair, a pencil case, our hands and some items from nature like a bumble bee’s body, ...
17
Nov.2021
We are learning about tens and units. Today we played bankers boxes. When you throw the die, you can collect something from the banker’s box. 10 objects can be swopped for a 10. It’s a ...
17
Nov.2021
We can use a hair dryer to generate a stream of hot air. We can get a ring of ballloons to float on this stream of hot air. It is interesting and fun to see Bernoulli’s principle in action. ...
15
Nov.2021
We have been checking out the tepmeratures around the school, and also learning how to read thermometers. We are quite knowledgable about sources of heat too. ...
12
Nov.2021
An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin and Minister of Educationa Norma Foley visited our school today to announce a major new campus for the Junior and Senior schools. This process has already started and the ...
12
Nov.2021
First Class in Room 9 have been busy making musical instruments as part of Science Week’s lessons on Sound! See close ups of our instruments here: Today we had a zoom call with other first and ...
12
Nov.2021
Look at the amazing fire breathing dragons that we made! ...
12
Nov.2021
We watched three great Science shows today. We learned a lot about bats, about “Think Before You Flush” and about the weather. We learned so much, especially about what to flush down the t ...
10
Nov.2021
We coloured and cut out dragons. We tried to train them to balance on our fingers. We weren’t able UNTIL….. we put coins (weights) on the ends of the wings. This changed the centre of gr ...
9
Nov.2021
We are learning about how sounds are made and how they travel to the ear. (Sound waves travel rather like the way a wave will move through a slinky). We are learning all about how our ears look and ho ...
8
Nov.2021
We are learning about sound and how sounds are made. We investigated how sounds travel on Earth and in Space. We have begun to design and make our own fantastic instruments. Some look amazing, some s ...
8
Nov.2021
Happy Science Week! Here’s the dragon show we saw today. https://vimeo.com/641562103 We tried all the experiments. We really really enjoyed ourselves. We watched Sue’s video and too ...
6
Nov.2021
Happy Science Week. We will be engaging with many science events this week at school, and will showcase these here on our school website. You might like to book some free science shows for yourself an ...
6
Nov.2021
We made some gorgeous patterned pictures by folding up squares of kitchen towel and dipping each corner into a different colour food dye. The patterns look spectacular and we are very proud of our pic ...
6
Nov.2021
Xavier drew some wonderful pictures of aeroplanes. We love how realistic they look. Some of us have even been on Ryanair flights before. Well done Xavier! ...
6
Nov.2021
On Earth there is air all around us. Gases like Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen, Nitrogen float all around us. When we make a sound, waves travel through the air, all the way to our ears. In space ...
4
Nov.2021
We have been learning a lot about teeth. Today we made our own toothy monsters. They look lovely, but some are scary too! ...
23
Oct.2021
There were some very strange characters around our school today. Who do you recognise? ...
23
Oct.2021
Don’t we look amazing! Well done to all the mums and dads for such great costumes. We had a wonderful day! ...
23
Oct.2021
Teacher had a red cabbage in school with her. In a way it was a fortune telling cabbage (It could tell whether things were acids or not). We know that acids are bad for our teeth and that we should w ...
23
Oct.2021
For Hallowe’en we made some lovely slimy gloop. We mixed cornflour, water and a little red food dye to make it look more like blood and guts. The mixture is a liquid, but it acts like a solid wh ...
23
Oct.2021
We know how to mix colours: There are three primary colours: red, yellow and blue. We can mix them to get secondary colours: orange, purple and green. Red and Yellow will mix to give Orange. Red and B ...
23
Oct.2021
Ms. Moran’s First Class hosted a “Puking Pumpkin” show for the other classes. It was spectacular! The poor pumpkin shouldn’t have eaten bread soda, paint, glitter, wash-up liqu ...
23
Oct.2021
We really enjoyed our walk around Renmore, dressed up in our wonderful costumes! ...
21
Oct.2021
We have learned fantastic and interesting facts about the moon. There was a full moon last night. Look at the amazing photograph taken by one of the students in Room 9. He must be so proud of his phot ...
21
Oct.2021
We love the old-time-favourite “Snakes and Ladders”. We are really enjoying Maths Week 2021! ...
21
Oct.2021
We had fun today printing pumpkins, bats and ghosts and also painting our own original Halloween paintings! ...
20
Oct.2021
We tried a Maths Trail today. We counted steps, measured lengths, looked around for shapes, estimated, wondered, measured. We were very excited about maths everywhere, all around us! HAPPY MATHS WE ...
20
Oct.2021
We are really enjoying Maths Week 2021. In groups we have been doing clock and calendar challenges, and also playing addition and subtraction tile games, tangrams and place value puzzles. We particul ...
19
Oct.2021
Here’s our survey of the day. We love having our say! ...
19
Oct.2021
HAPPY MATHS WEEK 2021! How many shapes can you recognise? How many shapes can you make? Chart available from https://wisdomlearning.co/products/2d-shapes-3d-shapes-wall-chart We could name and make ...
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Oct.2021
HAPPY MATHS WEEK 2021! How many shapes can you recognise? How many shapes can you make? Chart available from https://wisdomlearning.co/products/2d-shapes-3d-shapes-wall-chart ...
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Oct.2021
HAPPY MATHS WEEK 2021 Enjoy a maths trail around our school. ...
18
Oct.2021
We are celebrating Maths Week by doing extra FUN MATHS every day this week. We used our mini whiteboards and a target board. We identified big numbers, small numbers, odd and even numbers. We looked ...
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 are learning about different kinds of wildlife, and of course it is almost Halloween so today we made some clay spiders. They all have 8 legs (though they only have two eyes instead of eight). They ...
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. ...
8
Oct.2021
We are really enjoying exploring some of the wonderfully educational sites that are linked to our website. Today we learned how to use the tablet for some fun learning activities. Later this year we ...
8
Oct.2021
It is SPACE WEEK. We have designed trendy and functional astronaut suits! ...
8
Oct.2021
We have a noisy rocket. When you put a square of newspaper into the nose, then throw the rocket (projectile) in the air, it will make a loud BANG when it lands on the ground again. This happens becaus ...
8
Oct.2021
We know that there are lots of volcanoes in space. The largest volcano in our solar system is on Mars, while Venus has the largest number of volcanoes. Today we did a volcano demonstration (this is no ...
8
Oct.2021
We are learning all about space. Today we were wondering “Why don’t we fall off the Earth when it is up-side down in space?” We were also wondering “Why do astronauts on the m ...
8
Oct.2021
We learned about asteroids, meteors and meteorites. We crashed different sized meteorites (balls) onto Earth (a biscuit tin with sand and a light layer of chocolate powder). They made different sized ...
8
Oct.2021
We had fun launching different types of air projectiles and elastic projectiles. Some were more impressive than others. ...
8
Oct.2021
We are really enjoying learning about space. Today teacher read us some of this book. We really loved the story. Happy Space Week 2021! ...
7
Oct.2021
Galway Sports Partnership S9eptfcemboe8431r t30 ag0t s7:05r1t PMd · MINDEST MONDAYS WITH JUST BEE! Our FOURTH Mental Health Month Programme has opened for registration! Aimed at 9 to 12 year olds, J ...
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Oct.2021
We launched balloon rockets in 1st class as part of Space Week. We investigated and discussed how rockets are launched. Then we decided to launch our very own rockets in the classroom. It was great fu ...
7
Oct.2021
For space week we launched some fizzy rockets. We know that fizzy tablets react with water making fizzy bubbles of gas. We were able to guess that this gas is Carbon Dioxide. We think that real rocke ...
6
Oct.2021
We made cylinders from rectangles of paper. Then we stuck pictures of rockets on top. We can get these to fly by blowing through a straw. ...
6
Oct.2021
We are learning all about the planets for Space Week. We made a data chart today of our favourite planets. Here are the interesting results: ...
6
Oct.2021
We are excited about Space Week 2021. At home we designed and made space diorama boxes, rockets, pictures and posters. Our families at home helped us a lot too. Teacher is SO impressed! ...
5
Oct.2021
We used our knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes to make our rockets. (Cylinders made from rectangular pages, squares and triangles made from rectangles, and cones made from circles). Today we flew them w ...
5
Oct.2021
We are making rockets in school this week, for EU Space Week (next week). Teacher has a big rocket launcher. We used our knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes to make our rockets. (Cylinders made from recta ...
5
Oct.2021
We are learning all about 2D and 3D shapes. In Space Week we are putting our learning into practice. We can make cylinders from rectangles, cones from circles, squares from rectangles, triangles from ...
4
Oct.2021
It is Space Week so we have made foam rockets. We used radiator insulation foam, duct tape, and card for the fins. We can understand how to make squares and triangles from rectangular sheets. These pr ...
4
Oct.2021
There was a bee on the wall in the toilet. We thought he probably wouldn’t be very happy there so teacher caught him to let him go outside. First we examined him. We saw that he has 6 legs an ...
3
Oct.2021
Watch out for lots of Space Week activities from all classes at Scoil Chaitríona Junior this week. Space Week posts: Here are some great sites to try: ...
1
Oct.2021
We have been talking about houses and how to keep them nice and warm inside. We needed to find out more about insulation. Teacher wanted to bring snowmen to school, but even though it feels cold righ ...
30
Sep.2021
We love maths activities. Here we are finding hidden numbers on the hundreds square, playing addition and subtraction tiles and playing board games with dice. ...
28
Sep.2021
We know lots of things about the different seasons, and we can name them all. Here are the lovely paintings we did of the four seasons. ...
24
Sep.2021
Each of us is unique. We each have our own talents and abilities. We each look different. We are very special. Each of us has our own unique fingerprints. Today we printed our fingerprints using sti ...
24
Sep.2021
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 Bee ...
23
Sep.2021
Plip, plop, pli, tá sé ag cur báistí. Tá sé fliuch, tá sé fliuch, Plip, plop, plí. Plip, plop, plip plop, Ní féidir linn dul amach. Plip, plop, pli, plip, plop, pli, tá sé ag cur báistí. ...
22
Sep.2021
We learned lots about different kinds of materials: Can you recognise materials that are: transparent, translucent or opaque; hard or soft; brittle or pliable (bendy); waterproof or absorbent; cuddly, ...
22
Sep.2021
We are talking about all sorts of different houses and the materials that are used to build them. Today we tried to make houses from all sorts of different materials. We found that the Lego houses ar ...
18
Sep.2021
Look at the gorgeous books by Morgan O’Brien that we have been reading in class. They are simply adorable! ...
15
Sep.2021
We went on a hunt for autumn leaves. We got leaves of all sorts of autumn colours: brown, red, green, yellow, orange. We drew our own hedgehogs, and covered them in autumn leaves. They are so cute! ...
14
Sep.2021
We are learning the names of lots of 2D and 3D shapes: 2D = circle, square, rectangle, triangle, star, oval, semi-circle, hexagon, pentagon 3D = sphere, cube, cuboid, cylinder, triangular pyramid, squ ...
14
Sep.2021
We love hands-on activities. Look at what we made! ...
9
Sep.2021
We launched our air powered projectiles (rockets) today. It was very exciting. ...
9
Sep.2021
Teacher found some nests in her garden. It is not a good idea to touch a nest unless the family of birds is gone. We all had a look at the nests today. It is amazing that the birds can build nests wi ...
7
Sep.2021
Teacher has some apple trees in her garden. Her apples are ripe now. They are delicious. Look at the funny apple twins she found that had fallen from her apple tree. ...
7
Sep.2021
We visited the beach, stopping on the way to look at all the shapes we could see in the signs around us. We loved the old pump wheel in Ballyloughane too. ...
3
Sep.2021
Today we talked about how sneezing and coughing can spread germs. With the help of a balloon, cornflour, glitter and a pin, we got to see how germs can travel and then spread if we don’t catch t ...
3
Sep.2021
We were very creative this week and made our own individual pencil holders. We made them from clay and we painted them today. They look wonderful, and they will be very useful! ...
30
Jun.2021
Look at the number of potatoes that we harvested from the little potatoes we planted last Spring. ...
30
Jun.2021
Wishing you all a wonderful summer holiday. See you on August 30th! ...
28
Jun.2021
We are really enjoying playing educational games (linked to our school website http://junior.renmoreschool.com/links/) on the school tablets. ...
25
Jun.2021
We visited Ballybane library today where Eileen and her team of lovely librarians showed us around the library and introduced us to the Summer Stars reading challenge. We can sign up (for free) with t ...
24
Jun.2021
We have just finished reading this lovely novel. We used doilies to make our own “lace” like Jessie was able to sew. We love reading class novels! ...
24
Jun.2021
Here is a letter with details for you child going to 3rd class: ...
23
Jun.2021
We had a marvellous tour today – “Best Tour Ever!” We walked into town along the railway line, stopped for a quick drink in the park in Woodquay and then boarded the Corrib Princess. ...
21
Jun.2021
Low tide and beautiful weather this morning! We headed to the beach for a very exciting beach safari. We have already been learning about marine life, about pollution and the environmental impact of p ...
20
Jun.2021
To all our Dads and people who are special to us…….”Have a Whale of a Day Today!” ...
20
Jun.2021
Happy Father’s Day to our very special Dads and also to the many other people we love so much! ...
16
Jun.2021
We had a wonderful sports day today with sprints, long distance races, potato and spoon races, sack races and three legged races. Well done to everyone who did their very best today. A great day was ...
10
Jun.2021
Each of us used our designing and making skills to construct an aquarium. We only used recycled objects and natural shells from the beach. We are so proud of what we can make! ...
10
Jun.2021
We have seen lots of bees in the flowers recently. Here are lots more bees in their beehives (made with bubble wrap prints!) ...
10
Jun.2021
We made lovely collages showing the stages of a butterfly’s lifecycle. Eggs, Caterpillars, Chrysalis, Butterfly. ...
4
Jun.2021
Today we looked at mixing the colours of light. We did this with coloured spinners (some of which we made ourselves), a motor, a battery and two wires. We tried mixing two primary colours, all 7 colou ...
1
Jun.2021
We are looking forward to making our First Communion in the autumn. We are busy preparing now. We are learning the prayers we need to know, visiting Mass virtually each week, and we have made some lo ...
24
May.2021
We have written and illustrated our own beautiful mini books. We are very proud of our work. Some day we may even be famous authors or illustrators. There is a lot of amazing talent in our class! ...
11
May.2021
We made our First Confession (First Penance) in school today with Fr. Declan. It was a lovely preparation for our First Holy Communion later this school year or in third class. ...
3
May.2021
First Confession will be taking place in the coming weeks, although there is no date yet set for the First Holy Communion. Rest assured we will let you know as soon as we hear anything at all. In the ...
30
Apr.2021
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭. 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐀𝐀 𝐆𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 which includes 𝐔𝟔-𝐔𝟕-𝐔𝟖-𝐔𝟗-𝐔𝟏𝟎 age groups will 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 on 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐮𝐞. We are looking forward to seeing all 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛 ...
30
Apr.2021
Renmore AFC are thrilled to confirm that outdoor soccer training is resuming from this week for our boys and girls teams! The Renmore Academy is open for boys and girls U5-U6-U7-U8-U9-U10 and U11 Grou ...
29
Apr.2021
We are learning a lot about how to stay safe online. You can see what we talked about here: https://www.webwise.ie/html-heroes/ ...
28
Apr.2021
We designed and made some beautiful African necklaces. Then we wrote some wonderful stories about “The African Necklace”. We love being creative! ...
28
Apr.2021
We love being outside in the gorgeous weather. We are getting very good at bat and ball games. ...
26
Apr.2021
St James Ladies Gaelic Football Club will return to the pitch soon. The Girls Academy will return on Sat 8th May 9.45am in Renmore for girls U5, U6, U7, U8, U9 and U10. (Girls born in 2016 to 2011). G ...
23
Apr.2021
All our second classes, and our partner class from St. Mary’s in Fivemiletown in Northern Ireland have been extremely fortunate to be involved in the Aviatrix Project. Thanks to Kanchana Gamage ...
23
Apr.2021
We love having a chance to try out our engineering skills on a Friday afternoon. Look at the wonderful things we made today. ...
20
Apr.2021
We are learning about Africa at the moment. In Africa some women carry water containers on their head. Sometimes they also carry other things like fruit or clothing in baskets on their head. Here ...
19
Apr.2021
We had a bowl of water (with yellow food dye in it, just so we can see the water more easily). Teacher sprinkled pepper on top of the water. We expected the pepper to dissolve like salt does, but ins ...
19
Apr.2021
We know that plants need air, water, soil and heat to grow. We know that humans need food, water, exercise, fresh air and sleep to live. We think that a candle needs air to burn. We tried this out wit ...
16
Apr.2021
We are delighted to be taking part in Lifebuoy’s Soaper Heroes programme. We are learning all about washing our hands, how to use hand sanitiser properly and when and how to make sure our hands are r ...
14
Apr.2021
We are learning about Africa. Today we looked at African animals and then we made our own clay animals from Africa. They look great! ...
26
Mar.2021
Teacher had a jug of hot water and a jug of cold water. We know that if you mix hot and cold water, you will get warm water. But did you ever wonder how exactly the water will mix. Will the warm wat ...
25
Mar.2021
We read a wonderful book in class today. It was written by Sofia Carrasco who is a student in our senior school, and a sister to one of the boys in our class. It is a lovely story, with beautiful illu ...
25
Mar.2021
In conjunction with our partner class in Fivemiletown, Northern Ireland and Mr. Tony Monaghan, we have been having flight lessons every week. Today Mr. Monaghan arranged that we could have a virtual ...
25
Mar.2021
Thanks to Agri Aware and Incredible Edibles we had a garden themed PE class this morning. We also had a virtual visit to a rooftop garden in Cork to learn about healthy eating. Thanks Incredible Edibl ...
23
Mar.2021
We really enjoyed making cute Easter chicks in their Easter eggs and we also make some very nice Easter eggs and chicks cards. Thanks to Krokotak art! Baby Chick – Easter craft How to make an ea ...
23
Mar.2021
We planted our Incredible Edible seeds. We looked at the different kinds of seeds. We noticed their shapes, colours, sizes and whether they were rough or smooth. We have carrots, lettuce, carrots, ...
22
Mar.2021
We are so delighted to be joining our partner class (Fivemiletown) in Northern Ireland, and the wonderful Mr. Tony Monaghan for the third of 4 flight lessons. Unfortunately we will miss our lesson ne ...
19
Mar.2021
Look at the beautiful Brazilian vuvuzela that came to our class. Traditionally in Brazil the vuvuzela has been used by shepherds or farmers to gather their livestock. It can be tricky to play. Nowaday ...
15
Mar.2021
We really enjoyed our second flight lesson with Mr. Tony Monaghan. We learned about the jobs that engineers do when they are working with aeroplanes. We saw a video of an aeroplane being built from s ...
14
Mar.2021
We love our mums SOOO much. Thank you for all the lovely things you do for me every day. Happy Mother’s Day. We made some lovely cards with birds on them, and lovely flower pictures too. ...
12
Mar.2021
We have been learning about how to keep healthy, how our bodies work and how hospitals can help us when we are ill. We have also been looking at nurses uniforms from long ago. A big “Thank You ...
11
Mar.2021
We used forks to help us print hair and beards on our leprechauns. ...
10
Mar.2021
We had an amazing flight lesson with Mr. Tony Monaghan in Northern Ireland. He used to work for Bombardier and now he is a teacher, and gives lessons to children on “flight”. We learned a ...
10
Mar.2021
We love reading online with Epic books www.getepic.com We have now read 500 books since Christmas! Teacher is so proud! ...
9
Mar.2021
We followed directions to make a bubble bomb. We know this is like the volcanoes we made earlier this year. Bread soda and vinegar react to make the gas Carbon Dioxide. When the plastic bag swells to ...
6
Mar.2021
We are delighted to be taking part in this year’s Incredible Edibles. Today we planted strawberries, potatoes and wild flowers. We will plant our vegetable seeds next week when teacher brings so ...
6
Mar.2021
We used Golden Time to try making some really interesting structures. Teacher especially loved the aquarium for the fish and the rocking cradle for the baby! ...
4
Mar.2021
As part of Engineers Week, some of the 2nd classes have chosen to undertake a STEM challenge: to make catapults. We really enjoyed constructing our catapults “The Pinger” (perfectly pitc ...
4
Mar.2021
It was lovely to get a bunch of daffodils this morning. Teacher put some of them in red and blue food dye to see if they would drink the coloured water, and if they do then where does the water go? We ...
3
Mar.2021
During Engineers Week 2021 we have been looking at different types of bridges, their functions and their designs. We have learned that triangles and arches in bridges make bridges much stronger. We wa ...
3
Mar.2021
We are really enjoying being young engineers. Today we had a look at teacher’s bicycle. We examined each part and tried to find out what these parts do. Here are some things we looked at: sa ...
2
Mar.2021
We went on a walk in our neighborhood to spot local structures that engineers have designed. We talked about different structures, how they were designed, how they were made and how they help us in da ...
2
Mar.2021
It is engineers week. We talked about the job that engineers do, and then we investigated traffic lights. We looked at the traffic lights just outside our school (for cars and for pedestrians), their ...
27
Feb.2021
22/2/21 Monday websites: Tables: 4- https://www.mathschase.com/games/subtracting-4/ Maths Website: Clock splat https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/time/clock-splat-game/ English Website: Alphabet ...
2
Jan.2021
STARCAMP is kick starting 2021 with FIREWORKS! As a gesture of goodwill and in the spirit of encouraging children to have fun and stay healthy, mentally and physically over this new and hopefully fina ...
1
Jan.2021
We wish all of you – students, parents and staff a very safe, happy and successful 2021! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 ...
18
Dec.2020
We love playing board games: a fun way to learn about addition, subtraction, telling the time and place value! We are als learning lots about making words with our literacy board games. ...
18
Dec.2020
Look at the lovely Christmas things we have made at home, and at the lovely pictures of the Christmas crib that we have coloured at school. We hope to light a candle at Christmas time and say the pra ...
18
Dec.2020
Look at the beautiful Christmas stain glass stars that we have made. They are translucent. They look so good on our windows! ...
18
Dec.2020
As part of our learning about keeping our bodies and ourselves healthy, we were talking about healthy food and snacks. We made a data chart of our favourite foods and also of our favourite snacks. We ...
17
Dec.2020
Dear Parents/Guardians, We are collecting items for our Christmas food bank this Thursday and Friday. This year our food bank will be donated to families in need in our school community. Donations ca ...
16
Dec.2020
We have been making lovely Christmas cards. We loved printing trees with painted stampers. We can’t wait to decorate our trees! We made some very nice 3D Christmas cards too. ...
15
Dec.2020
We love having a chance to have our say. We also love chatting about the choices that were made in our class. ...
14
Dec.2020
Here are fantastic Christmas snowmen that we made from paper. ...
14
Dec.2020
Look at what I discovered….If I shake my new bottle and then let it settle, I get a fabulous tornado in a bottle. ...
11
Dec.2020
There is a lovely Christmassy feeling in Scoil Chaitríona Junior. We had an exciting visit from Santa and Mrs. Clause. Santa has given each of us a special reindeer to put on our windows or mirrors. O ...
11
Dec.2020
Look at what Fools’ Gold looks like under the microscope! We love looking at familiar things under the class digital microscope. ...
11
Dec.2020
We all looked so festive today in our Christmas jumpers. We loved our visit from Santa and Mrs. Clause too. ...
9
Dec.2020
If you would like to wear a Christmas jumper (or any nice woolly jumper) to school, please join us on Friday, December 11th for our Christmas Jumper Day. ...
9
Dec.2020
Today and yesterday we learned lots about electricity. We found out that there are three types of electricity: mains (plug in) electricity, batteries and static electricity. We were able to classify w ...
8
Dec.2020
We made some wonderful paper plate Santas today. They are so cheerful and fun. ...
8
Dec.2020
We loved reading this story in class. We are so pleased that all children, boys and girls can play soccer so well! ...
7
Dec.2020
We made beautiful Christmas angels. We hope to finish decorating them later this week. Here’s where teacher found the simple directions: ...
4
Dec.2020
We love to dance!! It is great exercise and it is a lot of fun. We are especially happy to dance to some of our favourite Christmas tunes. We videoed ourselves dancing to “All I Want for Christ ...
3
Dec.2020
We have been talking about forces: push, pull (& gravity), magnetism. Today we were like Christmas elves. We made our own push and pull pop up Santa toys. They were fun to make and are a lot of fu ...
2
Dec.2020
We had a magnet morning today. We learned all about magnets. We tested out what magnets are attracted to (or not). We checked what magnets will work through (or not). We tested out which side of a mag ...
29
Nov.2020
For Science Week 2020 the students and teachers of Room 9 have been investigating Flight and all things that fly. Here are some of our investigations so far: Investigating bubbles 2nd class (Nov 2020) ...
28
Nov.2020
The flying tea bag experiment is a heat experiment which looks like a really interesting trick. Only an adult should light the match, and the tea bag should be lit on a metal or glass plate (because ...
26
Nov.2020
The season of Advent begins next Sunday (29th November). Special advent candles will be lit in every church. In church there is always an advent wreath. It is a circular wreath made of evergreen leav ...
25
Nov.2020
We had a lot of fun with a giant parachute in PE today. We made wheels, mushrooms and tents and we bounced balls on the parachute. We hope the weather stays fine enough for us to use it again next we ...
25
Nov.2020
We have been learning about things that fly. We have asked lots of questions and carried out lots of experiments. Today we joined up on Zoom with Ms. Audrey Boyd’s senior class from St. Mary’s P ...
20
Nov.2020
We were talking about renewable and non-renewable sources of energy. We also learned about the history of light through the ages (from basic fire torches to candles to light bulbs to energy saving lig ...
20
Nov.2020
We have paper helicopters, and lots of interesting questions: Which way do they spin, clockwise or anticlockwise? How can we change the direction of spin? Does the size matter to the speed in which th ...
20
Nov.2020
Visit the virtual Galway Science and Technology Festival this Sunday from 11am at www.galwayscience.ie Also, remember to plant your seed ticket and grow some lovely lavender! ...
17
Nov.2020
After completing the Fantastic DNA workshop with NUIG’s Cell Explorers, we had a chance to Zoom chat to the scientists who worked on this project (Janic who made the videos for our Banana DNA wo ...
16
Nov.2020
Today 5 classes from our school had an amazing Zoom lesson from Frances at the Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork. The lesson was SO engaging and we learned an amazing amount about life and living t ...
13
Nov.2020
For Science Week we used the class digital microscope to see what the materials looked like up very close. We were surprised at how many of the materials (including jumpers, shirts, cloths, towels, so ...
13
Nov.2020
For Science Week we learned how to make a spray. We have already learned about different kinds of angles:- right angles, acute and obtuse angles. To make a spray you need to be able to make right angl ...
12
Nov.2020
Message from Cell Explorers and Galway Science and Technology Festival: Win a place on the Cell Explorers ‘Fantastic DNA at Home’ private workshop on Sunday 22nd Nov (1pm or 3pm). Take a p ...
12
Nov.2020
As part of Science Week 2020 we received an amazing box from NUIG’s Cell Explorers. We were absolutely delighted to have our very own science lab in our classroom for the day. We learned all ab ...
11
Nov.2020
We are talking about all things that fly. Parachutes don’t really fly but do help people and things land safely from the air. Have a look at Felix Baumgartner jumping from the edge of space. W ...
11
Nov.2020
We are hoping to recruit new parents for; FREE Basic IT/Smartphone Skills Training: Emails, Zoom, SeeSaw, Shopping Online. GRETB have provided funding for an IT tutor to come to Ballybane on Tuesday ...
10
Nov.2020
Here are some of the things we love about Science Week 2020: ...
10
Nov.2020
We are really enjoying Science Week 2020. Today we tried out our science bag from GMIT. It had two wonderful experiments, and three interesting videos. We watched a scientist examine the stomach conte ...
9
Nov.2020
It is Science Week 2020. This morning we had a terrific workshop with Scientific Sue. We learned all about bacteria, viruses, how to clean our hands, how germs (UV powder) can gather on our hands, and ...
9
Nov.2020
As part of Science Week 2020 and part of our theme of FLIGHT, we made paper aeorplanes today. We also got a chance to fly them outside. ...
6
Nov.2020
We are learning about hovercrafts. It is easy to make a hovercraft out of an old CD, some bluetack, the lid of a drinks bottle and a balloon. We noticed that the CD will not slide too well on the tab ...
6
Nov.2020
Next week is Science Week. We have entered a Superhero competition with Galway Science and Technology Festival. We will do lots and lots of science next week. We LOVE science! ...
4
Nov.2020
We made windmill kites today and we decided to do some scientific investigations with them. Teacher had two examples but the funny thing is that one windmill rotated clockwise and the other windmill r ...
4
Nov.2020
We were investigating bubbles. We had lots of questions, and we were able to find out the answers to many of our questions about bubbles. Here are some of the things we learned: ...
4
Nov.2020
Look at the fabulous prop I made for Halloween. It looks so realistic. I love designing and making things! ...
23
Oct.2020
Such a strange bunch in Scoil Chaitríona Junior this year! ...
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 are really good at sounding out words, real and nonsensical. We really enjoying playing board games that let us use these reading skills. ...
22
Oct.2020
We really enjoyed learning about inclusion…including EVERYONE in our games. We realised that no matter how people look or behave, that we are really all just the same. From now on we will try ve ...
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 ...
20
Oct.2020
We had fun making Halloween puppets. They are not so scary! ...
20
Oct.2020
Halloween is a great time to learn all about skeletons and the bones of the body. We also enjoyed learning about “guts”! ...
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 ...
19
Oct.2020
We used lots of manipulatives (2D shapes, geoboards, geostrips, 3D construction shapes) to make all sorts of 2D and 3D shapes and designs. Can you spot squares, rectangles, triangles, semi circles, ci ...
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
The pupils in our class were chosen to help launch this year’s Galway Science and Technology Festival. Today a photographer, Andrew Downes, came to take photographs of us launching all ou ...
16
Oct.2020
We had fun telling the time (hours, half hours and quarter hours). We are getting so good at this and also at predicting what time it will be in a quarter, half or hour’s time (or what time it w ...
16
Oct.2020
We had fun colouring in the hope that our class will win a Supermacs Pizza Party. Wish us luck! ...
15
Oct.2020
For Maths Week, today we had fun with our calendar. We asked each other questions like How many Wednesdays in October? What day is October 16th? What is the last date in October? What date is Hallowe ...
15
Oct.2020
We made some spooky spiders for Halloween. Some of them have very interesting webs! ...
14
Oct.2020
We learned a lot about forces today. We know that push and pull are forces, and that twisting, bending, stretching, squeezing and even gravity are either push or pull forces. Today we looked at a Newt ...
14
Oct.2020
Today teacher had a challenge for us…..could we make these shapes with cocktail sticks and mini marshmallows. We found that when we worked in pairs we were really good at this challenge. We made ...
13
Oct.2020
Look at the skeleton of a sea urchin and the coral that we were shown in class today. Fabulous! ...
13
Oct.2020
We tried a Maths Trail today. We counted steps, measured lengths, looked around for shapes, estimated, wondered, measured. We were very excited about maths everywhere, all around us! ...
13
Oct.2020
We played a Maths Week game. We played in pairs. We had to throw tow dice and add or subtract the two numbers. whatever answer we got we could cover this number with a counter of our own colour. The ...
12
Oct.2020
Here are some of the exciting events we had for Maths Week 2020: Maths Week activities in Prefab 1B 2nd class (Oct 2020) Target Boards 2nd class (Oct 2020) 4 in a Row 2nd class (Oct 2020) Maths trail ...
12
Oct.2020
We are celebrating Maths Week by doing extra FUN MATHS every day this week. Today we used our mini whiteboards and a target board. We identified big numbers, small numbers, odd and even numbers. We l ...
9
Oct.2020
Here are all the rockets and projectiles we launched during Space Week 2020. We learned all about the planets in our solar system, about asteroids, about orbits, about moons and meteors, about the sun ...
9
Oct.2020
We used our marbled paper from Wednesday to make really interesting looking planets. Along with spatter paint, a nice black background and a wonderful rocket, we made some very impressive space pictur ...
9
Oct.2020
We had fun launching different types of air projectiles. Some were more impressive than others. Even our deputy principal, Mr. Cunningham, joined in! ...
8
Oct.2020
We had fun launching balloon projectiles during SPACE WEEK. We even tested can the balloon fly uphill (it can!) ...
8
Oct.2020
We have a noisy rocket. When you put a square of newspaper into the nose, then throw the rocket (projectile) in the air, it will make a loud BANG when it lands on the ground again. This happens becaus ...
7
Oct.2020
We tried using vinegar and bread soda to launch our rockets. Although we could see the fizz being made, and are sure the rockets were full of carbon dioxide, they did not launch into space. Disappoint ...
7
Oct.2020
We practised how to launch our foam projectiles in honour of Space Week. The projectiles launch with the energy stored in the elastic bands. We have two champion rocket flyers in our class. Here’ ...
6
Oct.2020
We have made two different types of straw rockets, that launch under air pressure. We made cylinders from rectangles of paper. Then we stuck pictures of rockets on top. We can get these to fly by bl ...
6
Oct.2020
For space week we launched some fizzy rockets. We know that fizzy tablets react with water making fizzy bubbles of gas. We were able to guess that this gas is Carbon Dioxide. We think that real rocke ...
6
Oct.2020
To celebrate Space Week this week, we made mouse rockets from a circle of paper. We made them fly up into the air by putting them over an empty milk carton and squeezing all the air out. We did this b ...
5
Oct.2020
We have been talking a lot about volcanoes…. Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico, Volcanoes on Venus, and the biggest volcano in our solar system (Mount Olympus Mons) which is on the planet Mars. Lo ...
5
Oct.2020
We use 2 litre bottles and a bicycle pump to launch water rockets. The launches are extremely exciting! ...
5
Oct.2020
We made the rocket tops. http://junior.renmoreschool.com/making-air-projectiles-rockets-2/ We used our knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes to make our rockets. (Cylinders made from rectangular pages, squa ...
5
Oct.2020
We have been learning a lot about space and astronauts. We know lots and lots of interesting facts about astronauts. Today we designed our own astronaut suits, complete with fabric and our countryR ...
5
Oct.2020
We really enjoyed trying out some space experiments on Friday. Here are some of the reports we wrote and the pictures we drew! ...
4
Oct.2020
Space Week Events in Scoil Chaitríona Junior 2020: Asteroids, craters and the demise of the dinosaurs 2nd class (Oct 2020) Learning about gravity 2nd class (Oct 2020) Why can’t we hear sound in ...
2
Oct.2020
We know that there are lots of volcanoes in space. The largest volcano in our solar system is on Mars, while Venus has the largest number of volcanoes. Today we did a volcano demonstration (this is no ...
2
Oct.2020
On Earth there is air all around us. Gases like Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen, Nitrogen float all around us. When we make a sound, waves travel through the air, all the way to our ears. In space ...
2
Oct.2020
We are learning all about space. Today we were wondering “Why don’t we fall off the Earth when it is up-side down in space?” We were also wondering “Why do astronauts on the m ...
2
Oct.2020
We learned about asteroids, meteors and meteorites. We crashed different sized meteorites (balls) onto Earth (a biscuit tin with sand and a light layer of chocolate powder). They made different sized ...
2
Oct.2020
We are learning all about the planets for Space Week. We made a data chart today of our favourite planets. Here are the interesting results: ...
2
Oct.2020
We are learning all about 2D shapes using attribute blocks. For each shape we need to be able to identify its size (big or small), colour (red, blue or yellow), its thickness (thick or thin) and the s ...
30
Sep.2020
In preparation for Space Week next week, we have made foam rockets. We used radiator insulation foam, duct tape, and card for the fins. We can understand how to make squares and triangles from rectang ...
29
Sep.2020
We are making rockets in school this week, in preparation for EU Space Week (next week). Teacher has a big rocket launcher. We used our knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes to make our rockets. (Cylinders ...
28
Sep.2020
We are learning about grouping units into tens (renaming). This will be very useful for addition and subtraction. Today we played a bankers game that works on this principle. ...
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Sep.2020
September 23th, 2020 We think that seeds need soil, light and water to grow. We decided to test this out by planting cress seeds in different pots. One pot of seeds will grow in soil, with light, air, ...
25
Sep.2020
We often have spills in our classroom. Today we set about trying to find out which materials would be best for mopping up spills (which materials are most absorbent). We helped teacher to design an in ...
25
Sep.2020
Last week we mixed water and soil. Today we decided to clean the water using filters. We were allowed to select from the following items: cloth, cotton wool, coffee filters, stones, sand. We made ...
25
Sep.2020
We had fun playing literacy games. These help us with our reading, our writing and our decoding skills. ...
24
Sep.2020
We had fun with maths activities today: Spot the highest dice, dominoes and cards Finish the pattern: wooden puzzle Addition and subtraction tiles Shape snap 3D shape exploration ...
23
Sep.2020
We used the interactive board to explain how gravity pulls us all to Earth and to explain why we don’t fall off the Earth as it turns in space. ...
21
Sep.2020
We are delighted to announce a repeat Seesaw for Parents webinar on Thursday 24th of September from 8.30 -9.30pm. We received extremely positive feedback from our first parent webinar last week with o ...
18
Sep.2020
Our class are currently reading a wonderful novel. It’s Eoin Colfer’s book: The Legend of Spud Murphy. We are really enjoying it. We would love to read more of Eoin Colfer’s books. ...
17
Sep.2020
Look at our amazing clay selfies. We love working with clay! ...
16
Sep.2020
We are learning all about mini-beasts. We discovered that mini-beasts are only insects if they have 6 legs and 2 body parts. That means that slugs, snails, worms, wood lice, spiders, centipedes and ...
14
Sep.2020
We picked up some things from outside to remind us how much we love our planet. We used these leaves, twigs and berries to make lovely self-portraits to remind us of beautiful nature all around us. ...
11
Sep.2020
Look what we can design and make with Kappla, Knex, Dominoes and building blocks. ...
11
Sep.2020
We love following the Go Noodle site for exercise in class. Check it out here: https://www.gonoodle.com/ and the Cosmic Kids site for movement: https://www.cosmickids.com/ ...
11
Sep.2020
Today we had a look at soil. We looked through it to see what we could see in the soil. We wondered what would happen if we mixed soil with water and then let the water settle. We found that when we ...
10
Sep.2020
This is barley. It grows in fields and is then made into breakfast cereals among other things. It is so nice to see real barley. ...
10
Sep.2020
Lots and lots of nice paintings in our classroom. Here’s what we feel about being back to school: ...
9
Sep.2020
We went on a Materials Scavenger Hunt around the school. We really enjoyed checking out the properties of stones, soil, rocks, feathers, grass, leaves, twigs, weeks, flowers, berries, nests, trees and ...
2
Sep.2020
We are learning about the artist Pablo Picasso at school this week. He used lots of colours and shapes in his art. His works are in an abstract style, which means things don’t look realistic. His styl ...
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Aug.2020
We the staff of Scoil Chaitríona Junior welcome you all back to school on August 31st. It will be an exciting year for us. A year like no other! A year to remember. We will keep you up to date on al ...
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Aug.2020
We at Scoil Chaitríona Junior have achieved our 16th consecutive Science Foundation Ireland Discover Science and Maths Award. Well done to all our pupils, our teachers, staff, and parents for the wond ...
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Jun.2020
Congratulations! Today is your day From all of us at Scoil Chaitríona Junior June 2020 ...
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Jun.2020
30th June 2020 Happy Holidays everyone! June 22nd- June 26th Virtual Tours Here are some wonderful aquarium videos made by Padraic in our own Galway Atlantaquaria. Well worth checking out https://w ...
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Jun.2020
Click here to find out how to join Aladdin Connect Advice about school re-opening in September: Coronavirus Advice Educational activities to do with your children during these home-schooling weeks: ...
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Jun.2020
June 22nd- June 26th Virtual Tours Monday: Today, I would like you to learn about our President and where he lives in the Phoenix Park in Dublin. Click on each of the guides, Daithí Deer, Fiachra F ...
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May.2020
Attention parents of 2nd class students: Here are the enrolment forms for 3rd class. Please fill them and return them to Scoil Chaitríona Senior, Renmore, Galway H91 N5H6 Letter regarding Third Class ...
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Mar.2020
Twinkl: You can have FREE membership for a month. Lots and lots of fun stuff to keep everyone entertained and learning! Simply go to www.tinkl.ie/offer and enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS ...
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Mar.2020
Like to try a quiz? Maybe you can win one of the daily €20 book voucher prizes! ...
15
Mar.2020
Hi everyone. Wondering what to read now that you have lots of time. Here are lots and lots of interesting books (FREE) for you to try out. Just go to Getepic Books Log in with our class code vui3186 S ...
12
Mar.2020
Collette Furey was a teacher until three years ago when she went on the trip of a lifetime on a tall ship to the Antarctic. She hasn’t looked back. Now she works full time on boats travelling t ...
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Mar.2020
Looking for something interesting to do over the Easter Holidays? ...
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Mar.2020
Twinkl is a wonderful website used by teachers. You can have FREE membership for a month. Lots and lots of fun stuff to keep everyone entertained and learning! Simply go to www.tinkl.ie/offer and e ...
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Mar.2020
Bhuaigh muid duaiseanna do’n Fhéile Scoildrámaíochta: ...
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Mar.2020
Wonderful St. Patrick’s Day Art ...
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Mar.2020
We are going on a beach safari on March 27th with Anna, Padraic and Noirín from the Galway Atlantaquarium and Explorers Education programme. Today Anna and Padraic helped us to think about what we mig ...
7
Mar.2020
Look at the leprechauns we made for St. Patrick’s Day. They make such a cute little leprechaun family! ...
7
Mar.2020
We made fabulous catapults out of an empty plastic bottle, 4 small elastic bands and one large elastic band. The ball really flies high when catapulted from this catapult. A very good example of poten ...
7
Mar.2020
Here’s what we thought of Engineers Week 2020! and here are some of our creations: Parachutes Marshmallow structures Traffic lights Engineering walk Flood defences Catapults ...
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Mar.2020
We followed directions to make a fizzy bomb. It exploded with a big pop (We know this happens because vinegar reacts with bread soda to give off a gas called carbon dioxide. This gas takes up ...
6
Mar.2020
We are learning about the Water Cycle. Here are some links to help us learn: We have been learning about the water cycle. We love the water cycle song, and the story about Drippy the Raindrop. We have ...
5
Mar.2020
It is Engineers Week. Yesterday we saw lots of structures in our locality that engineers have designed. Recently we have had a lot of storms. Lots of nearby fields are flooded and the sea is very hi ...
4
Mar.2020
We went on a walk in our neighborhood to spot local structures that engineers have designed. We talked about different structures, how they were designed, how they were made and how they help us in da ...
3
Mar.2020
Comhgairdeas Mhór ag dul go Ranganna Ms. McLoughlin, Ms. Cunningham & Ms. Kavanagh a bhuaigh duaiseann anocht agus go háirithe le Learaí agus an Ollphéist a fuair duais “an aisteoir is fearr ...
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Mar.2020
Seachtain na Gaeilge atá ann anois. Thugamar cuairt ar Gaelscoil Dara inniu. Rinneamar ár ndrámaí “Cairde Learaí” agus “An Ollphéist” do na páistí i Scoil Dara, agus chonaiceam ...
3
Mar.2020
It is engineers week. We talked about the job that engineers do, and then we investigated traffic lights. We looked at the traffic lights just outside our school (for cars and for pedestrians), their ...
3
Mar.2020
The children in Ms. Cunningham’s class are wonderful engineers. Look at the amazing marshmallow structures they made yesterday for engineers week. ...
3
Mar.2020
We had a look at the movie about Felix Baumgartner following his dream and jumping fron the edge of space. Here’s a picture he drew when he was only 5 years old. He did eventually get to follow ...
28
Feb.2020
Well done to Ms. Lally/Ms. Coade and their class who have been reading the story of town mouse and the country mouse. They have written pen pal letters from Renmore in the town to Spiddal in the count ...
28
Feb.2020
We are learning about how sounds are made and how they travel to the ear. We are learning all about how our ears look and how they work. We can make funny sounds with balloons, grass and plastic. Ther ...
27
Feb.2020
Look at the video we made after our workshops with Lara Luxardi on Climate Change: ...
27
Feb.2020
Each of us had to bring one piece of fruit and one vegetable to school today. We used our senses to look at, to touch, to smell and to taste each piece. Before we tasted the food we classified ...
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Feb.2020
We got our box of Incredible Edibles on Monday. Today we planted out our 3 potato plants, our 3 strawberry plants and carrot seeds, chive seeds, lettuce seeds, turnip seeds. We are going to look after ...
26
Feb.2020
We used paint as a medium to describe our feelings about yesterday’s drama. We each painted the best thing about the drama. Look at what beautiful pictures we painted! ...
25
Feb.2020
We have been learning about our senses. We had a blindfold walk to test and see what it would be live without our sense of sight. We used our sense of touch to feel what was in a feely bag. We used ou ...
25
Feb.2020
We are so proud of our Food Dude Champion who brings a portion of fruit and a portion of vegetables to school each day for lunch. She really is a FOOD DUDE! ...
25
Feb.2020
Baineamar an-taitneamh as ár lá i gCilcornán. Tá na múinteoirí an-bhródúil. A huge “Go Raibh Míle Maith Agat” to Sinéad’s mum for videoing this for all of us! ...
14
Feb.2020
We feel like real engineers when we build with Kapla blocks. We made nice garages and show rooms for our cars today. We love Kapla blocks! Look what we will make when we get really good at Kapla const ...
13
Feb.2020
We are so excited! We have our costumes, we know our lines and songs, we are word perfect (almost)! We can’t wait till you see us perform! Yee Haw! Here’s a small taster: ...
12
Feb.2020
We have made collage heart cards and clay tea-light holders for the special people in our lives! Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! ...
11
Feb.2020
Our drama is on Tuesday February 25th in Kilcornan hall in Clarinbridge at 9:30am. Please have your child at school at 8am in the morning for costume change and make up. We will take a bus there and b ...
4
Feb.2020
Japanese Good Luck Custom Even though Japanese people celebrate New Year on January 1st (like us), on February 3rd each year they celebrate “Setsubun no Hi” which is the day the seasons ch ...
29
Jan.2020
September 2020 Reading: Oxford Owl https://tinyurl.com/yd53kcay at school: https://watch.vooks.com/browse Spelling: https://www.spellingtraining.com/ Use this weeks spellings from Spellbound B Math ...
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Jan.2020
We are learning about the water cycle, clouds and tornadoes. Teacher had a tornado bottle. We enjoyed swirling it and watching the tornado suck air up into its centre while letting water spill out alo ...
24
Jan.2020
child-safeguarding-and-risk-assessment 2019 ...
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Jan.2020
We are learning lots about China. We tried picking up marshmallows with chopsticks. This is quite a difficult skill. We are amazed that Chinese children eat with chopsticks all the time. We also saw ...
22
Jan.2020
We are learning about polar bears. We have made lovely polar bear collage pictures. ...
15
Jan.2020
Teacher had some fruit for lunch. We looked at whether this fruit would float or sink. Have a guess….. Does an orange float or sink? How about a banana? Next we had to come up with a suggestion ...
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Jan.2020
We will be taking part in Food Dudes from next week. It is a wonderful initiative where we will all get to try fruit and vegetables and will get rewards of stickers and cool prizes if we try the fruit ...
10
Jan.2020
We, as a whole school community, really appreciate the hard work that our secretaries do on behalf of our school. We support them in looking for better conditions in their daily work. We were so proud ...
10
Jan.2020
All at St. Vincent de Paul send a huge “Thank You” to everyone at Scoil Chaitríona Junior in response to their Christmas Food Appeal. What a lovely, kind, generous school community! ...
20
Dec.2019
We were so thrilled to have a visti today from Santa and Mr. Elfwood (a cousin of Mr. Elwood) who had really fancy shoes! Each of us got a lovely bell from Santa. ...
19
Dec.2019
We had a wonderful visit from Christine today. She used to live in Sweden and she had lots of interesting things to tell us about Sweden and delicious treats for us to try. We particularly liked looki ...
19
Dec.2019
We were talking about renewable and non-renewable sources of energy. We also learned about the history of light through the ages (from basic fire torches to candles to light bulbs to energy saving lig ...
19
Dec.2019
We are able to sequence the story of Christmas. We did a great job colouring and sequencing the story. ...
18
Dec.2019
Well done to all our pupils and staff on a gorgeous carol service last night. Thank you too to Fr. Declan for the lovely comments made, and to Ms. Maguire and Ms. Cunningham for leading us all so wond ...
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Dec.2019
You are all invited to our 2019 Christmas Carol Service. On: TONIGHT: Tuesday, December 17th. At: 7pm (be there for 18:45) In: St. Oliver Plunkett’s church, Renmore (next to the school) ...
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Dec.2019
We are using the Bright Sparks 4 Kids electricity kits, Kapla blocks, Magnetic Tiles and Bee Bots to learn about electricity, magnetism, construction and robotics. Learning by discovery is a lot of fu ...
17
Dec.2019
We had a magnet morning today. We learned all about magnets. We tested out what magnets are attracted to (or not). We checked what magnets will work through (or not). We tested out which side of a mag ...
12
Dec.2019
Look at the fabulous art we have made: some at home and some at school. We have Christmas stockings, cribs, angels, presents, cards, trees, Santas, decorations, and a wonderful push and pull pop up Sa ...
10
Dec.2019
We saw lots of colourful lights at the Christmas market on Friday. In class we have already had a discussion about how to stay safe around electricity. Today we learned lots more about electricity. We ...
9
Dec.2019
We are learning about healthy eating. We are learning through play, with lots of interesting facts and true/false questions. ...
6
Dec.2019
Mr. Gleeson organised a trip to the Christmas Market for 4 of the second classes and Mr. Haran’s class today. We had an absolutely wonderful day. We walked to town by the railway line, ate our p ...
29
Nov.2019
One of our mums works with Spotlight Oral Care. Danielle came to visit us today to tell us all about her company which manufactures and sells oral care products. She is the international manager and w ...
28
Nov.2019
Mrs. Coleman is retiring tomorrow. We will miss her a lot. We had a lovely concert for her today. Goodbye Mrs. Coleman. See you again! ...
28
Nov.2019
We really enjoyed reading the novel “When Jessie Came Across the Sea”. We painted scenes from the book and have sequenced them according to the events of the story. ...
25
Nov.2019
One of the mammies in our class is a biochemist. She came to our class today to talk about how biochemistry is such an important area to study. She showed us how to make cottage cheese from warm mil ...
25
Nov.2019
Fr. Declan comes to visit the second classes each month in school. He is very friendly and very interesting. Today he was telling us all about the different parts of the church. We found the talk v ...
25
Nov.2019
We can’t wait to try out the new literacy games (and a construction game) that we have for our class. Teacher got them from Cogs for the Brain shop. We especially love playing them when Ms. Kear ...
22
Nov.2019
Marla in a ball sinks but we think we could get it to float if we make it into a boat shape. Today we made passenger boats from balls of marla. When we got them to float we were able to add passenger ...
22
Nov.2019
It is the season for coughs and colds. Today we learned how fast a sneeze can travel (as fast as a car on the motorway) and we talked about how sneezing and coughing can spread germs. With the help of ...
22
Nov.2019
All our first and second classes were absolutely thrilled to be given resources for our numeracy station teaching times. We got new games from Cogs the Brain shop to help us learn about fractions, mon ...
22
Nov.2019
All 2nd classes, 1st classes, special classes and 2 Senior Infant classes got to visit the Space Dome today. We had a fun, educational experience and learned a lot about the planets and under the sea. ...
20
Nov.2019
Here are a few sciency tricks that we can do at home in the bath: we can get water to stay in an open bottle turned upside down, we can get water to stay in a yoghurt pot with just a sheet of card and ...
20
Nov.2019
We have painted scenes from the story of “When Jessie Came Across the Sea”. When they are dry we will put these in order to recreate the story of Jessie. Look at these pictures in sequenc ...
19
Nov.2019
Are all types of paper equally strong? We thought we would test this out. We had a cradle specially made for us so we could try loading it with marbles to find out what kind of paper is the strongest ...
18
Nov.2019
One of the students from last year’s Room 9 brought us two bags of wool from the sheep in his grandmother’s farm. We were thrilled to be able to see and feel real sheep’s wool before ...
18
Nov.2019
For Science Week we learned how to make a spray. We have already learned about different kinds of angles:- right angles, acute and obtuse angles. To make a spray you need to be able to make right angl ...
14
Nov.2019
Here are photos of us trying our best to work out a very tricky puzzle. It’s lucky that we have some practical equipment to help us! ...
14
Nov.2019
We had a visit from the Dog’s Trust. We really enjoyed the talk. We heard about how we can be safe around dogs and what to do if we are scared of a dog. We learned lots! For more information check ou ...
14
Nov.2019
We are loving our novel: When Jessie Came Across the Sea. We had a wonderful drama lesson where we did freeze frames of parts of the story of Jessie. ...
8
Nov.2019
One job that uses STEM every day is being an architect. Today we were very lucky to have Carmen visit us to tell us all about being an architect. Carmen’s talk was very interesting and we loved ...
8
Nov.2019
We had a wonderful visit today from Deirdre who works as an immunologist in the hospital. She can study samples of blood or urine (pee) and find out about allergies. Today she showed us some of the vi ...
8
Nov.2019
All classes were invited to see the castles made by the students in Mr. Faherty’s class. The castles were absolutely AMAZING!! Each one was completely different from all others and they each had ...
8
Nov.2019
Liam Mellows hurling club is playing in the county final on Sunday next. We showed our support today by dressing in their colours. We did a colouring competition today and these entries will be on dis ...
7
Nov.2019
We had an absolutely wonderful visit from Laura who works as a quality engineer with Boston Scientific. She was able to tell us all about how she saves lives by ensuring that the stents her company ma ...
7
Nov.2019
Liam Mellows hurling club is playing in the County Final this Sunday. We wish them the very best of luck. ...
6
Nov.2019
We are reading a wonderful novel in class. It is called “When Jessie Came Across the Sea”, written by Amy Hest. In the story Jessie and her grandmother can make lace. Today we tried makin ...
3
Nov.2019
Our teacher was delighted to be one of 4 Irish delegates (and the only primary school delegate) to represent Ireland at the Science on Stage festival in Cascais, Portugal during the Halloween break. S ...
27
Oct.2019
What a day! Dressing up, Halloween walk, party, dances in the yard and fun in the classroom. Huge CONGRATULATIONS to Ms. Lally and her superbly talented Glee Club for their dancing. Happy Halloween ev ...
27
Oct.2019
Learning to touch type is lots of fun on this site: Congratulations to one of our students who is learning to touch type on this site and is earning certificates! ...
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 ...
24
Oct.2019
We love Halloween and we love art. Great combination! ...
23
Oct.2019
Kay came to visit us today. She visited each 2nd class to talk about climate change, about making our planet a better place and she also did some gardenting with one class. We learned about greenhous ...
23
Oct.2019
We know lots of 2D and 3D shapes. Today teacher had a challenge for us…..could we make these shapes with cocktail sticks and mini marshmallows. We found that when we worked in pairs we were real ...
18
Oct.2019
Here are some surveys about our Castle Display Day and our Space and Rockets Open Day For our students: For our parents: For our teachers: ...
18
Oct.2019
How could we design a test to test this? Look at the wonderful basket made by one of the girls. We used it to hold marbles. That way we could test how many marbles could a piece of paper hold. We esp ...
18
Oct.2019
Look at the beautiful book made and illustrated by a child in our class: ...
15
Oct.2019
It is Maths Week. Today we went on a Maths Trail. It was really enjoyable. We counted steps, measured lengths, looked around for shapes, estimated, wondered, measured. ...
14
Oct.2019
Look at the great games we can play (with our mini whiteboards) during class time or at lunchtime when the weather is bad. We love making words! ...
14
Oct.2019
We are celebrating Maths Week by doing extra FUN MATHS every day this week. Today we did group activities (calendar work, clock work, addition and subtraction tiles and 3D shapes exploration). We also ...
11
Oct.2019
Lara was back with us for the day. She helped us to take lots and lots of photos of our animation creations. From these pictures we can make a video that will give the message that we need to look af ...
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 ...
11
Oct.2019
We are really enjoying our class novel: Killer Cat by Anne Fine. As well as reading the novel, chatting about it and doing some drama we have also made “Wanted” posters and pictures and wr ...
11
Oct.2019
Ms. Lally’s 2nd class have gone to every 2nd class in the school to try and find out which is the most popular month for birthdays. We are each hoping that our birthday is in the most popular mo ...
11
Oct.2019
Here’s what we wrote and drew about our open day yesterday: Surveys from our Open Days can be read here: ...
11
Oct.2019
We have been talking about protecting our environment and the climate crisis. We watched a great video on this: Then we made our own flip books with ideas for protecting and restoring our environment. ...
10
Oct.2019
2nd Class, Room 9 hosted an open day for our parents, friends, grandparents and other classes in the school. 11 other classes were invited to see our display, talk to our experts and hear and see a de ...
9
Oct.2019
We have signed up for Maths Week 2019. We can’t wait to get involved! ...
9
Oct.2019
We are all ready for our Space and Rockets Open Morning tomorrow. We have all our projectiles on display and we are looking forward to visits from 10 other classes. We are hoping tomorrow morning will ...
9
Oct.2019
We love using counters and 10 frames to help us with our maths. ...
8
Oct.2019
Stomp and snowman projectiles are launched with air under pressure. For Space Week 2019 we are really enjoying launching all sorts of rockets and projectiles. ...
8
Oct.2019
Today’s projectile looks like a rocket and sounds like a rocket. We need to put a square of newspaper into the top of the projectile. When you throw the projectile in the air, the yellow nose h ...
8
Oct.2019
More coding, this time with Minecraft. We really love coding! ...
8
Oct.2019
We will be going on our Halloween Walk on October 25th. We are looking forward to dressing up and also to raising money for our school. ...
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 ...
7
Oct.2019
We are learning all about space. Today we were wondering “Why don’t we fall off the Earth when it is up-side down in space?” We were also wondering “Why do astronauts on the m ...
7
Oct.2019
For space week we launched some fizzy rockets. We know that fizzy tablets react with water making fizzy bubbles of gas. We were able to guess that this gas is Carbon Dioxide. We think that real rocke ...
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
Real rockets are launched when fuel is burned. This burning of fuel is a chemical reaction. We found out that when vinegar and bread soda are mixed together then this also causes a chemical reaction ...
4
Oct.2019
We are great at making things. We designed and made some rockets at home: ...
4
Oct.2019
We learned about asteroids, meteors and meteorites. We crashed different sized meteorites (balls) onto Earth (a biscuit tin with sand and a light layer of chocolate powder). They made different sized ...
2
Oct.2019
We made cylinders from rectangles of paper. Then we stuck pictures of rockets on top. We can get these to fly by blowing through a straw. ...
2
Oct.2019
We made little mice out of circles of card (which we drew by tracing round a cylinder of crayons). We made these circles into cones, added tails and ears, and launched them with blasts of air from em ...
2
Oct.2019
On Earth there is air all around us. Gases like Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen, Nitrogen float all around us. When we make a sound, waves travel through the air, all the way to our ea rs. In space ...
2
Oct.2019
We planted seeds last Monday (10 days ago). See our post here. Look how they are growing now. The seeds with heat, light, air and water are growing the best. Here’s what they look like after n ...
1
Oct.2019
We used bicycle pumps and Rokit kits to launch our projectiles. This was really really exciting! ...
1
Oct.2019
We made the rocket tops. (This is how we made them). Today we flew them using a bicycle pump. We could plan the trajectory by moving the pipe in the way we wanted our air projectiles to fly! ...
1
Oct.2019
We had a wonderful drumming session with Barra and Brian. We are so good at rhythms and at drumming! ...
30
Sep.2019
It is SPACE WEEK. We have designed trendy and funtional astronaut suits! ...
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Sep.2019
Ms. O’Connor’s class and Ms. McLoughlin’s class had fun launching balloon projectiles during SPACE WEEK. We even tested can the balloon fly uphill (it can!) ...
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Sep.2019
We used our origami (Japanese paper folding) skills to make mini books all about the planets in our solar system. Now we can sing along to the words of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzj6U ...
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Sep.2019
We have made (painted and glued) toilet roll projectiles. These are launched using two skewers and an elastic band. By stretching the elastic band we can launch the projectiles. They look like real ro ...
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Sep.2019
We all got to vote. Here are the results! If we take another vote after we have studied all about the planets we will have a very different result! ...
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Sep.2019
Téann Lucky Duck abhaile gach lá. Bíonn am iontach aige sa bhaile. Ar maidin bíonn ceisteanna againn dó. Bhí sé ag cluiche iománaíocht aréir! agus chuaigh sé go Brownies freisin! ...
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Sep.2019
We made wonderful castles out of recycled materials. We are able to say what each material is and where we got it from. We added really interesting things like towers, portcullis, drawbridges, moats, ...
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Sep.2019
We used rectangles to make cylinders, circles and semi-circles to make cones, squares to make triangles. Putting them all together we were able to make air projectiles (rockets). We will launch them ...
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Sep.2019
We are enjoying learning maths through activity play. Today we played hundred square hidden numbers, shape snap, tangrams, geoboards and bankers change. We also enjoyed playing hidden numbers, tell th ...
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Sep.2019
We are preparing for space week next week. Today we made and flew some foam projectiles (rockets) which we powered using elastic bands. Proper rockets use fuel and that is why these are projectiles r ...
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Sep.2019
We are very excited about the world cup rugby that is taking place in Japan at the moment. At school we are collecting Aldi rugby stickers. We enjoy adding them to the sticker board. Our school could ...
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Sep.2019
Is your child making First Holy Communion in May 2020 If so, you are invited to: ...
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Sep.2019
We think that seeds need soil, light, air and water to grow. We decided to test this out by planting cress seeds in different pots. One pot of seeds will grow in soil, with light, air, heat and water. ...
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Sep.2019
We have been learning about Fionn and the Fianna, and about old castles. At school we have been drawing castle plans. At home, as a home project, we have been designing and making our own castles. W ...
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Sep.2019
We painted a bare tree with branches and we used real apples and real leaves to print on autumn apples and leaves. Our paintings are FANTASTIC! ...
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Sep.2019
Since Monday, you can see bioluminescent algae in Salthill once it gets dark. An absolutely AMAZING experience. These algae glow when you splash in the water. They look like fairy dust or twinkling s ...
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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 ...
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Sep.2019
Our school garden badly needed weeding. We had fun in the sun, weeding out the weeds, finding some mini-beasts, bringing the weeds to the compost pile and making our school look very neat and tidy. W ...
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Sep.2019
We love doing literacy and numeracy activities in teams. A big Thank You to Ms. Kearney who joins us for our team activities. ...
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Sep.2019
We often have spills in our classroom. Today we set about trying to find out which materials would be best for mopping up spills (which materials are most absorbent). We helped teacher to design an in ...
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Sep.2019
We really enjoy some Golden Time on a Friday afternoon. It is especially fun to have this time outside if the weather is nice ...
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Sep.2019
We use 2D shapes (squares, circles, triangles and rectangles) to make interesting 3Dbuildings and constructions! ...
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Sep.2019
Each second class child making his/her communion will have a received an information sheet from Fr. Declan. Please check the note for upcoming meetings and “Do This In Memory” preparatory ...
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Sep.2019
We used oil pastels to colour Picasso (cubist) style self portraits. We are very proud of our work! ...
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Sep.2019
We went on a materials hunt in our school grounds today. We love investigating our surroundings! ...
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Sep.2019
Teacher brought a bag of soil from home. We put it through a sieve to see what we could find in it. We found leaves, roots, a worm, stones and muck. We examined these things with magnifying glasses ...
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Sep.2019
We had three cups of water and three empty cups. Teacher put a few drops of red food colour into one of the cups of water, blue into another and yellow into another. We used strips of tissue to conne ...
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Sep.2019
We tried orienteering today for PE. We loved hiding the clues, finding the flags and working out the puzzles. ...
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Sep.2019
We know how to mix colours: There are three primary colours: red, yellow and blue. We can mix them to get secondary colours: orange, purple and green. Red and Yellow will mix to give Orange. Red and B ...
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Sep.2019
Here are details about how to join our school LEGO club: ...
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Sep.2019
After learning about materials, using tigtagworld.com to find out more about materials, and after playing “materials pass the parcel” we used the class digital microscope to see what the m ...
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Sep.2019
We learned lots about different kinds of materials: Can you recognise materials that are: transparent, translucent or opaque; hard or soft; brittle or pliable (bendy); waterproof or absorbent; cuddly, ...
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Aug.2019
Welcome to all our new Junior Infants 2019 and Welcome Back to all our returning pupils and staff. School opens this Friday, August 30th, 2019 at 8:50am. Our school calendar for 2019/2020 can be viewe ...
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Jun.2019
We really enjoyed taking part in our end of year concert. Congratulations to the children of 2nd class, to their enthusiastic teachers and especially to our soloists. What a terrific celebration! &nbs ...
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Jun.2019
Wondering what to do during the summer holidays? Why not sign up for a summer camp? €100 per child, sibling discount available. ...
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Jun.2019
We walked to Ballybane Library today to hear about the summner reading programme. We love visiting the library and hope to go there a lot over the summer holidays. If we have Tesco tokens in the next ...
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Jun.2019
We used a bicycle pump and water to compress air. This air gave our projectile the power to lift off. It was very exciting! ...
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Jun.2019
We spent time in our school garden this morning looking for and identifying mini-beasts. It was very exciting and we learned a lot about the bugs and insects that live in our school garden. Thank you ...
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Jun.2019
We had a challenge: to see how far we could fly a foam rocket. We got to choose which sized rocket we would like to use (10cm, 13cm, 20cm, 25cm or 30cm), how far we would stretch the elastic and what ...
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Jun.2019
We made lovely decorative windmills. Unfortunately they don’t actually work, but they do look nice! ...
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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 ...
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Jun.2019
Carole from Connemara National Park gave us an absolutely fantastic talk about Irish native animals. She had brought with her a hare, a red squirrel, a badger, an otter, a mink, a pine martin, a stoat ...
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Jun.2019
We made some amazing paper whales, with water squirting out of their blowholes. ...
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Jun.2019
We had a wonderful visit from Maurice who works with the Marine Institute in Galway. We learned lots and lots about sharks and we were particularly interested to hear that if we find shark eggs or mar ...
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Jun.2019
Look at all the exciting things we did in Second Class. We love school! ...
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Jun.2019
Teacher brought some traditional Japanese toys for us to see and to play with. We also saw a “hanten” housecoat, a fan, chopsticks and “obi” belts for kimonos. Teacher explain ...
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Jun.2019
All 1st and 2nd Classes are taking part in a Hurling Blitz in Liam Mellows Hurling Club. Both our classes had our blitz today. It was fantastic. We really had a great time. Hurling camps are availa ...
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Jun.2019
All our 2nd classes had a wonderful school tour to the Burren Nature Sanctuary. We really enjoyed our fairy walk, feeding the animals, the outdoor and indoor play areas, and especially the whipped ice ...
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May.2019
As part of our seashore theme we made some great octopuses. They are such good friends…..like us! ...
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May.2019
Inspired by our seashore safari we have made some beautiful art: ...
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May.2019
We had an absolutely wonderful day on the beach with the Explorers Education programme. Padraic and Anna were our guides. We used nets and buckets and found seaweeds, fish, crabs and shells. We got a ...
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May.2019
We are learning about capacity. We love estimating and then checking containers that hold less than, about the same as and more than 1litre, 1/2 litre, 1/4 litre. We are going to be trying these at ho ...
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May.2019
We had a wonderful sports day. The weather was absolutely perfect:- warm, cloudy and dry. We ran long distance races, sprints, potato and spoon races, 3 legged races and sack races. We chose children ...
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May.2019
If you would like a print of your class photo in a mount, please send €10 to class teacher, thank you: ...
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May.2019
We programmed our Wonder Dots with our iPads today. We are so fond of our Dots and we LOVE CODING! ...
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May.2019
Tom and Éamonn came from Fyffes to do Zoo Exercises with all second classes. We thoroughly enjoyed the session. It was hard work and we might be stiff tomorrow but we really enjoyed ourselves. ...
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May.2019
There is a Blue Tit nest in a nest box by the senior school. We have a web cam in there so we can see what is happening. On May 1st 9 eggs were laid. 7 eggs hatched into lovely chicks. Mum and Dad ...
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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! ...
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May.2019
Here’s our class at our Bee Bot work stations: and working with Wonder Dots and iPads: ...
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May.2019
We have been looking at how coloured food dyes mix and make new colours. Today we looked at mixing the colours of light. We did this with coloured spinners, a motor, a battery and two wires. We tried ...
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May.2019
Look at our ripe strawberry. We divided it up and everyone had a taste. YUM! ...
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May.2019
May 11th, 2019 St. Oliver Plunkett’s Church, Renmore. Congratulations to our first communicants and to their families, to Fr. Declan, to Sr. Maura and to all the teachers and SNAs who made the c ...
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May.2019
Anna from Galway Atlantaquarium came to visit with us today, as part of the wonderful Explorers Education programme. She will lead us on a beach safari next Friday, May 17th. Today we learned all abou ...
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May.2019
We are talking these days about light and colour. Today we tried a colour mixing experiment. We have 6 cups, 3 filled with coloured water (primary colours: red, blue and yellow). We wonder if we can g ...
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May.2019
We used glass triangular prisms and empty plastic pens to focus the sun’s light into the seven colours of the rainbow: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. We could even make dou ...
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May.2019
Community Games Athletics Event, May 6th Galway City East Community Games Athletics Event, plus Long Puck (Poc Fada) & fun activities, takes place on May 6th (Bank Holiday Monday) at Renmore Pitc ...
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May.2019
We are really looking forward to our communion on Saturday, May 11th at 11am. Here is a note about the communion, a note about the seating arrangements and a note for the choir. Click on the photos to ...
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May.2019
The chicks we hatched in school three weeks ago have really grown. Look at them now! ...
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Apr.2019
An interesting question. After much discussion we decided that a candle would need air to burn and that without air the candle would go out. We sugggested how to do this using the materials that we ha ...
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Apr.2019
We made lovely bunnies, baskets, Easter eggs, ducks and other Easter objects out of clay. They look so nice when they are painted! ...
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Apr.2019
Remember the hen’s eggs from March 25th. http://junior.renmoreschool.com/hens-eggs/ The first egg hatched this morning and we have one beautiful fluffly yellow chick. Another egg has a hole in i ...
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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! ...
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Apr.2019
We had a marvellous music workshop with Lucinda Geoghegan. It was a master class so some other music teachers watched us having our class. We learned about rhymes, songs, rhythm, rounds and music wi ...
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Apr.2019
We had some very interesting discussions today. First of all the materials for an investigation were shown to the children and they had to predict what the investigation might be about. Many guessed ...
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Apr.2019
Lucky Duck (and Teddy) are our classroom toys. They go home each night with a student who looks after them well, and lets them join in the child’s life for a night. At school they help us pract ...
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Apr.2019
One of our students got a present of a mini-bible. It is so small that she was not sure whether it was written in English or in another language, and if it actually made sense. We decided to try readi ...
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Apr.2019
Here is a draft of the school’s Digital Learning Plan. Feedback, comments and suggestions are welcome. Scoil Chaitríona Junior National School Digital Learning Plan 2018 ...
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Apr.2019
Áine Mc Dermott came to visit us in school today. She represented us in bowling in the recent special olympics in Abu Dabi in Dubai. She won a gold olympic medal for bowling after getting four strikes ...
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Mar.2019
Ms. McLoughlin’s class finished reding Eoin Colfer’s book: The Legend of Spud Murphy. It was wonderful. We even wrote a book report on it. We would love to read more of Eoin Colfer’ ...
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Mar.2019
We were delighted to have a visit from two wonderful Cloud Solutions Engineers. They work with HP (Hewlett Packard) in Galway, and have very intersting jobs. Aaron told us all about cloud computing an ...
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Mar.2019
We are delighted to be having a book fair in our school. Lots of books to look at, to buy and to read. Open to Mums and Dads before and after school each day. WE LOVE READING!!! ...
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Mar.2019
Ms. McGrath brought some eggs to school from her farm. There are 18 eggs, which we hope will hatch in 3 weeks time, just before the Easter break. The eggs are in an incubator to keep them warm and m ...
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Mar.2019
It was a lovely day for planting cress, lettuce, chives, turnips and carrots. We are looking forward to watching them grow! ...
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Mar.2019
All second classes had a wonderful dental workshop from Helen Murphy today. We learned all about teeth and the best way to brush them and to keep them healthy. We didn’t realise that there is so ...
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Mar.2019
Our school is holding our annual book fair all next week. Please feel free to browse or buy. ...
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Mar.2019
Each of us had to bring one piece of fruit and one vegetable to school today. We used our senses to look at, to touch, to smell and to taste each piece. Before we tasted the food we classified them in ...
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Mar.2019
Are you looking for fun and excitement during the Easter Holidays. Why not sign up for a fun Easter Camp? ...
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Mar.2019
We are learning about how sounds are made and how they travel to the ear. We are learning all about how our ears look and how they work. We can make funny sounds with balloons, grass and plastic. Ther ...
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Mar.2019
We used forks to print the beards on our leprechauns. The special thing about our leprechauns is that every single one is different and special, just like us! ...
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Mar.2019
Mar chuid de Seachtain na Gaeilge, thug Rang a dó cuairt ar Gaelscoil Dara. Bhí am iontach againn an, ag breathnú ar a dráma: An tAsarlaí ó Oz. Chuir muid ár dráma Tír gan Sorcas ar an stáiste don ua ...
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Mar.2019
We are focusing on money and on change at the moment. We also enjoy tangrams and working with 3D shapes. ...
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Mar.2019
Nursery rhymes, dictionary skills, writing skills and work were adjectives were all on today’s agenda. ...
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Mar.2019
We had a really really interesting talk from an electrical engineer dad in our class today. He works for Valeo vision company that designs and manufactures cameras for cars (to improve safety). We got ...
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Mar.2019
Here are some videos from different perspectives showing how important we feel it is to be learning skills in science, technology, engineering and maths. Students: Teachers: Parents: ...
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Mar.2019
We made a fizzy bomb with bread soda, vinegar, warm water and a zip loc bag. Can you figure out how we did it? ...
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Mar.2019
Our final challenge for Engineers Week was to build the tallest toothpick tower we could. We found a sample of this in our Engineers Week booklet, but since we had only toothpicks instead of spaghetti ...
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Mar.2019
Today we planted potatoes from seed potatoes, strawberries from run