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 Therese again today. It was so lovely to be able to express ourselves throu ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bíonn an-craic ag Lucky Duck sa bhaile agus ar scoil linn! Seo cara new do Lucky Duck. Go raibh maith agat Mia! ...

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 ...

Is breá linn dánta agus amhráin Gaeilge! ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

We were delighted to welcome artist Therese to our class today. Therese will work with us to create artwork that reflects our close relationship with our ocean. This theme ties in so well with this ye ...

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 ...

We are reading a story about teeth. Here are lovely toothy monsters we made in art. ...

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 ...

Such amazing costumes for Halloween this year in Room 9! We had such a fun day!   ...

We had great fun at drama time with Ms. O’Connor in the hall today. Lots of fun for Halloween! ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are celebrating autumn and Halloween by designing and making our own boxes or pictures. We are very proud of them. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Here’s our final survey of the week for Maths Week 2022. We have had fun doing these surveys. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Look at the 3D construction structures we are making this Maths week! ...

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 ...

Lucky Duck has a new Halloween costume. He looks adorable. Is púca é. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

We are enjoying reading stories and books about space, rockets and our solar system. Here are some of the books we are reading. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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? ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to Mrs. Daly’s puppy “Moose” who likes to visit us from time to time. ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are very good at designing, problem solving and making.  Engineers in the making! ...

Look at the very cute Conker man made specially for our class. ...

Look at the lovely portraits we made in art today. We are very proud of our pictures. ...

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 ...

We have been talking about how to stop germs from spreading. 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 g ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wishing all our  pupils, parents and staff wonderful summer holidays 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! ...

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. ...

All of our first classes went to the Eye Cinema today to see Lightyear. It was absolutely wonderful and we enjoyed it tremendously. ...

We had an amazing day, in amazing weather.  Best tour day EVER! ...

Well done to all our students from 2nd Class who represented our school so well in the Renmore Corpus Christi parade.  ...

Wishing all our Dads (and Grandads) the Very Best Father’s Day ever! ...

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 ...

A huge “WELL DONE” to the students who represented us so well in the Chity Sports yesterday. We are so proud of you! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

We are enjoying summer.  Today we painted lovely sea paintings. ...

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 ...

In keeping with our marine theme, we made mermaids and mermen. We would love to really see a mermaid sometime! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

We are talking about things that live in the sea. Today we made lovely chalk drawings of all these creatures. Have a look: ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Here are the beautiful spring wreaths and the sailboats we made in class last week. ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asking questions, finding answers, helping each other. Education at its best! ...

Look at the lovely spring poems that we have written. ...

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 ...

We have learned how to take part in orienteering challenges.  We love looking for clues and solving the puzzles. ...

We have had a lot of fun making toilet roll chicks, fork printed chicks and translucent easter eggs. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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! ...

Look at the wonderful boat I designed and made at home. ...

We had great fun playing Easter games:- Bunny, bunny, Easter Bunny…Egg and Spoon race with Easter challenges….Save the Bunny from the Fox. ...

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 ...

We have made some lovely Easter chick cards.  We are really looking forward to Easter. Easy to make easter card ...

We made some lovely bouquets just to show our mums how much we love you! ...

Look at the wonderful car made from fruit.  It is definitely good enough to eat! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Look at the lovely leprechauns we made from recycled toilet roll inserts. They are very cute! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We made beautiful 3D cherry blossom paper trees.  Cherry blossom flowers are a sign of spring. We love spring! ...

Look what we discovered when we took our learning outside on such a lovely day. Which signs of spring can you spot? ...

We planted strawberries, potatoes and lots of seeds today. We were good at measuring exactly 100mls of water for our soil to expand. ...

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/ ...

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We went on a “Signs of Spring” walk to see what we could see. Look at what we found: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have been reading a story about a circus. We made some lovely clowns and are going to share their story with QR codes. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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& ...

Soldiers from our local army barracks were practising today ahead of the centenary celebrations on Sunday next. We had a look at the instruments in the band and we were fascinated watching the soldier ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We love making words and we love playing board games. It is great fun when we can do both at the same time! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Wishing all our pupils, our parents and our staff all the best for 2022! ...

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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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have made some lovely art for Christmas. ...

We have designed and made our own Christmas/Winter boxes. They look AMAZING! ...

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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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We love learning through play. ...

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! ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Look at the amazing fire breathing dragons that we made! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

  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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

We have been learning a lot about teeth. Today we made our own toothy monsters. They look lovely, but some are scary too! ...

There were some very strange characters around our school today. Who do you recognise? ...

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Don’t we look amazing! Well done to all the  mums and dads for such great costumes. We had a wonderful day! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We really enjoyed our walk around Renmore, dressed up in our wonderful costumes! ...

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 ...

We love the old-time-favourite “Snakes and Ladders”.  We are really enjoying Maths Week 2021! ...

We had fun today printing pumpkins, bats and ghosts and also painting our own original Halloween paintings! ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s our survey of the day.  We love having our say!       ...

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 ...

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 ...

HAPPY   MATHS  WEEK 2021 Enjoy a maths trail around our school. ...

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 ...

HAPPY   MATHS  WEEK 2021 Enjoy playing Target Board Maths ...

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:/ ...

We thoroughly enjoyed coding with Star Wars today. After 5 days of coding on the tablets, we are becoming quite expert at coding. ...

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 ...

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! ...

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. ...

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? ...

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. ...

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 ...

It is SPACE WEEK. We have designed trendy and functional astronaut suits! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We had fun launching different types of air projectiles and elastic projectiles.  Some were more impressive than others. ...

We are really enjoying learning about space. Today teacher read us some of this book. We really loved the story. Happy Space Week 2021! ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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: ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Look at the gorgeous books by Morgan O’Brien that we have been reading in class. They are simply adorable! ...

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! ...

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 ...

We love hands-on activities. Look at what we made! ...

We launched our air powered projectiles (rockets) today.  It was very exciting. ...

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 ...

We love art.  Today we made some funny faces with movable eyes. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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! ...

Look at the number of potatoes that we harvested from the little potatoes we planted last Spring. ...

Wishing you all a wonderful summer holiday. See you on August 30th! ...

We are really enjoying playing educational games (linked to our school website http://junior.renmoreschool.com/links/) on the school tablets. ...

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 ...

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! ...

Here is a letter with details for you child going to 3rd class: ...

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. ...

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 ...

To all our Dads and people who are special to us…….”Have a Whale of a Day Today!” ...

Happy Father’s Day to our very special Dads and also to the many other people we love so much! ...

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 ...

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! ...

We have seen lots of bees in the flowers recently. Here are lots more bees in their beehives (made with bubble wrap prints!) ...

We made lovely collages showing the stages of a butterfly’s lifecycle.  Eggs, Caterpillars, Chrysalis, Butterfly. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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We have used paper plates, paint, lolly sticks, glue and coloured paper to make some gorgeous fish, and also some boats that bob along in the water.  They look so nice! ...

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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! ...

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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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/ ...

We designed and made some beautiful African necklaces. Then we wrote some wonderful stories about “The African Necklace”. We love being creative! ...

We love being outside in the gorgeous weather. We are getting very good at bat and ball games. ...

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 ...

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 ...

We love having a chance to try out our engineering skills on a Friday afternoon. Look at the wonderful things we made today. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are learning about Africa. Today we looked at African animals and then we made our own clay animals from Africa. They look great! ...

Enjoy the holidays! ...

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 ...

We enjoyed painting fun, colourful Easter paintings. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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&# ...

We used forks to help us print hair and beards on our leprechauns. ...

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 ...

We love reading online with Epic books www.getepic.com We have now read 500 books since Christmas! Teacher is so proud! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We wish all of you – students, parents and staff a very safe, happy and successful 2021! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 ...

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Beautiful artwork in Room 9! ...

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. ...

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 ...

Look at the beautiful Christmas stain glass stars that we have made.  They are translucent.  They look so good on our windows! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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We love having a chance to have our say.  We also love chatting about the choices that were made in our class. ...

Here are fantastic Christmas snowmen that we made from paper. ...

Look at what I discovered….If I shake my new bottle and then let it settle, I get a fabulous tornado in a bottle. ...

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 ...

Look at what Fools’ Gold looks like under the microscope! We love looking at familiar things under the class digital microscope. ...

We all looked so festive today in our Christmas jumpers. We loved our visit from Santa and Mrs. Clause too. ...

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. ...

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 ...

We made some wonderful paper plate Santas today. They are so cheerful and fun.    ...

We loved reading this story in class.  We are so pleased that all children, boys and girls can play soccer so well! ...

We made beautiful Christmas angels. We hope to finish decorating them later this week. Here’s where teacher found the simple directions: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the novel we are reading in class. We are absolutely fascinated with the Irishman Tom Crean, his adventures in the Antarctic and the race to be the first person to reach the South Pole.. We pa ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pop Medley 2021     Choreography 2021 Instrumental ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is the season for coughs and colds (hopefully not Covid!). 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are some of the things we love about Science Week 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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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!   ...

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 ...

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: ...

Look at the fabulous prop I made for Halloween. It looks so realistic. I love designing and making things! ...

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Such a strange bunch in Scoil Chaitríona Junior this year! ...

Such wonderful costumes in Room 9! ...

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 ...

We are really good at sounding out words, real and nonsensical.  We really enjoying playing board games that let us use these reading skills. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

We had fun making Halloween puppets. They are not so scary! ...

Halloween is a great time to learn all about skeletons and the bones of the body. We also enjoyed learning about “guts”! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We really enjoy coding with Bee Bots.   ...

  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 ...

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 ...

We had fun colouring in the hope that our class will win a Supermacs Pizza Party. Wish us luck! ...

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 ...

We made some spooky spiders for Halloween. Some of them have very interesting webs! ...

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 ...

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 ...

Look at the fabulous rocket I made at home! ...

Look at the skeleton of a sea urchin and the coral that we were shown in class today. Fabulous!   ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We had fun launching different types of air projectiles.  Some were more impressive than others. Even our deputy principal, Mr. Cunningham, joined in! ...

We had fun launching balloon projectiles during SPACE WEEK.  We even tested can the balloon fly uphill (it can!) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

We loved marbling paper with oil based paints floating on water. We made really lovely patterns. We will use this patterned paper to make something nice. Here’s what we used the marbled paper fo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We use 2 litre bottles and a bicycle pump to launch water rockets. The launches are extremely exciting! ...

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 ...

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 ...

We really enjoyed trying out some space experiments on Friday. Here are some of the reports we wrote and the pictures we drew! ...

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 ...