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. 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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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. ...

Thanks to Mrs. Halliday we got to see some delicious autumn apples. We learned a lot about apples, pips, how apples get damaged in the fall, and what you can use apples for. Apples are a healthy food, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

We had fun playing literacy games.  These help us with our reading, our writing and our decoding skills. ...

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 ...

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. ...

We made our own faces in 3D.  This was a fun project! Look at our amazing pictures: ...

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 ...

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. ...

Look at our amazing clay selfies. We love working with clay! ...

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 ...

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. ...

Look what we can design and make with Kappla, Knex, Dominoes and building blocks. ...

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/ ...

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 ...

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. ...

Lots and lots of nice paintings in our classroom. Here’s what we feel about being back to school: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congratulations! Today is your day From all of us at Scoil Chaitríona Junior June 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 ...

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:   ...

  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 ...

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 ...

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   ...

Like to try a quiz? Maybe you can win one of the daily €20 book voucher prizes!     ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looking for something interesting to do over the Easter Holidays? ...

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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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 ...

Look at the leprechauns we made for St. Patrick’s Day. They make such a cute little leprechaun family! ...

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 ...

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 ...

  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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The children in Ms. Cunningham’s class are wonderful engineers. Look at the amazing marshmallow structures they made yesterday for engineers week. ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Look at the video we made after our workshops with Lara Luxardi on Climate Change: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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! ...

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 ...

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! ...

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!   ...

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 ...

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: ...

We have made collage heart cards and clay tea-light holders for the special people in our lives! Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

We are learning about polar bears. We have made lovely polar bear collage pictures. ...

We are learning lots on our iPads. ...

Amazing cake and Happy Birthday wishes! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 are able to sequence the story of Christmas.  We did a great job colouring and sequencing the story. ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

We are learning about healthy eating. We are learning through play, with lots of interesting facts and true/false questions. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!   ...

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. ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you know that you can get a bottle to talk to you?  All you need is a bottle full of very cold water and warm hands. Spill out the water.  The bottle looks empty but it isn’t.  It is full of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

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. ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Liam Mellows hurling club is playing in the County Final this Sunday. We wish them the very best of luck. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

We love Halloween and we love art.  Great combination! ...

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 ...

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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 ...

We love drumming! ...

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: ...

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 ...

Look at the beautiful book made and illustrated by a child in our class: ...

We used fabric to make these wonderful scarecrows! ...

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. ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s what we wrote and drew about our open day yesterday: Surveys from our Open Days can  be read here: ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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We have signed up for Maths Week 2019. We can’t wait to get involved! ...

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 ...

We love using counters and 10 frames to help us with our maths. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are great at making things.  We designed and made some rockets at home: ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We used bicycle pumps and Rokit kits to launch our projectiles. This was really really exciting!   ...

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! ...

We had a wonderful drumming session with Barra and Brian. We are so good at rhythms and at drumming! ...

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

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!) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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! ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long ago castles were protected by drawbridges and moats. People in the castles were worried about attacks from other armies who used bows and arrows or giant catapults to damage the castle and kill t ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is your child making First Holy Communion in May 2020 If so, you are invited to: ...

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. ...

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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We love doing literacy and numeracy activities in teams. A big Thank You to Ms. Kearney who joins us for our team activities. ...

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 ...

We really enjoy some Golden Time on a Friday afternoon. It is especially fun to have this time outside if the weather is nice ...

We use 2D shapes (squares, circles, triangles and rectangles) to make interesting 3Dbuildings and constructions! ...

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 ...

We used oil pastels to colour Picasso (cubist) style self portraits. We are very proud of our work! ...

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We went on a materials hunt in our school grounds today. We love investigating our surroundings! ...

Are you interested in singing and dancing? Then read on: ...

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 ...

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 ...

We tried orienteering today for PE. We loved hiding the clues, finding the flags and working out the puzzles.   ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Note for first and second classes: ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Wondering what to do during the summer holidays? Why not sign up for a summer camp? €100 per child, sibling discount available. ...

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 ...

We used a bicycle pump and water to compress air.  This air gave our projectile the power to lift off.  It was very exciting! ...

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

Note about our uniform sale TONIGHT: ...

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 ...

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 ...

We made lovely decorative windmills. Unfortunately they don’t actually work, but they do look nice! ...

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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 ...

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 ...

We made some amazing paper whales, with water squirting out of their blowholes. ...

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 ...

Look at all the exciting things we did in Second Class. We love school! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As part of our seashore theme we made some great octopuses.  They are such good friends…..like us! ...