Science is taught as part of SESE (Social, Environmental and Scientific Education) and is integrated with geography and history. We enjoy doing experiments with the children and sometimes we participate in science workshops such as the “Discover Science” programme in the Discovery Park in Castlecomer.
Summer is here at last and during the month of May, the children in the Junior Classroom have been busy in all subject areas. In SPHE, the children drew pictures of what their “Senses” look forward to in the Summer! The taste of ice cream was a definite favourite!! We have also been learning about…
The Junior Classroom visited the Discovery Park earlier this month to observe and record aspects of nature around them in early Summer! We saw “white candles” on the Horse Chestnut Trees! There were beautiful bluebells to greet us along our way! We saw wild mushrooms, cow parsley, some minibeasts, a gaggle of geese and we…
Although we are only in school for two weeks of April we have been busy in the Senior classes! In science we looked at different water birds found in Ireland. We had fun looking at videos of gannets diving into the ocean. We also learned about Mute, Whooper and Bewick’s Swans, cormorants, oystercatchers, dunlins and herring…
As always we have been working very hard in the Senior Room during the month of March. We’ve completed lots of work in different areas. In English we finished reading our novel ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ by Marita Conlon-McKenna. We really enjoyed it as it was based during The Great Famine, a topic we also…
During February, the Junior Classroom have been learning all about light and colour. We first looked through a prism to see that white light is made up of many colours. Can you see the rainbow colours? The children then made their own Colour Wheels and had fun spinning them on their pencils to blend the colours back…
