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.
We remembered St. Brigid’s Day at the start of February and the children had great fun designing St. Brigid’s Cloak using coloured mosaics! In SESE, the children have been learning about Water. We had great fun learning about the Water Cycle and we learned a poem called “Splish Splosh” The children drew lovely pictures to illustrate this…
Over the past 6 weeks, the children in 3rd class completed projects on various topics of their choice. The topics covered various strands of the S.E.S.E (Social, Environmental and Scientific Education) curriculum. On Tuesday, 28th February, the children stood in front of the whole class and presented their project to the other children. They did…
The senior classes have been learning lots of new information in science in the past few weeks. We looked at electric circuits and discovered how they work. We also looked at forces and fulcrums. We did experiments to see how things can balance in various ways. Here you can see that one coin can balance…
The children in 2nd & 3rd class have been learning about the human body over the past few weeks. As well as learning the names of various bones in the body, they got the opportunity to see inside the human body and learn about the functions of various organs such as the heart and lungs. Above you…
The Junior Classroom have had lots of fun during the first month of 2012. To start off the new year we made our own New Year’s Resolutions! In SESE, we have been learning all about the colours of a rainbow so we made our own colourful “Rainbow Clouds” We then experimented with white light to show how it is…
