Category: Engineers Week

Abbvie STEM prize winners

29/09/2025 / smurphy0106

A huge congratulation to 6th class students who took part in the Abbvie STEM prize for 2025 last school term. The aim of the competition was to inspire primary school pupils to think about challenges in their localities and to use skills learned in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math’s to come up with solutions that will make a positive impact. Our School took part in a beach clean up with Flossie and the Beach Cleaners who are a Dublin based environmental group who offer workshops and beach clean up days across the country. The children analyzed the rubbish they had found into categories, made pie charts and used their creative Science minds to design new equipment for younger people who take part in the beach clean ups. We were delighted to heat that we had won the prize of new Science equipment for the school, a fun interactive Science workshop in the school for kids and a funded trip to an SEAI research center as well as a visit to our local Abbvie plant nearby.

Engineer’s Week in Room 3

09/03/2023 / Miss Kivlehan

Everyone in St. Edward’s NS showed their engineering skills this week.

Our engineering challenge was to drop eggs from the top of a truck without breaking them. Something that we had never imagined we could do but we would give it a go and try and rise to this challenge.

First we learned all about the role of an engineer with a talk from engineer, Alan .

In groups we came up with plans and a design on how we could protect the egg from breaking while being dropped. Using a variety of materials we constructed our designs, always keeping in mind the safety of the egg.

Finally, the moment we had been waiting for, putting our contraptions to the test. There was great excitement when then the eggs were being dropped. Due to our great engineering achievements, the majority of eggs, landed in one piece.

Dropping eggs!

Thanks so much to Ms. Quigley for organising this eggsellent challenge and a huge thanks to our engineers Alan, Sean and Caolan also.

We all had a smashing time!

Lego WeDo- The Ark

10/03/2022 / smcgovern7561

Last week Lego WeDo came to the Ark and we had lots of fun following the instructions on our iPad and using coding to make our creations light up, make noise and move!

: Coding

: Colorful Snail!

: Moving Windmill

: Following instruction

: Moving Robot!

Science & Maths Week in Room 3🔬

12/11/2021 / Miss Kivlehan

Every year we look forward to Maths & Science Week and the interesting activities that we get to do.

Maths Week was at the end of October. Maths is an important life skill and we use it everyday, from the time we get up in the morning until we go to bed.

During Maths Week we especially loved doing the Maths Trail outside and making our 3d shapes.

We loved using the Izak 9 cubes. Working in teams is always a great way to solve Maths problems.

During Science Week, we learned about potential and kinetic energy and made our own balloon zipline. Static electricity with balloons was fun to watch and a few people had crazy hair after it!!

Making a Skittle rainbow 🌈 was a colourful way to end the week.

October in the Ark

29/10/2021 / smcgovern7561

What a busy month October has been. We started the month celebrating First Holy Communion in St. Josephs church. Two children from the Ark made their Communion and we had a wonderful day. Congratulations to all the children from 3rd Class.

Communion Art

We celebrated First Holy Communion in class the following Monday with a pizza party. We also two birthdays this month and enjoyed lots of chocolate cake!

We needed to get up and active after all those treats so we set up some circuits for P.E and went for some lovely Autumn nature walks and lovely colorful Autumn leaves.

Coillte in partnership with the Tree Council of Ireland and Spar gifted a Wild White Cherry Tree sapling to the school in honor of National Tree Week. The children from the Ark planted it in courtyard 3 and will transfer it to the green area in the school when it is big enough. We will take great care of it.

We were also quite busy with our school work this month and enjoyed new reading activities, visits to the Library and Math’s Week! We got busy with interactive whiteboard math activities and enjoyed the Math’s Trail organised by Ms Kelly.

The best part of the month was preparing for Halloween! We made lots of beautiful decorations, Tea light candle holders, carved pumpkins, enjoyed Halloween sensory activities and dressed up! So many scary Ghosts and Zombies and Werewolves!

That’s it for this month, looking forward to seeing what November brings!

March in the Ark

31/03/2021 / smcgovern7561

So much fun in the Ark this month, we had lots of activities and special days to keep us busy. We were back a week at the start of March so we were more than ready for some fun!

It started off with Engineers week and we made some great structures with some marshmallows and tooth picks. The added bonus was that we could eat the marshmallows after.