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Golden Time Room 2

02/10/2025 /

The children  in Room 2 have been working very well since returning to school and each week they look forward to Golden Time.  One of our favourite Golden Time activities so far this year has been making chocolate hats. We used just three ingredients  – chocolate, marshmallows and sprinkles.  They were delicious!

 

Another Golden Time activity was a nature walk to the ATU. We took advantage of the last of the summer sunshine and had great fun spotting signs of Autumn. We found leaves of different colours, acorns, pine cones, berries and wild mushrooms.

 

  

Abbvie STEM prize winners

29/09/2025 /

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.



Maths Week 2024

26/11/2024 /

To celebrate Maths Week 2024, third class invited parents to come in and play some Maths games. We had great fun together!

The children also enjoyed large Maths games in the school hall.

Growing Caterpillars and plants in our classroom.

14/05/2023 /

In Junior Infants, we have enjoyed watching our caterpillars grow into beautiful butterflies. When they arrived first they were tiny caterpillars, as they ate the food in their tub, they grew into big caterpillars. Then we watched as they changed into the chrysalis stage and then finally they turned into beautiful butterflies. We gave them some oranges before releasing them outside.

We also watched our beans and cress seeds growing in the classroom. We learned about the needs of a plant, how they need sunlight, water, air, nutrients and space to grow. We watched to see if they would grow as tall as the beanstalk in the story Jack and the Beanstalk. Have a look at our slideshow of photos and videos below.

3D Shapes in Senior Infants

16/03/2023 /

Senior infants have been working very hard at learning all about 3D shapes. We learned about the properties of the shapes – that means how the shapes are made up.  We learned about a cube, cuboid, sphere and cylinder.

A cube is like a box – because it is 3D, you can pick it up. It has 6 faces which are square in shape, 12 sides and 12 corners. We built cubes using marshmallows and matchsticks. Have a look at our cubes below:

Engineer’s Week in Room 3

09/03/2023 /

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!

 

 

 

Winter in Senior Infants

21/12/2022 /

We have been so busy in Senior Infants across November & December.  Have a look at our video collage of us in action – we learned all about houses and homes, became architects & builders, played as different roles in the family home and designed homes for the three pigs.

We had so much fun as scientists during science week, predicting and experimenting with gummy bears, vegetables and salt density in water and coding with BeeBots. We also made rainbows too!

We were very busy in December preparing for, practising, recording and editing our Christmas concert – We had so much fun! We also got a surprise when Santa arrived in our classroom!!!! And we got to eat some smarties in Maths – we created a block graph to show the data of the smarties in our box – everyone’s block chart was different in the end.

 

 

Bug hunt in Junior Infants

12/12/2022 /

We had great fun going on a bug hunt with Martina Butler from the Heritage in Schools Scheme. Martina came into our classroom and showed us pictures of different types of bugs that we could find around our school. She talked about the different parts of the bugs body, how many legs they have and where they all live. Then we went on a bug hunt around our school. We found snails, slugs, woodlouse and worms. We used bug pots to put our bugs into. Then at the end we let our bugs free to their homes outside.

We also made willow tunnels with Martina. Some of the 6th class children helped us to plant our willow trees and then we twisted the trees together to make a tunnel. It was great fun.

Science week In Junior Infants

12/12/2022 /

In Junior Infants we had great fun during Science week. Here are a few of the experiments we tried out:

Experiment 1: Floating and Sinking

  1. First we predicted which objects would float or sink when placed in water. 
  2. Then we tested them out in water to see if our prediction was correct. 

Results: Some objects had air inside them and we learned that the air inside was lighter than the water and that’s why they floated. 

Experiment 2: Skittle colour mixing

  1. We placed the skittles around the edge of a plate in a circle shape.
  2. We poured warm water into the middle of the plate until it reached the sweets.
  3. We watched the colours mix.

Result: The outside of the skittles are made of sugar. When sugar is put into warm water it dissolves. As the colours meet, they mix creating different colours.

Experiment 3: Paper Towel colour mixing

  1. First we put yellow, blue and red food colouring into four separate cups.
  2. Then we added water to each cup.
  3. We used sheets of kitchen towel, folded them and placed one end in one cup and the other end into the other cup.
  4. We then watched what happened.

Result: The water moved up the paper towel because the paper is absorbent. The colour travels with the water, making the kitchen towel change colour from white to red, blue, or yellow. The colours mix when they meet together. Red and blue make purple and blue and yellow make green.

Beebots: 

We had great fun learning how to use the Beebots. We had to key in instructions to make the Beebot move forward, backwards, right, left or turn around. 

  1. We made a maze and directed the Beebots from one side to the other.
  2. We used the shape board to direct the Beebots to different shape colours and sizes.
  3. We used the number ladder to move the Beebots to the different numbers.

We hope you enjoy our experiments.

Biodiversity and Willow Hut Making for Science Week

17/11/2022 /

We were so lucky be working with Martina Butler from the Heritage in Schools Scheme over the past couple of weeks.

Last year, we started our Greenwave project with the aim of developing our outdoor play areas and improving our schoolgrounds to make it a more diverse place for plants and animals.

As part of this and to link with our Greenschool’s programme we are continuing to learn about biodiversity in our area.

Martina has worked with every class in the school on various projects over the past couple of weeks.

We have gone on bug hunts searching for bugs and insects on our schoolground and we have created a biodiversity map of our school grounds.

We are upgrading our bug hotel hoping more bugs are going to come on their holidays.

Last week we constructed some fabulous new willow huts. This is helping our environment by planting more trees but also they will be great place for fun and games when the leaves grow in early March. It was a lot of hard work digging and planting the trees but well worth it!

 

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