Engineer’s Week
Mr. Murray’s Fifth class enjoying Enginneers Week 2019
Nollaig Shona from our Green Schools Committee
“Don’t trash where we splash” The Green School Committee are hoping to obtain their 8th and final Green School Flag this coming school year. They organised an A4 Poster competition on our new theme ‘Marine Environment’ which focuses on raising awareness of marine eco-systems and the work being done to save them. All classes took [...]
STEAM Projects in Rang III
Pupils in my class completed very interesting projects involving Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. Each group planned, constructed and decorated a marble run at least 1.5m long and the marble had to enter the top of a bottle positioned at the bottom of the run. It was a very creative, enjoyable and fun project [...]
Mr. Burns Rang a Trí Explorers Education Programme
Pupils of Rang a III participated in the Explorers Education Programme and completed projects to raise awareness on the dangers of plastic in the oceans, seas and the rocky shore. Each pupil created plastic fishes using plastic collected from the seas and beaches around Clare. The pupils also created their own sea gardens and learned [...]
Garda Visit to Junior Infants
There was great excitement in Junior Infants on Wednesday morning when Garda David paid a visit to our class. He drove into the junior yard in the Garda van. Garda David told the children all about his uniform. The children tried on his Garda hat and vest. Garda David put his handcuffs on all the [...]
Green Flag Celebrations
This morning, Róisín Garvey from An Taisce joined us to celebrate a seventh Green Flag being awarded to the school for our work on the Global Citizenship:Energy theme. The Chairperson and Secretary of our Committee, John and Lyndsay, spoke about our work to date. Róisín was thanked for her advice and support. She was also [...]
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Maths)
Take a look at our most recent STEAM project! The children's task involved working in groups to construct a ramp from which a toy car could be launched. The toy car had to jump a gap of at least 10 cm after leaving the ramp. Initial plans were drawn up before the children set to [...]
Global Citizenship: Marine Environment
Members of the Green-Schools Committee are currently working towards the school's eight flag- Global Citizenship: Marine Environment. This theme focuses on the importance of looking after our marine environment and the changes we can make in order to have a positive global effect on the marine environment. The children are looking forward to speaking at [...]
Visit to Ross and Rhinevilla beaches…Plastic Rubbish Collection & Marine Exploration GalleryVisit to Ross and Rhinevilla beaches…Plastic Rubbish Collection & Marine Exploration
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Visit to Ross and Rhinevilla beaches…Plastic Rubbish Collection & Marine Exploration
Some beaches across Ireland are left in dire conditions with discarded plastic items strewn in every direction. As part of raising civic responsibility and awareness in our pupils about the dangers and quantity of plastic waste on our beautiful beaches, our Rang VI pupils visited some Clare beaches, namely Ross Beach and Rhinevilla Beach, to [...]
Lus Gréine
Léamar scéal faoi lus gréine sa leabhar Gaeilge ar an Luan. Mar sin, shocraigh orainn síolta lus gréine a fhás sa ghairdín na scoile. Cheannaigh an múinteoir mála síolta agus chuireamar síolta lus gréine sa talamh inniu. Tá comórtas ar siúl sa rang anois - Cé leis an lus gréine is airde? Beimid ag féachaint [...]