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Lego Spike

We've had a few wonderful days using Lego Spike. Have a look: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGg2DRlecc/8QWWjVJ6h2kolAmHtWtXvw/watch?utm_c...

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Mar 5, 20251 min read

County Sligo

We have learned about Sligo in geography by researching facts. The website choose Sligo has lots of interesting information about places...

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Feb 27, 20251 min read

SESE: Castles

We have learned a lot about the Normans, their lives and their castles over the past few weeks. We also learned about a local castle-...

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Feb 24, 20251 min read

Tanzania 🇹🇿

We have been learning about Tanzania over the past two weeks. When we were learning about rocks and minerals we learned about tanzanite....

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Feb 13, 20251 min read

An t-Earrach

Tá píosaí scríofa againn ar bhileoga agus tá siad le feiceáil sa seomra ranga. Nach bhfuil siad go hálainn? 🪹 🪺 🐣🌿🦔🐦‍⬛

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Feb 12, 20251 min read

Safer Internet Day 2025

Today we did two of the webwise lessons on internet safety day. The first was all about the world wide web 🌐 The second was about...

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Feb 11, 20251 min read

The Aztecs

We were learning in history about the Aztec people who lived long ago in Mexico. It was very interesting to hear about their games, foods...

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Jan 30, 20251 min read

Drama

Today we worked in pairs finding the differences between two pictures. The kitchen was in an awful mess! We had to decide what happened...

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Jan 30, 20251 min read

SESE: Materials

Today we did an exercise in science- exploring materials. We talked about materials being flexible or inflexible. We had to feel an...

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Jan 22, 20251 min read

An Chéad Nollaig

Tá na leabhair scríofa againn. Nach bhfuil siad go hálainn?

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Dec 18, 20241 min read

Christmas trees 🌲

Yesterday we made Christmas trees using paper doilies. We had to cut them so they would fold into a cone shape. We used pipe cleaners as...

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Dec 18, 20241 min read

Winter Display ❄️

We have all finished weaving and the trees look fantastic on display!

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Dec 18, 20241 min read

Santa

Today we entertained Santa by singing a song 🎵 Then he gave us presents 🎁

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Dec 16, 20241 min read

Christmas in other countries

Today we used the chrome books to research Christmas traditions in other countries. We looked at Greece 🇬🇷, Australia 🇦🇺, Italy 🇮🇹...

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Dec 10, 20241 min read

Rehearsals!

We are busy rehearsing for the shows on Wednesday. We can't wait to perform 😍

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Dec 9, 20241 min read

Rock and Minerals

We have been learning about rocks and how they were formed 🪨 We also learned about Moh's scale- how hard or soft a rock is. We used the...

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Dec 2, 20241 min read

Experiment

Today Zoë, Ciaran and Máire brought in containers and we made 'telephones' in science. We could hear sounds along the strings but they...

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Nov 28, 20241 min read

New Display

Last week we painted paper plates 🎨 They will be the background to our woven Christmas trees 🎄 As you can see, everyone was...

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Nov 23, 20241 min read

One Dog and his Boy

We are reading the novel One dog and his boy by Eva Ibbotson. There are many breeds of dog in the book. We researched a dog and then...

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Nov 15, 20241 min read

Playground Games

Tomás showed us a new way to warm up. Then we played some games: Switch. Bean bag throw (and then 2 bags!) Map cones- following a map to...

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Oct 24, 20241 min read