A visit from a Marine Biologist!

We were thrilled to welcome Kady's aunt, Kimberley Cooper, to our school this morning. Kimberley works as a marine biologist in Edinburgh. She spoke to the class about her work, her love of the oceans & about her huge fascination with sharks - an interest sparked first by watching the movie 'Jaws'!

Kimberley also spoke passionately about how we all must take responsibility to look after our oceans by not littering. She also told us about the danger of plastics & micro plastics to our marine life.

A huge thank you to Kimberley for visiting us today.

Working as Scientists with Sinead Douglas!

We were absolutely delighted to welcome Hannah's mum, Sinead to our school today. Sinead is a scientist & lecturer in Maynooth College!

After discussing with the class the nature of her work, she told the class all about DNA, the building blocks of life. 

Then all the class worked as scientists extracting the DNA from bananas...!

Many thanks to Mrs.Douglas for visiting us today. The children learned so much this morning & thoroughly enjoyed discovering what's involved in the work of a biologist.

See the photos of us below as we worked through the experiment.

Hannah & Kady to be featured on the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show!

Hannah & Kady are through to the final of the Moo Crew competition! What a great achievement by the two girls in 6th class.

They will be featured on the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show on Today FM next week.

More information to follow tomorrow...Best of luck girls!

School Milk Song Writing Competition

Well done to Kady & Hannah in 6th class who won a classroom song writing competition!

Their song called 'Early in the Morning' will represent the school in the 'Moo Crew - School Milk Scheme' competition.

You can listen to the song here...

Spelling Bee class winner

Congratulations to Harry who emerged victorious in the recent class spelling bee competition.

Harry will represent the school in the county final next month. Best of luck Harry!

Rocket Power!

As part of the energy & forces strand of the science curriculum, the children designed & constructed a paper rocket. The force used was their lungs using a straw. The children predicted the distance they thought their rocket would travel & then measured & recorded their efforts in the hall.

The overall rocket champion designers were Aaron, Matthew, Conor & Hugo!

Holly Brady has won two medals in athletics!

One for cross country and one on the track. They were both relay races. Her first cross country medal was won for coming in third place with her team. Her second medal was won on the track with her team coming in first place!

Well done Holly!