Sam Maguire Experience
Nature Walk
On Thursday the 21st June junior infants, senior infants and first class went on a nature walk looking out for living and non living things. We were lucky enough to observe lots of wildlife including a ladybird. The children concluded by designing and building a house with what they could find on the floor of the wood.
Sports Day 2018
A big thank you to Suzanne Black for taking the lovely photos for our sports day. It was a really enjoyable day and a great end to the year.
Active Schools Week
We have been having a great time this week during our first Active Schools Week. 6th Class have been enjoying a week of sailing in the RCYC while Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class have all been finishing their exciting week of swimming. On Monday we had Tennis as well as well as lots of Physical Activity breaks during the day. Tuesday we had Sarah and Isaacs dad come in and teach us Athletics which was great fun while on Wednesday we started the day off with a Walk on Wednesday stroll from the tennis courts. Over the last few weeks the children have been learning lots of new dances in Physical Education (PE) and we had a school performance of ‘The Cuckoo Song’, ‘Siege of Ennis’, ‘Walls of Limerick’ and ‘The Nutcracker’. Thursday was our Walk for Water trip, which saw the whole school going on a walk to raise awareness and funds. They walked to the community centre where everyone filled up 1lt, 2lt, 3lt, and even 5 lt bottles of water and walked back up to school. Below are just a selection of the photos from our fantastic Active Schools Week and thank you to everyone who took part and helped out. For more information on the Active School Flag, check out the tabs above under activities.
6th Class Sailing
Walk for Water
Today to link in with Active Week all classes participated in a Walk for Water to raise awareness of water shortages in certain parts of the world. The children carried water to highlight and experience the journey travelled every day by women and children to access clean water. The money raised will be donated to a C.M.S. project in Kajiado, Kenya.
Rumley’s Open Farm
Dancing with the parrot
J.E.P
Over the past months 5th. and 6th. classes have taken part in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme. They have just had their show case day, when the finished product “My Pet Blob” was for sale.
They also made presentations and showed videos they had made, to all the children and parents, on the various steps from the idea to the end product.
Water Experiments
This week each classroom held a science experiment showcase for all the other classes based on the theme of water.
Experiments included floating and sinking, optical illusions, the use of a siphon to transport liquid, water travelling through absorption, surface tension, the density of water and
it’s attraction to electricity.
3rd Class did a presentation on water pollution and read out poems they had written on the theme saving our rivers. They demonstrated how water can be cleaned using a filtration system. The finale in the middle classroom was the reaction of substances to create elephant’s toothpaste.
The senior classroom demonstrated the affects of water pollution on the environment and wildlife. They demonstrated an oil spill and it’s clean up. They proved that water may be polluted even though it does not look polluted.
They made a tornado in a bottle, demonstrated refraction and chromatography.
School Garden
Today every child planted either a potato or an onion in the school garden. These will be harvested when the children return in September.
