Nature Walk

Today we went for a lovely nature walk to see if we could spot any changes in the seasons. We were delighted to see that spring is here! There are flowers starting to bloom, new buds on the trees and […]

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Ocean Themed Art

Take a look at our Squid Habitat Dioramas, we made them as part of our Science project based on the theme of ‘Squid.’ As part of this we made some clay sculptures based on squid and other sea creatures. Our […]

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Electricity

This month in Science we focused on Electricity. We had great fun creating simple and complex circuits, testing items to see if they were conductors or insulators and having time to explore the electricity box freely. We included switches and […]

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Explorers Programme – Marine Life

We really enjoyed the Explorers Programme that was delivered to us over two days by Pauric, a marine biologist. Mr. Molloy helped us greatly in class to learn all about the squid in between Pauric’s visits-  the different types of […]

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The dissection of a Squid

Today we had the ‘enjoyment’ of dissecting a Squid 🦑 with the Marine Ocean Programme. There were 8 incisions to be made:10legs, mouth(beak), lenses in the eyes, mantle, pen, ink sack and fins. There was some blood along the way […]

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Space Art

We had great fun in art this week creating the solar system on black card using pastels. We added lots of colour and smudged our drawings for extra effect. Have a look below.

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St Brigid’s Crosses and Spring Art

This week in art we created some St. Brigid’s crosses. We also completed some weaving and followed the instructions on the iPads to help us with the activity. We turned our paper weaves into a vase shape and created some […]

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