Last week, as part of a historical trip to Mayo, we visited Foxford Woollen Mills. As we had studied the Industrial Revolution and were working on a weaving project using a cardboard loom, we found this trip very interesting indeed. Aoife, our guide, told us a little about the history of the Mills before giving us a…

In History, we have been studying the Industrial Revolution and as we were learning about textiles, fabrics, yarns, spinning, looms, weaving, etc. we decided to complete our own weaving projects. Our first project was a basket. We used different coloured raffia threads to weave around our cardboard basket templates and we completed our baskets by…

In 4th Class, we have been investigating 3D Shapes and Tessellations. We created lots of 3D shapes, namely cube, cuboid, square-based pyramid, triangular-based pyramid, triangular prism, cone and cylinder using matchsticks, cardboard templates and polydron. Then after exploring the 2D shapes which are used to construct 3D shapes, we used pattern blocks to create lots…

On Friday, 10th March, Michael Bell a science and heritage expert visited our school. For the first part of the day, Michael worked with the junior classes and then from 11.30 am. he worked with us. Michael showed us lots of slides featuring images of plant and animal life which can be found in our county….

Earlier this week, we visited The Model, Sligo. While there, we were shown an exhibition of work by an Irish artist named Cléa van der Grijn. This exhibition, entitled “Reconstructing Memory” which includes film, photography, sculpture and paintings seeks to explore the approaches to death in Mexican and Irish cultures. This was a very interesting…

For Engineer’s Week, we visited the IT, Sligo to watch the show “It’s all done with Mirrors”. This show was presented by Dr. Ken who intrigued and delighted us as he blended spectacular magic tricks, illusions and quirky stunts with extraordinary science and engineering. He certainly left us wondering – Could his stunts, magic tricks…

Earlier this month, we spent some time looking at and responding to the work of the artist Paul Klee who was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1879. His father was a German music teacher and his mother was a Swiss singer. As a young boy, Paul started to follow in his parent’s footsteps and train as…

In Third Class, we have been exploring capacity. We gathered lots of different containers (eg. teapots, jugs, cups, glasses, eggcups, bottles, bucket, basin, etc.) and it was fun filling these containers with water and comparing the different capacity of each container. We also explored graduated cylinders and we discovered that 1 litre is equal to 2…