3rd Class

3rd Class would like to introduce you to today’s act of kindness…. Pay someone a compliment! Day4

Our first STEM/Maker Space challenge this year was to design a house that ‘An Mac Tíre Gránna‘ the Big Bad Wolf couldn’t blow down. We were challenged to make a structure out of matchsticks and marshmallows, not your typical building materials! We sketched our initial design, built and tested the structure against the force of … Read more

Our 2nd STEM challenge was to build the tallest freestanding tower. It had to stand for at least 10 seconds unaided. The groups got to work with gusto. Some teams, layered their paper, while others rolled and stacked.                                   … Read more

Thursday 3rd December 3rd Class would like to introduce today’s act of kindness….. Day3 – Say hello to someone new!

3rd Class Kindness Advent Calendar 3rd Class would like to invite you all to participate in our 22 day advent calendar challenge. Each day a child from 3rd Class will share a random act of kindness that we ask everyone in our school community to carry out. We’re hoping that this will help to spread … Read more

Maths week saw 3rd class undertaking a hunt for 3-D shapes around the school grounds. We also watched some Maths magic on Maths TV, learning some calculator tricks of our own. We tallied the different colour cars that passed the school gate over a 10 minute period. We challenged those at home to the age … Read more

3rd Class took advantage of the good weather in September to collect natural objects to create Mandalas, which we subsequently used as inspiration for our printing in Art.  

3rd Class had a spook-tastic day at Ghoul School on Thursday. Not only did we get to parade around the school in our costumes, we also created our own moveable skeletons, competed in the Best Mummy competition, performed dance routines to the Ghostbuster theme tune and teepeed the teacher! Rough day at the office! And … Read more

Congratulation to Ms. Murphy and 3rd class for their performance of ‘Silent Night’. The children showed great acting, strength and courage on the night. A thoroughly enjoyable performance!