The children in 5th Class are participating in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme this year. During the first two weeks of January, each child was asked to generate a business idea to present to his / her group. In mid January, each group selected and researched one entrepreneurial idea to present to the Dragons in the … Read more
The children in 5th Class have started the Junior Entrepreneur Programme and will hope to showcase their own business project at the end of March. They have examined what an entrepreneur is, what an entrepreneur does and what skills an entrepreneur has. They then identified their own strengths and personal qualities and have considered their … Read more
Our Junior Entrepreneur Programme (JEP) pack has arrived and the the children in 5th Class will start the Junior Entrepreneur Programme after Christmas. The Junior Entrepreneur Programme was created to afford primary school children in Ireland the opportunity to embrace entrepreneurship as part of their formative education. Children will use their creativity to come up … Read more
Congratulations to Isobel Gross and Aoife Williams who won our first Intel Mini Scientist Competition on Friday, 25 November with their project “Home Remedies for the Kermit Effect.” The two girls represented the school ably at the regional finals in Leixip on Friday, 9 December. Well done too to Jenny O’ Brien and Betty O’ … Read more
The children in 5th Class had great fun trying to splitting white light into the colours of the rainbow.
During Maths Week in October, Anna, Andrew, Sienna and Christian S. from 6th Class designed a Maths Trail quiz for 5th Class to solve. Great fun was had by everyone in the class and we needed a tie-breaker question to establish the winners-Ethan, Emma, Harry and Ella. Many thanks to Mrs. Mc Connell & our … Read more
We ‘climbed’ some of the highest mountains in Europe during our ‘Climb the Heights Skipping Challenge’ in September. Well done, everyone! Have a look at us in action.
5th Class has had an amazing time during Active School Week. The children attended Tug of War and First Responders Workshops; undertook the Million Step Challenge and the Glo Health Mile Challenge; enjoyed dodgeball, rounders and a basketball blitz with 6th Class; loved the gymnastics display by First Class and loved sharing their own interests … Read more
After studying the Great Famine (An Gorta Mór), the children designed and constructed replica coffin ships. Have a look at some of their work.