Category Archives: Activities
Leinster Finalists
On Monday March 4th, St. Josephs had 4 teams that travelled up to Gormanstown, Co. Meath to compete in the Olympic Handball Leinster finals. Each of our teams played three matches and showed great skill and team work. A stop into Burger King on the way home was one of the highlights of the day. We look forward to competing again next year.
Green Schools Banner competition
As part of our work towards our Green Schools Travel flag, all students were asked to design a banner that encourages people to help improve the quality of the air for everyone in our school communities.
The winners in St. Joseph’s were:
Insiya Imran – Junior
Eve Kenny – Middle
Chloe Melia – Senior
Eve’s banner was also a national winner!
A representative from Green Schools came to St. Joseph’s to present her with her enlarged, printed banner and a voucher to buy herself plenty of art supplies. Well done Eve!
Run Around Europe
Well done to all classes who began their running/walking challenge on Monday. They will go outside and spend 10 minutes everyday completing laps. These will be added together to reach different places around Europe.
Can Paperclips Float? Why?
2nd class discovered a fascinating fact about water when conducting experiments to test if a paperclip can float by itself. Crazy? After all, it should sink as it is heavier than water!
However, equipped only with the statement that paperclips can float, the children set about testing this hypothesis. They succeeded in doing so and learned that water has a skin (surface tension), which enables paperclips to float. Science is so cool!
Scientists at work!
Success!
Surface tension is the reason water gliders can walk on water. Amazing!
Using straws as “pipettes”, the children also discovered that the skin (surface tension) of water keeps it from spilling over the coin. Instead the water forms a dome shape.