Category Archives: Activities
Olympic Handball
Boys and girls from 3rd up to 6th class have been busy practicing their Olympic handball skills at break times. We had practice matches against Carlow Educate together to help us prepare for the regional competition on February 8th.
Olympic Movement Breaks
Over the past 4 weeks all classes have been participating in the Dare to Believe Olympic Movement Breaks. Every day a Team Ireland Olympic ambassador guided us through their fun and engaging challenge. The active break made us feel great and we found we were able to focus better on our work afterwards.
Halloween Scavenger Hunt
We really enjoyed the Halloween scavenger hunt around the school. Thanks to the Active School committee for organising this and to Ms. Kenny’s 4th class who helped us on the day.
Science Week in 2nd Class! 👩🔬🧑🔬
We started celebrating Science Week by conducting a couple of experiments!
Firstly, we are looking at how water travels through plants. We filled clear plastic cups with water filled with food colouring and included celery. Each group has their own sample and we drew a line to show the water line. Over the week we will watch how much water the plants will absorb and how it’ll travel through the plant using the red and Green food colouring!
Our second experiment so far was seeing how to create lava lamps! We filled two jugs with water and food colouring. We added vegetable oil, then we got to the fun part! To create a chemical reaction, we added effervescent alka-seltzer tablets to the mixture to create lava lamps! We couldn’t believe it when we saw it!
We will be conducting more experiments throughout the week for science week!