Coding and Beebots
We have been very busy recently in the Senior classes learning how to code with Frank from TekCentral. We are lucky to have the chromebooks to use and many of us have tried the coding out at home also. Many
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Heritage in Schools- Week 4
We were so excited to return to the subject of birds this week! We examined some birds' nests and marveled at the feat of engineering that is a bird's nest. We then had a go at creating our own nests-not
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03, 2022
Engineers’ Week 2022
The children in the Senior classes learned all about electrical circuits this week while creating a light-up robot. Thanks to South-East Engineering Festival for supplying the kits for free so that we could all be engineers for a day!
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03, 2022
Meet the Scientist Webinar
Rang 4,5,6 have been attending START webinars recently. Each week we get the opportunity to meet a new scientist and to learn about his/her particular field of work. In the first week we met a data analyst and learned what
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03, 2022
Green-Schools Mapping
We are very excited to be working on the theme of Biiodiversity for the next two years. In January 2022, we began to map the school grounds so that we could get working on a plan for the coming
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06, 2021
S.E.S.E. brought to life in the Junior Room
The Juniors have been very busy in recent weeks with S.E.S.E.. They have been on scavenger hunts, planted peas and sunflowers and conducted science experiments. As you can see from these photos-learning is great fun!
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Art meets Nature in the classroom
Scavenger hunts for natural materials and art classes combined recently to create some wonderful works of art in both classrooms. We were really fortunate in the Senior room to have had a virtual art lesson from Heritage in Schools expert
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06, 2021
Let’s Go Fly a Kite!
Thanks to New Ross Library for the donation of a class set of kites last week. We enjoyed watching the video and learning about the history of flight and then designing our own kites and letting them fly high!
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06, 2021
Reptile Zoo Visit
Many thanks to our Parents'Association for organising a visit from The Reptile Zoo last week. We all enjoyed learning about and seeing at first hand some of the wonderful creatures that Nick brought to Shielbaggan.
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Butterflies in the Junior Room
Oh what excitement there has been in Ms. Sutton's classroom over the past few weeks. They have watched in awe as the eggs hatched into caterpillars and then the butterflies emerged. The butterflies were released last week and we hope
