Award of Science and Maths Excellence: September 2014

Step 1: Science

(6 hands-on science investigations)
Living Things

A hedgehog in autumn

A lamb in our class

Learning about our lungs

Learning about pets
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Coloured daffodils
Tadpoles in our school
A hen and chicks in school
Using our senses
Our caterpillars have arrived
Planting seeds
Featuring: Ms Halliday's, Ms. Needham's, Ms. McLoughlin's, Ms. McCaul's and Ms.Ferguson's classes

Energy and Forces

Making straw rockets

Foam rockets: construction and flying league

Magic magnets

Making rainbows and shadows

Our eyes are playing tricks

Mixing colours of light

Colour spinners

Separating colours

Working with electricity
All about moving air
More about moving air
Toys that use air to move
All about bubbles
Floating and sinking
Floating boats
Making levers
Sound and hearing
Dangers of sound
More investigations with sound
Sound in Ms. Flaherty's class
Featuring: Ms. McLoughlin's and Ms.Connolly's classes

Materials

Waterproof umbrellas

Investigating materials: Pass the Parcel

Waterproof? Yes or No
Mopping up spills
Raw or cooked eggs
Red cabbage, acids and caring for our teeth
Investigating coats
Solid or liquid gloop?
Featuring: Ms. Flaherty's, Ms. McLoughlin's and Ms. Small's classes

Environmental awareness and care

Tidy Towns: Best School Garden Award 2014

Gardening in Ms. Small & Ms. Lally's class

Gardening in Ms. Connolly's class
Gardening in Ms. McCaul's class
Gardening in Ms. McLoughlin's class
Weeding our garden
More planting
Fruit and Vegetable Tasting Day
Sowing strawberries and cabbage
Rain and rainmakers
Saving energy with Guzzler

Recycling:- visiting the bottle bank with Ms.O'Connor
Ms. Flaherty's class visit the bottle bank
Ms. McLoughlin's class visit the bottle bank
Litter picking

Solar eclipse
Featuring: Ms. Connolly's, Ms. McCaul's, Ms. Flaherty's, Ms. O'Connor's, Ms. McLoughlin's, Ms. Small's and Ms. Lally's classes
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Science Speakers

Visit from a Medtronic scientist

Dental Hygiene with Ms. Ferguson's, Ms. McCaul's, Ms. Gillen's and Ms. Lavery's 2nd classes

Visit from Tom Cuffe the Birdman

The Birdman in Ms. Flaherty's class

Explorer's Education Programme

Featuring: Ms. McLoughlin's, Mr. Carleton's, Ms. Flaherty's, Ms. Ferguson's, Ms. McCaul's, Ms. Gillen's and Ms. Lavery's classes
Visit to a DPSM centre

Ms. McCaul and Ms. Coade's classes visit Galway Atlantaquaria on 15/10/14

Featuring: Ms. McCaul's and Ms. Coade's classes
Science Week event

Explorer's programme
Dissecting a squid in Mr. Carleton's class

Featuring: Ms. McLoughlin's and Mr. Carleton's classes

Steve Allman Science Tricks
Click here to see a slideshow of the visit

Featuring: ALL CLASSES!

Step 2: Technology (ICT)

(2 or more examples of the children using ICT)

Today we had lots of fun making a movie. Teacher was the director and we were the actors. Check us out!! And the Oscar goes to......
Check out our LEGO videos here

Visit from a quality supervisor with Hewlett Packard

Using a sound recorder to add to our online avatar from Voki

Avatar of Interview for Green Schools

Using Bright Sparks 4Kids Electricity kit

Exploring materials using the digital microscope

Recording our reading

Hour of code: Programming in Ms.McLoughlin's class

Hour of code, Ms. Connolly's class
Learning to code, Ms. Ferguson's class

Coding again

We are very busy at the moment getting ready for Junior First Lego League. The theme this year is Think Tank. We decided to build a lego man who is having an idea. Here is our progress so far. Thank you Ms. Groarke!! :)
Featuring: Ms. McLoughlin's, Mr. Carleton's, Ms Ferguson's and Ms. Groarke's & Ms. Connolly's classes