Huge congratulations to Emily Bolger on winning the National Credit Union 7 years and under, general category award.
Emily entered the competition through the school and won 1st prize in the local competition, her picture was put forward and she has now won the National award. Well done Emily.
3rd class have been working hard practising their multiplication and division facts. The class worked together to figure out all the different ways that division questions could be asked and then put them into a PowerPoint. They hope this will help them and maybe other classes when working our division sums from now on. Well done Third Class! 🙂
3rd Class have been very busy recently learning all about volcanoes. They researched some volcanoes in Hawaii and Pompeii. Miss McCarthy was lucky enough to visit Pompeii and they are now going to use her research to investigate volcanoes further! Well done 3rd Class 🙂
3rd Class are currently looking after some caterpillars and are looking forward to watching them go through their life cycle and becoming beautiful butterflies!
3rd Class recently had some guest speakers, two firemen, from Enniscorthy fire station. The firemen discussed the importance of fire safety with the children and what to do in the event of a fire. The children really enjoyed the talk and even did some fire safety activities at home!
Third Class students were being very creative recently and designed a number of inventions! Click on the photos for a closer look 🙂
Something mysterious happened in Marshalstown just over a week ago. All of the children vanished and were replaced with witches, vampires, goblins, wizards, superheroes, skeletons, babies and many more weird and wonderful creations! Luckily, all the children had the midterm break to recover and all were back to normal today. Click on the photographs for a closer look. 🙂
Happy Halloween! 🙂
On Wednesday 4th October, we held our Action Day for Water as part of our commitment to attaining our third green flag. The whole school participated in the event. The goal was to raise as much awareness as possible about how we use water in our lives, both at home and at school, as well as become aware of how we can actively save water. Every class explored the theme of water through Maths, English, SESE, SPHE, Art and Music. Every child pledged to save water on a water drop and we will use these drops to create a “pool of promises” in our school.
The Junior Infant class explored the Water theme through Maths experiments on capacity, e.g. how many cups does it take to fill a jug?. They also discussed the importance of water for the plants and flowers in the world. They planted daffodils which will blossom in the Spring. The infants became scientists when they investigated how to make a rainbow using skittles and water! They also created their own rain clouds using shaving foam and water. One of their favourite activities was learning a song called “If all the little raindrops…”
Senior Infants were also feeling the love for water and worked on a poem with their teacher. They also became scientists when the investigated the water cycle, in particular what happens when a rain cloud becomes too heavy. The children also made their own rain clouds using shaving foam and food colouring.
1st Class investigated the water cycle and discovered that the water on earth is millions of years old…it just keeps going round and round in the cycle! They also investigated how to make a rainbow using smarties and water. The water theme was also evident in their Literacy lessons as they read and discussed a poem on the water theme.
2nd Class learned a fantastic song about the water cycle which explained all the various stages of the cycle while they also listened to and sang Octopus’ Garden by The Beatles. Maths also had a watery theme as their addition and subtraction sum answers was a colour by numbers sheets which revealed an underwater world! The watery theme continued in Art which was based on reflections in water.
3rd Class explored the water theme through four experiments: Archimedes principle, Condensation, Dissolution and Floating and Sinking. They also read and discussed a poem based on this theme.
4th, 5th and 6th Class investigated water through experiment stations: Water timer, Bending water, Water Wheel, Walking on Water, Creeping Colours, Shaving Foam Rain Clouds and Hydration Station. The topic of weather and climate was explored and discussed in SESE while the ways in which we can conserve and save water were discussed in SESE/SPHE.
A great day was had by all and the Green Schools Committee is hugely grateful to all of the children and teachers who participated in the event and helped to make it such as success! We’re not finished yet however, and our work will continue throughout the year towards attaining our third green flag!
1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Classes set off on their 2017 school tour yesterday. With great excitement, they filed onto the bus convoy and waved their families goodbye. The destination was the Let’s Go camp in Waterford. They enjoyed zorbing, climbing towers, human foosball, go-karting and many other activities. It’s safe to say a brilliant time was had by all and there were a lot of exhausted but happy children returning to Marshalstown yesterday evening. Click on the photographs for a closer look at all of the fun! 🙂
2nd and 3rd Class were recently studying the Ancient Egyptians. They discovered that this ancient civilization was famous for beautiful artwork. Click on the photograph for a closer look at the Egyptian inspired art created by 2nd and 3rd Class! 🙂