6th Class – Ms Hamill

We’ve been learning three amazing Science facts a day as part of Science week. 5th and 6th class have been reading three facts out over the intercom every day. 

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and is trapping heat from the sun in the Earth’s atmosphere. Carbon dioxide has a big part to play in Climate Change, so we…

On Tuesday, we made anemometers. Anemometers measure the speed of wind. We worked in pairs to make the anemometers and then took them outside to measure the wind.

Science Week 2019  We’ve been doing lots of experiments this week for Science week. The theme for Science Week is ‘Climate Action’. We’ve been learning all about Climate Change and…

On Monday, we did an experiment about rising sea levels. We put clay in two containers as ‘land’. We put ice in the water of one container, and ice on…

We are learning all about Photosynthesis for Science this week. We planted some lentils in cotton wool in groups to see if they will grow and make their own food….

We’ve been learning about Money in Maths and have been doing some practical problems involving money. We used Chinese and Thai menus to solve some problems and use a budget…

We’ve been baking already this year – we went to the wellness room in October and spent the afternoon baking and cooking. We made Halloween cookies, chocolate apples and pizza…

We had a fun time dressing up for Halloween this year. We had a lot of babies, a dead pirate, a skeleton, a witch, two devils, a vampire and a…

We went on a tour to Finglas Garda Station on Wednesday 9th October. We really enjoyed our visit! When we arrived, we were welcomed by the Garda band who played…