A massive congratulations to Mr Smyth’s 4th Class who were the overall winners of the Technological University Dublin “Try Five” Moon Base STEM Art competition. They came 1st out of 11 local schools.
They won some wonderful STEM based resources for the school.
Check out the pictures from the presentation day in TUD Grangegorman.
Well done to all the children!
Today in school we were delighted to welcome a special group from China visiting our school to observe a Try Five STEM workshop with 4th class. The group consisted of 7 professors from Hangzhou Normal University in China. Hangzhou Normal University is one of the leading universities in Zhejiang Province, China, known for its teacher education programs. Its Primary Education major stands out for combining strong theoretical learning with rich practical training.
Ms Comerford, the principal and Mr Smyth, our school STEM coordinator, with the help of Ms Sweetman welcomed the professors from the University, Institution of Education and the Director of the Future School Research Institute. They have close connections with their local primary schools and programmes covering not only STEM but also other subjects like language, art and music. Our visitors presented the school with beautiful prints created by students back in China.
The pupils in 4th class took part in a STEM workshop on renewable energy and wind turbines. They really enjoyed the workshop and the visit of the professors. A huge thanks to the staff of Technological University Dublin for arranging the workshop and the visit.
Its been a busy March in Mr Smyth’s 4th Class.
In Art the children are working with Fabric and Fibre creating colourful pom poms and jazzy bracelets.
In Maths, they have been working on chance– throwing dice and flipping coins and working out the probability of the outcomes.
In 3-D Shape, they learned about the Euler’s Rule discovered by Leonhard Euler in 1758, a formula in 3D geometry that helps them work out the number of edges of a 3-D shape when they know the number of faces and number of vertices.
On World Book Day the children took part in a World Book Day quiz:
Today, the pupils across the school from Junior Infants to 6th Class made their voices heard in St Gabriel’s NS Referendum Day. They gave their opinions on how they felt about school, spelling, maths and moving to secondary school. Their valuable feedback will help us as a school plan for the future.
Thank you & well done to all the pupils who took part!
Today marked the second day that our horticulture expert Joan Power joined us in school to work with the children in our garden. It has been fantastic to see the students learning through hands-on experience in nature.
So far, the children have explored the edible plants growing in our school garden and learned how to care for them through activities such as transplanting and deadheading. They also discovered how these simple gardening practices help plants grow strong while supporting local biodiversity.
Another exciting milestone this week has been the start of our potato and onion planting. The children carefully planted them and are already looking forward to watching them grow and harvesting them later this year.
We’re excited to see our garden continue to develop while the students build their knowledge of nature, food, and sustainability.
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February was a busy month for the children in 4th Class with the children making Brigid’s crosses and Chinese Lanterns, surveying other classes for Maths activities on Data and Bar graphs and having Dance with Bernie and Tag Rugby with Leinster Rugby.
We had our STEM Try Five workshop number 3 with scientists from TUD Grangegorman. This one was on electricity learned about electrons, protons, flow of electricity and circuits. At the end the children made Star Projectors using a simple electrical circuit.
The class began their group History research project on Ancient Egypt where they began working in groups to research different aspects of Ancient Egyptian life from mummification, the Pharaohs and much more.
As part of learning about Chinese New Year and their zodiac animals, the class in Art created paper Chinese lanterns.
Last night, eight students from 4th, 5th and 6th Class attended the Credit Union Table Quiz in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Blanchardstown making up two teams of four.
There were 52 teams taking part in the quiz. Our two wonderful teams finished 7th and 10th overall. They should be very proud of themselves for the hardwork they have put in. A massive thanks to Mr Delaney for all his hard work in organising the teams for the event!
