We were delighted to welcome the Dutch trainee teachers who visit St Gabriel’s NS from the Netherlands every year. They come here to learn about our school, the Irish education system, to observe classes and to give a series of lessons about the Netherlands to the children.

In 3rd Class, the children learned about Dutch customs and traditions around times such as Christmas, St Nicholas or “Sinterklaas” and Easter. The children really enjoyed the visit!

Today, 3rd class in Science used thermometers in a bottle to measure air temperature while the empty bottle sat in cold and then hot water. They took readings of the temperature in degrees celsius and recorded their findings in their SESE Workbooks.

The children are learning about heat in Science this month and today they were investigating how heat travels through solid objects in a process called conduction. With blobs of butter on the end of three spoons, one metal, one wooden and one plastic, we added boiling water to the bowl and made predictions about which butter would melt first.

They made sure it was a fair test by ensuring the butter blobs and spoons were the same size.

Can you guess which blob of butter melted first? Which one was next?

Check out the photos of their investigation below.

Today as part of Maths Week, 3rd Class tuned into UK mathematican Zoe Griffith’s Maths TV zoom activity on shapes. They learned about a cool shape called the Mobius Strip or Loop.

Check out the pictures below.

3rd Class are reading James and the Giant Peach. Today the children completed their posters for Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker to convince people to come and pay to see the peach!

Check out their posters below!