4th and 5th Class Sculptures

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We were inspired to construct these after viewing pictures of sculptures by 20th century Swiss artist, Alberto Giacometti. Giacometti sculpted hundreds of stick people in different poses.His sculptures varied in sizes, from larger than life figures to figures that could fit inside a matchbox!!

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We first used pipe-cleaners to create the basic shapes we wanted. The next step involved márla, which we used for the base of our figures. The weight of the márla allowed us to stand our figures upright. It was quite tricky to find a suitable pose to allow them to balance properly. For the final stage we used strips of tin-foil to entirely cover the figures. This gives them a nice polished finish. We hope you like them!

Excellent Attendance

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Well done to all the children who were presented with an award for their full attendance in the last term.  Many of these children have worked hard to improve their overall attendance and we hope that in the last term everyone can make an extra special effort to be at school every day.  Well done to all!

Learning about capacity in 5th/6th class

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Today, Miss O’Loughlin’s class had great fun in maths, estimating and measuring the capacity of bottles, cups and also a a 16 litre bucket.

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We found out how much a mini-cup measures – which is 200ml. We found the maximum capacity of a kettle was 1.7 litres….but….after we filled the kettle up to the top, guess what happened?…… The water started to leak out of the kettle!! We had put 2700ml in….that was a whole litre too much!

Then we measured the capacity of the carton of milk and that one was 190ml. Teacher’s water bottle holds 750ml.

Finally the bucket – everyone of the children got to fill the bucket! It was great fun and we really enjoyed doing it!