Successful Science Week

Science week was a great success, with First classes organising displaying a range of experiments. Infant and Second classes visited the halla and First class children demonstrated the experiments for them and explained how they worked. 

The experiments displayed included a musical instrument made from glass bottles filled with water, mirror writing, butter making (the butter was delicious!!), floating and sinking experiments, lava lamps, moving patterns made from dish-washing liquid and food colouring floating on a sea of milk, the rubber egg (a demonstration of how important calcium is for our bones), the dangers of fizzy drinks to our teeth, how root vegetables grow and rocket launching for beginners. 

Watch the short video above to see one of our successful rocket launches. Well done to all who participated and especially to the First classes and their teachers who organised everything!

I Can't Believe It Is Real Butter!

We poured some double cream into a very very clean jam jar and closed the lid tightly. Then we shook and shook and shook some more.... all the tiny bits of fat stuck together into bigger and bigger lumps until we had one big lump of butter in the middle of the jar. We spread the butter on cream crackers and everyone had a taste. Yum yum!!

Green School

St. Patrick's Junior School along with other students all over Ireland will be celebrating Biodiversity week in May. We will also be having our annual beach clean up so we need all the help we can get.

We are very proud of all our students who save energy, save water and walk, scoot and cycle to school. Well Done!

We have four green flags and we are currently in the process of getting our fifth flag for Biodiversity.

We would like to thank Michael our caretaker and all the parents who have helped in our garden and especially Cate Monaghan. We have a range of plants, herbs and vegetables around our school and soon enough we will have a bug hotel and wormery.

As part of our biodiversity flag we will be having chicks in our school so the children can learn about their life cycle. We are very excited.

Our new green school Committee for Biodiversity are called the “Bio- D’s”.

                                      Go Bio-Ds!!!!!