For the ninth or tenth year (we have lost count!) IBM engineer Annette Sohor came to talk to us about her career in engineering and famous women in engineering, in honor or International Women’s Day on Friday and to help us to celebrate Engineer’s Week. She also helped us to understand how wind occurs, […]
Read more "Engineer visits Sixth Class"https://www.image.ie/life/disability-plastic-straws-planet-131786 We have lots of plans for Engineers Week. One of them is to make windmills and to explore weather, wind and air pressure. However in order to do these we need drinking straws and we have made it very clear on this blog how we feel about drinking straws! The above article has very […]
Read more "engineers week 2019"We are talking about Internet Safety this week at school. We discussed our digital footprints and the positives of being on the Internet. Fiachra came up to 6th to chat about Snapchat and being careful around who exactly is asking you to join a group. Nicola gave us these very cool bracelets, thanks Nicola!
Read more "Safer Internet Day"On Wednesday 12 children from 4th, 5th and 6th walked in the glorious sunshine across Griffeen Park to Lucan Library to compete with other local schools in a Harry Potter table quiz. It was fantastic fun and The House Of Griffeen did us proud! Huge thanks to Mel for coming with us on her […]
Read more "Harry Potter Quiz at Lucan library"Sixth Class saw many beautiful paintings at the National Gallery, including several of Lucan Demesne (by Thomas Roberts) and The Marriage Of Strongbow and Aoife (by Daniel Maclise).
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