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Nov 17, 20201 min read
Science Week Activities . Building Scribble Robots
With the kind backing of the engineers in Irish Manufacturing Research Institute we were provided with some Robot kits to build our own...
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Nov 16, 20201 min read
Mysterious Microbes
Thanks to "Scientific Sue's Workshop" we learned about microbes during Science Week. We learned how infections are spread and how this...
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Nov 16, 20201 min read
Lighthouse Engineers
During Science Week we used the skills learned in making electrical circuits to construct a model of a lighthouse that shines a light.
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Nov 13, 20200 min read
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Nov 12, 20200 min read
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Nov 12, 20200 min read
Energy and forces-October 2020 Magnetism-we had great fun estimating, investigating and much more!!�
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Nov 10, 20201 min read
Making Butter in 1st and 2nd class
Question we were investigating: How is butter made?
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Oct 28, 20201 min read
House Martins: Our exotic and mysterious friends
In September when we were all settling back into Pods and restrictions. Our playground was buzzing with little birds zooming around....
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Oct 7, 20201 min read
Experimenting with soil and plants.
1st and 2nd class were investigating the question: How do we grow plants? One of our class also asked: What happens when we mix soil and...
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Jun 2, 20201 min read
Name the Heron
We had a "name the heron " competition in May. This heron fishes in the Brusna or Bunree River in Ballina every evening. We had some...
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ardaghnationalscho
Nov 14, 20191 min read
Science Week Activities in 5th & 6th Class
We had fun taking part in The Straw Tower Challenge and discovered that good foundations are really important. We investigated...
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ardaghnationalscho
May 20, 20191 min read
Cruising to Ballycroy
What a road trip we had! Bog Bog and more more. what we didn't realise was how amazing bog really is. From moss to heather, bog cotton to...
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ardaghnationalscho
May 3, 20191 min read
Citizen Scientists
3rd and 4th class are learning to become citizen scientists and investigating the fauna of the school playground! Using all our minibeast...
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ardaghnationalscho
Apr 30, 20191 min read
Growing Our Own Food
Junior and Senior Infants had great fun learning about where their food comes from. They learned that Peas can grow form a seed and they...
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Apr 7, 20191 min read
What makes bridges so strong? 5th & 6th Class investigated during Engineers Week
First we looked at and discussed the bridges in our local area and then we looked at pictures and videos of famous bridges in Ireland and...
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ardaghnationalscho
Mar 29, 20191 min read
National Tree Week 2019
Our school and 21 other local national schools were chosen by Coillte and Beleek Woods Development Committee to plant a tree in Beleek...
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ardaghnationalscho
Nov 20, 20181 min read
Science week upstairs... What fun we had on Friday. From exploding gas balloons to hover craft C.Ds
On Friday we had a Fab science day. We brought in old bottles, discs, rotten eggs(ugh) and even balloons. Such fun we had. Using these...
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ardaghnationalscho
Nov 16, 20181 min read
Parachute design in 3rd and 4th
For this years Science Week had great fun in 3rd and 4th designing and building a parachute. The design brief was the same for every...
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