The children have been engaging in lots of activities to celebrate Science Week.
The children in the senior room investigated the effects of different substsances on melting speed of ice.
They also joined in with the Curious Minds Science Week show
The month of October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary. The Junior room have been learning about the Rosary as part of religion and 1st and 2nd class made their own rosary beads. Aren’t they beautiful!
The children in the senior room have been getting mathematical this week to celebrate Maths week 2024. They took part in an interactive mathe”magical” webinar where they learned some magic tricks to astonish and astound!
They have been competing with other schools daily in target board maths activities. They must work together to come up with different ways of reaching a specific answer using a set amount of numbers
The children have also been working with the junior room on puzzles which give them the opportunity to combine maths with chess.
The Junior room have played maths games, created a number hunt outside, conducted surveys on the school community on a wide variety of topics and created graphs of their results!
1st and 2nd class have been learning about fractions in maths and their task today was to prepare pizza for the children in the school using their knowledge of halves and quarters. A very tasty lesson!
To celebrate Space Week the junior and senior room participated in a range of activities. The Junior room enjoyed learning about the different planets in our solar system.
The senior room explored constellations of stars and made their shapes using concrete materials like geoboards.
Here is a sample of the beautiful pictures the junior room created using leaves!
Children in the senior room are busy surveying the school as part of the Data strand. Looking forward to seeing their results!
To celebrate World School Milk Day the children participated in a webinar where they learned about the story of milk.
Many thanks to Anu for helping the senior room with weeding and harvesting the vegetables in our school garden – children got to bring home potatoes, onions, carrots, parsnips, and garlic!
Children in the junior room paired up with a senior room buddy to help them with a materials hunt around the school – exploring and investigating the properties and characteristics of different materials.
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