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Science Blast

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On Wednesday the 24th of May, both 3rd classes went to Science Blast in Mary I College, Limerick. We went there on the bus. Tina curled her hair and makeup on the bus. When we arrived we got wristbands and pins for our uniform. There were stands for every project and loads of people there. There were students from all over Munster there. Each class presented their project to the judges. There were science shows on different topics such as aerodynamics, one about astronauts. We got to meet a real astronaut Norah Patten. Tina’s 3rd class’s project was about how electric cars work and Michelle’s 3rd class’s project was about how our eyes work. Both classes won a trophy. Some of us got interviewed by Spin South West.

We all met television presenters Clara Murray and John Sharpson. Everyone working there was very nice and gave us high fives.

On the way back we went to Hungry Lyons for something because we were starving after our long and exciting day. We arrived back at the school at half three.

By Megan Downes, Alison Casey, Ellie McMahon, and Alison Dixon.

Cumann na mBunscol – Primary Games

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Congratulations to Diarmuid Corry and Izzy Kelleher who represented the school in the primary game during the Munster Football final between Clare and Kerry in Limerick on May 7th.

Congratulations to Cathal Ryan who will represent the school in the primary game during the Clare v Waterford Munster Hurling championship game in Thurles on May 13th.

Lego Spike and Coding Buddies

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Colm’s 4th class went to Amy’s room in pairs at about half-nine. Sarah’s 1st class also came in. Colm sorted us out into parts of the room with our first-class coding buddies. Half of us stayed in Amy’s room to do Lego coding and half of us went to Colm’s room to do Scratch coding. We got an IPad and a Lego Spike Kit and got to work on our Lego projects. Our first project was the “Animal alarm”. We coded our alarm to go off when the sensor saw an animal. Then we taught the first class how to build the Lego and built the “Animal alarm”. After that, we tidied up our first project we moved to the next project. We built a row boat and coded it to move along water.

You have heard about the Lego Spike so we will tell you about coding (Scratch). It was two first classes with one-fourth class. The topic was the farm. Some of us added Irish words. We taught them how to move the animals around and showed them how to get the animals to talk and also change the background and some of the characters.

We had so much fun with 1st class and we can’t wait to do it again next Friday!

By Eve, Roisín, Ellie, David & Abi