World Book Day 2024

Posted on March 8, 2024 by knockanean

We celebrated World Book Day in school on Thursday the 7^th of March. To celebrate this day, we all dressed up as our favourite characters from a book or a movie. Some of us chose to dress up as superheroes like Batman and Spiderman. There were a lot of costumes from movies too like Willy Wonka, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Wednesday Adams. Many pupils also dressed up as sports stars, like Clare players and soccer stars. In the infant classes, we all came together to listen to stories and play a few games. We also showed off our costumes and some of us brought in books that had our characters in them. At break time there was music playing and we had a little disco outside! We really enjoyed World Book Day and our favourite parts included reading books together and dressing up.

By Cian O’Sullivan and Clara O’Brien.

STEAM workshop

Posted on November 23, 2023 by knockanean

On Tuesday the 21st of November, Niamh O’Dea came to work with the third class on a STEAM project. Firstly, she explained that she only had one shoe and she wanted us to make her another shoe. We were then split into groups of 5. She showed us a PowerPoint and went through all of the steps. We had to make a plan and figure out how to design our shoes. Each group had to measure her foot and her ankle, and we drew sketches of what we wanted to make. We had brought in materials like plastic, bottle tops, CDs, cardboard, and newspaper the day before. Then we set to work, and she only gave us 15 minutes to make the shoe! One of the most useful materials was cardboard as we could use it to make the shape of the shoe. Some of the groups also made logos for the shoe such as Nike, Crocs, etc. When we finished the shoes we all went outside to test them out. Niamh had to try on each shoe and see if she could walk across the yard. Some of the shoes broke, but most of them worked really well! We really enjoyed the workshop and we will be doing another one in December. Our favourite parts of the workshop were planning in our groups and building the shoes.

By Ben Hanrahan, Kieran Fitzpatrick, Sofia Keane and Eva O’Reilly.