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Maths Eyes Competition

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We are delighted to announce that, after participating in the Maths Eyes Annual Poster and Group Initiative Competition in partnership with Maths Week Ireland 2024, we were selected as winners in our category! A huge thank you to everyone who supported and contributed to this fantastic achievement. We are proud to have showcased how we see maths in the world around us!

In recognition of this achievement, we attended an award ceremony on Thursday the 11th of September in the Department of Education and Skills to celebrate our success. Here we were presented with a plaque and a poster print. Niamh O’Reilly, Caoimhe McMahon and Kieran Fitzpatrick attended on behalf of the school, along with Tina and Crea.

Lego Robotics Semi-Final

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On the 21st of March, four pupils from Colm’s fifth class attended Limerick Racecourse for the Lego Robotics Munster Semi-Final. These four pupils were Feidhlim, Mia, Orla and Rían. We arrived at around nine in the morning and we found our table. There were forty schools attending the semi-final on the day. Our first task was to construct a vehicle out of a lego set and instructions that they gave us. We had a few hours to build it and programme it to move. We spent an hour figuring out the instructions and then we had a lunch break. We went back to work after this and finished off the vehicle. While we were constructing, judges came to our table to look at our poster that was called ‘How can we help the ocean with technology and humans?’ We had completed this project in class before the semi-final. We explained our poster and we had a slide-show presentation showing the robot turtle that we had made to help the sea. Our idea was to send the robot turtle to the bottom of the ocean to collect rubbish and to clean the water.

The judges seemed to really like our project, and we received full marks on it. After about three hours of constructing and coding, our vehicle was complete. The judges told us to stop working and then the challenge part of the competition started. This was when we had to put our vehicle on the track and test out whether we had coded it properly. Our vehicle made one wrong turn in our first go, but we re-coded it and it flew through the track the next time. After this, we waited to see the results of the competition. We were so amazed when we heard that Knockanean had received the highest points and that we would be progressing to the next stage of the competition which is on the 5th of April in Analog Devices in Limerick. Overall it was a great day out and we had so much fun building and coding!

By Feidhlim Sullivan and Mia Hedigan.

Credit Union Quiz!

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On Friday the 7th of February a junior quiz team and a senior quiz team from the school travelled to the Inn at Dromoland for the Credit Union Schools Quiz competition. The senior team was made up of Abi, Aoife, Eve and James. The junior team was made up of Ciara, Katelyn, Oisín, and Adam. We arrived at around half five and found our tables for our teams. Colm came with us on the night and our families came along too to support us. They gave us mentos before the quiz began to get our brains going! There were twelve rounds in the quiz in total, and six questions per round. The questions were about a lot of topics, some about sport and a lot of general knowledge ones also. We noticed that the questions became more challenging as the rounds went on!

At the halfway point, they showed us the scores, the senior team from our school was in first place and the junior team from our school was in second place! We knew at this point that we had a great shot. Then the next stage got underway and at the end of the quiz we found out that our senior team placed 6th overall and our junior team placed 4th overall. Clare hurler Tony Kelly presented the awards to the winning teams on the night. We were very proud of our performances and it was a great opportunity to practice our quizzing skills.

By Abi O’Donnell and Aoife Kirrane.