by St.margarets | Mar 10, 2020 | Science
Last week we celebrated Engineers Week in our school which ran from the 29th February to the 6th March. Have a look at some of the fun engineering challenges we got stuck into. Many thanks to Ms Keegan for organising the resources for this exciting event. Junior and...
by St.margarets | Mar 8, 2020 | Science
The students in 3rd and 4th class have worked their socks off investigating the science behind this simple question, how do glasses help improve our eyesight? The research started with the biology of the eye and then onto the physics of how light travels and finally...
by St.margarets | Feb 14, 2020 | Green Flag, School Notices, Science
Thanks to Claire McDonald from The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) who visited our school in February. Every class in the school had the opportunity to participate in a sustainable energy workshop with Claire. During these workshops the children learnt...
by St.margarets | Nov 20, 2019 | School Calendar 25-26, School Notices, Science
Junior and Senior Infants joined forces with 1st and 2nd Class for Science Week. Each class demonstrated a number of science experiments and opened the floor to questions at the end....
by St.margarets | Apr 30, 2019 | School Calendar 25-26, Science
Dancing Worms Experiment The children enjoyed bringing gummy worms to “life” when they explored this simple chemical reaction. Using baking soda and vinegar, it’s simple to create carbon dioxide bubbles on candy worms. The bubbles make the yummy gummy creatures...
by St.margarets | Apr 29, 2019 | School Calendar 25-26, Science
Visit to the Rediscovery Centre in Ballymun The Rediscovery Centre is an accredited Discover Primary Science and Maths centre offering interactive and experiential workshops for primary, secondary, and third level which cover wide ranging environmental and STEM...
