STEP 3 - 2021/2022 - Engineering

For Engineers Week this year all classes from Junior Infants - third class took part in Bricks4Kidz lego  workshops.

Everybody really enjoyed this and as you will see from our photos all children were engaged, learning and problem solving during their tasks. 

Mr Wallace's 2nd and 3rd class:

Ms Corr's Senior Infants:

Ms Meaney's Senior Infants & 1st Class:

Design & Make Activities: 

Mr O'Donnell's 2nd class had to design and make Rockets, they look fantastic!

Ms Beecher's Class

Engineering – Tractors

One of our pupils created a passion project on Tractors. He spent a lot of time researching tractors he liked, the features of the different tractors and decided to create his own prototypes. He created his own logo and now wants to pursue the project further by building a website which showcases his prototypes, his interest in tractors and video content. 

Fantastic work, well done!

More Activities from Engineers Week:

Mr O'Donnells 2nd class took part in an engineering activity which focused on making string telephones, they were exploring the strands energy and forces and sound. It was great fun!!

Mr Wallace's 2nd and 3rd class took part in two Engineer's Week activities, here are some of the photos:

Parachutes:

Build the tallest structure:

 

Ms Corr's First Class also had great fun during Engineer's Week this year!

Discovery Science and Maths Award 2021

 

Congratulations to all the teachers and students on achieving the Discovery Maths and Science Award for 2021!!

STEP 5 - Sharing our science work

 We love to share our science work with each other in Scoil Mhuire!

It was difficult to share our work with each other this year  in our usual ways because of Covid-19 so we had get a bit creative. One of the ways we shared our work with each other was by making videos, and discussing our work live using Microsoft Teams.

Here are some pictures of 3rd class watching a science video created by senior infants, Mrs Doheny's senior infants created rockets while they were learning about energy and forces this year, they shared their experiment with 3rd class via video and then 3rd class were able to learn about energy and forces from senior infants!!

We also bought new notice boards for our corridors this year and we were able to share some of our science project work by displaying them on notice boards also.

Mrs Keane's Junior Infants did a very interesting activity all about cleaning up the ocean, when they had it finished they left at out reception area so that all our classes could see it!