Friday Maths Groups

BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Monday of this week we went and visited the Institute for Science Week. We got a closer look at some of the discoveries about air, that we take for granted today, and the experiments that made them possible.

Halloween

We've been learning an excerpt from Witches' Song from Macbeth. Here's our frighfully spooky rendition

History Trail

At the base of the belfry, Fr.Ultan shows the children the walkway above the nave of the cathedral

Inside one of the cupolas

Descending the stairs to the crypt where many of the past Bishops of Kilmore are interred

View back up the steps

Here's a few shots of the girls of the girls on our History Trail of Cavan Town. We were able to include a fairly comprehensive tour of the cathedral thanks to Fr.Ultan which included a visit to the crypt and high above the roof of the nave to the small copper cupolas that can be seen from the street

The Lungs

We're back and believe it or not we haven't been idle. The girls have been very busy learning about the respiratory system, particularly the lungs. Here's a working model of the lungs ,that they made, showing how the diaphragm aids breathing

This month we will be working on clay models. We hope to make stop animation films based on the adventures of our new creations. Here's a promising start to the project by Izabela Cyranska

we have been taking some inspiration from the classic Morph series of shorts which will be familiar to people of a certain vintage


Here is the first draft of Penguin Adventure by Kasia Dabrowska and Zuzanna Lazuga.

Here's the first draft of Apple Tree by Sana Cheema and Hadia Fatima

 

We're back in the trenches but nothing eases you into the misery of a cold Irish January than a warm breakfast, in this case a French breakfast.

The children have been discovering beaucoup about France this month so we thought it would be nice to celebrate French culture by sampling some of their cuisine. The nearest thing to a French breakfast you may have got to at school was being force-fed a snail by the school nuisance but not our epicurean culture vultures!!

The girls enjoyed heated pain-au-chocolat, brioche and croissants, smothered in jam and washed down with hot chocolate, drank traditionally, from a bowl. The more adventurous sampled pâté and a variety of cheeses, including cave-aged Roquefort, which we all agreed smelled of feet.

Some of the most bizarre facts we discovered about France are that it is illegal to call a pig Napoleon and that you can legally marry somebody after they have died!!

Cooked from scratch; pre-heat oven to 100, open packet, bung in then leave for five minutes et voilà!!

Getting stuck in!

Drinking from a bowl is trés chique!