Festive Art

This week the class have been working on some Christmas art. They've made Christmas tree decorations from clay and some bespoke Christmas wrapping paper from newspaper print, paint and Christmas themed stencils.

Art Project

The girls were tasked with recreating the works of famous artists as photographs. So impressed were the staff with the results that Mrs.Bradley, our resident artist, has secured an exhibition space for us in the county library.
We hope to have everything ready to go for the new year.

Christmas Decorations

The girls are working on their own decorations, cutting them out of clay with cookie cutters

Geography Projects

The girls have been studying European and Asian countries, of their choice. As well as producing fine work in their Atlas Hunt workbooks they have recreated them as PowerPoints which allows them a different and more engaging medium with which to present their work.

Friday Maths Assessment

On Friday's Mr.Arkins assesses our knowledge of what we've done in maths during the week.
To accommodate this we work in small groups. While one group is being assessed the three other groups partake in maths games and logic puzzles, ranging from chess to rock/paper/scissors. Here are today's logic puzzles;

Lateral thinking problems that are based on fact.

1. A man walks into a bar and asks for a drink of water. The bartender gives the man a drink of water, but the man says the water is no good. The bartender thinks for a minute, pulls out a gun and points it at him. The man says, "Thank you," and walks out.

2. There was once a recluse who never left his home. The only time anyone ever visited him was when his food and supplies were delivered, but they never came inside. Then, one storm winter night when an icy gale was blowing, he had a nervous breakdown. He went upstairs, turned off all the lights and went to bed. Next morning, he had caused the deaths of several hundred people. How?

3. Many shops have prices set just under a round figure, e.g. $9.99 instead of $10.00 or $99.95 instead of $100.00 . It is assumed that this is done because the price seems lower to the consumer. But this is not the reason the practice started. What was the original reason for this pricing method?

Visit to Cavan Institute

On Monday last, the 9th of November, we visited Cavan Institute for their Science Week event ran in conjunction with Coderdojo Cavan.
   The girls learned about forensics and how they are applied. In this instance the girls used what they learned to solve a crime: The murder of famed songsmith Margerita from The Pizzas.
   Working in pairs the girls used their recently acquired skills to eliminate suspects, compiling incriminating forensic evidence on the newly identified chief suspect and (presumably) sending a file to the DPP.
   The girls would like to thank Catherine Fox and the team at Cavan Institute for organizing the event and for an enjoyable and interesting morning.
     Coderdojo Cavan, who helped organize the event, are running an event of their own on Saturday coming, details of which can be found below.

Just to let you know that we are running a special 3D Design Dojo this coming Saturday. It is the first time Coderdojo Cavan has plannned a Design Dojo and we hope to introduce participants to design focused technology with the aim of creating 3D objects. The Dojo introduces kids to 3D modeling and 3D printing, bringing them through the process of creating their own models. This is a 2 hour workshop, open to children over the age of 9 years. Places are very limited due to the nature of the workshop..

Tickets are available on our eventbrite.ie page

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/3d-design-dojo-tickets-19456877043

If the tickets are booked out then please register on the waiting list.

DANCE!

We started dance this morning with Mary.