On Tuesday 22nd November Talbot SNS held a science exhibition. Every class in the school took part and put up a display in the hall. Pupils from every class took turns during the day to attend their display and explain to visitors what their experiment was about. Everybody had a chance to visit all the […]
Sam Maguire Cup
Lately Mr Byrne’s class have been learning all about the Sam Maguire cup. The cup is given to the winners of the All Ireland Senior Football competition. Dublin are playing Mayo in the replay after they drew 0-15 each recently, and the winner keeps Sam Maguire for a year! Sam Maguire was born in 1879 in […]
Summer garden
It is the middle of Summer and all the hard work planting seeds in Spring in the garden has paid off. It is almost time for harvest. Lots of our vegetables and herbs are now almost ready to be eaten! There is lettuce, potatoes, onions, beetroot, spinach, peas and lots of other plants, […]
Enrichment Club – Trip to Google
On Tuesday 10th of May, students from our Enrichment Club with Sr Catherine, Mr. Byrne and Mr. Stuart went to Google offices on Barrow street in Dublin city centre. In Google, we were accompanied by Georgina and Andrew who work there. We were first given proper name tags so we wouldn’t get lost! Next, we headed to a […]
Grow Your Own!
Lately we have been growing and planting water cress, spinach, peas, lettuce, chives, rosemary and scallions in our class. We grew them from seed using pots and compost. We also recently planted (with Ms Considine’s assistance) early potato seeds which we hope to harvest and eat in June. We learned that growing your own vegetables and herbs […]
Enrichment Club
Our 6th class Enrichment Club had their last group meeting on Thursday 26th March. Over the past few weeks we; designed shock absorbers, completed brain challenges, created Scratch computer coding, made super aerodynamic paper airplanes and did lots of other cool and interesting activities! Ms Walsh and Mr Byrne would like to thank all those […]
Robot Wars!
Mr Byrne’s class have been creating their own robots lately as part of Engineer’s Week. Using old boxes, packaging, bottles; anything really from the recycle bin at home! We also incorporated electrical circuits into our designs. We will be announcing a winner shortly. Each robot was made by a team of 3-4 members over the […]
Electric Robots
Mr Byrne’s 6th class have been busy planning, designing and now building our own robots. We are assembling the robots using recycled materials like cardboard boxes, food packaging and plastics and also electrical components. Will update in a few weeks to see how we got on!
French Revolution Projects
We have been learning all about the French Revolution recently. Look at some of our projects we made. We presented our work to Ms Ní Fhlartha’s class recently. Each group made their own projects. The American Revolution encouraged the working classes to rebel against the Aristocracy! Check out King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette’s plush pad […]
Our Trip to Google – by James Heath 6th class
On Monday 19th May the 6th class Enrichment Club went to Google Headquarters Barrow Street, Dublin City Centre. When we arrived first, we received nametags. Then, we went up to the Top Floor in an elevator. We emerged into a room that was more than twenty degrees Celsius! From this room we had an […]