Election 2011… who did 3rd class vote for?

With exactly a week to go before the adults of Bawnogue vote in a new government, who did the children choose? First, yesterday, the class got some information on a sheet from me about each party (not biased: direct from the parties’ websites). Then for homework they went home and discussed the election with their families. Today the class […]

Bawnogue’s Favourite Soccer Team is… ?

What do YOU think? Is it Chelsea? Liverpool? United? Celtic? Arsenal? Someone else? Well, Mr Stuart’s 3rd class were busy recently finding out: they asked a total of 319 people (family and friends)! Now, not all of these people live in Bawnogue but most do. In 7th place was Arsenal–just 12 votes. 6th place: Chelsea […]

Busy Collecting Data: How old are the teachers’ cars?

Here’s a few photos of Mr Stuart’s 3rd class last Friday busy collecting data. They were trying to find out just how old are most teachers cars? In class they then used the data this week to prepare a bar chart. What did they find out? Well, there were 57 cars in all at 9:30am […]