On Wednesday 29th May, four of our students pictured below and their teacher Mr Moore will travel to AIT to work collaboratively on a LEGO project with a team from our partner school St. Anne’s NS, Ardclough. Our project is entitled Ardclough to Talbád. The project explores the programming involved in moving a barge boat […]
Lego WeDo2.0 Timelapse and Pictures!
Lego WeDo2.0 in Ms Treacy’s and Ms Bradley’s 4th classes. Check out the Bawnclough Digital Cluster website in the links section for more!
Digital Schools of Excellence LEGO We Do Project
Talbot Senior National School and St Anne’s National School, Ardclough have formed a digital cluster to work together on developing digital skills through using LEGO WeDo 2.0. This project is funded by the Department of Education Schools of Excellence Fund. Over the next three years children in Talbot will participate in this project using LEGO […]
Computer Science Club for 4th and 5th class
A Computer Science club will be starting on Monday 16th April for 4th and 5th class pupils. Children will create and complete coding tasks and activities using Scratch in the school computer room. Mr Bannon and Mr Byrne are organising the club and look forward to meeting all our future computer scientists!
Engineers Week 2018
Mr. Bannon’s and Ms. Skelly’s classes travelled to Red Rua Exhibition Centre in Tallaght for an engineering workshop by students from IT Tallaght and local engineering businesses, like Xilinx. There were lots of experiments and demonstrations and the pupils had great fun learning all about engineering.
Coding in 4th, 5th and 6th Class
All of our 4th, 5th and 6th classes participated in a coding session with Microsoft Ireland volunteers last Thursday. Ten sessions in total took place with amazing volunteers guiding our students. Since then, students are keen to use their computer time to continue to learn more about coding as they are finding it so interesting. […]
3D shapes in 4th Class
Mr Mulhern’s 4th class are working with 3D shapes this week. Here are some photos of the children constructing 3D shapes using cardboard nets and match sticks with blue-tack. Can you recognise the shape that this net makes? Please leave your reply in the comment box.
5th Class Google Computer Science Club
Our Google CS Club participants received their certificates of participation today. Well done to our young scientists who can code! Thank you to Mr Byrne and Mr Bannon for delivering the course.
Talbot Computer Science Club
Today at assembly Mr. Bannon and Mr. Byrne showcased two projects created at Talbot’s CS club. Well done to the children involved in their creation. They were super cool, with great dialogue, visuals, action and sound effects. Looking forward to seeing more. The CS club runs for two more weeks before we break for summer […]
Talbot Computer Science Club
Every Monday after school, Mr Bannon and Mr Byrne are helping out 4th and 5th class children in the Talbot CS (Computer Science) club. Computer Science skills are really important in the world we live in and the children in the club are using IT (Information Technology) skills, creating stories on Scratch, working with others, […]