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 […]
Science Project in Ms Ward’s 3rd Class in collaboration with Maynooth University College
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!
Cell Explorers
We recently had some scientists from Maynooth University visit our school to do the Cell Explorers experiments. The children in Ms. Ryan’s and Mr. Mulhern’s classes learned all about cells and DNA and even extracted DNA from bananas. Thank you to the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) team from Maynooth University for coming to […]
LEGO WeDo 2.0
This week 5th class are participating in LEGO WeDo 2.0 workshops where they build and program lego robotics. Here are some photos from Mr Gilmartin’s class.
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. […]
2017 Science Exhibition
We had our Science Exhibition last Tuesday November 21st. The whole school took part and displayed their experiments. Congratulations to all the teachers and pupils on their wonderful work! Here are some photos from the day.
Science Week – 4th Classes Visit Deansrath Community College
Mr. Mulhern’s and Ms. Cunnane’s 4th classes visited Deansrath Community College today for a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) event hosted by the Transition Year students in the college. We got to visit the labs and see lots of different science and technology demonstrations, and participate in maths and engineering activities. We had a […]