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The Hot Air Balloon Festival

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This week a hot air balloon came to our school on Thursday. The whole school went up to the field to see how a hot air balloon works. When we found out we were going inside of the balloon, we all cheered and were very excited. The juniors and seniors went in first. While we were waiting to go inside, Wendy and Dave taught us all about the basket and how the gas works. Lots of people were queuing up to get into basket and ask Dave and Wendy questions. When 5th and 6th class went into the hot air balloon, Joe taught us all about it and how it goes up into the sky. A big thanks to everybody for the wonderful day! Here are some pictures of our fun day!

Written by Clódagh Cahalan & Sophia Burke Bennett

IZAK9 Maths Cubes

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IZAK9 is a maths game that uses 27  different cubes and lots of different maths challenges. All the classes in our school will be using the cubes this year.

You divide into three groups; red, green and purple. You go to IZAK9’s website and listen to the challenges for your class. Some of them are simple and some you’ll need a pen and paper. 

IZAK9 is maths but very fun and it encourages you to work together and discuss answers with your teammates. One of the first challenges we tried was called ABC123. We had to build a wall with numbers in alphabetical order and another one multiplication.

An  interesting game  was ‘Rebuild’. It’s a game where you have to rebuild the cube and the whole class works together to rebuild it in the correct way. You work together to rebuild the shapes on all the sides. You can go against other classes for example 3rd v.s 4th.Your team has to get all the answers correct before the other class. I give IZAK9 a 10/10 but what do you give it?

Written by Donncha Slattery

The European Union

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This week in 5th and 6th Class we were learning about the European Union (EU). There are 27 member states in the European Union and luckily, there are 27 students in 5th and 6th class so everybody got a Country from the European Union. We each had to fill out information about the Countries in the European Union. We learned the Capital, Currency, Languages, Population, Rivers, Mountains and famous Landmarks of each of the countries.

Here are the European Countries and their Capitals:

  • Ireland (Dublin)
  • France (Paris)
  • Germany (Berlin)
  • Spain (Madrid)
  • Portugal (Lisbon)
  • Italy (Rome)
  • Poland (Warsaw)
  • Sweden (Stockholm)
  • Finland (Helsinki)
  • Netherlands (Amsterdam)
  • Czech Republic (Prague)
  • Romania (Bucharest)
  • Greece (Athens)
  • Bulgaria (Sofia)
  • Luxemburg (Luxemburg)
  • Lithuania (Vilnius)
  • Denmark (Copenhagen
  • Belgium ( Brussels)
  • Slovenia (Ljubljana)
  • Cyprus (Nicosia)
  • Malta (Valletta)
  • Austria (Vienna)
  • Hungry (Budapest)
  • Croatia (Zagreb)
  • Slovakia (Bratislava)
  • Estonia (Tallinn)
  • Latvia (Riga)

Did you know?

  • The European Union covers 4.5 million square kilometres and has a population of about 450 million people. Only China and India have a larger population than the combined EU Countries.
  • Germany has the largest population of the EU States with 83 million while Malta has the smallest with about half a million.
  • One in five of every burger sold in McDonald’s all across Europe is made from Irish beef.
  • The EEC (European Economic Community) was formed in 1958.
  • In 1993 the EEC changed its name to the European Union.
  • Ireland joined the EU in 1973.

By: Sean Hynes & Harry Larkin.

A busy week!

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This week we started athletics with Emmet and in November there will be a competition. We also started hurling with Ryan. Second class were having fun in maths by using Cuisenaire rods to make tens. Juniors and Seniors were having fun during Aistear. 5th and 6th are learning about the European Union and we started some fun Maths stations using ISAK9 cubes. Here are some more photos

By Gráinne & Rachel

Welcome Back!

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On the 31st of August 2022, we all went back to school and welcomed new Junior Infants. Everyone was ecstatic to see their friends and our new S.N.A Mrs. Mannion. We all unpacked our books and got straight into the fun!

Here are a few pictures from our first week!

By Orlaith Conway & Caoimhe O’ Meara