Thursday, 20 December 2012

History Day

The children in Room 12 organised a 'traditional games' workshop in the hall. 









 

Monday, 10 December 2012

Human Rights

It is Human Rights Week.  
The children in Room 12 were shocked and saddened to hear Malala Yousafzai's story. She is a 15 year old girl who has been campaigning for education rights for girls since she was 11. She was shot and injured on October 9th on her way home from school. Malala is in hospital in Birmingham. The children wrote to her to wish her well.




Art- Fabric and fibre

It's Art fortnight again. This time we are working with fabric and fibre. 
We have deconstructed hessian by removing pieces to create a fringe and some patterns. 
We then used plastic darning needles to fill in the gaps in the fabric. 
We used some of the removed hessian to create pictures. 

 Once we were confident with the darning needles were able to create wall hangings.
 

Science- Light

We explored the relationship between the size of the shadow and the distance between the light source and the object making the shadow


Friday, 16 November 2012

6th class trip to The Ulster American Folk Park

On Thursday 15th November, 6th class travelled to The Ulster American Folk Park outside Omagh, Co. Tyrone. Our hard work on Fun Day in October paid off and we had raised the entire cost of the trip. It was an early start- we left at 7am! We were given a tour of the park and then split into groups to take part in workshops. We had a fantastic day.



 The Blacksmith's craft

 Ulster farmhouse cooking
Printer's devil
 Post boy
Chemists assistant

 Pioneer cooking
 American wood crafts
 American tinsmithing
 Early American textiles

 Going wild


Thursday, 15 November 2012

Geography- Rocks


We are learning about the characteristics of some common rock types 
and where they may be found in Ireland and in other parts of the world. 

We found out that there are three rock groups- igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. 
We examined rocks- their appearance, texture and colour. 
We tried to match these characteristics to what we know about sandstone, granite, schist, mudstone, limestone and basalt. It was quite difficult!

We also tested their strength using a scratch test.

 











Friday, 26 October 2012

Happy Halloween


History- Local studies


As part of the ‘Local studies’ work, the children in room 12 completed projects on Kenure House or The RMS Tayleur. They presented these to the class. The presentations and projects were very impressive. Well done!
 

Art- Construction

The children in room 12 constructed dioramas using a shoe box and waste materials. They were asked to design and create a small scale model of their ideal bedroom. The finished pieces are amazing.