School tour to Causey Farm: Room 9
Some photos of the children in Room 9 on their school tour to Causey Farm.
Some photos of the children in Room 9 on their school tour to Causey Farm.
The children from Rooms 27 & 28 took part in a fantastic robotics workshop today working with Lego materials to create and program robots.Thank you to the facilitators from Creative Hut and Think Big Space for two very engaging sessions.They also brought along an amazing Lego robot that was built
On Wednesday morning, the children in 5th class headed off on their school tour to Croke Park. They toured the grounds of the stadium, visited the dressing rooms, learned lots of historical facts relating to events held in the stadium and even spent time in the commentary stand!After a quick bite t
Today our 5th and 6th classes were represented by 28 classmates who took part at the Cumann na mBunscoile athletics event in UCD.The team travelled by bus accompanied by Mr. Lowery and Ms.O’Brien and what a day they had!Early in the afternoon, we were delighted to hear the great news that the U14 bo
Ms.Corry’s 2nd class played their in -class Maths games outside yesterday. They had fun honing their maths skills in the beautiful sunshine.
Well done everyone on participating in the Food Dudes initiative over the last 6 weeks.Even though we aren’t getting fruit and vegetables delivered each morning, doesn’t mean we have stopped trying to eat healthily. Phase 2 is now in action! This means that it is up to us to bring fruit and vegetabl
The children in Room 32 recently completed some fabulous art work using Sphero robots as part of their STEM projects. They created paintings in the style of the artist Jackson Pollack using Spheros instead of brushes! They controlled the robots using the Sphero Edu app on iPads.
The children from Room 30 were busy this week in the STEM room planning for a very special project they are doing for their friends in the Infant building!What could they be doing??
Pupils from the Garden Class were delighted to be joined by students from 6th class today on the church green to plant some lovely flowers and plants in a special sensory section on the Church Green. Margaret from the Castleknock Tidy Towns Association was onhand to provide expert guidance and assis
A great day was had by the children from 2nd class in the bog today!Second class travelled to Causey Farm in Co. Meath today. The children had fantastic fun meeting an array of animals, befriending chickens and feeding the alpacas. They created huge bubbles, made wishes at the wishing bell and best
Pupils from three of our classes made their communion on Saturday in a beautiful ceremony. They were prepared by Ms.Keane, Ms. Mc Keown and Mr. MacCann. Afterwards there was tea, cake and treats in the Sports Hall for everyone. Our thanks to Fr. Damien, Fr.Denis, Olive, and Mary for making the cerem
The 4th class camogie team had their first training session this afternoon in glorious sunshine in Russell Park.The girls will be training and playing some matches over the next number of weeks. Between the 4th, 5th and 6th class girls, camogie is alive and well in St.Brigids!
Ms. Mc Gann, Ms. Corry classes made their communion on Saturday in a beautiful reverent ceremony. The PTA then treated them to a little party while their families had refreshments in the hall.
The children in Junior Infants have been working very hard at their Literacy station activities recently.
We have been learning about ‘Human Life’. We explored and investigated how people move their bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments.Using our STEM skills we created Bionic Hands made out of cardboard, string, straws and rubber bands. Our design task involved understanding the function of the fingers
The 5th class camogie team were playing again yesterday. They met stiff opposition in St. Enda’s and were delighted to win with a 5.3 to 2.0 scoreline. Well done, girls on your second win this season.
On Tuesday two of our 6th classes took part in a section of the @FingalSports Leprechaun Cup in Castleknock College. We saw excellent bowling performances by these pupils who shared 9 wickets between them. ‘Rang Doyle’ beat ‘Rang Lowrey’ by 22 runs. Rang Lysaght and Rang Ní Fhearhghail play today.Th
Mr. Lowery and Ms Ní Fhearghail accompanied 51 pupils to the final meeting of the Fingal Cross Country league yesterday. They had a great day with many pupils winning places in different races. Mr. Lowery said afterwards that everyone ran their best race and their behaviour was a credit to their par
The children in 5th class, Rooms 27 & 28 have been exploring the Earth using an augmented reality ipad app this week as part of their STEM activities.
The children in Room 17 have been learning about Norman Castles.They designed, created and presented their own Norman Castles and have recorded some video walk-arounds so we can all have a look at them.
Mr. Lowery’s 6th class accompanied Ms. Keane’s 2nd class on a scavenger hunt earlier this week. This gave both classes an opportunity to show how kind are to each other and to practice giving meaningful compliments to others! Kindness comes very naturally to all the pupils in St. Brigids and it is
Our classes loved spending time with and showing kindness to their buddy classes for Kindness Week.They enjoyed eating lunch together, creating art, planting seeds, playing playground games in the yard and board games with new friends and completing scavenger hunts.We will all continue to celebrate
Our Complimemt Tree is blossoming with thoughtful compliments composed by children from Junior Infants up to 6th class.We all like it so much that we have decided to keep it here in the school and invite classes to continue to read the compliments.
We have had a great first week participating in the Food Dudes programme. Everyone has been making a brilliant effort to eat our fruit and vegetables, delivered every morning by our hardworking delivery team under the guidance of Ms. Connolly.We are looking forward to tasting more and learning about