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
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??
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
Bhí paráid ar súil ag Rang 4 sa Seomra teicneolaíochta inniu le Lego Wedo 2.0.Chuir braiteoir gluaiseachta Milo ar súil!
The children in Room 23 took part in a live online session with the Dream Space and the Garage teams from Microsoft Ireland last Friday. This was to celebrate the end of STEPS Engineers week 2023.The children coded and solved problems like engineers. They created their very own Arcade games while le
The children from Rooms 19, 20, 21, 22 & 34 took part in some Engineering challenges this week as part of STEPS Engineers Week 2023. See some of the fantastics ducks, bridges and sturdy towers that were imagined, planned, created, tested and improved by our budding engineers.
Did you know that 41% of Ireland’s electricty came from wind energy in January? The best month on record!.Last month we investigated climate in Geography and became aware of the importance of the Earth’s renewable and non-renewable resources.We decided to design wind farms to reduce our dependence o
For World Book Day today, 4th class Room 23 read ‘The Dot’ by Peter H. Reynolds. Using an app called Quiver, the children completed augmented reality Dot drawing projects. The children designed ‘The Dot’ colouring page, scanned the QR code and the design came to life.Watch the video to see the fan
The children from 4th class Rooms 23 & 24 have been learning with Lego WeDo 2.0 Science materials over the last few terms. They have recorded presentatons of their final projects. See how they have planned, designed, built, coded and debugged their projects.What fantastic science & engineering skill
The children in Room 25 took part in a live Hour of Code workshop this afternoon. Thank you to the team at Microsoft DreamSpace for a great coding experience!
The children in 3rd class have been learning how to code BlueBots floor robots over the last while. Their Blue Bots have been travelling all over the world, counting money, working with shapes and obstacles courses, searching for treasure, designing mazes, retelling stories, and even playing snakes
The children in 5th class Room 25 brought their maps of the world to life today using a 3D augmented reality app, as part of their STEM classes. See what they explored in the video below.
Take a look at the children from Room 13 who shared lots of science experiments with the class for Science Week 2022.
The children in Room 5 have been working with BeeBots over the last few weeks as part of their STEM activities.See some of the activities they have worked on in the video below.
Ms. Molloy’s 3rd class are taking part in the STEPS Young Engineers Awards Project this year.They had a visit from an engineer, Mr. Dave Keeshan, this week. Mr. Keeshan is a past pupil of our school and was excited to return and see all the children’s work.They all presented the projects they have
The children in Room 31 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.Take a look at the ch
6th class Mr. Lysaght took part in a virtual workshop today with Microsoft Dreamspace for Science Week 2022.They discussed and explored both non-renewable and renewable energy sources through Minecraft Education, looking at the future of energy in our world.
We were delighted to receive our school certificate for the coding activities the children in St. Brigid’s took part in over the last few weeks.
Some more activities for Code week 2022:6th class Room 32 took part in a virtual workshop with the DreamSpace team at Microsoft. They explored what the Cloud is, discussed the role of the cloud in our lives and what a data centre is. Then they were lucky enough to complete activities on a brand new
Code Week 2022 got off to a great start in St. Brigids with 2nd class Room 12 coding with Scratch Jr and Senior Infants working with BeeBots for lots of different literacy and maths activities.
Thanks again to the Dreamspace team for another virtual workshop this week.6th class Room 30 worked together to build launchpads, rockets and space ships with Minecraft Education. They discussed lots of interesting facts about space, the technology involved and the important resources astronauts nee
6th class pupils from Room 31 took part in a live, virtual workshop with Microsoft Dreamspace for World Animal Day.They examined climate change issues and how they are affecting animals and our world, and explored and completed activities on a new Minecraft Education world called Frozen World.They
The children in 4th class Room 24 were working with speed and pulleys recently with the Lego WeDo 2.0 materials. they investigated how changing the wheels, adding weighted bricks, changing the pulleys etc. might affect the speed and movement of their racing car. They also added motion sensors to con
