STEM

BeeBot Programming Senior Infants

See some photos from Ms. Doyle’s and Ms. Connolly’s Senior Infant classes programming with Bee Bot floor robots as part of our STEM initiative.rbt

#Hourofcode week @Stbrigidsns

Lots of classes across the school took part in #hour of code last week. Children completed a variety of coding activities using ipads and our technology room. You can see photos of some of the children at work below.Hour of code week took place all across the world from December 3rd – 9th, giving c

Microbit Coding in 5th class

The children in 5th class have been completing some coding activities using Microbits.You can see some videos and photos of Ms. Rice’s class at work below.A Microbit is a pocket-sized computer 70 times smaller and 18 times faster than the original BBC Micro computers used in schools. It has 25 red L

Lightbot coding in 6th class

The children in Mr. Lowery’s 6th class have been coding with LightBot this week.See some photos of the children at work below.

Project Minecraft in 6th class

See some photos of the children in 6th class who are working with Minecraft Education as part of Project Minecraft.#MinecraftEdu@Gowriggle

Bee Bot Programming Senior Infants Ms. McGovern

The children in Ms. McGovern’s Senior Infants have been learning to code with Bee Bot floor robots. They are completing a variety of Maths, Literacy and computational thinking activities. Take a look at the slide show to see some photos and videos of the children at work.Take a look next week too as

News2day visits St. Brigids for EU Code Week

There was great excitement in the Technology room today as we had a visit from Cillian Sherlock and the RTE News2day team! The visit was to mark EU Code Week and to see all the different coding activities that take place in our school from Infants to 6th class. Take a look at some ‘behind the scenes

Bee Bot programming: Senior Infants Mr. Lysaght

The children in Mr. Lysaght’s are the first Senior Infant class to work as programmers using Bee Bots this year. They are completing lots of programming and computational thinking challenges through maths and literacy activities. See some photos of the children at work below:

Engineering Challenges 5th class Ms. O’Neill

The children in Ms. O’Neill’s 5th class have been completing a variety of engineering challenges over the last few weeks as part of their STEM block in the technology room.See some pictures of their work below.

First Lego League Junior – 4th class Ms. Robinson

Ms. Robinson’s 4th class have been working hard on their robotic projects to have them ready in time for the first ever First Lego League Junior to be held in Ireland.The children worked in groups and the theme for their challenge was ‘Aqua Adventure’. Yesterday was showcase day and the class travel

Project Minecraft 5th class Ms. N. Fay

The children in Ms. Fay’s 5th class have been lucky enough to start using Minecaft Education as part of Project Minecraft. Today they began designing some story settings for their favourite stories. Here are some photos of the children at work today. We were one of a few lucky schools to be accepted

WeDo 2.0 Projects: 4th class Mr. O’Donghue

Mr. O’Donoghue’s 4th class have been working with the WeDo 2.0 Lego Science materials over the last few weeks as part of their STEM block. They have been working on guided and open projects involving building, using sensors, programming etc.Take a look at their work in the video below.

Digital Art: Senior Infants Ms. McGovern

Take a look at the digital art created by Ms. McGovern’s class over the last few weeks.The children have been working with a variety of digital tools and online software to create digital art over the last few weeks. The worked in pairs to learn about using a mouse and a keyboard, creating 2d shapes

Engineers Week 2018: 5th class Ms. McDonagh

As part of Engineers Week 2018, Ms. McDonagh’s 5th class completed a ‘sturdy tower’ challenge.Their challenge was to build a sturdy tower in their groups that was strong enough to hold a stack of textbooks! The children worked in groups of four to plan, build and test their design, working as engine

Coding in 3rd class Ms. Brosnan

The children in 3rd class have been working with coding activities using studiocode.org in recent weeks.The activities have included learning to drag and drop, creating a maze, debugging, sequencing activities, creating loops, creating stories etc. All activities are pair programming activities wh

Coding activities in 3rd class Ms. O’Halloran

The children in 3rd class have been working with coding activities using studiocode.org in recent weeks.The activities have included learning to drag and drop, creating a maze, debugging, sequencing activities, creating loops, creating stories etc. All activities are pair programming activities wh

Creating Projects using Book Creator – 2nd class Ms. Stokes

The children in Ms. Stokes 2nd class have been creating digital stories on the ipads using an app called ‘Book Creator’.They added pictures, text and voice recording to their projects. Their chosen topics included ‘The Titanic’, ‘The History of Castleknock’, ‘The Zoo’ etc.Take a look at a selection

Digital art: Senior Infants Ms. Doyle

Take a look at some of the beautiful digital art the children from Ms. Doyle’s Senior Infant class completed during their STEM block with Ms. O’Callaghan over the last two weeks.

Digital art in Senior Infants – Ms Dillon

The children in Ms. Dillon’s Senior Infant class have been working with a variety of digital tools and online software to create digital art over the last few weeks. The worked in pairs to learn about using a mouse and keyboard, creating 2d shapes, using different tools, pens and colours and created