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Robotics Workshops Rooms 27 & 28

Robotics Workshops Rooms 27 & 28

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

Sphero Art  in 6th Class

Sphero Art in 6th Class

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.

A project for their younger friends….

A project for their younger friends….

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??

Bionics Hands in Room 23

Bionics Hands in Room 23

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

Paráid sa Seomra Teicneolaíochta Rang 4

Paráid sa Seomra Teicneolaíochta Rang 4

Bhí paráid ar súil ag Rang 4 sa Seomra teicneolaíochta inniu le Lego Wedo 2.0.Chuir braiteoir gluaiseachta Milo ar súil!

Dreamspace workshop in 4th class

Dreamspace workshop in 4th class

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

Engineers Week 2023

Engineers Week 2023

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.

Wind Farm Project 4th class Room 23

Wind Farm Project 4th class Room 23

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

Augmented Reality for World Book Day 4th class

Augmented Reality for World Book Day 4th class

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

4th Class Project Presentations

4th Class Project Presentations

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

DreamSpace Hour of Code Workshop                               @MS_eduIRL

DreamSpace Hour of Code Workshop @MS_eduIRL

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!

Coding with Blue Bots 3rd class

Coding with Blue Bots 3rd class

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

Bringing maps to life in 5th class

Bringing maps to life in 5th class

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.

Science Week in 2nd class Room 13

Science Week in 2nd class Room 13

Take a look at the children from Room 13 who shared lots of science experiments with the class for Science Week 2022.

BeeBot Coding Room 5

BeeBot Coding Room 5

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.

STEPS Young Engineers project in 3rd class                                                 @EngineerIreland

STEPS Young Engineers project in 3rd class @EngineerIreland

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

Painting with Sphero Robots

Painting with Sphero Robots

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

Virtual Minecraft Education Workshop with Microsoft Dreamspace

Virtual Minecraft Education Workshop with Microsoft Dreamspace

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.

CodeWeek Certificate for our school                                               @CodeWeekIRL @PDST_TechinEd

CodeWeek Certificate for our school @CodeWeekIRL @PDST_TechinEd

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.

Code Week 2022 continues…….                                         @CodeWeekIRL    @PDST_techinEd

Code Week 2022 continues……. @CodeWeekIRL @PDST_techinEd

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

Kicking off Code Week 2022                                      @PDST_TechinEd  @CodeWeekIRL

Kicking off Code Week 2022 @PDST_TechinEd @CodeWeekIRL

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.

Space Week Virtual Workshop                                @MS_eduIRL

Space Week Virtual Workshop @MS_eduIRL

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

Live virtual workshop for World Animal Day                      @MS_eduIRL @worldanimalday

Live virtual workshop for World Animal Day @MS_eduIRL @worldanimalday

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

Working with Speed in 4th class

Working with Speed in 4th class

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