School & Class News

After a well-deserved rest over the Christmas holidays, our return to school has been a busy one!  In Science, we made 'rockets' using plastic bottles and 'launched' them in the yard.  We mixed bicaronate of soda with vinegar in the bottles.  This caused a chemical reaction that made carbon dioxide, causing the 'rocket's to lift off!  We had mixed results, and the area was a bit messy afterwards, but we had great fun!

We also investigated which material was the best insulator: cloth, plastic or tinfoil.  Most of us were correct in thinking that tinfoil would be the best!

In art, we made some firework pictures, using cut-up toilet rolls as 'stamps' to make the fireworks and we also produced some winter tree pictures using a patterned background.

In Literacy, we wrote recounts.  We really enjoyed writing the recount 'Worst Day Ever at School'!

We made some Christmas decorations by reccycling twigs and slices of branches! Wishing everyone a very happy and safe Christmas!

Thank you God for sending your son Jesus to us!

It has been a busy end of term in 2nd Class.  A number of weeks ago, the Team Hope van came to collect all the shoeboxes that we had prepared to send to children in other parts of the world who would not receive any Christmas gifts. In Art, we did imitations of Piet Mondrian's style using the primary colours.  We enjoyed our gymnastic sessions with Mark and are happy that we will have two more lessons in January.  We also got to visit Dubray Bookshop in Blackrock for a session with author, Alan Nolan,  He was very funny. He showed us how to draw one of his book characters.  For the past couple of weeks, we have been preparing for our Carol Service which was held on December 16th.  This was our first time being included in the Senior Carol Service and we were very excited.  Our teachers were very proud of us  

We celebrated Science Week last week.   On Monday, our teahcer showed us how to make a lava lamp.  Some us made them at home and brought them into school to show the class.  We learned how to pierce a balloon the whole way through using a skewer without bursting the balloon! On Wednesday we saw a 'volvano' erupt in our classroom!  On Thursday, our teacher used a hair dryer to flip an empty can from one cup into another!  The highlight of the week was our session with Rasha on Friday.  Rasha runs the afterschool Science Club on Wednesdays.  We made battery operated 'cars' and we got to bring them home! 

We celebrated Maths Week last week.  On Tuesday we merged PE and Maths together and had a Maths Relay Race.  We were split into five teams. Each team member had to run to a certain spot and answer the Maths question on the clipboard.  Points were given for both correct answers and the overall times it took each team to complete all the questions.  The winners received green cards.

We also had to estimate how many sweets were in a box.  The three boys who had the closest estimates got to share the sweets between them.