We had a fantastic start to our Friday Club with sixth class boys. There was lots of fun and healthy competition playing Uno. Sixth class boys were a tremendous help teaching us the tricks of the game. We can’t wait to play again next week.

We are learning about Antarctica, about its climate and the animals living there. We learned all about penguins and produced stunning penguin paintings.

Our first Maths topic of the New Year is all about telling the time. The boys loved our ‘Hip, hop, around the clock’ song!

We made beautiful Christmas decorations and cards for our families.

We put so much hard work into preparing for our annual Carol Service. It was a pleasure to perform for everyone. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

We really enjoyed seeing the Garda Band and singing along to some Christmas songs!

Fantastic work today to create a beautiful Christmas picture.

We put up our Christmas Tree today!

The boys in Prefab 9 were conducting investigations today. First, we wanted to find out if fat could really keep animals warm in winter. We made predictions before we began. Then we checked our ice water to see if it was cold!

After that, we covered our fingers in a layer of fat to protect us from the cold.

Finally, we checked how cold the water felt when the fat was covering our fingers!

Our second experiment was designed to investigate how crystals are formed. We again began by making predictions. Then we poured warm water and salt into containers. Next, we stirred the water to dissolve the salt.

Now, we have to wait to see if our predictions are correct!