Discover Primary Science Log book
Scoil Nioclais has entered the award every year since 2005 but this is the first time we have developed a Digital log book! We hope you enjoy it and we will update it as much as we can.
This will give you a flavour of the Science and related STEM subjects on going in Scoil Nioclais during the year! Some of these activities have been photographed and appear here on our newly established page.
This will give you a flavour of the Science and related STEM subjects on going in Scoil Nioclais during the year! Some of these activities have been photographed and appear here on our newly established page.
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Science
We cover a variety of hands-on experiments based on the four strands of the curriculum.
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Living Things For example, Mr Owen’s class were studying the life cycle of the chick live in the classroom from incubating eggs to hatched chicks and in back home to the farm. |
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Ms Beechinor’s Fifth class were working on studying ears. Junior Infants have been studying the life cycle of the frog. Making electrical circuits in Ms.Ruane's class. Materials Third class making volcanoes. Ms. Ruane's third class showed us how to make a lava lamp. Blackrock Observatory Scoil Nioclais pupils get the opportunity to go on Science trips. All four Third classes go to the Blackrock Observatory where Frances McCarthy wows them with Space and they make comets. Lifetime Lab Fourth classes have just had the opportunity to visit the Lifetime Lab in the Old Waterworks of Cork and explored the topic of forces. Water Safety Every year we have Water Safety instructors and /or Beach lifeguards visiting our school to give talks on water safety in line with PAWS (Primary Aquatics Water Safety) developed by Irish Water Safety. |
Energy and Forces
Fourth classes exploring forces in the Lifetime Lab. Ms. Kelleher's 5th class experiment with parachuting eggs! Environmental awareness and care The biggest resource we have for the Environmental awareness and care strand is the school grounds and in particular the school garden. Although we have had a lot of construction work on the school grounds in the past few years we have established a garden we intend developing it every year with a new aspect. Our school plan includes infants planting bulbs, senior classes planting vegetables, flowers and the sensory garden. Ms Bradley’s fourth class are caretakers for the garden but many classes plant there. We have continued to plant trees for Tree Week (Oct) and Tree day (in March). Space week Space week was a great success this year! Mr Walsh’s class explored many aspects of Space including rockets, meteorites and space exploration. Ms Bradley’s class were busy exploring the planet Mars and Martians. |
Show and Tell
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Third classes run our annual Discover Primary Science exhibition where they exhibit and explain their Science experiments to parents and pupils from second and First classes. The photos show 3rd class demonstrating and explaining what they’ve been exploring.
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Technology
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We are proud of our Excellence in IT award from IT@cork Leaders award 2017. We have been recognised for our hard work building up our technology in the school. This year our enthusiastic staff and parent body have continued to be essential in the variety of IT based projects including the coderdojo club, Vex robotics, our computer room as well as our pupil laptops.
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Engineering
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2. Designing and making buildings in Ms. Walsh's Junior Infants. 4. Using our engineering pack. |
1. Fourth classes designing and making a house. 3. A visit from an engineer in 6th class. |
Maths
Maths is an important part of science activities and amoung the many activites are...
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First class weighing and tasting fruit. Mr Flynn’s class studied the relative sizes of the planets in the sky and distance from each other, in comparison to each other and represented the planets in 3D. |
Using technology to collect data in Senior Infants. 
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