Entries by emerb

Coffee Morning/ Galway Hospice

  Galway Hospice/Coffee Morning     On Tuesday the 20th of September, we raised funds for the Galway Hospice by hosting a Coffee Morning in Kiltiernan National School. Family’s brought in baked goods for the occasion and the parents council brewed the coffee and tea. During the day, the Parents Council came into the classrooms […]

Irish Dancing

Irish dancing We have an Irish dancing teacher called Louise. Every week from the start of the first term until the end of the second term, she takes our class every Wednesday from 9:20 to about 10:05. We are working on a dance but it is a combination of some other dances. First we all […]

Mark’s Birthday

MARK’S BIRTHDAY On the 7th of October, we were all happy to wake up to a warm, sunny day to celebrate our good friend Mark’s Birthday. It was a special day and we wanted to let Mark know that we were thinking about him. We got a big yellow obstacle course bouncy castle, which had […]

Science

Science  Experiments  This year Science Week 2016 ran from 14th to the 25th of November    .We have been celebrating science week by putting some experiments to the test. Everyone in fifth and sixth class were allocated into groups of three and then given an experiment. In my group was Diarmuid, Grace and I .We got […]

Science week experiments

  Science week As part of Science week we all did experiments in our classrooms. My group did a rainbow spinner. All we needed was cardboard, a battery pack, a motor, some wires and markers. First we cut out a circle of cardboard, next we coloured it, the seven colours of the rainbow. After that […]

Science: Odd Ooze

Blog for Science Experiment: Odd Ooze     Last week was science week. In the senior room, we got into groups for science projects. In my group was Tara, Paul and myself. Our project was called Odd Ooze. We needed corn flour, water and food colouring for this project. You had to mix all those […]

Dogs Trust visit

Dogs Trust Visit     One day Aoife a Dogs Trust employee came to all classes, explaining about the rules of keeping a dog, and what you need to keep a dog healthy and happy! Those things included:   Time Money   Space She also chatted about how dogs are chosen for families or the […]

Naomi’s Workshop of Sound

  Naomi’s Workshop of Sound On the 22nd of November 2016 Naomi Lavelle (a sound scientist) came to our school. She came to tell us about the science of sound. It was really fascinating. Here’s what she told us. Naomi showed us many experiments. She started off with an experiment involving 2 balloons. Inside the […]

Dancing Blog

Irish Dancing We do Irish dancing every Wednesday with Louise Curran. She takes us down to the halla in the morning to practise our dances. The senior room are performing their dances on our panto night in Labane hall. But Adam has an amazing solo. He is doing the brush dance and is showing off […]

Dogs Trust visit

In late October our school, Kiltiernan NS was visited by a Dogs Trust representative named Aoife. She taught us about safety around dogs and how to behave if we felt scared or threatened around them. For example the best way to approach a strange dog is to make a fist of your hand and approach […]