St. Fiacc's National School

6th Classes are exploring Minecraft Education as part of our Digital Framework for the school. Children are using Code to navigate their way through a series of tasks. We are looking forward to more fresh challenges in the coming weeks.

We are always really happy in St Fiacc’s to try out new sports so we are delighted that Leinster Cricket Coach, Jimmy Dooley, is coaching numerous classes as part of a 6 Week Cricket programme in school. Great fun was had this week and we are looking forward to the next session already. A huge thanks to Mr Nolan for organising!

6th Class on their sixth session of chess this afternoon, learning about how the Rook moves- we are all nearly there playing full rules!

We celebrated the start of Advent today at Assembly and the Advent Sacred Spaces are on full view in the main lobby. Pat is going to be busy over the next two weeks getting the Crib ready as we prepare for Christmas.

Today we were working on an hour of Code as part of our STEM programme here in St Fiacc’s. Children were creating a dance party following on from the Minecraft experience last week!

We are using our IT Boards in classrooms throughout the school to access Assembly throughout the past two years. Today, Mr Brennan was joined by 6th class for an Advent service, our gardening correspondant along with Ms Fleming and we also had a special visit from a dodgy looking Gareth Brooks live from his ranch in Colorado! We are using IT to the full here in St Fiacc’s to ensure that the children are not missing out on all the latest school news!

We have really been enjoying ourselves in Junior Infants so far this year, with lots of Aistear Play and STEM activities to keep us busy!

Third class really enjoyed science week and took part in different activities and investigations. We built tin foil towers, came up with new uses for paper clips, made paper helicopters, measured shadows throughout the day on our sundials, and investigated how many people it would take to stand on a table with balloons underneath before the balloons burst!

5th Class were working hard on figuring out how to create the tallest tower using just tin foil.

Ms Minnock’s Class battled against a strong wind (Hairdrier) and severe rain (A Spray Bottle) to keep their Spaghetti, Marshmallow and Paper structures standing tall while learning all about Global Climate Justice. It was a great STEM lesson that all children enjoyed!

Happy Halloween from third class.

We have been learning about the life cycle of a spider! Some pupils enjoyed learning about spiders more than others! Getting into the Halloween spirit!!!!

Things are getting spooky in Rang 4! Watch out for some spooky creatures heading home on Friday!!!

4th class have been enjoying  listening and responding to ‘Carnival of the Animals’ by Camille Saint – Saens. We created some mosaic pictures that were inspired by the music!

4th Class used the process of Chromatography to separate colours in markers. We used filter paper to separate colours in different markers. We then used the filter paper to create some cool Halloween pictures! We hope you like our pictures!

Following our learning on animals and their habitats, 4th class created some amazing habitats for an animal of their choice! Here are just a small selection of the wonderful habitats that were made during our STEM activities! Maith thú rang4!

Fourth class had great fun identifying trees on our school grounds! We enjoyed drawing leaves and doing leaf and bark rubbings.

Fourth class have been enjoying using iPads to research Halloween in other countries during our Geography lesson!