We have reached the last day of our Virtual Challenges which included completing a mini project on the topics of "My Grandparents", "My Local GAA Club" or "My Favourite Soccer Team", building a paper origami floating boat, taking part in the skipping or toilet roll challenge and sending in a photo or video showing us the things you loved to do during the Lockdown. Below are some examples of the work we received (click on the photos to enlarge them). We've even had one pupil who built their own table tennis table out of plywood while another pupil built a tree house! Well done to everyone, the effort that you have made over the past few weeks has been incredible!
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We have reached the last day of our Virtual Challenges which included completing a mini project on the topics of "My Grandparents", "My Local GAA Club" or "My Favourite Soccer Team", building a paper origami floating boat, taking part in the skipping or toilet roll challenge and sending in a photo or video showing us the things you loved to do during the Lockdown. Below are some examples of the work we received (click on the photos to enlarge them). We've even had one pupil who built their own table tennis table out of plywood while another pupil built a tree house! Well done to everyone, the effort that you have made over the past few weeks has been incredible! We have reached the last day of our Virtual Challenges which included completing a mini project on the topics of "My Grandparents", "My Local GAA Club" or "My Favourite Soccer Team", building a paper origami floating boat, taking part in the skipping or toilet roll challenge and sending in a photo or video showing us the things you loved to do during the Lockdown. Below are some examples of the work we received (click on the photos to enlarge them). We've even had one pupil who built their own table tennis table out of plywood while another pupil built a tree house! Well done to everyone, the effort that you have made over the past few weeks has been incredible! Congratulations to Aisling Lonergan who is ranked in the top 20% of candidates in Ireland for the 2020 HPAT exam in medicine. Aisling is a past pupil of Thomastown N.S. and Cashel Community School. Aisling is currently awaiting her Leaving Certificate results before commencing her third-level studies in the autumn. We wish all of our past pupils awaiting their Leaving Certificate results the very best of luck.  The 3rd - 6th Class pupils have been busy taking part in some virtual hurling, gaelic football and soccer challenges as well as a bouncy egg science experiment over the past week. Click on the link below to see some of the gaelic football, hurling and soccer skills videos from the Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four Skills Challenges and the bouncy egg science experiment videos on YouTube. Switch your web browser to Google Chrome if you are having any difficulty watching the videos.
www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRDIiq0hBnttS9jGJefPDQ?view_as=subscriber 1st and 2nd Class were busy this week creating their own wildlife log piles and Crazy Caterpillars using rocks at home. Super work by everyone! Lucia and Jake made a fabulous log pile lodge for the wildlife in their garden. Brilliant work!!  The Virtual Challenges for Day Four included writing a piece entitled "My Hero", a bouncy egg science experiment, Gaelic football and soccer skills and a Bake Off Challenge. The "My Hero" pieces included family members, soccer players, hurlers, computer programmers, authors, suffragettes and Gaelic footballers. The bouncy egg experiment involved placing an egg in a glass, filling the glass with white vinegar and waiting for between 48 and 72 hours to see if the egg would become a bouncy egg. The shell of an egg is made of calcium carbonate. When you place the egg into the vinegar, you see bubbles, which is the chemical reaction of the acid in the vinegar reacting with the calcium carbonate to produce carbon dioxide. The egg gets larger as it sits in the vinegar. That is because some of the vinegar is absorbed by the egg through its semi-permeable membrane. Like with all science experiments, we had some positive and negative results! The Bake Off Challenge showed that there are some very talented chefs in the school. We received lots of different examples of the pupils' baking skills such as Victoria sponge cake, biscuit cake, brownies, cookies, rice krispie buns, cup cakes and carrot cake - all of which looked delicious. We even had pupils making elderflower cordial! Uploaded below are some examples of the "My Hero" written pieces, the bouncy egg science experiment and the Bake Off Challenge (click on the images to enlarge them). Amazing work once again from everyone! The Virtual Challenges for Day Four included writing a piece entitled "My Hero", a bouncy egg science experiment, Gaelic football and soccer skills and a Bake Off Challenge. The "My Hero" pieces included family members, soccer players, hurlers, computer programmers, authors, suffragettes and Gaelic footballers. The bouncy egg experiment involved placing an egg in a glass, filling the glass with white vinegar and waiting for between 48 and 72 hours to see if the egg would become a bouncy egg. The shell of an egg is made of calcium carbonate. When you place the egg into the vinegar, you see bubbles, which is the chemical reaction of the acid in the vinegar reacting with the calcium carbonate to produce carbon dioxide. The egg gets larger as it sits in the vinegar. That is because some of the vinegar is absorbed by the egg through its semi-permeable membrane. Like with all science experiments, we had some positive and negative results! The Bake Off Challenge showed that there are some very talented chefs in the school. We received lots of different examples of the pupils' baking skills such as Victoria sponge cake, biscuit cake, cookies, rice krispie buns, cup cakes and carrot cake - all of which looked delicious. We even had pupils making elderflower cordial! Uploaded below are some examples of the "My Hero" written pieces, the bouncy egg science experiment and the Bake Off Challenge (click on the images to enlarge them). Amazing work once again from everyone! |
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