On Friday, June 18th, 4th Class attended the Lego Mindstorms Workshop at the ILAC Centre. Pupils worked in threes on laptops, programming toy robots to move according to their instructions. Rob, our man from Lego, found the class very receptive, and fast to catch on. Lego Mindstorms is one of those kits that is incomprehensible […]
Read More Lego Mindstorms 4th ClassThough the school building has been in use since September 23rd, we finally managed to officially inaugurate it on June 16th. Our Principal, Aine, insisted that we remember that this is not the opening of a new school, but rather, that of a new building only. That said, it was still a great occasion […]
Read More Grangegorman Official OpeningThis year’s Inter-Schools Dublin Athletic Championships, Cumann na mBunscoil, were held in the Billy Morton Stadium, Santry on Wednesday June 9th. The school was well represented, with 35 athletes from the school qualifying. Mary McKenna had been training children at the school for months previously, and the work paid off, particularly in the relay events, […]
Read More Santry Sports, June, 2010In March, our class had a student teacher, Mary in for three weeks. In History, we studied 100 Years of Fashion, and Mary had the idea of doing our own fashion show, covering a century. We were split up into twos/threes for each decade. We had to wear clothes that suited the decade. For […]
Read More 4th Class Fashion ShowOn our tour, we went to Wicklow jail, also known as The Gates of Hell. At first, I think all of us were a bit scared, as the palce was known for being haunted. In my opinion, it was awesome. There was this guy who was dressed up like a jailer, who led us through […]
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