We learned all about the devastating bushfires that have spread across Australia. Koala’s are very cute animals. They are native to Australia. A lot of the Koala’s habitat has been ruined in the fires. Our group took a special interest in Koala’s and completed a case study on them this week to find out more about them.… Read More
Ms. Collins’ class does printing!
Ms. Collins’ class have been experimenting with print over the past two weeks. Today we looked at the different techniques needed to print using bottle caps. The boys and girls had great fun coming up with wonderful ideas, check out their masterpieces below!… Read More
Operation Transformation
Plastic Packaging Pirates
St. Thomas’ Senior National School has successfully reached the regional final of the “One Good Idea” competition. RTÉ News2Day visited our school to see what our Plastic Packaging Pirates have achieved so far. We showed them how we make eco-bricks using single-use plastics and then use them to make furniture such as chairs, stools and tables.… Read More
Newsletter 13th January 2020
Stone Age Cave Painting
We had a fun art lesson today. We learned all about the Lascaux Caves in France as part of our history topic the Stone Age. We pretended that we were in caves and did paintings of animals, people and symbols.… Read More
Ecobricks
In Ms Kiernan’s class we are continuing to recycle different types of single use plastics that are in our school. This time we are using the bread wrappers from our breakfast club to make ecobricks. We are conducting an experiment to see how many ecobricks we can make by the end of the school year.… Read More
5th Class Assembly
5th Class had assembly this morning (Wednesday). Well done to all the boys and girls who attended and listened so well to all the good news. Congratulations to all of those who received awards from their teachers.… Read More
6th Class Assembly
Congratulations to all of our students in 6th Class who were awarded certificates at assembly today (Wednesday), for their great work in the month of December! … Read More
Newsletter 6th January 2020
Hard work pays off!
Ms. McDermott’s groups have worked really hard this term! As a reward we made Christmas biscuit cake. We hope to continue trying our very best in 2020! A special thank you to Mary, Joan and Emma for letting us use the breakfast club for our baking!… Read More
Christmas Milkshakes
To celebrate a great first term in 6th Class we made some milkshakes. We made three types, oreo, strawberry and banana and peanut butter. Check out one recipe and some photos!
How to make peanut butter and banana milkshake.… Read More