Engineers Week 2019

Engineers Week has been in full swing at the Sacred Heart Senior School. All classes have been busy designing and building different engineering projects. Children in both 5th and 6th classes have taken part in engineering workshops at the Tallaght stadium. These activities were part of South Dublin County Council’s programme for Engineers week. At school the children have been very busy making ‘Wigglebots’ , ‘Paper bridges’ and ‘Spaghetti and Marshmallow Towers’ . We also started our ‘Buddy Engineering’ which involved children from 5th class talking...

Bake Sale Day 2018

At the end of the 2018 school year, 6th class held a bake sale to raise money for two special causes. The children managed to raise just over €1,000. Half of the money went to the Peter McVerry Trust and the rest for new school equipment. As seen in the photograph, new weighing scales and microwave were purchased for the kitchen. A set of yoga mats were bought for our new yoga classes. Some of this money will also be spent on the school toilets. Peter McVerry Trust is a charity set up by Fr Peter McVerry to reduce homelessness and the harm caused by drug misuse and...

4th class Magnets

We spent Monday afternoon experimenting with magnets in Sciense in Mrs Vaughan’s 4th class. First we figured out how to move one magnet with another in different directions using a sheet with a road marked on it. Next predicted what would and would no attach to the magnets. Then we tested our predictions, while having lots of fun. Lastly we made some sculptures using the magnets and the material that were attracted to them. We learned that magnets have a north and a south pole and that they can attract or repel other magnets. Also that there are lots of different...

DIFI and children from 4th class visit T...

On Monday the 18 th of september Mr. Maguire’s 4th class went to Tallaght stadium for Health and well being week. We went on a bus with Ms. Keating ,Ms. Joyce and Mr. Maguire. We also went with Difi. We met a famous hurler called king Henry Shefflin from Kilkenny. We played hurling, hockey, cricket, athletics and zumba. Difi had great fun doing the zumba dance. The athletics teacher we had was the lady who gave the children their medal’s for cross country. We had lunch just before zumba.We came back at 1.o’clock and did some Irish and then we did go-noodle with...

Fourth Class has Maths Eyes!

Our Maths Eyes Trip On Wednesday 5th of April we went to Sean Walsh Park to do a ‘Maths Eyes’ trail. We worked in pairs. We were given a clipboard, worksheet and a pencil. The worksheet had lots of Maths questions on it. We had to use our ‘Maths Eyes’ to solve the maths problems. It was good fun, some of the questions were easy but some were hard too. Afterwards we got to play in the playground and when we were finished we went to McDonalds. I had a giant chocolate muffin, it was delicious! I really enjoyed my day and I really using my ‘Maths Eyes’. By Jessica...