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...

Blue Friday….Up the Dubs!

On Friday the 18th of September we had Blue Friday in school. The children dressed up in something blue to support the Dublin team playing in the All Ireland on Sunday. The school is decorated with lots of blue flags and bunting , we did try and find some green and gold colours for Mrs Greene and Mr O’ Mahony but sadly there was none available in any of the Dublin shops. We’re all looking forward to the game on Sunday, we’d love to see Dublin win. ...

Gardening with Deirdre

On the 09/09/14 my class went gardening with Deirdre. We were doing hard work such as cleaning the garden, harvesting plants and digging up potatoes. We went out to the main garden and Mr. Abbott and Deirdre gave us tools like shears, shovels and rakes. We walked to the garden in 4th class and got cleaning. Some people were cutting the grass, raking and digging. We got spilt into three groups: Mr. Abbott, Deirdre and Ms. Keating. Deirdre’s group dug up the potatoes, Ms. Keating’s group cut the grass and raked it away and Mr. Abbott’s group cooked the potatoes. Mr....

Reading for Fun

Reading for fun has been up and running for the past 5 weeks in both 3rd and 4th class. The 3rd class children have been reading Roddy Doyle’s book ‘The Giggler Treatment’ and in 4th class the children have been reading ‘The Meanwhile Adventures’. Both books have proved to be very popular with the children and parents alike. The school is very grateful to all the parents who have volunteered to help out with reading for fun over the past number of weeks. In total we have had over 25 parents helping out in the school this term. This is great to see and the...

Maths for Fun!

Maths for Fun went very smoothly again this year. The children loved it and gained a lot from playing maths and card games with an adult. We have a lot of excellent card players in 4th class now so adults beware! Thank you to the adults who took part. We suspect they had more fun at times than the children! Reading for Fun will be on in the New Year, in March at some stage. Please let the Home-school Teacher know if you are interested in working with the children on this.