As part of our narrative writing genre, we decided to take part in the ‘Write a Book’ initiative set up by Blackrock Education Center. ‘Write a Book’ allows the children to become real authors as they create their own story books while actively engaging in the writing process. As part of our new curriculum, we […]
On February 11th 2020, Ravenswell Primary School took part in Safer Internet Day. The slogan for this years Safer Internet Day was: Together for a better Interent! Every class took part in a variety of activities to allow each individual become a better digital citizen. It was all about being responsible online, taking ownership of […]
At the beginning of last year, 4th Class were lucky to be chosen to go to UCD on a tour and also learn more about Science! We went on a tour around all the buildings around the UCD campus and also got to have a look at their sport facilities! It was great to see […]
Ms. Mulcahy’s 4th Class worked hard over the past couple of months preparing for the BT Young Scientist. We, in 4th class, are extremely aware of the environmental issues in the world at the moment so our aim was to explore different energy forms. We decided to explore electricity. We looked at all different forms […]
For the past few months the children in 4th Class have been researching lots of different types of mammals. Each child was given a mammal to research. We used World Book Online to research their mammals and they decided on the most important facts. We had to identify characteristics of different mammals – nocturnal, warm […]
The past few weeks we have been working on developing our understanding of sequencing, computational thinking and the mathematical concepts of coordinates, distance, and location. We we began our Beebot stations by reviewing forwards, backwards, left and right movements by playing a blindfold game. We reviewed all of the new language which we had learnt […]
This week we learnt how to code a Beebot. We had worked hard learning how to code a human bot and writing algorithm’s and now it was our chance to write some codes for the Beebot. We discussed how the sequence of instructions was important as they help us to know what to do and […]
4th Class have began their coding journey. In order for us to become successful coders we had to learn how to use directional language properly. We discussed what directional language was and made a list of words on the board such as forwards, backwards, clockwise, anticlockwise, left and right. The aim of our lesson was […]
To begin our STEM journey this year, we started as engineers. We began our journey by working in groups to create a marshmallow tower. Before we began, we used this concept cartoon to stimulate some conversation. We all took a look at the picture and made predictions on what we thought this cartoon was all […]
We have been learning about how to make an accurate predictions in 4th Class. We used the book ‘A bad case of the Stripes’ to practise making predictions. We used a flip chart and worked as a class to make a prediction anchor chart. We wrote all the important things we need to think of […]