Pupils were busy learning about St Brigid and her life on February 1st and some classes made St Brigid’s Crosses.
Here are some photos of 2nd & 3rd class working on theirs.
Category: News
ANALOG Learn It Lego Robitics Competition
Yesterday on Tuesday the 29th of January, 5th and 6th class took part in the Learn it Lego Robotics competition. At ten o’ clock two people called Fergal and Cormac came in to show us how to build and program our robots. We were put in to groups with a box of Mindstorm Lego and a computer between us.
The first thing we had to do was build our robots using instructions on our computers. After we had built our robots we learned how to program them, our first task was to program it to go back and forth a certain distance. When we had mastered back and forth, Cormac and Fergal laid out a map of a maze. Our task was to get around the maze without going outside the black lines, it took a lot of measuring and being precise to finally get around the maze. If you had conquered the maze you could add on the colour sensor to detect different colours.
One team containing three six class girls got to the last stage which involved building an arm for your robot and programing it to pick up a coloured cube. At the end of the day they announced the winner.
The runner up was Team 1 Lillian, Holly and Keelin, and the winners were Team 9 Ella, Eva and Chloe. Overall it was a brilliant day. The three girls will be going to the final on the 3rd of March in Analog Devices.
Christmas Annual Prize Winner
Congratulations to our prize winner in the Christmas Annual competition!
Cumann na mBunscol Cornmarket National Awards
Herbertstown NS has made it to the final shortlist of nominations for a Cumann na mBunscol Cornmarket National Award.
Herbertstown NS submitted a video about the fourth class project on hurleys for the 2018 RDS Science Fair for consideration for the national award in the category: Promotion of Gaelic Games and Culture.
The winning schools will be announced at a ceremony in Sligo on Friday March 9th.
You can view the video below:
Winter Hurling League
Here are some pictures of the action in our Winter Hurling League which got up and running today.
Star Awards – December
Congratulations to our Star Award winners for December! One pupil from each classroom was selected by their class teacher and the award winners were presented with certificates at today’s assembly. They were also given a night off homework for their efforts!
An extra award, decided on by Ms O’Dwyer and Mrs. Brosnan, is presented to pupils for a particular act of kindness or to pupils who have completed an exemplary piece of work in school. Well done to the latest recipient of this award.
Second/Third’s Festive Art
Second/Third class were busy right up until the holidays creating some very nice festive art!
Winter Walking!
We brought forward our WOW walk to enjoy the lovely winter sunshine on Tuesday.
Star Awards – November
Congratulations to our Star Award winners for November! One pupil from each classroom was selected by their class teacher and the award winners were presented with certificates at today’s assembly. They were also given a night off homework for their efforts!
An extra award, decided on by Ms O’Dwyer and Mrs. Brosnan, is presented to pupils for a particular act of kindness or to pupils who have completed an exemplary piece of work in school. Well done to the latest recipient of this award.
Mathletics November Numeracy Challenge
Herbertstown NS recently took part in The November Numeracy Challenge 2018 – an online maths competition contested by Mathletics schools from across Europe, the UK, the Middle East and Africa.
The competition was run over one week, seeing students compete in live, multi-player challenges plus answering self-paced adaptive maths curriculum questions, all using Mathletics.
Throughout the week, Herbertstown NS pupils were well placed on the national scoring charts and our classes featured very prominently in Ireland’s top 20 schools. Once the final results were totted up from all participating schools around the world, Herbertstown NS placed 75th out of over 400 schools. Upon closer inspection of the results, it became clear that Herbertstown NS was the highest ranked school from the Republic of Ireland!
Well done to everyone that put in such a huge effort both in school and at home.
Mathletics will continue to be a valuable resource for our pupils for the rest of the school year with plenty of certificates and prizes still to be won.
