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Paddy Madden

Our school was so lucky to have a Science Presentation by Paddy Madden, a Lecturer on Social Environmental and Science Education at Marino Institute of Education.

We loved listening to Paddy’s stories about the plants, animals and mini-beasts of Ireland. He showed us lots of interesting plants, bugs, shells, rocks, animals homes, insect hotels – so many many things! We could listen to Paddy forever!

4th Class has been busy using their mathematical skills to do some shopping. They were using Shopping Catalogues    to buy ingredients for a nutritious cheap dinner. Yummy!

What ingredients did they choose?

Whose dinner was the cheapest? What was the cost of this dinner?

Whose dinner was the most expensive? What was the cost of this dinner?

What ingredients were used in each dinner?

What change did they get from €10?

What was the difference between the cheapest dinner and the most expensive dinner?

It’s not every day that our students are invited to Beaumont Hospital  for a Science Presentation by the  tutors of  the Royal College of Surgeons!

St. Fiachra’s 6th class students put on the white coats and surgical gloves and participated in a myriad of fascinating scientific experiments. They got the opportunity to use various items of medical equipment. Everybody was enraptured by this experience! A fascinating day for our students!

Third Classes are very busy planting and maintaining the flower beds in the school courtyards. These flower beds make our school look so pretty and colourful. Lots of watering and weeding to be done on a daily basis to care for the flowers and plants. What great gardeners we have in St. Fiachra’s SNS!! Our brightly coloured flowers attract lots of butterflies, bees and insects.

Spring is in the air! Time to get planting with our school friends!

Looking forward to seeing these flowers bloom shortly!

The Parents Committee in St. Fiachras Senior School plays a very active role and we are involved in a number of key activities throughout the year such as Book Fair, Secondary School Nights, Confirmation Alb preparation, refreshments after Confirmation and Graduation ceremonies.  We also assist the school with fundraising when required. We have been involved in the setting up of the School Library, and the Book Rental scheme.

For those of you who didn’t get a chance to complete our survey on the Senior Cycle we have re-opened same due to the number for requests from parents to do so.

Watch what happened when baking powder was put in a balloon and dropped in on top of a bottle of malt vinegar!! Their chemical reaction created a gas which inflated the balloon!  Wow! Almost like magic!!

Here are some of our artwork over the last few months…

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Yesterday I taught the class some German. I lived in Germany and my dad is German so I know the language. Nicole and I started with teaching the class the basics. We had a conversation with each other in German, and then we translated it to English. After that we made the class repeat the sentences in German and have the conversation with us. Then the class split up into partners and had the conversation with each other.

This is the conversation we learned:

 Me: Guten Tag!

Nicole: Hallo!

Me: Wie heisst du?

Nicole: Ich heisse Nicole. Wie heisst du?

Me: Ich heisse Fay, wie gehts dier?

Nicole: Mier gehts gut, wie gehts dier?

Me: Mier gehts auch gut.

This is translation:

Me: Good day!

Nicole: Hello!

Me: What’s your name?

Nicole: My name is Nicole, what’s your name?

Me: My name is Fay, how are you?

Nicole: I’m good, how are you?

Me: I’m also good.

By Fay

Congratulations to four of our camogie girls who have been picked for the Dublin Camogie U14 Academy Panel. We were very fortunate to have a number of girls participating in trials. After a number of sessions a panel has been picked included in this panel are Ruth Fitzsimons (Whitehall Colmcille), Isabelle McGarry (Whitehall Colmcille) , Caitriona McMahon (Whitehall Colmcille) and Roisin Boland (St Vincents). Well done also to Clodagh Cummins (Whitehall Colmcille) and Kate Kelly (Whitehall Colmcille) who also took part in the sessions. It was fantastic to see so many girls being chosen for trials.

Well done girls!

we are learning about water.

We are so proud of our school Camogie team!!! We had a great day shouting as loud as we could for our girls! You did us all proud cailíní!!!!