The senior pupils produced very informative and interesting projects each based on the Netherlands and The Normans. We also produced a project on a topic of our own choice. We use the laptops to help us research the information and to help illustrate our work . We can type or hand write our projects and present them in A4 or A3 folders.

On Monday 13th November we departed from Clontibret N.S. to the Garage Theatre, Monaghan to Dr. Ken and the Science Circus. We arrived at 9.50am and waited to go in. When we went in, it was difficult to get a seat. Zoe and I sat together. When Dr. Ken came out he did a lot of tricks. He talked about ‘force’. A boy called Darcy came up and tried to push Dr. Ken but couldn’t. Then Dr. Ken stood on a skate board and it was much easier to push him. He explained how gravity pushes everything to the ground. A girl came up and dropped balls and showed us that they fall and land at the same time, it doesn’t matter how heavy or light they are. He said that Galileo found that out. Dr. Ken took up four children and they balanced peacock feathers on their hands. He spun a basketball on his finger and got a girl to try it. He got her to hold a drill and turn it on. He balanced the basketball on it and it didn’t fall off. He got her to try and fling something on string. Then he got on a unicycle and juggled. When he got off it was the end of the show. We lined up and when we were getting on the bus we waved to Dr. Ken. It was 11.30am when we got back to school.

Today we enjoyed having Ian Patterson with his Birds of Prey display. He brought a barn owl, a wood owl and a kestrel. Ian is a licensed keeper of birds of prey and it was wonderful to see them flying and swooping in our GP room. Ian told us lots of interesting facts about the birds and some of the children were allowed to pet them.

Science, Technology, English, Arts & Maths-On Wednesday 25th October 6th Class travelled to Castleblayney College to a Steam Exhibition. When we arrived and were welcomed and divided into groups. We began building towers out of spaghetti and marshmallows. Then we had a break. We went to the H.E. room where we made buns and learnt how to keep the kitchen tidy. In the Art room we did stop motion animation where we made characters out of plasticine and used sets that had already been made, to make short cartoons. We went for lunch and had a choice of curry or shepherd’s pie. Finally we went to the Science room and did lots of experiments such as refraction (bending) of light and learned how metal when heated expands and if you put glass in a freezer it cracks because it has no flexibility. We got certificates at the end of the day and we really had a great day.

By Hannah & Louis

They came to Ireland 2600 years ago. They lived in promtary and hill forts. The houses or crannogs were built on islands for safety. They had secret stepping stones and draw bridges to get to the island. They also had secret passages under the crannogs called souterrain where they stored food and hid from their enemies. A tribe or clan lived in a crannog. They were the first people to discover Ireland. Women were considered better warriors than men and most of the time they were the leaders.

By Chloe & Thomas