08/04/2024

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SCIENCE

Parents visit Science Display

Science Experiments – Floating and Sinking in Rang 1

Visit to CCC Secondary School for Science (Magic) Show

Your 4th class boys represented Scoil na mBuachaillí so well. They were a credit to you all. Eileen and I along with our 2nd year students thoroughly enjoyed having the boys for the Science Magic show.

New Science Kits – sponsored by the Parent’s Association

We decided to upgrade our science equipment and recently we bought The Primary Science Let’s Experiment With… Series of kits and books. Each kit consists of a box of materials (sufficient for a class of 30 pupils working in groups) plus a Teacher's Notes Book and a Pupil's Notes Book which can be photocopied for multiple uses. The individual kits can cater for all classes in the school. The Kits we bought include a kit on
 Electricity
 Magnetism
 Light
 Forces & Motion
 Sound
6 th class have been busy helping Ms. Fitzmaurice sort through each kit. We also ordered a trolley which will hold all the kits and allow classes to access the kits when they need them. The Science Kits in total cost 1350 euros. We are very grateful to the Parents Association who paid for the kits. They used the money which they raised from the Christmas Cards to cover the cost of these kits. All the pupils are very excited about these kits and look forward to using them in all classes throughout the school.

Space Week Rang 1

Science Week

Science Experiments in Rang 6

Science Fair in Rang 4

The Science Fair by Wiktor Firek and Ben Eady both age 10

Fourth class hosted a Science Fair for Science Week. We invited Senior Infants to come and see our experiments. There were an exciting line up of experiments and it was enjoyed by all.

Séimí Forristal, Max O’Keefe and Darragh Clarke did an experiment where the drove wind up cars on different surfaces wood, sandpaper, cloth and bubble wrap the bubble wrap did pretty bad the wood did excellent the sandpaper did well and on the cloth it didn’t even move.

Harry Lyons, J.J O’Donell and Jack Rea did the colourful volcano experiment they put vinegar into a jar and washing up liquid and some food colouring, stir for 1 minute and then add baking soda and it gives you like a foam explosion.

Wiktor Firek, Seán Kennedy and Tomás Lowery did an experiment where they put vinegar in a bottle and baking soda into a balloon and put the balloon onto the bottle and it poured into the bottle and it blew up the balloon.

Ben Eady and D.J O Sullivan, Ben did will it pop it needed a balloon water and a pencil it did not pop it was very exciting then D.J did the balloon tube he used washing up liquid and a needle, he put the needle in the washing up liquid and put it through the balloon it did not pop it was very exciting.

Daniel Dempsey, Francesco Bakaj, Kieran Gannon, Rhys Finn and Ewan Brooks Griffin did the skittles experiment first they got a plate and then they put the skittles in a circle on the plate and then they got a spoon and a bowl and put water on the plate and they waited 30 seconds to a minute and then the colour came off the skittles and made a rainbow.

James McCarthy, Kevin O’Brien, Aaron Nash and Cillian O’Mahony did the lava lamp experiment first you need a bottle then put water to a quarter of the bottle the but red food colouring and then put sunflower oil in the bottle and put an everson tablet in and it will make a lava lamp.

Louis Kitaguwa, Logan Farell Kelleher and Pavlo Martovytski did an experiment where they drew something put it on a plate with water and after some time the drawing floated on to the water and it was very cool.

Science Week in Rang 4/5

Science Week in Rang 3

We had great entertainment in 3^rd Class on Wednesday evening where the boys took part in creating their very own Rocket Launch for Science Week. The boys worked very well in their groups to set up the experiment which consisted of getting a piece of string through a straw before strapping the balloon onto the straw and getting ready for take off! The boys had great fun and enjoyed their afternoon.