Fanore National School - News

As part of Space Week the children examined the size of planets using fruit. They also investigated the size of the planets relative to Earth. Lots of predicting, discussing and active learning. Jupiter was very tasty after all their hard work! 

The senior room had a fantastic workshop with Karen from Burren Beo as part of the ‘Calf and the Cuckoo’ program on Place, Geology, Archaeology, and People.

They looked at the history and geography of The Burren, participated in many different group activities, conducted some investigations and (tasty) excavations!

Karen will be back next year for the second workshop and we look forward to learning more from her in the new year.

September wouldn’t be September without some berry picking and we were rewarded with a magnificent bounty this year. Now, the only decision is what to make with them…..

After our monster haul, it was time to put our baking skills to the test. The 6th class boys and girls were up to the job and served up a delicious blackberry and apple (from our own trees) crumble with ice-cream. 10 out of 10!!

We have been taking advantage of the much needed sunshine this week and taking the classroom outside. We have been exploring the natural heritage of Fanore by visiting and learning all about shell middens. The midden in Fanore can be dated back 6000 years and provides one of the earliest pieces of evidence of humans living in the area

As the season turns we have also been exploring our local hedgerows for signs of autumn and recording our findings. Children used school iPads to take pictures and in groups created a poster about Autumn in Fanore using their pictures. They used google reverse image search to investigate plant names.