Fanore National School - News

Children in the senior room have been enjoying learning the basics of coding through game based activities.

As part of Engineer’s Week the children in the senior room were tasked with the challenge of designing a paper airplane. Children worked in groups to design and remodel their ideas before having a class competition to see which airplane flew the furthest and which stayed the longest in the air. Future aeronautical engineers in the making!

Swimming lessons commence on Wednesday 17th January for 8 weeks.

We are taking part in a variety of Meet the Scientist Webinars.

Today we met a Zoologist.

What a fascinating job exploring the deep oceans of the world.

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!!