Wishing everyone a Happy Easter. School reopens on 28th April.
We took advantage of the good weather and had our Easter assembly outside. After, children participated in our annual Easter egg hunt!
A colourful display by the Junior Room who have been learning all about spring and the life cycles of different plants and animals
A big congratulations to our 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners of the John Joe Scanlon Memorial Cup competition. The children in the senior room wrote beautiful narrative stories about Fanore and the top three were chosen by an independent adjudicator.
Our writing genre this term was ‘Explanation Writing’ and, to celebrate all our learning, children in the Junior Room chose a topic to research and create an explanation project on for an in class competition. Today we were treated to the presentation of projects on the life cycles of plants and animals, why do we have day and night, how rainbows are formed, why cats purr, how airplanes fly and how volcanos erupt – complete with a volcano explosion! Such excellent work by the junior room children – it was very hard to choose just two winners!
Ready to be planted outside in our school garden!
The senior room have been learning about circles in maths and have made spinners showing some of the main events of Holy Week
This term the senior room took part in START- schools teaching about randomised trials. Children investigated if therabsnds would improve the wellbeing of the children in the junior room. They chose a research question, randomly assigned groups, conducted daily surveys and tabulated and graphed their results. They concluded that therabands did not make the children any happier.
The senior room have been learning about the father of abstract art, Wassily Kandinsky, and have created their own interpretations of one of his most famous works “Squares with Concentric Circles” using oil and chalk pastels.
The experiments group had a ‘blast’ today for Genius Hour!
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