STEM – Cloonliffen National School https://cloonliffen.com Our School Website Sun, 26 Nov 2023 11:28:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://cloonliffen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cloonliffen_logo-150x150.png STEM – Cloonliffen National School https://cloonliffen.com 32 32 Space Week 2023 πŸš€πŸͺπŸ›Έ https://cloonliffen.com/2023/10/08/space-week-2023-%f0%9f%9a%80%f0%9f%aa%90%f0%9f%9b%b8/ Sun, 08 Oct 2023 14:28:21 +0000 https://cloonliffen.com/?p=1445 Lots of fun activities in the classrooms this week to celebrate Space Week! The senior room researched scientists and created some fantastic artwork based on artist Peter Thorpe’s rockets.

The Middle Room learned about the inner and outer planets of the solar system and investigated how craters were formed on the moon by throwing different objects into our moon surface (rice and flour). They then designed and painted their own bright and colourful planets. Finally we watched a video of NASA astronaut Jessica Meir answering children’s questions from the International Space Station!

The junior room were very busy creating painting friendly aliens and making more from play dough , cutting and colouring rockets and even constructing rockets from our big blocks! Well done to everyone πŸš€πŸͺπŸ›Έ

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Engineers Week 2023 https://cloonliffen.com/2023/03/10/engineers-week-2023/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:20:22 +0000 https://cloonliffen.com/?p=1212 So much fun in all the classrooms this week designing, making and testing out different STEM challenges for Engineers Week !

** Marble Mazes

** Building Bridges

** Paper Airplanes

** Scratch Coding

** Balloon Cars

** Balloon Rockets

Amazing work ! Well done everyone πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»

Marble Mazes in 2nd & 3rd
Balloon Powered Cars in the Senior Room🎈🚘
Paper Airplanes ✈
Build a bridge challenge in the Junior room
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Science Workshop https://cloonliffen.com/2022/12/14/science-workshop/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 19:28:32 +0000 https://cloonliffen.com/?p=1050

In October we had such an interesting and educational visit from Benny Joyce from the Department of Earth & Ocean Science Galway University. We really enjoyed making and using secchi discs in the herring barrel to learn about the levels of plankton in our water.

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Maths Week 2022 https://cloonliffen.com/2022/10/22/maths-week-2022/ Sat, 22 Oct 2022 14:21:26 +0000 https://cloonliffen.com/?p=986 Another busy Maths Week in Cloonliffen NS filled with board game fun, Izak 9 challenges, tangram designs, Beetle Drives & finished off with a wet and windy Maths trail compiled by the Senior Room! Well done to all who entered our Puzzle of the Day competition each day. We hope everyone enjoyed the weeks’ activities.

Izak 9 challenges
Ready for our Maths Trail βž•βž–βœ–βž—πŸŸ°
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Engineers Week 2022 https://cloonliffen.com/2022/03/14/engineers-week-2022/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:26:18 +0000 https://cloonliffen.com/?p=481 We had great fun testing out engineering skills in all the classrooms this week. We built bridges, towers, playgrounds and huts as well as programming our Beebots and even making our own computer games. Well done everybody!

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