Santa’s Visit – 19th December 2025! Wishing everyone a very happy and safe Christmas!
Winter/Christmas 2025
Science Week – 3rd and 4th
We completed many enjoyable and interesting Science activities. Here are some of the following topics we explored in class with photographs attached:
Electricity – We learned all about the Stay Safe, Stay Clear campaign – a public safety campaign by ESB Networks which reminded us all to stay away from electricity wires and equipment, especially if they are damaged. The campaign emphasizes not touching fallen or low-hanging wires, which are always live and dangerous. We designed some posters for the ‘Stay Safe, Stay Clear’ ESB Networks poster campaign.
Creating our own Circuits
Height and Shoe Size – A Scientific Survey We talked about how the human foot had to do a lot of things. It has to keep us upright and balanced. It has to be strong in order to take all our weight and to help us balance. We wanted to investigate the following idea in our class – Do taller people have larger feet and shorter people have smaller feet? We predicted what we thought the answer to this would be. In groups, we measured our heights and recorded our shoe sizes in a table.
Acrobatic Clowns We experimented with some ‘Acrobatic Clowns’. We learnt that all objects have a balancing point which is called the centre of gravity. The lower the centre of gravity, the more stable the object will be. At first, we found that balancing the clown on its nose was difficult but when we lowered the centre of gravity by attaching coins to the hands of the clown, it made the clown appear to be doing a handstand and the clown was able to balance on our fingers.
Reaction Time Reaction Time is defined as the length of time taken for a person to respond to a given stimulus or event. In this experiment, using the forefinger and thumb, the ‘dropper’ had to drop the reaction rod and we recorded the ‘catcher’s’ reaction time. We recorded our results using our dominant and non-dominant hand.
‘Amazing Triangles’ We explored ‘Amazing Triangles. We used mini marshmallows and cocktail sticks to construct some 2D & 3D shapes. We learned how using a brace diagonally across the square can create a much stronger shape. We attempted to make important landmarks like The Eiffel Tower or Big Ben
Spiralling Snakes We made some ‘Spiralling Snakes’. These were hung above the radiator and we watched them spiral around. We learned that this is due to the warm air rising from the radiator and the cold air gathering below. When the warm and cold air meet, it creates a convection current. The warm air makes the snakes spiral.
Maths Week 2025 We enjoyed using our ‘Maths eyes’ to observe the Maths around us in our school and local environment. We created some ‘Car Registration’ Maths for 1st and 2nd Class, as well as some number problems for Junior and Senior Infants. This generated great ‘Maths Talk’ between the different classes in our school.
Halloween 2025
Here are our spooky Halloween windows! We enjoyed using oil pastels and black markers to create a bold and vibrant effect! They all look amazing!
Art – Famous Artists (September/October 2025)
We enjoyed looking at the work of some famous artists. These included Piet Mondrian and Tim Burton. Both artists are very different. Piet Mondrian’s style is abstract, geometric and structured. He worked with straight black lines forming rectangles filled with the primary colours (red, blue, white) and yellow. Tim Burton’s style is gothic, with eerie and quirky characters. We hope you enjoy looking at our Piet Mondrian and Tim Burton inspired Art pieces!
We’ve had a very busy week in Scoil Bhríde this week with the Christmas Carol Service last night in which the children performed amazingly!! The Christmas Movie Day and Mega Draw taking place today. And some special visitors are expected tomorrow. The Christmas excitement is certainly building!
The girls from 3rd-6th Class tried out some rugby on Friday 4th April. Thank you kindly to Jon Watt from Virginia RFC who facilitated the session for the girls. It was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
We had a lovely morning in Ballinacree last Friday as we celebrated Seachtain na Gaeilge with a Cluiche Corr with our neighbours in Scoil Naomh Fiach.
Last Wednesday October 9th, 35 pupils from Scoil Bhríde participated in the annual Cavan Primary Schools Athletics Cross Country Championships in Killinkere. After training hard for the past number of weeks, all pupils ran brilliantly, showing great heart and determination. Although, we did not win any team prizes on this occasion, Sophie Lynch ran a superb race to finish 5th in the Intermediate Girls. All staff were incredible proud of the effort made by all pupils.
Scoil Bhríde pupils have said ‘Oui’ to languages. Thank you to Ms Timmons for providing very enjoyable lessons for pupils in 3rd – 6th class over the past few weeks.
We were delighted once again to take part in the Mountnugent ICA Eco-Fare. The children in Junior and Senior Infants drew a picture of their favourite animal and the children from 1st-6th Class created a poster/slogan promoting a litter-free environment. The children’s artwork was then displayed in the community centre. Pictured below are some of our 3rd and 4th Class children with their potted plant that all the children in our school received for taking part in the Eco-Fare. Thank you kindly to the ICA who presented each child in our school with a plant, we are looking forward to next year already.
3rd and 4th classes created these wonderfully spooky paintings, mixing white, blue and black paints.
3rd and 4th classes were invited to the village to help decorate the village with locally grown pumpkins!
3rd and 4th Class have been working hard planting, watering and looking after our school garden over the past few months. Onions, chives and lettuce are just some of our delicious produce.