Senior 3

Art - Stick Frame Project

Senior 3 created this art project to celebrate the schools 60th anniversary. We roped in all the classes in the school and challenged them to be as creative as possible in designing their own ice lolly wooden sticks.

Cookery - An Irish Breakfast

We made an Irish Breakfast in our cookery class on Monday morning. We put oil on a pan. When the pan was hot our teacher put the sausages, rashers, mushrooms and tomatoes in it. We waited patiently for them to cook.

Art - Sea Creatures

Swimming Gala
May 22nd 2024

Two students from Senior 3 took part in the swimming gala in Leisureland.

Bike Week
May 2024

During bike week our teacher taught us all about the different parts of a bicycle.

We also learnt how to fix a tyre puncture.

We went
for a spin
on a
unicycle.

We also completed worksheets identifying the parts of the bicycle.

I know a lot of information about bikes now.

Chill Zone

Cookery - Toffee popcorn

We made a toffee sauce to pour over our popcorn.
First we measured out each of the ingredients on a weighing scale - 50g of butter,
50g of sugar and
75g ( 3 tablespoons) of golden syrup. We melted them together over a medium heat on a saucepan.

We poured the
toffee sauce over the popcorn.

Cookery - Iced Fairy Cakes

Fairy Cakes are little sponge cakes.
Lets have a look at how we made them.

Adding the flour.

Add the eggs to the creamed butter and sugar.

Use the mixer to blend the ingredients together.

The vanilla essence gives the sponge lots of flavour.

More mixing.

We bake the buns in the oven.

When the buns are baked we put icing on them.

Birthday Party

We celebrated a pupils birthday in Senior 3 this week.

Circus Skills Class

We learned lots of skills at our circus skills class such as object manipulation using hula hoops, spinning plates and juggling.

Cookery - Pineapple Upside Down Cake

In our cookery class we made Pineapple Upside Down cake.

First we put Golden Syrup into the base of the baking tin and then we added the pineapple slices and cherries.
Next we measured out the self-raising flour, the sugar and the butter.
We mixed the butter and sugar together in a mixer.
Then we added the eggs, a pinch of salt and flour to the mixing bowl
After that we put the mixture into the the baking tin.

The baking tin went into the oven at 180 degrees celsius for 30 minutes.

Art - Cherry Blossom Trees

There are approximately 400 different types of cherry trees. Most of the flowers are white or pink with five petals, but there are some flowers with almost a hundred petals.

Most cherry blossom trees have a lifespan between 30 and 40 years, though it can vary by species.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

We made St. Patrick's Day Cards

St. Patrick's Day Ceili in the school hall

Drumadore

P.E.

Music - Tongue Drum

The tongue drum is a percussion instrument. It looks like a flying saucer. It has a relaxing sound. You can play it with your hands or a mallet.

Cookery - Scottish shortbread

Birthday Celebrations

Pancake Tuesday

In our cookery class we made pancakes with flour, milk and eggs.

Drama - BALLAD OF A BANDIT - Branar theatre show

A cleaner entered our classroom to empty the bin. He was distracted by something he saw and there ensued a rollicking story of a highway man, a Robin Hood-like character and master of disguise, Captain McNamara.

The legendary historical figure Capt. George McNamara of Cong sided with poor tenants in Penal Law times. He stole from the rich landlords and gave money to the poor people.

St. Brigid's Day

We made a

St. Brigid's

Day Blanket

using card, pipe

cleaners &

yarn.

ART - Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian was a modern artist from the Netherlands. He was born in 1872. He is famous for his unusual artwork and inventing a new style of painting.

Piet Mondrian used lines, texture and colours to
represent a tree. When
he moved to Paris he started using only black
lines and blocks of colour.

Maths - Less Than, More Than, Equals

Equal is the word that we use to mean that the numbers are the same.

More than means bigger.

Less than means smaller.

Feed the
birds

Did you know that birds lead very busy lives and they need lots of energy. They need to eat food to give them energy. They spend most of their day looking for food for themselves and their little nestlings.

Bird feeders are an easy food source and an efficient way for birds to use their energy.

We made bird feeders for the birds using peanut butter, seeds and card.

Santa Claus came to School

Happy Christmas
from everyone
in Senior 3

Christmas Art

We made Christmas tree cards in Art class.

We made wooden Christmas trees in woodwork

Making Porridge

We gathered up all the ingredients for making porridge. Now we are all set to go.

P.E. Class

Birthday Party
One of the pupils in Senior 3 celebrated their birthday this week so we held a birthday party for her.

Making Shapes

We made lots of new shapes using hexagons, trapezoids, rectangles and triangles.

Halloween
Art/Craft

As part of our Halloween project we created a spooky background using paints. We chose the silhouettes we wanted and stuck them onto our work. The results are amazing! You can see them on our class display board in the school corridor.

Halloween
Science Experiment

First add the bicarbonate of
soda to the
pumpkin.

Add the
food colouring
and
washing up liquid

Then add
the vinegar
And wait and see what happens.

Halloween
Fancy Dress Party

Halloween
Decorations and Art work

Our classroom looks spooky with all our Hallowe'en decorations and art work.

Autumn
ART/CRAFT

Our ceramic installations
at the front of the school
won second prize in the National RTE
‘This is Art’ competition.
We also had
our work displayed
at the recent exhibition at the
RHA Gallery
in Dublin.

Our prize was an opportunity to work with a local artist Lara Lucardi. She is an expert on Cyanotype and conducted a workshop with some of our pupils. This workshop was filmed by RTE and will be aired on the programme ‘This is Art’ in spring. Our pupils worked with her on material and their work will be displayed as a large wall hanging in our school.

Autumn Leaves

As part of our Autumn theme we collected different types of leaves.

We saw many different shapes and colours.

Using tinfoil and paint we tried to recreate the colours by mixing paints and created beautiful autumn trees.

Science

We learnt about the human body and how important our skeleton is. We looked at some X-rays of different bones in our bodies and learnt where they are and their names.