Earlier this spring we cleaned out our pond. It was full of plants and their roots so frogs had stopped coming to lay their eggs. Now that it is clean, we needed some tadpoles to start the cycle again. Taking tadpoles or frogspawn from the wild is illegal in Ireland but teachers have a special licence to remove frogspawn and tadpoles for educational purposes. Many thanks to CC and LC who donated some tadpoles for our school. Each female frog…
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6th class were busy this month creating volcanoes from a range of materials as part of work on this topic. Groups also painted and decorated them. Last week the class then went to the outdoor classroom to try to create lava coming from the volcanoes using a range of secret ingredients including red food colouring! The good news is that each of the volcanoes erupted but the bad news was that there was a smell of vinegar in the outdoor…
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4th class were busy in the school garden this month starting to plant vegetables. We planted potatoes, carrots and lettuce. The potatoes were planted in our raised beds and the carrots and lettuce were started off in our new polytunnel. Skills focussed on were seed sowing in the ground, in module trays and seed potatoes planted into the soil. Fingers crossed for a good harvest.
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