To celebrate Science Week we were delighted to welcome Dale Treadwell and his dinosaurs to Scoil Chill Ruadhain today! The dinosaurs will be travelling to events all over Ireland this week and we were so lucky to be one of the schools selected! All the children, from Junior Infants to Sixth Class, really enjoyed the show and loved meeting our special visitors!
We were delighted to receive the Cork County Council Safety Flag yesterday in a ceremony in The Vertigo Room on the 17th floor of the County Hall. Fifth Class have been working really hard over the past few months in order to reach this achievement. They have been on water safety training days and have taught all the younger students about water safety.
On Thursday 26th Oct 2017 Mrs Hedderman and some students from 5th class were delighted to be invited to a live link up with the International Space Station.
We could hear the voice of International Space Station astronaut Joe Acaba echoing across the universe. “Hey, this is the International Space Station, I have you clear, a little bit faint, but welcome aboard the International Space Station,” said the US astronaut as he spun some 400km above Glanmire and the Earth at a speed of 28,000km/h.
The school is only the third Irish educational institution to speak directly to the ISS as it orbits around the earth and Thursday’s contact, which also involved a Romanian school, Coleguil National Calistrat Hogas in Pietre Neamt, marked the culmination of more than two years of work.
700 students watched in the school gym and there was absolute silence when contact was made as the ISS sped overhead.
Five Glanmire students got to ask questions.
One asked what it was like to sleep while floating in space, prompting an interesting reply from Mr Acaba.
“It’s actually very nice to sleep in space – we have a sleeping bag that you can attach to the wall or you can just sleep in your own little crew quarters – it’s super-comfortable sleeping in space,” he said.
We also learned that an astronaut has to be very small and light as the bigger and heavier you are the more expensive it will be to launch the rocket into space!
It was a fantastic experience and we thoroughly enjoyed being part of history being made in GCC.
Hopefully it will inspire some of our students to take up careers in science and engineering.
The Biodiversity Committee is made up of pupils from 4th to 6th class. They met recently to map the school grounds and prepare their targets board.
Today was the first day of our school Science Fair. Students from 2nd to 6th prepared a range of experiments and then set them up in the school hall. Classes were invited to the hall throughout the day to view the displays and to conduct some experimenting of their own. The exhibitors did a wonderful job of explaining and demonstrating their experiments which included The Lungs, The Heart, Friction, Magnets, Soundwaves, Circuits, Friction & Gravity, Quick Sand and The Centre of Gravity. Well done to all involved!
This week is Science Week. We have lots of great activities planned throughout the school including a visit from Big Bear Planetarium, School Science Fair and trips to UCC and Firkin Crane for Science Week events! We are all looking forward to a fun-filled week!
There are many events for all the family happening in Cork this week. Admission is free but booking is advisable to ensure your place. For more information click here.
We have read some stories about Elmer, the Patchwork Elephant. We made our own patchwork elephants using crepe paper.
