On the 14th of June 2019, all Drimnagh Castle 5th class took the luas to The Ark centre in Town. It was the ‘Right Here, Right Now’ children’s rally where a group of children from 3rd to 6th got to discuss children’s rights. There was around 4 other schools there and 4 boys from our…
In room 13 we wrote a book and sent it away to get published. We also drew our own picture and typed it out from our copies. Ms. Timbs and Ms. Baker helped us. All of the other fifth classes were involved as well. We hope that they are going to be ready in time…
This is my introduction about 5th class: In 5th class we do Maths stations. Every Maths station takes about 10 mins. We have two independent stations and two stations with teachers. In the two independent stations there is a game called Rummy ,which is a card game and it is really fun! We used do…
This year the boys went to Santry to complete in relays and sprints and did the school proud. First up for our school was Rhys from 4th class as he got into the semi finals in sprints but unfortunately was knocked out. Next was Aaron from rm 9. Aaron started off well but couldn’t keep…
In Mid-June a group of people from Aviva came in to show us how to code using scratch. Scratch is an easy way to learn how to code. It was released back in 2013. On scratch you can make anything you want to and it’s surprising that popular video games such as Minecraft, Fortnite and…
Over the past few weeks Colin Sheldon has been coming into Room 15 and here is what we done. Colin does a program called “Bible Explorer, The Old Testament”. In lesson 1 we learnt about “The Beginning of Everything” and we learnt about Abraham. He had two sons called “Ishmael and Isaac who had 2…
We are learning tag rugby in Drimnagh castle. The man that teaches us is called Gareth. Gareth will be teaching us for 6 weeks. Tag rugby is rugby with a belt and you have two tags on the belt you are wearing. If you get a tag pulled off you keep the ball but if…
We started learning about Christopher Columbus in January 2018 .We found out that he had his biggest voyage in 1492 with 3 ships the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María. Christopher sailed the Santa María. He bought the 3 ships from the King and Queen of Spain because the Portuguese King and Queen refused.…
In room 15 we learned about reading and writing reports. We found out that the purpose of report writing is to document, organise and store information. We got an opportunity to write our own reports on a topic that interested us. We had great fun looking up the internet to help us find out some…
In Rm 15, we wrote poems, using a method called the poetry machine. Here is the following strategy we used 1 Writing a noun 2 Then a fact about the noun. 3 Write three adjectives to describe the noun. 4 A simile to describe the noun. 5 Another simile. 6 Write how you feel…