Maths week. Day 3.

Today the pupils in the Junior room had some fun with the ring board. 

We talked about the odd and even numbers on the board.

 We added numbers and we subtracted numbers. 

Junior and Senior infants played a game. They named and sorted out the 2D shapes.

Today the pupils in the senior room made chocolate muffins as part of Maths week. 

Cooking involves lots of measuring, estimating, adding, subtracting, multiplying, fractions, problem solving and most of all teamwork. 

We made 24 muffins and shared them out amoung students and teachers.

They were divine! Now we know how fun maths can be while baking! 

Maths Week 2015. Day 2.

Today the pupils in the Junior room were learning all about 2D shapes. We went outside and we found various 2D shapes in the school grounds. Firstly we looked for circles in our environment.

Then we looked for triangles. 

Rectangles were the most common shapes. 

Lastly we found squares.

 We now realise that we are surrounded by various shapes. 

The pupils in the Senior room took part in a maths trail as part of Maths week.

We identified various lines and angles in the school environment.  

We measured the area of our new concrete yard and the perimeter of our vegetable beds. 

We had a ring throwing and a bean bag throwing competition and we calculated our average scores. 

We also measured the perimeter of a lap of our school and found it was 80 metres. 

We calculated 12.5 laps of the school is equal to 1 km. We will use this information as part of our active schools initative. 

Maths Week 2015.

Shrone N.S are taking part in Maths Week. It runs from October 10th -18th. Pupils in the Junior room were learning about time. 

We were leaning the months of the year and the seasons. 

We created a chart with all of our birthdays. The older pupils presented the information on a graph. 

We are learning a song about the months of the year and we might sing it later on in the week. 

The pupils in the senior room were learning about how we use maths in our daily lives. 

Today we did maths activities based on money. 

Our visit to an Rath Mhor.

On Thursday 1st October the pupils in the Senior room along  with Mr.Coakley and Carina went to see the Fort in Rathmore. ( An Rath Mhor) 

We started off on the old  butter road. This was the road that was used to transport butter to Millstreet. After some time the new road as we know it was built. 

We saw some old houses that are there for over a hundred years. We even got to look inside one house. It was really small and it was just built for one person. 

We then reached the site of an old Kiln. We had been learning about it in school. We took out our pooters and we searched for insects in this area. We found spiders, centipedes and beetles. 

We then entered the Big Fort. This is where Rathmore got its name from (An Rath Mhor). We examined some tunnels. It was dark and we used a torch to see into them

Mr Coakley then showed us a big rock. It has three holes on it. We all had different ideas as to what it may have been used for. 

Then we ate our lunch. After lunch we split up into teams for our scavenger hunt. We had to find many different things within the fort including leaves, berries and flowers. 

It was then time to pack up and go back to school. Back at school we made a collage of all things we collected on our scavenger hunt. 

We all had a brilliant day and we learnt a lot both about history, art and nature. 

Presentation of National Flag and Proclamation.

Today we got a visit from Sergeant Chris Horan and Mark Aherne. They presented us with the National Flag and the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. 

On the March 15th we will celebrate Proclamation Day and we will raise the Irish Flag. This will be one of the events that will be taking place in order to celebrate the anniversary of the 1916 rising. 

Up the Kingdom!

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Kerry for the Double.

Today the pupils in Shrone N.S devised a song to show their support for the Kerry team. All the staff and pupils want to wish Aidan, Paul, Darren and both the senior and minor teams the very best of luck in the All Ireland Finals on Sunday. Up the Kingdom!