Month: November 2013

On Friday 29^th of November we are hoping that Miram McHale is coming into the school to make an exiting recipe with the turnip we grew in our garden. We can’t wait!Still to be confirmed.

By Mark and Aishling

Our Christmas Nativity is taking place on Tuesday the 17^th of December in Kilbride church. All the children in Kilbride will be taking part in this nativity. The first to sixth classes will be singing in the choir. The junior and senior infants will be preforming a play that acts out Jesus’s birth. We will all have a fun time putting on this nativity. Practice has begun with the choir learning all the songs to accompany the play. 3rd and 4th class will also be playing two or three songs on the tin whistle on the night. We will keep you all updated on our progress.

This year the children in 5th and 6th class in Kilbride N.S took part in an art competition. It was a lot of fun. Three people won a prize and they will be going to the Ardboyne Hotel. The winners were Brian from 6^th class, Leah from 6^th class and Zara from 5^th class. They are all from Ms. Parkes classroom and are all very good at art. Well done to them all and we hope they have a good time.

By: Rachel and James

On the 14^thof November 2013 parents from the school came to see some science experiments that the children had displayed. In each classroom there were different science experiments.

In Junior Infants – Senior Infants they made:

• Dancing raisin
• Sound insulators
• Musical jars
• Telephone (where they made their own telephone)
• Magnetism

In First class ­- Second class they did these experiments:

• Tornado in a bottle
• Floating egg
• Fingerprints
• Blind spot
• Dominant eye
• Mirror writing
• Surface Tension
• How plants drink water

In Third class –Fourth class they did these experiments:

• How much air can my lungs hold?
• Reaction time
• Exercise your heart
• Launch a rocket
• Yeast
• Rainbow spinner

In Fifth-Sixth class they did these experiments:

• Balloon rocket
• Boom it’s a rocket
• Rainbow milk
• Tornado in a bottle
• Exercise your heart
• Skewer through a balloon
• Mirror writing
• Electric quiz

By: Skye and Becky

Every class did lots of experiments during science  week. We practiced  all week and on Thursday 14th November all the parents of the children came in to see all of our experiments. All the children did lots of exciting experiments. Science Week was on the 10 -17 November.

By Mark and Aishling

Thanks to the pupils and their parents for all their help with the cake sale at Halloween. We raised €766 from our bake sale and the raffle a month ago. The students brought in cakes, cookies and deserts.

We had a Halloween fashion show in Miss Kealey’s room a month ago. The students walked along the tables and then posed at the end.

By Sean and Ellen

This week was national science week. This years theme was “Exploring the Xtra – Ordinary”. The children and the staff of Kilbride N.S had a great week during science week. All classes in the school carried out a variety of experiments with their class teacher. On Thursday the 14th of November, from 1pm till 2.15pm, the parents came into the school to see the children carrying out the different experiments. The children also explored the science week website and talked about the various microbes that exist – both good and bad. In some classes the children also took part in a science week quiz! Fun was had by all!

Dave came to the school and held a drum workshop for the day in Kilbride N.S. Each class took part in playing the drums. All the children enjoyed the various activities Dave did with them using the drums and various other percussion instruments. Some classes even got to hear what they sounded like as their teacher recorded them!