St. Fiacc's National School

Well done to all our Students of the Week and Gaelgeoir na Seachtaine this week who received their certificates today!!

First class explored static electricity and light during Science Week

On Thursday as part of Science Week 2019, 5th and 6th class went to the GB Shaw to see Simon Watt, a biologist perform a show called The Ugly Animal Road show, about animal conservation.  Thanks to Ms Minnock for the lovely photos !

1st Class have really enjoyed learning how to play table tennis. Ray has been teaching us every Wednesday. We have really improved our skills.

My name is Holly and I am seven years old.  I am Type 1 Diabetic and November 14^th was World Diabetic Awareness Day.  Nobody knows the causes for Type 1 Diabetes yet but it is NOT from eating too much sugar. It is an auto-immune disease.  When I was four years old, my pancreas stopped producing insulin.  Without insulin, the glucose from the food I eat stays in my blood, making me feel very unwell.  People with Type 1 Diabetes have to inject insulin into their bodies every day to stay alive.  I used to get six injections a day but now I have a pump attached to my body which gives me my insulin.  I have to prick my finger lots of times every day to check my blood.  If the glucose level is too low, I can go unconscious.  If it is too high, it’s also very dangerous.

                                                                          Type 1 Diabetes is not contagious; nor do you develop it from eating too much sugar.  There is no cure for Type 1 Diabetes but people with it can grow up to be anything that they want to be in life.  Maybe I’ll grow up and find a cure for Type 1 Diabetes.

                                                                          I am so lucky, my family, my friends, my teacher Ms. Frayne, my SNA Niamh and everyone here in St. Fiacc’s look after me so well.

Thank you for reading my story,

Holly

5th classes visited the Carlow County Museum this Thursday. It was a great tour and a huge thanks to John McDarby and his team for showing us around. We saw

• a pub, kitchen and shop from the 1920’s
• the original gallows trapdoor from Carlow Gaol;
• the 6m carved pulpit from Carlow Cathedral;
• items from Carlow’s Sugar Factory, which operated for almost 80 years;
• the smoking pipe of Captain Myles Keogh, killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn;
• items relating to John Tyndall, the Carlow scientist who discovered the greenhouse effect;
• a 340 million-year-old fossilized squid

and much more!!!

Mr Shiel’s class were busy this week in Maths using Izak 9 cubes which are a brilliant resource here in St Fiacc’s N.S. Children are enjoying solving and discussing maths problems in small groups.

5th classes are busy with the Report Writing Genre this term. We are using i-pads to research our own topics for our fantastic reports.

Today in Junior Infants we started forming the letter c using a multi-kinaesthetic approach; tracing folders, sand trays, gel bags and whiteboards

First Class had a great time exploring what trees could be found on the school grounds.

Congrats to all our Students of the week, Gaelgeoir na Seachtaine and Footsol Winners who received their certificates this morning!

Second class room 10 have been exploring shapes and completing different shape challenges during maths week. We have investigated tangrams, created different 2- d shape images using lollipop sticks and sorted 2 – d shapes into different categories.

We are looking forward to going on a 2 – d shape hunt in  school. Fingers crossed the weather will be good!

Second class room 10 have been learning about separating colours by using chromatography. We tested different colours to see how each colour is made. We used our lovely creations to create spooky halloween pictures. This was a fun activity and one that can be completed at home.