Engineers Week 2022

Engineers Week 2022

Engineers Week 2022

We marked ‘Engineers Week’ from Monday 7th of March to Friday 11th March this year.    

Engineering Week activities this year included the following activities: Lego challenges, STEM challenges through the use of our STEM Box, a school-wide engineering quiz,  and learning about different types of engineering.

 Also during Engineers Week, all children from 3rd to 6th class had a really enjoyable visit from climate ambassador and engineer Niamh Ryan who gave an insight into sustainable development and engineering. Thank you, Niamh for a very interesting and fun visit

You can view a snapshot of some of the engineering activities and projects in each of the classes in the gallery below. 

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Bridge Building

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Award Winners for March

Congratulations to our Award Winners for the month of March 😊   Class Mathematician of the month Computer Star Artist of the Month PE Star Junior Infants Sam Harrington Oscar Mia Buttimer Bobby Scott Senior Infants Charlie O'Donovan Cian Crowley Gracie Kelleher...

Engineers Week 2021

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Engineer Zoom Call

On Friday last as part of Engineers Week, Paul McCarthy Engineer with Pepsi in Cork spoke to both Senior Infants and 2nd Class via a Zoom Call. Thank you Paul for the very informative presentation about all things engineering. It was great fun and it certainly sparked...

Junior Infants

2nd Class

4th Class

5th Class

6th Class

 6th Class- Lego Challenge

Engineer Guest Speaker

School Wide Quiz

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Engineer Visits 3rd Class

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Engineer Visits 3rd Class

During Engineers Week, we were delighted to welcome Niamh Ryan to 3rd class in Knockskeagh National School. 

Niamh Ryan is a climate ambassador and engineer and gave an insight into sustainable development and engineering

It was a really interesting and fun morning. Thank you for your visit Niamh, we really enjoyed it.

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Engineer Zoom Call

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Knockskeagh Virtual Tour

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We welcome you to take a look at this short video which gives an insight into the activities that Knockskeagh National School has to offer its pupil’s.

We really think it looks amazing. Well done to all pupils and staff who helped make it a very special video tour, we really hope you enjoy it.

Many thanks to Greg Mulcahy for all his work in putting this together for us.

 

 

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Bridge Building Knockskeagh recently hosted a bridge building competition. The competition this year involved all 6th class pupils. The students' task was to work in teams against one another to build the strongest bridge. They were provided with just lollipop sticks...

1st and 2nd Class Beach Day

Beach Day Our 1st and 2nd class visited Red Strand Beach on Monday the 21st of June. They completed a number of science investigations including; Sorting man-made and natural objects Measuring wavelength Is there iron in the sand? How is sand made? What's in the...

School Garden

School Garden 4th Class recently took on our garden project and did an amazing job. They put in trojan work, cleaning all our flower and vegetable beds. Then they got to work planting. They planted peas, beans, edible flowers, onions, carrots, salad leaves, beetroot,...

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Congratulations to our Award Winners for the month of March 😊   Class Mathematician of the month Computer Star Artist of the Month PE Star Junior Infants Sam Harrington Oscar Mia Buttimer Bobby Scott Senior Infants Charlie O'Donovan Cian Crowley Gracie Kelleher...

Engineers Week 2021

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Lego Building Competition

Lego Building Competition

Lego Building Competition

Fifth class pupils Evan O Crowley and Odhran O Sullivan entered a Lego building competition run by Autism-Friendly Clonakilty recently.
They loved every second of creating this building of what “My Clonakilty” looks like and worked extremely hard over these last few weeks. They built a skyscraper toy shop which showed examples of racing cars on the top of the building, a delivery truck unloading all the new toys along with a sensory garden for children with ASD to enjoy.
The shop owner “Emmet” can be seen opening the doors to his customers with his flying truck parked outside! They let their imagination run wild and it is clear they are extremely proud of what they achieved.
Well done boys 😀👋
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Our 3rd, 4th and 5th classes engaged in the energy workshops which covered the topics of energy sources, climate change, CO2, and what we as individuals can do to reduce the amount of energy we use.

The classes completed some fun curriculum-linked energy experiments, for example, did you know you can make a battery out of a lemon?

Towards the end of the workshop, the children played Guzzler’s Energy Challenge, where the aim of the game was to collect as many energy points as possible – and avoid the dreaded Sin Bin! Each of the classes had a great morning of learning and fun.

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Podcast: “The Story of Tojo”

 

2nd Class has been busy creating and recording their very first podcast recently. It is all about the visit of a spider monkey named Tojo to Clonakilty nearly 80 years ago.

The podcast was recorded in Knockskeagh and produced by all the 2nd class pupils. They had great fun making it and bringing the story to life.

All of 2nd class would love to hear from you if you enjoyed listening to their podcast. You can make contact on the ‘Contact Us’ section of our website, on Twitter, or on our Facebook page.

Well done to all 2nd Class on a wonderful production.

 

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