The boys and girls in St Patrick’s had the chance to try out the MAC Assault course. Everyone had lots of fun completing the course.

Today room 13 were doing mathematical bearings. We had treasure maps and we had to follow the pirate’s coded message which was all written in  bearings. We had  to draw lines to lead us to the treasure. To do this we had to use a protractor. We got to colour in our maps when we were finished.

Today the children in Rooms 13 and 14 took part in an online field trip as part of the Tesco Farm to Fork programme. We had a few technical hitches because we were unable to view it on the smart board, but we could see it via a tablet.

We had the chance to see inside a working mill and we found out all about how oats are harvested to produce porridge. We took part in  this field trip with three other schools from across Great Britain. We really showed how we can communicate with others within and beyond our place of learning!

The boys and girls in rooms 13 and 14 received a delivery of yummy porridge and a variety of toppings this morning. We had the chance to try a pot of porridge along with the toppings of our choice. Tomorrow we will be taking part in a virtual field trip along with three other schools as part of the Tesco Farm to Fork programme. We will learn all about where oats come from and the process they go through to get to our homes.

Today Joe Bradley came to our school and taught us some more Gaelic football. We had lots of fun playing a game!

Today we learned how to use a protractor to measure angles. We have a video and pictures to show how we did it.

Today, the children in Rooms 13 and 14 made radio and TV adverts for their new Rainforest Theme Parks. Have a look at some of their videos.

Today we made an  Rainforest Theme Park television advert. You can watch it here.

As part of work on compass points, we were also learning how to draw maps. We were given the compass point location of various places in the town. We had to use this information to draw maps of the town with the different buildings in the correct locations.

We had to place the school in the centre of the town with a park and college to the east. South east of the school, we had to put a garage and there had to be a farm and hospital to the  north east. There is a church in the west of the town, with a restaurant and lake to the north west and shops and a car park to the south west. We had to put a swimming pool in the south and a train station in the north of the town.

Here are some of our maps. Have a look and see how well we managed.

This week Primary 6/7 and Primary 7 have been learning about compass points. We learned to work out the location of different places and to describe their locations using compass points.

Today we were out in the yard using chalk to draw 8 point compass roses on the ground. Then we worked out the location of different places in our local area and we marked them on our compasses.