We had a great day in 2nd Class presenting projects. Two weeks of research & structuring their work to the end products. Topics were varied including Animatronics, Knitting, Musical instruments, Volcanos, World Wars, Donald Trump, Geology, Animals & many more wonderful ideas. The pupils made their presentations in booklets, posters, timelines, PowerPoint and also usedsome models, samples and quizzes. Well done everyone, a great learning experience for us all & such enthusiasm for the task!
Hour of Code took place worldwide from December 5-11th. Our class took part and really enjoyed it. We really enjoyed Minecraft, Flappy Bird and Moana coding. If you would like to try out some coding go to www.hourofcode.org/learn. On the map below you can see all the schools in Ireland who participated in the hour of code, GETNS are on the map!
Earlier this term 3rd class had lots of fun creating, filming and editing stop motion animations. Here are a few of the animations we created!
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What a great day we had in Kia Ora visiting santa, feeding the reindeer, petting the rabbits and lots more ?
Third Class have been learning about lots of different artists over the last few weeks. During our latest art project we learnt about Jackson Pollock. Inspired by Jackson Pollock’s artwork pupils created art pieces on canvas. Pupils used lots of different tools to drip paint onto the canvas like Jackson Pollack did.
A special thank you to Sarah Rubin for all her work with our class.
This week Third Class have been taking on the task to create a maths board game for Maths Week! We have been working on them for the past week and we presented them today! We have seen many good maths games already, and there are still more to come! We have had a 60 second challenge by Evan, a truth or dare game by Torin, a card game by Maya Rubin and a Monkey Goes Bananas! by Natanya. We have enjoyed playing the games and some of them are quite imaginative.
By Tadhg and Ciara (3rd Class)
Watch this video about some of our maths work…
Our class were delighted to have a visit from Tessa’s mom Aisling last Friday. Aisling is a nutrionist and she spoke to us about healthy eating and how different foods can help us stay healthy. She made a delicious green juice, jammed packed with lots of vegetables and fruit. Aisling also brought in some dough (made with cacao and lots of other healthy ingredients) so we could roll our own healthy treats.
As part of SESE the three second classes along with Jamie-Lee, Teresa, Deirdre, Daire and Andrea went on a hike up Tara Hill which is a wooded hill near the coastline that can be seen from many parts of Northeast Wexford. We were fortunate to have a crisp, dry and clear day for our trip and everyone was well prepared! A great day was had exploring in nature, admiring the stunning views, tree-hugging and of course some picnic-pit stops to refuel! We (almost 70 GETNSers!) reached the cairn at the summit in good time with lots of first-timers vowing to go again in future – we look forward to hearing about your hillwalking adventures and are glad you all had a wonderful day!
We have been learning to code over the last two months. In December we participated in the Hour of Code (hourofcode.org). This month we are coding using Scratch. 
