Our activities for each year 
Year 6           - We are just starting out on Year 6 - watch this space!
 

Year 5: The Five Steps we had to take to achieve to meet the criteria for 2013 /2014 school year...
    • Step 1 – Greenwave and Maths: We watched for the signs of spring in our area by looking out for the six common species listed on the www.greenwave.ie web site. We recorded sightings of all the species except one - the swallow. We also recorded temperature and rainfall. Then we used Microsoft Excel to make graphs of the information. We made graphs to show the information for 16 weeks. Then we got the averages for January, February, March and April and we made graphs of that too. 
    • Step 2 – Prescribed activities and Maths: we provided evidence that more than one class in the school have been involved in hands-on investigations relating to the Energy and Forces strand of the Science curriculum and hands-on investigations relating to the Materials strand of the Science curriculum including examples and show evidence of how maths was used as part of this science work.  
    • Step 3 – Step 3 – DPSM Discover Centre or Science Speaker/Engineer
    • We visited W5 again and had a great time. 
    • We also had a visit from an engineer for Engineers Week in February. We learned a lot about his job with the ESB and especially about wind power.
    • The infant classes had a visit from a nurse and a garda and a lady from the HSE who helped us learn all about looking after our teeth with the Mighty Mouths programme
    • Infants and First Class visited the Planetarium in Armagh. 
    • Step 4 – Another Science Fair 
    • Step 5 – Technology:This is how we provided evidence of how the children used technology
      • We use this website where our science and maths work can be viewed
      • We used IT to record and analyse data - spreadsheets and graphs
      • We submitted our logbook in a digital format - ie. this web site
      • Children from second class up participated in the Irish Computer Society Scratch programme at www.ics.ie/scratch
                     
Year 4           - More work with Greenwave.ie
                    - Continuing our online log
                    - Continuing with our Green Schools programme - this time focusing on energy
                    - More work in our school garden 
                    - Another science fair - our fourth - based on the science of food an the digestive system
                    - Inviting speakers in for Science Week - the science of photography
                    - Visiting St Macartan's science lab
                    - Making good use of the Discover Primary Science web site and resources
                    - taking part in Engineers Week
                    - receiving our fourth annual award for Science and Maths Excellence

Year 3           - Going to the RDS Primary Science Fair with our project on "Sound and Communication"
                    - Getting involved in Greenwave.ie
                    - Learning about minibeasts during a visit from the National Parks and Wildlife Service
                    - Continuing our on-line science log
                    - Doing some experiments on the "Chemistry of Life" (The theme for Science Week)
                    - Applying for our Green Flag and keeping our online Green School site updated (http://www.knockconangreenschool.com)
                    - Working in our school garden, adding fruit bushes and apple trees
                    - Getting back to work in the Silver Hill Garden Project
                    - filling up or insect hotel to encourage more minibeasts to move in!
                    - attending the STEPS science show on Forces and Energy
                    - Continuing to work on activities from the Discover Primary Science manual and web site
                    - Building up this science log web site
                    - Another Science Fair (our third)
                    - Receiving our third award for Science and Maths Excellence

Year 2           - our second School science fair
                    - we visited W5 in Belfast
                    - developing our new school garden, adding apple trees
                    - official opening of our school garden
                    - working at the Silver Hill Foods Organic Garden
                    - developing our science log on our science web site 
                    - and our second award for science and maths excellence

Year 1          - Our first science log (scrapbook)
                   - our first school science fair  
                   - our first award for science and maths excellence!
                   - registering for Green Schools
                   - getting our garden started
                   - we visited the Planetarium