Debate against the motion that Irish is a useful language for us to lear...

Debate for the motion that Irish is a useful language to learn in schools

Debate against the motion that GAA players should get paid for play.

Debate for the motion that GAA players should get paid for play

Debate. For the motion for an extra hour of school and no homework

Debate against the motion for an extra hour of school and no homework.

Daniel O'Connell Concept Map

Check out the wonderful Daniel O'Connell concept map that Oisín created for the class using http://textisbeautiful.net/

Young Scientist in Hall-Monday 20th of January 2013

On Monday the 20th of January 2014 Sixth class will present their Award winning RDS Primary Science project to the whole school community. All parents, siblings and extended family are welcome to come and see our project being presented once again. Our project title was "How can we heighten our senses to help us in Sport?"
The presentation will take place in the school hall from 10.50 to 12.10 on Monday. All support welcome.

RDS Primary Science Fair

We had a great day out on Saturday presenting our project in the RDS. A lot of hard work by the boys went into the project and we received great feedback from the judges. We even received an award at the end of the day which recognised our project as being of a very high standard. A special thanks to all the teachers, parents and students from other classes who came to support and a very special thanks to Christine who helped us at every stage of our project was there with us for the entire day on Saturday.
For those of you who may have missed it or would like to see our project being presented again we will be having our own Science fair in the hall next Monday the 20th of January.

Here are a selection of some lovely photos from the day itself.

Leinster Swimming Gala

Well done to Oisín, Brian and Finn from our class and to Seán, Karl, Cian, James and Michael from fifth who represented the school at the Leinster Schools swimming gala in Trinity pool on Saturday. They did the school proud. The relay team got fourth in the Leinster schools swim championships missing out on third place by a tenth of a second. They will go on to represent the school in the All-Ireland for the medley relay. Well done to the boys and a special thanks to Gwen who has been training the boys in preparation for the event.

Times for Young Scientist

8.45-10.15	Patrick	Aaron	Ben B	Ben T	Casey	Anthony*
10.15-11.45	Oisín McG	Finn	Brian	Liam	Peter G	Joshua
11.45-1.15	Oisín  McM	Jimmy	Brandon	Adrian	Tadhg	Jack*
1.15-2.45	Flinn	Jeff	Daniel	Suyash	Donal	Kyle
2.45-4.15	Matthew	Pappy	Hugo	Ronan	Rory	Will

Research for Young Scientist Powerpoints

Headings for Sections of Powerpoints.

1. Sense (Title and Intro)
2. Where in our body does the sense affect? (Diagrams and Theory)
3. Test (Experiments to show presence and strength of the sense)
4. Applications in Sport. (Where we use each sense when preparing for or playing sports)
5. Improvement (Exercises or training that we can do to heighten/strengthen our senses to help us in sports)

Groups
Touch-Reactions/Central Nervous system.....1,7,12,17,22&27
Sight                                                            2,8,13,18,23&28
Balance (Ears and Centre of Gravity)        3,9,14,19,24&29
Smell and Taste (Nutrition)                         5,10,15,20&25
Hearing                                                         6,11,16,21&26