Maths Eyes Photography Competition

Congratulations to Matthew from our class who came third in his age category (Under 14's) of the Maths Eyes Photography Competition. There were over 600 entries in his category and you will see from the quality of his entry below that he was unlucky not to come in first place in the competition. The competition was run by Maths Week Ireland and the aim was to take pictures of Maths concepts occurring in the real world. Matthew chose "Parallel" lines and used the excellent example of the smoke trail of 2 planes at the Flightfest air show in Dublin. The presentation of prizes took place last Wednesday the 3rd of March in the national Centre for Excellence in Education.

for more details please see....      http://www.haveyougotmathseyes.com/

Well done Matthew, we are all very proud of you.

Sepelling Bee

Well done again to Oisín and Peter who represented the school at the Dublin Spelling Bee last week. They did very well and the school is very proud of them both.

Service of light.

Tonight in the Church we have our service of light. The boys will arrive at 7.20pm and the service begins at 7.30pm.
They must wear their full school uniform.
Hopefully it will be a lovely service.

Presenting Famine Projects

Today in school we presented our projects based on the Famine in Ireland.

The project headings were....

Ireland before the famine + Causes of the famine….blight etc.

British influence + absentee landlords

Workhouses + soup kitchens

Choctaw Nation and other sources of charity

Black 47  (include death stats and types of diseases)

Emigration and coffin ships (include stats and destinations)

Results of the famine (Ireland and the world after the famine ) + famine time line.

The projects were very informative and were presented quite articulately. Well done to all the boys who worked very hard on them.