Rang a 2

Rang a Dó had a wonderful day on their school tour. We went to The Mardyke Arena where we took part in lots of different activities!  We played in team challenges, completed an obstacle course on a bouncy castle, learned some skipping skills and even did some rock...

We have really enjoyed getting back to our drumming lessons! This year we have even gotten the chance to play different percussion instruments along with the bigger drums. We revised what we covered last year- keeping a simple rhythmic pattern and also developed this...

We had a BALL at the rugby blitz organised by Kinsale Rugby Club. We certainly acted like sharks as we nipped and weaved in between players to avoid losing a tag. We had great fun playing Dunderrow, Naomh Eltin and the Gaelscoil in our rugby blitz. It took us a little...

Rang a Dó have really been enjoying our gymnastics lessons. It has been great to see an improvement in our movement and flexibility since our first lesson! We can do a forward roll, a side roll, balance on a beam. We have the beginning of a cartwheel in the works and...

On Friday, Rang a Dó took advantage of the fantastic weather and took a nature stroll along the Scilly Walk. We saw lots of wild garlic, but decided against tasting it! We had great fun when a group of tourists on a harbour cruise around Kinsale started waving at us-...

Rang a Dó created some fantastic honeybees during our art lessons. We followed a drawing tutorial to draw our bee and using a hexagonal shape, created what looked like honeycomb! The children loved this drawing and after a few practises created our final bee...

Rang a Dó really enjoyed their picnic today in the sunshine. We decided to take advantage of the glorious weather and dine 'al fresco'! A worm even wiggled its way into a lunchbox, but luckily we were able to return him to the grass without harming him- phew! ...

We have finally finished our rockets! After collecting lots of recyclable materials and drawing a plan of our rockets, we finally got around to constructing them. Following lots of cutting, sticking and gluing our rockets started to take shape. Once they were (fairly)...

We have been using our fantastic new science kits over the past few weeks. We used our 'Magnetic Forces' Kit to explore all about magnets. We first looked at lots of different materials and predicted whether they would be magnetic or not. We recorded these predictions...