Experiment 1- Strand: Living Things- 1st and 2nd Class 

Designing and Making Rockets 6th Class

                                                     Science Show on the Solar System in Kiltimagh
​                                                                         By Lauren in 4th Class
We went to a Science Show in Kiltimagh. There was a man called Declan and he was teaching us about astronomy and the solar system.
He brought up a few people and one person was the sun and one person was the earth and he was showing us how the earth rotates around the sun. Then he brought up a person to be the moon and he showed us how the moon orbits the earth. It made us dizzy because they were all moving around in a circle.
Then he showed us the person who created astronomy. His name was Plato. He discovered the galaxy and the solar system.
Then he made a joke out of different planets by using bars of chocolate- he used a mars bar, a galaxy and a milky way. It was very funny.
He showed us a clip from an episode from one of his series. He was in a contraption and he was moving around, like you would move around in space. We could see how funny it would be to be in a space ship. He pretended to faint after!
My favourite thing about the show was when he got people up and made  a joke about the mars bars and galaxy bars.  I would definitely go again.

​On the Wednesday the 14th of November two groups from 6th class attended the bridge building competition in the Mc William in Claremorris. A few weeks before the competition all of 6th class split into groups of four or five and built bridges to hold a certain amount of weights. Only the top two groups went through to compete in the competition in the Mc William.
  On the day we arrived at 12 o’clock, we were greeted by other teams from Mayo in 6th class. After everybody had arrived each team was escorted to their table by a member of science week team. When we arrived at our table we were given 25 straws & approximately 1 metre of masking tape and some sweets!
 We had 40 minutes to complete our bridges.  There was a variety of different designs. We learned that we had to hook a bag of rice to our bridge which we were not expecting. Our design was built to withhold weight on the top of it so it did not live up to our expectations. But overall we had a very educational experience at the competition.
  Written by: Sarah, Carlagh, Ella and Katie. 

Bekan N.S. is a digital school. As you can see from our website we create PowerPoint Presentations on various SESE topics and for our JEP programme.

We recorded our survey results for our JEP programme on excel. ​

We read the story 'The Three Little Pigs'. We talked about their houses. We talked about other materials we could build houses with. We made a plan in groups and we built houses from straw, lego, blocks, cubes and lollipop sticks. We had great fun.
Collaborative Writing - Senior Infants 

Maths is an integral part of Science. We used Maths in all of our experiments. We measured capacity, distance and averages. 

6th Class use Khan Academy as part of their Maths Class.

Thank you to our 6th Class children who took part in the MS READATHON in October. They are pictured below with their certs.

We created our own characters in Art and wrote auto-bio poems. Why don't you take a look!

For JEP this year every group created a power point on their products. We had to persuade the dragons to choose our own product.
The dragons were Ms McDonagh , Ms McHugh and  Ms McNeive . After they arrived we all presented our power points and prototypes to them. When everyone had finished their presentation the dragons had a private meeting to discuss which product was the most suitable to sell to people.
The dragons gave all of the products positive feedback. Bring Along Bags was the product that the dragons chose. This product had the widest marketing out of all of the products. They can be designed as club or county colours.
We can’t wait to start designing and selling these bags to everyone!
By Katie and Ella

We studied World War 1 in History. We learned all about the war and completed individual projects on this. We also wrote letters from the trenches. Why don't you read our work?

Ballintubber Abbey is located in County Mayo. It is a picturesque abbey surrounded by luscious green fields. It is the parish church for the locals of Ballintubber .
We arrived at school at 8:20 and hopped straight on the bus. We arrived in Ballintubber and were greeted by Fr. Fahey and the workers there .He told us the history about Ballintubber Abbey and brought us upstairs .They generously gave us hot chocolate and biscuits .The workers introduced themselves to us and told us all the fun facts about the Abbey.
We did some activities helping  us see how we could  use the gifts of the Holy Spirit .After a while they split us into  groups and we all went outside to look at the beautiful sights .The workers told us some history about the outside of the Abbey. Mary, our teacher for the day, told us about Sean an Sagart’s Tree.
After a while we went back upstairs and did an activity and lit our candles .As a little gift they gave us a stone with a candle painted on it to take home with us .We said Thank you and went back on the bus .We arrived back at school and just made it on time before the school day had ended .We had a great day and really enjoyed it .

By Bree and Kelley

​Internet safety was on Tuesday the 5th of February. The internet is very popular these days. Social media is in nearly everyones’, lives from people who are five to people who are sixteen. People  spend an average of six and a half hours a day in front of screens.
But the internet isn’t always bad. People use it for research, homework & communication. Sometimes there are numerous people who pose as young children and make friends with vulnerable children.
If you are under thirteen you are legally not allowed to use social media platforms. Therefore it is crucial that teenagers understand the dangers of social media and never share any personal information about you or your peers online as you can never take it down. Also keep all your social media platforms on private so only your real friends can see your posts!!
 
Then there is also online bullies called cyber bullies that try to put people down by saying mean comments & sharing bad photos. If you ever get cyber bullied then Stop ,Block &Tell. Let us explain what this means Stop texting the sender, block them & Tell a trusted adult and screenshot the evidence in case this keeps going on.
 
  Always remember to follow ‘The Granny Rule’. The Granny Rule is if you are about to post something online and you don’t know whether to send it or not use the Granny Rule. The Granny Rule is a simple system to use, all you have to do is think “would granny like to see this?” If granny wouldn’t mind seeing it then go ahead and post it. However if granny would mind seeing it then don’t even think twice about it- simply don’t send it!!
 
Some of the news you read can be fake news so don’t believe everything you read or hear.
 
Written by Sarah & Alicia 

Nuair a shroich mé an scoil ar maidin chonaic mé Mr. Keane ag scríobh ar leathanach. 'Cad atá tú ag déanamh Mr. Keane?' arsa mise. 'Tá mé ag roghnú foireann don chomórtas socair' arsa Mr. Keane agus thosaigh sé ag scríobh arís. Is aoibheann liom an chomórtas sacair. Shiúil mé isteach sa seomra ranga agus thosaigh mé ag caint is ag comhrá le mo chairde faoin gcomórtas.
Ag am lóin dúirt Mr. Keane go raibh an comórtas ar siúl ag am lóin. Bhí an aimsir go breá ag d'imir mo fhoireann.Tar éis tamaill bhuaigh mo fhoireann agus léim mé suas agus síos le háthais. 
An tseachtain seo caite d'imir mo fhoireann i gcoinne foireann buí sa chluiche ceannais peile. Bhí sceitimíní áthais agus giondar croí orm. Bhían foireann buí ar fheabhas agus bhí mé an néirbhíseach. 
Ag leath ama, comhscór a bhí ann. Ansin dúirt mé le mo fhoireann. ' déan bhur ndíchill mar má bhuaimid gheobhaimid pas obair bhaile. Ach chríochnaigh an cluiche ar chomhscór.
An lá dar gcionn d'imríomar arís. Go tobann fuair mé an liathróid os comhair an chúl. Thug mé cic don liathróid agus níor chréid mé mo shúile. Fuair mé cúl! Ansin shéid an fhéadóg bhuaigh mo fhoireann. Thosaigh mo fhoireann ag céiliúradh gan stad. 

​Le Katie agus Sinéád

​This year 6th class in Bekan N.S are participating in the Junior Entrepreneur programme. The programme shows children how to start a small business from a young age. The children split into multiple groups and thought of an idea for their companies. There were 5 groups: Best Bottles, Stressed Out Stress Balls, Bring Along Bags, Heavenly Foods, Bring Bring Bike Bells and Brilliant Bullet Journals.
A few weeks in we had to think of our product and start thinking of materials we needed. Then we got laptops and started pricing them with the price for 1 unit 100/200 units cost price, selling price and profit .After about 3 weeks later we met the dragons and Bring Along Bags won. It was a great experience and we would highly recommend your school doing this fun programme.                                 
 
By Shane and Aaron