Animoto Project 2025

As part of the Blue Star Programme, the 2nd and 3rd class students created an Animoto video project all about Spanish culture and geography. Animoto is a digital slideshow tool that allows children to create multimedia presentations by combining images, text, music, and video clips. The students used it to showcase their research on Spain’s landmarks, traditions, food, festivals, and major cities. This creative project not only deepened their understanding of Spanish culture but also helped them develop valuable digital and presentation skills.

Digital School of Distinction

Irish Computer Society Annual SCRATCH Competition

The pupils in 4th 5th and 6th class participated in the ICS SCRATCH coding competition. During school and by some evening classes via zoom the pupils learned how to code using the coding language SCRATCH. They worked individually or in pairs creating projects of their choice.

Below you can see a sample of their work.

All Ireland Coding Winner!

Congratulations to Honor Mannion in 4th class who won the Judge's Award in the the primary schools 2nd to 4th class category in the LERO and Irish Computer Society National Scratch Awards in the University of Limerick on 22nd May 2024.

Honor designed a Scratch project called 'Gesmo Goes Galway Style' in which Gesmo brings you on a tour of Galway city and county.

You may view her project at the following link

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/970403566/

Rolling Ronan by Jude Whiriskey 6th Class

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/985856830

Olympics by Kate Whiriskey 4th class

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/970758299

Static Electricity by Emily Laffin and Aoife Creaven 4th class

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/965556949

Mount Everest by Amy O'Neill 4th class

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/968527849

Coding Club in 2nd and 3rd Classes!

The pupils in 2nd and 3rd classes completed 6 classes of coding on the 6th of June 2024. During their classes they learned how to create variables, keep the score on a game, change backdrops and characters, ask questions and store answers. Using all this information the pupils worked in pairs and created quizzes for their class based on 'The Vikings, the Egyptians and the Continents of the World.

You can view all their quizzes at: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/35307499

06/06/2024

EU Code Week

The pupils of 4th, 5th and 6th classes participated in EU Code week 2023. The pupils created 2D Shapes using Scratch. They all successfully drew squares, rectangles, hexagons, octagons and circles!. They then were given a challege to draw the Olympic flag. Well done to Caoimhe and Maria who were the first to complete the task.

October 2023

Coding Club

Each year the pupils from 1st class to 6th class are taught how to code using the language SCRATCH by Mrs Kelleher.

1st and 2nd class pupils learn how to create characters make them walk and talk.

3rd and 4th class learn how to change the backgrounds, broadcast, timing, and create games such as Ping Pong and a Maze.

5th and 6th class progress to creating variables and keeping scores in games. They also integrate their SCRATCH projects with the Maths Strand 'Shape and Space'.

Power Point Presentations

Pupils in 5th and 6th class present their History and Geography projects using Power Point.

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