Ghoulish frights awaited anyone who dared to venture outside last Friday as the pupils of Herbertstown NS went on a Halloween themed orienteering exercise on the schools grounds. The variety of costumes on show made it a great spectacle!
Author: Staff
Halloween Art
The school’s walls are starting to fill up with Halloween art!
3rd and 4th class created some spooky painted skeletons using cotton buds as paintbrushes. Some of us even decided to make X-rays of our hands!
5th & 6th created some Halloween at dusk paintings.
5th & 6th also had some fun creating some slime using cornflour, water and food colouring.
Here are some of the pumpkins on display in the junior infant classroom.
Cheerios Childline Breakfast
Today the Parents Association hosted the Cheerios Breakfast morning for our school.
Third & Fourth Class Herbertstown Projects
Exploring Herbertstown
The 3rd and 4th class have been very busy for the past 2 weeks collecting and presenting their group work projects on Herbertstown. We found out some really interesting facts about our local area, carefully drew maps of the main street and even made some models of different parts of the village! The projects are now on display in the school corridor – feel free to have a look when passing.
Highly Commended Artists
Well done to our pupils who were highly commended for their poster on 1916 at the recent Joyce Brothers Festival in Kilmallock.
Here’s the latest from Junior Infants
At the Opticians!
Junior Infants working on the tablets.
Primary and Secondary Colours!
Junior Infant Autumn Family Tree!
Junior Infant Autumn Trees!
Different lines with different colours.
Space Week!
Herbertstown became a mini-Cape Canaveral on Thursday with the launch of 10 bottle rockets!
To celebrate Space Week, the fifth and sixth class pupils designed and created bottle rockets in anticipation of Thursday’s launch date. The pupils had studied the space race earlier in the week and some of the designs took on an ‘Apollo’ theme. Others took a more original approach. In all, 10 groups created rockets. The rockets were crafted using a 2 litre drinks bottle which was then adapted to meet the design of each group.
Here’s the science bit:
The rockets need to be half filled with water before a hose is fixed to them. Air is pumped into the bottle until the air pressure inside the bottle becomes too great. This pressure forces the bottle’s cap to release and the force of the escaping air & water helps the rocket to beat gravity and take flight.
On Thursday, members of third and fourth class were asked to give each rocket a score based on its design and then its performance in flight. The entire school came out to watch each rocket being launched and there was great excitement at each ‘lift off’! Congratulations to Group 1, who had the best overall score for their rocket.
St. Brigid’s Visit the School
The school was delighted to welcome members of the St. Brigid’s team who won the All Ireland Junior Sevens title in Dublin recently. Many of our pupils are playing with the local club so they were thrilled to have an opportunity to see and hold the cup. Well done to all involved.
Detectives at work in Herbertstown NS
Second class had a great afternoon being detectives around the school grounds. They discovered many rocks, stones, soil samples, flowers, bugs, leaves and even a feather!!