Experimenting with Tagxedo

We have been learning how to use Tagxedo
Joyce loves reading and choose words from her current novel to incorporate in her design.



The thing that I like to do the most is read books. The books that I like to read are Henderson Boys a series of books written by Robert Muchamore. I've read the first and second book, so now I'm on the third book. The main characters in the book are Rosie, Paul, Marc, Mr Henderson, PT and Dormant. The character that I like the best is Rosie because her mum and dad are dead and she has to make sure that her little brother Paul is ok. They all work together and make sure that they leave before there is another war. The next series that I really want to read is The Hunger Games.The three main characters are Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Malark and Cato Hadley. I've watched the movie but I'm also going to read the books. I love reading!!!!

Sophie is a fan of the Hunger Games



The Hunger Games is an amazing book trilogy . There are currently two movies The Hunger Games and Catching Fire . The last book , Mocking jay is getting split into two parts because it is a big book . The four main characters are Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Melark, Effie Trinket and Haymitch Abernathy . Katniss is just an ordinary sixteen year old girl most of the time she skilled at archery. Peeta is good at baking and is very strong, he's also sixteen .Effie is district 12's escort, born in the capitol she is always overly dressed and pink .Haymitch is always drunk but at the times he is sober he can be very wise and kind. The actress who plays Katniss Everdeen is played by x-mens Jenifer Lawrence . The actor who plays Peeta Melark is played by Josh Hutcherson. The actress who plays Effie trinket is Elizabeth Banks . The actor who plays is acting legend Woody Harleson The secondary characters are ,District one Marvel and Glimmer, District two Cato Hadley and Clove Sevina, District 5 fox face, District 11 Thresh and Rue.

Ryan loves football and decided to select his dream team.



My favourite payers are mostly Brazilian or they play for Liverpool. Suarez is my favourite player because he scores lots of goals for Liverpool. Pele and Rivaldo are two Brazilian legends. Pele played for Santos FC when he was 15. Rivaldo played for Barcelona and scored a chest and an over head kick for them. My favourite players on Liverpool are the three s Suarez, Sterling and Sturridge. These are most of my favourite players if these were all on a team that would be one of my dream teams.

By Ryan

Vote for our entry in Map My School competition

Ordnance Survey Ireland are delighted with the response to their competition Map My School. A total of forty seven school participated and their entries are displayed here.
Please click on the this link Scoil Eoin entry You have the opportunity to visit our page vote for our entry and comment on our map.

Map My School

Map My School is a competition organised by Ordnance Survey Ireland  with the objective  of getting primary school classes to get practical hands-on experience of map making and in the process enhance their map reading skills. This project provided many opporunities for the students to get practical mathematical experiences and in the process enhance their understanding of mathematical concepts such as length,width, area, perimeter and scale.

Read Joyce's account of her experience working on the project.

Our class is participating in a project called Map My School. First we had to measured many different parts of the school. We had to get the length and width of many different parts of the school building. Next we had to measured the perimeter of the grounds.This was really difficult as our school has many curves on the perimeter had to use some bamboo canes to keep track of our measurements. We were lucky because Mr. McGuire gave us a measuring tape that was 50 meters long.

As we measured the school we wrote down the amount of meters that we measured in a special notebook.Next we had to change these measurements to a scale of 1cm: 200cm so that we could fit our map on the paper. It was a difficult job to do but we still got it finished. We also coloured the map to brighting it up. Many other schools are also doing it too. It is a competition all over Ireland. Good luck to all the other schools participating.
Click here to vote for our entry

Examining Daffodils

Fair Daffodils we weep to see You haste away so soon

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

The daffodil is an attractive trumpet shaped flower that blooms in spring. They have six petals around a trumpet. In the middle of a daffodil there is a trumpet that can be yellow or orange in colour.Inside the trumpet there are six stamen and on the top of the stamen is the pollen.The wind blows the pollen on to the stigma which is very sticky.

by Joyce

The Pollination of the Daffodil

If you open up the trumpet you can see ths six stamen and in the middle you can see a long spike called the stigma.The top of the stigma is sticky. To start the pollination of a daffodil you need a flower. The pollen is on the stamen of the daffodil. When the wind starts to blow the pollen on the stamen blows onto the stigma. The stamen of the daffodil is the female and the stigma on the daffodil is the male. the pollen in any flower is always yellow. Once the pollen has landed on the stigma it travels to the carpel and that is where the seeds begin to grow.

You can grow daffodils from this seed but it would take you several years.

Here are two activities that will help you learn more about the parts of a flower.

If you would like to take a flower apart and put the pieces into the correct box.  Click here and then click on the word label to label all the parts of a flower.








Diagram by Sophie

Art work by
Warren, Seán, Joyce, Sophie,Jonathan, Killian, Jamie and Ryan.

Reading Snapshot

In our class we're trying to develop a culture of reading.The students are encouraged to read for pleasure and to develop the habit of independent reading.

We made a video to share with others the books that we're reading at the moment and the most popular books in our class today.

Thick as Thieves

by Killian
 Thick as Thieves is the name of our eTwinning project in which we collaborate online with students from four other countries in the EU.Greece, France, Spain and Finland. We posted a class photo on the site and sent then descriptions about ourselves. They had to match our pictures to the information. It was difficult for them as we are the only school wearing a uniform. This short movie has images of the day we Skyped one of the participant classes in Limnos Island, Greece.



This is a Scratch quiz that we made for our eTwinning partners. Can you complete the quiz in less than sixty seconds? It is important to spell the capitals correctly although you will not be penalised if you forget to start you answers without a capital letter. If you get the quiz finished in less than one minute why not send us a comment on how long it took you to finish.

Mystery Skype

One of the most exciting activities that we participated in this term has been Mystery Skype. Using it we have travelled virtually to Maine USA, Moscow and Stockholm without leaving our classroom and all thanks to Skype.

It is a engaging way to bring geography to life and teach map skills. 

It provides many opportunities for  some incidental learning as students  use clues, to search maps, atlases and online in an effort to find the location of the other school.

It provides a wonderful opportunity to integrate technology into a geography lesson

It also provides an opportunity for the students to practice   their listening and speaking skills as they must communicate effectively for the activity to proceed.

In the process the students become aware of different time zones.

Get an opportunity to practice problem solving.

Prior to the session the students have to brainstorm in an effort to provide logical questions to ask. Students need to practice asking with yes and no questions.
 They also need to become familiar with the location of countries and how they relate to each other.Everyone is assigned a role although in the excitement of the process some students can be easily distracted and not complete their task.

It provides an opportunity for the students to improve their Internet search skills.
In order that the session is successful it is important that the students remain fairly quiet and sometimes it can be difficult to hear the other participants.
Student mus also be willing to take their inddividual task seriously as each student's role is important to the chances of solving the mystery location.

Skype provides the opportunity for students to make global connections and to actually converse with students who actually live in another part of the world.

One problem with Skype is that when the call starts the name and location of the caller is displayed. It is important to be aware of this otherwise alert  students will have solved the location before you start.