Ms Colum’s 2nd Year Science
Second year students investigating whether household substances are Acids or Bases in Ms Colums science class.
Category Science
TY Science Exhibition for Primary School
This week, TY students have organised a science exhibition for pupils at Scoil Clann Naofa, Ballinamore and The Hunt School, Mohill. This is a great opportunity for our TY students to demonstrate their skills in Science, while hopefully inspiring the…
Science Week 2018
Lots of fun was had celebrating science week with experiments including: instant worms, mental mentos, exploding canisters and magic messages magic messages from Ballinamore Community School on Vimeo.
Pumpkin Project
Ms Colum’s science classes began by examining the pumpkin (from investigating measurement, weight & circumference, counting number of seeds, looking at plant cells, genetics through variation of pumpkins) and then developing their artistic/craft skills they designed and carved out their…
Science Week 2017
To celebrate Science Week, which ran from the 12th – 19th of November, a number of activities took place to engage pupils and invoke curiosity into the science behind certain phenomena. The nation-wide theme was to #stopandask and this is…
Grow It Yourself
Lots of activity in the polytunnel at the moment. Ms Colum’s Science and Ms Stenson’s CSPE classes have been busy planting and once the lettuce grew the Home Economics classes used them during cookery. Check out our progress…..
Self Help Africa Workshops 2017
Thank you to Hugh Bergin from Self Help Africa who visited our school during the year to give a series of workshops to 1st, 2nd and TY students. The workshops explored issues such as gender inequality in our world, climate…
TY Science Trip
As part of their Science Trip to Dublin, TYs visited the Guinness storehouse to gain further knowledge about the brewing process and fermentation. They also went to the Science Gallery, where they attended a workshop which involved them making their…
Leaving Cert Ecology Field Study
Our Leaving Cert students recently traveled to Dublin Zoo to carry out their ecology field study in Phoenix Park. The weather stayed fine, and the students had a very informative day collecting and identifying plant and animal specimens and investigating…
First Year Science Class Visit Recycling Bank
As part of the science and society course first year students in Ms. Colum’s science class went to the recycling bank in Ballinamore where they recycled clear glass, brown glass, green glass, drinks cans and clothes.