St. Oliver's Primary School

The RDS Primary Science Fair provides an opportunity for primary school students to think about science in practical, fun ways. The emphasis is to encourage a positive learning experience for each class and to inspire students to see science as exciting, challenging and fun. Pupils from 6th class St. Oliver’s N.S. Carlingford participated in this year’s RDS Primary Science Fair. Their project, “Practical Science Experiments”, was on display in the RDS on Saturday 14th of January. The class worked on four science experiments and they impressed the judge with their research and their knowledge and interest.
Their investigation into the volume of MP3 players belonging to fellow pupils was of particular interest; they found that, on average, most pupils listen to their MP3 players at a level equal to 95 decibels; anything over 85 decibels is considered dangerous to our hearing. They also investigated the insulating properties of several different materials (tin foil, bubble wrap, newspaper and a cotton sock) and another temperature related experiment on keeping warm during cold weather. Their final experiment investigated different methods of emptying liquids from bottles to find out which method was the fastest.
The judge commented on the clarity and quality of the display of their work and also on how well they engaged with the public visitors to their stand in the RDS.

Congratulations to one of our pupils who won second place in the recent Credit Union (Chapter 5) competition.

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We hope to stream our Christmas Concerts “Live” from the school.
Here is the URL - www.livestream.com
And hopefully here is the link to embed the player information!

Unfortunately the Livestream didn’t work out too well. Our broadband was fast enough to cope with the resolution of our DV camera. We ended up using a €19.99 web camera so that we could show something! Fortunately Plan B was in place and we recorded all of the performances. These will be posted as soon as possible.

Here are our prize winners from the recent Louth County Council competition.
1st Prize best Santa Sleigh
1st Prize best Baubles
2nd Prize best Lantern

Our Prize Winners

Drogheda ABACAS School for Children with Autism and Louth Autism Support are holding two training courses.
Sat 19th November – Challenging Behaviour – How to Help
Tue 22nd Novmber – Nutrition and the Special Needs Child
Venue Drogheda ABACAS School, Mallard House, Fair St, Drogheda
Cost €50 (inc light lunch)
To book please contact Jacinta Walsh 0872407431

Here is our Autumn Newsletter which you can read online..
If you would like to download the newsletter to your local PC, here is the link.
Happy Halloween to all.