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Even though we could not attend the Credit Union Quiz in it’s traditional format this year we still had great fun by joining in via the internet. There was an online quiz for individuals to try to reach top of the leader board and on Friday 14th of May we had a class quiz by tuning into Fergal D’Arcy as he acted as quizmaster. We would like to say a huge thank you to our local branch, The Rosses Credit Union, for the wonderful goodie bags they sent us for taking part. Go raibh míle maith agaibh.

Amber was busy at work planting some seeds this week. She planted basil and cress. We can’t wait to see how the seeds grow. If we are lucky we might get to use some of them before the summer holidays. Watch this space!

We have added lots of new pictures to our Virtual Art Exhibition. The school is looking really bright and colourful.

Our body needs food to provide it with energy, vitamins, and minerals. However, in order use food, we must first break it down into substances that the various organs and cells in our body can use. This is the job of our digestive system. The digestive system acts in stages to digest our food and the students in the senior room have been learning about these different stages. Here are the fantastic posters that they have produced to illustrate what happens to the food that we eat.

More photographs in our gallery page.

Well done to our hardworking winners. Congratulations and keep it up.

What a lovely day we had to celebrate the start of our Easter holidays. The rain stayed away long enough to let us enjoy a day in the fresh air. The day began with an Easter Quiz Quest, a walk around our locality looking for Easter Bunnies and gathering as much information on the way, then back to the school for a quiz on what we had found. It was a tough competition which took a maths tie breaker to separate the teams in the end.

Then we had our annual egg hunt in the school yard which was finished just in time to welcome two very special visitors to the school yard with a lovely delivery of Easter eggs from our Parents Association.

Well done to our students of the month for March – there must be something in the air in Lochan Dubh!

Follow our cheeky leprechauns over to our Virtual Art Gallery to see the all the lovely art celebrating spring.

The children in the senior room rounded off their 9 weeks of home-schooling by exploring wind energy as part of Engineers week. As well as learning how it is generated and distributed they also designed and made their own windmills and visited some of the Windfarms in our local area.

The children in the Junior Room were also busy learning about Engineering and architecture this week. They worked with different types of blocks and bricks to produce some very interesting structures including houses, bridges, vehicles and animals.

See our gallery page for more photographs from Engineers Week.