Last week was science week and we enjoyed a week full of predicting, observing, investigating, collecting data, presenting, drawing and labelling diagrams, etc. The children worked really hard during the week to prepare their experiments. Our 1st class worked on volcanoes during the week which eventually erupted on Friday. Videos of the children doing their experiments were also shared with the classes where others preferred to carry out their experiments with a live audience of their classmates on Friday. We also had a special visitor who donated some microscopes to the school. 6th class and 1st class got a lesson on identifying the parts of the microscope as well as using it. They then tutored their peers in other classes on how to use and identify the parts of a microphone. Our Junior Infants were busy all week learning about light, the colour spectrum and shadows. They experimented with making colours, watching how light travelled and making shadows!