STEM

STEM Fair February 2025 

Our school hosted a STEM Fair in February 2025 in St. Patrick’s building. This was a spectacular showcase of innovation, creativity and learning in STEM. It was a great success with a huge turnout. We had STEM displays, hands-on activities and interactive displays in all classrooms. Students from 2nd and 3rd classes demonstrated Scratch coding. 4th class students displayed their work on electricity, visitors got the opportunity to make circuits and switches. Another room showcased what the students have learned about their lungs and people got to test their reaction times. 5th classes had fantastic displays of LEGO Spike projects, which they described and demonstrated for all of the visitors. In another room students demonstrated how Bee-Bots are used by the Infant classes to begin to learn about coding. The parents loved getting hands on with these robots. Everyone was extremely impressed by the 6th classes’ Tinkercad designs and the 3D printing. Forest school showed off their fabulous natural creations, visitors even got to paint a shell on the night. It was rounded off with a slideshow and a cup of tea for all in the hall. This was a culmination of a lot of hard work by staff and students. A very big thank you to all involved. It was so much fun! 

Digital Learning & Peer Coding September 2025 

New Bee-Bots Buzzing into Action!

We are delighted to welcome five brand new Bee-Bots to our school! These exciting little robots will be helping to build early coding and problem-solving skills in our Senior Infant and Junior Infant classes.

A big thank you to our wonderful Student STEM Team composed of students from 3rd to 6th classes, who will be leading the way with peer teaching.

The STEM Team will also be working with our 1st and 2nd classes, introducing them to coding using Scratch Junior,

We're so proud of the teamwork and leadership shown by our older pupils 

Science Week 2025 

Our school celebrated Science Week in November with a range of exciting and engaging activities. Classes took part in online Zoom sessions with Juan Miró from ESERO and Chris from @MakerMeet, learning about science, engineering and innovation in fun and meaningful ways. 

We were also delighted to welcome members of our school community who gave generously of their time to visit classes. A big thank you to Architect Adrian King, Physicist Amy Maguire, and Biopharmacist Abdul Waheed for sharing their expertise and inspiring our pupils.

Congratulations to Ms Keegan’s 5th Class, who won the Build the Tallest Tower Challenge and earned a well-deserved party for their class!

It was a fantastic week of learning, curiosity and creativity. 

First LEGO League Projects Showcase December 2025 

Ms. Keegan’s and Ms. Walsh’s 5th classes investigating, designing and coding First Lego League projects. The children were challenged to investigate a real-world theme and build and code a model, using Lego, for their chosen themes.

On December 5th parents were invited to a showcase of the presentations. Each team spoke brilliantly about the core values of Lego League and their favourite part of the whole process. They also demonstrated their coded and moveable parts.

Congratulations to both classes!  

Our STEM awards

What we mean by STEM Education

STEM Education is multi-faceted and goes well beyond the main disciplines that constitute the acronym STEM. The foundations for STEM education begin in early childhood. From the earliest years through their play experiences and family environment, children engage with the world in ways that can promote learning related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Young children naturally engage in early STEM exploration through hands-on multisensory and creative experiences. By engaging in these experiences, young children are developing curiosity, inquisitiveness, critical-thinking and problem-solving capacities which are built on through their primary and post-primary school experience.

STEM education not only involves the teaching of these disciplines and subjects in isolation but also involves a cross-disciplinary approach. It builds on the content knowledge and understanding developed in and across the four disciplines, while acknowledging that all STEM learning activities are underpinned by Mathematics. It also recognises the strong linkage between STEM and Arts education which fosters design, creativity and innovation.