Horseleap N.S.

What a wonderful school we had on Tuesday, 16th June. Our first stop was the Derryglad Folk and Heritage Museum just outside Athlone. Thank you to Charlie and Bridie for showing us all the artefacts in the museum. Next, we headed to Hodson Bay where we boarded Viking Mike's boat and took a trip as far as Athlone Castle. Our final destination was Planet Play Centre where everyone had lots of fun!

Egg Toss Challenge Sports Day at Horseleap N.S. took place on Monday, 15th June. Pupils participated in a range of races including the sack race, egg and spoon race, skipping race, shoe mix up race and ladder race. The highlight was our annual egg toss! Potato Picking Race!

Congratulations to the Senior Room pupils who travelled to TUS, Athlone on 11th June to showcase their BRICS projects. The pupils have engaged with the Lego BRICS programme over the past year in conjunction with Athlone Education Centre and Oide. They learned how to use Lego to make and programme robots. For the showcase day, they were tasked with designing and creating a robot to solve a real-world problem. Horseleap N.S. had three robots to display: 'The Big Beak Blocker' which was a robot designed to help smaller birds access food and keep larger birds away! 'BRICS Basket' was an automated delivery service controlled by an app which delivered shopping. 'Aqua, the plant waterer' watered your plants when the sensor noticed that the weather was dry! The pupils had a very enjoyable day, presenting their projects and visiting the other displays. Well done to all these scientists and creators of the future! Aqua, the plant waterer The Big Beak Blocker! BRICS Basket - an app to get your shopping delivered!

As part of S.E.S.E., we designed our own parachutes out of various materials. We brought them outside to the playground and dropped them to see what would happen in the wind.

Thank you to Kevin and Christy for coming to our school and guiding us on fire safety.

The Swifts have returned to our attic and we hear their distinctive, high-pitched screams as they rapidly dip and dive in the sky.

We received the Green Schools Flag for Global Citizenship - Energy Many congratulations to the Green Schools Committee and all the pupils for their hard work and dedication in achieving this flag! The Committee travelled to Athlone ceremony, where the pupils were presented with the flag. Throughout the month of May, 12 ceremonies in 7 locations around the country awarded 667 schools with their flags! Our school was one of 58 who received the Green Schools Flag for Global Citizenship - Energy theme in Ireland.

It's been a while since one of these were spotted in Horseleap...

Thank you to Annmarie (Kilbeggan Library) for coming to visit the Junior Room. We loved having Clover the Cat too!!! Can you spy Clover in the photo?

Such a beautiful creative piece by one of our Fifth class pupils.