At All Saints’ we have invested heavily in developing our Digital Technologies  .

Each classroom has an Interactive Whiteboard .We have a fabulous  computer classroom equipped with  30 PCs. We have  invested in increasing our quantity of tablets ,purchased several sets of Bee Bots and Lego We Do sets.

Middle and Senior Classes have been engaged in developing their coding skills ,all of which further develops their analytical and problem solving skills.

Junior classes use the tablets to reinforce their literacy and numeracy learning.

 

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Bee Bots Activities in Senior Infants and First Class

Pupils in Senior Infants and First class enjoyed using the Beebots to explore their navigational skills as they directed their bee bots around the maze and the classroom!

The children made their way around each station in the classroom and collaborated very well together. Some pupils used the bee bots to consolidate their literacy skills as their directed their bee bots to the correct words or spellings, others used the bots to test their knowledge of shapes. 

Tinkercad 3D Challenge in 3rd and 4th class

This year the pupils in 3^rd and 4^th class took part in the  3D Printing Challenge in partnership with the Enterprise FabLab @ Creative Spark. 

The theme of the challenge was

Harness energy from the motion in your community.

During this challenge, students were  encouraged to think about how they can use the “everyday motion” in their community to create electricity.

 Once they  thought of a few examples, they  started working on “something” that can use that motion to create electricity.

They designed and created rapid prototypes .

To introduce them to the world of Tinkercad they spent several weeks exploring the different tutorials.With this knowledge they were then able to design their models using the Tinkercad platform.

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These designs were then forwarded to Creative Spark in Dundalk . On Wednesday March 2^nd Oscar from Creative Spark brought out a 3D printer to demonstrate to the pupils the 3D printing process.

There was an obvious excitement in the class when the pupils saw their printed models.

Three designs were chosen and entered for this year’s competition.

The E-Shoe has an inbuilt turbine which along with water will continuously generate electricity and will in turn heat  shoes and have additional energy to charge small devices.

The E-Rucksack has solar panels attached which when exposed to the outdoors when cycling or walking to school/college will also create energy and charge  other small devices.

Finally the E-Bike also has its own generator which harnesses energy while pedalling  it. It is then able to  charge its own torch.

Wondeful news!

On March 24^th we received wonderful news that we had won the Tinkercad challenge and the prize was a visit to the Irish Manufacturing Research Lab in Mullingar on May 5^th.

The class cannot wait to visit the Lab.There they will be shown demonstrations in the robotics  and AR/VR labs.They will also complete in an engineering workshop .

Congratualtions to 3^rd and 4^th class .

Photos of our visit will be put up at a later date.