For the last few weeks the Rutland Street engineers have been designing, building and modifying roller coasters!
“We all learnt about force!! The marble needs speed to complete the loop successfully… and the best way to build up this force??? Gain some height!!”
-Temuulen
Check out our inventions on the second floor!!!
The Blue Team with the RDS Judges (It’s Evelyn Cusack from RTE’s meteorologist/weather team!)
Fourth class are super scientists! This week, after months of investigations, experiments and hard work they presented their project at the RDS Young Scientist Exhibition!
They were grilled by the judges for nearly 20 minutes (eek!), interviewed by RTE and National Newspapers, but it was all worth it… because… they came home with an AWARD!
"...Excellent project, outstanding drawings, incredible models... one of the most talented hardest working groups of young scientists we've seen today..." -Evelyn Cusack, RDS Judge.
Mary Mary Quite Contrary How Does Our Inner City Sheltered Garden Grow?
Brief: “Ms HH was always giving out about how long it took myself and Frankie to water the garden, so we decided to see if we could figure out a way to make the garden do the work, and water itself, and after a few months and LOTS of hard work we did” -Brooklyn
Watch this space for more info from the scientists themselves! For now, see if you can spot any familiar faces on Thursday’s news2day!
http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/news2day-30001385/10673176/
(Spoiler Alert! There are 9 of the team spotted throughout the segment -can you spot them all?)
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This week fourth class made their own Christmas dinner!
Everyone worked their Santa socks off peeling, cutting, cooking, dicing chopping, draining, melting, mixing, whisking and presenting their food. We were all delighted to sit down together to enjoy a three course Christmas dinner after a hard days work!!
Frankie (C), Jadine (V.C.), Lexi, Sienna
Caprese Salad
Fresh Basil and pepper sprinkled over Mozzarella and vine tomatoes
Garlic Bread
Home made garlic butter bread
Bruschetta
Diced vine tomatoes tossed in oil and Basil
Alex, Anand (V.C), Joesef, Richard (C), Mateusz,
Turkey & Ham
Brussels Sprouts
Tossed in butter and served with crunchy lardons and almonds
Broccoli Slaw
Torn broccoli, raisin, shallot and a biter sweet balsamic dressing
Crushed Roast Potatoes with Spring Onions and Gouda Cheese
Potatoes, lardons, pickles, spring onions, tossed in melted gouda cheese
Abbie (C), Ali Hickey, Ali Sammy Dora (V.C.)
Abbies Chocolate Chip Cookies 
Secret family recipe
Dora & Ali’s Christmas Sponge Cake
Secret recipe
This month we decided to form our own Book Club! On Tuesday afternoons we cluster into small groups around the library and excitedly discuss the books we’re reading. Every group picks their own books. Sometimes we take it in turns and sometimes we take a vote!
We make predictions, defend our opinions and share our favourite parts! We love to read! We read a few pages for homework, during D.E.A.R. time and sometimes we sneak a few pages when we have finished our lessons (and checked our work of course).
Every week or so we write or record our reviews, rate the books and even recommend them to our families and friends (if we give them a top review!).
This week we are reading:
Dirty Bertie, by David Roberts
Goosebumps: Curse of Mummy’s Tomb by R.L. Stine
Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Out of Nowhere, by Gerard Whelan
Who’s a Big Bully Then? by Michael Morpurgo
Check our our reading gallery!
Abbie, Anand, Josef and, Mateusz are reading the Goosebumps series!
Alex and Richard are getting stuck into Dirty Bertie!!
Brooklyn found a great reading nook in the library!
Alicia and Brooke are on adventure with Lucy & Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia.
Ali reads the first chapter of Michael Morpurgo’s “Who’s a Big Bully Then?” to Fegor and Makela. The author was highly recommended by Sienna who has just finished his book entitled “An Eagle in the Snow”.
On Thursdays, our class give our hard working teachers Ms Harte Hayes and Ms McAndrew a break and we become the teachers!!!
During the week we highlight questions we can’t quite work out in mental maths and on Thursdays we break up into small groups and teach each other!
“Mateusz and Anand explained the rolling the dice question differently and helped me to understand it. Its still a bit confusing but they are going to check in with me during the week and so we all have it mastered for next week!” -Lexi
“I helped Jadine to master the perimeter question, we have a saying perimeter is all the way around the pitch, and now she knows it too, we all enjoy helping each other” -Brooke
“Its fun to help others, at first it was hard to explain how I understand how to do it, but with a bit of practice it became easier, and now I really enjoy it!” Abbie
“I like explaining things, and helping others, and working with my friends. I always feel great when I help others to understand” -Temuulen
“Is maths over? No way. Wait, can I have 1 more minute, I almost have it! Yes I got it!!” -Brooklyn
Alisha delighted she has now mastered another Mental Maths question with Teacher Richard
Brooke explaining the perimeter saying
Teacher Abbie and Sabrina working together
Alicia and Dora teaching each other some maths tricks
Teaching the “Dice question”
Teacher Richard & Alisha
This year we have a Science Club at Rutland!! The club, made up of students from 2nd-4th class meets once a week for an hour of hands-on science activities!
For the first half of term we are investigating space science!!!
We all adopted a planet, discovered some incredibly interesting facts and together made a solar system!!!
We also looked at gravity and air resistance with Felix Baumgartner & Brian Cox (on YouTube) . We were inspired to design our very own parachutes!!! Material choice, shape and surface area were important elements of our design process!
We tested our parachutes on the stairs 🙂
We also made rockets to launch ourselves into space, and will post these
This month we have been working really hard on our Irish reading strategies. We learnt this clever poem to help us remember some tricky Irish words hidden in na ceisteanna!
Click to listen! Éist anois!
Click for the words: na_ceisteanna-pdf
This week our class took on the “Cup Stack Challenge”. We had to make a pyramid out of 6 plastic cups (3 on the bottom, 2 in the middle, 1 on the top). Easy right? Well, in this challenge we couldn’t touch or move the cups with our hands, even if a cup fell over onto the floor!!
Instead, each person held onto one of the strings that were attached to a rubber band around the base of a cup. We worked together, pulling the rubber band apart and then bringing them back together over the cups. It was all about patience and team work!
It was lots of fun, and after we mastered our technique, we raced each other with different groups winning each time!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Jonathan | Layla |
| Senior Infants | Eva | Kacper |
| 1st Class | Tymon | Narcis |
| 2nd Class | Ermun | Sean |
| 3rd Class | Temuulen
Alex |
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| 4th Class | Katelyn
Kai |
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| 5th Class | Shannon
Grace |
Calvin |
| 6th Class | Quessia
Christian |
Winners of Marbles in the Jar for this week are 4th Class with 15marbles!!
There were 84 students in the school with Full Stamps this week and 27 Senior Students with Full Credits.
Well Done!!
| Class | Pupil Of The Week | Most Improved |
| Junior Infants | Evan | May |
| Senior Infants | Martin | Isabelle |
| 1st Class | Ricky
Hugo |
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| 2nd Class | Leah
Tengis |
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| 3rd Class | Alicia H | Anand |
| 4th Class | Calum | Abbie |
| 5th Class | Alex | Lennon
Clinton |
| 6th Class |
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