Talbot Senior National School

Our class visited Xilinx on Tuesday the 25th of November to take part in the Dragons Den. As you can see, they all really enjoyed it.

We have been learning all about the French Revolution recently.

Look at some of our projects we made. We presented our work to Ms Ní Fhlartha’s class recently.

Each group made their own projects.

The American Revolution encouraged the working classes to rebel against the Aristocracy!

Check out King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette’s plush pad below – The Palace of Versailles!

The motto of the French revolution was -Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité!

Do they all have new ones?

We—Mr Molloy’s 5^th class—collected data
on the 6^th October 2014 to find out!

This is what we found out…

• The cars were from 2000 to 2014.
• There were 55 staff cars in all (including workers building the new classroom, and including staff of Nano Nagle school right beside us).
• 11 of them (11/55 or 20%) were 5 years old or newer… which means that 80% were over 5 years old! We think this might be because people can’t afford to buy new cars.
• There’s more older than newer cars. In fact there were 18 cars over 10 years old—that’s 18 out of 55, or 18/55, which is 33%–that’s like 1 in 3.
• There were 5 cars from 2005, 5 from 2006, 9 from 2007, 4 from 2008, 6 from 2009, 6 from 2010, 1 from 2011, 1 from 2012, 2 from 2013, and 1 from 2014.
• 2007 was the year with the most cars bought.
• Half the cars were bought in 2007 or before, half in 2007 or after.
• Only 1 car was bought this year (so far).
• We expected to see more than one jeep in the carpark but there was only one.

Have a look at the photo to see the detail.

Next year we think it would be good to collect just the data for Scoil Talbot’s staff. We’ll be in 6^th class so we might do it—we’d like to. #Excited!

Written by Daniel Olokun, Daragh Fleming, Samantha O’Donnell, and Grace Adenola

Three years ago, another class did the same thing. Click HERE to see what they found out. What was similar (like) and what was different? 

We have started knitting in 3rd class. We are off to a flying start. WE are loving every minute of it! A HUGE thanks to Nana Rooney (Orla’s mammy)  for making us our knitting bags.

In Ms Walsh’s 3rd class we planted tulip bulbs. We have planted tulips and daffodils in some other classes.

 A few photo’s of our class looking scarier than usual!

As part of a Speaking and Listening Lesson in Mr O’Donnell’s class, we tried a conversation web. It was very interesting to see how complex a conversation can get. Our conversation topic was “Mid-term Break”. Our conversation had as many criss-cross strings as a spider’s web.

Congratulations to the winners of Talbot’s Healthly Lifestyle Poster Competition; Magdalena, Rebecca, Aaliyah, Lily Mae, Corey, Jade, Deborah, Thomas, Victoria, Violetta, Ryan, Chelsie and Kayleigh.

Congrats to all who have been elected to the new Student Council!

We are having a meeting today at lunch time 12:30!

In Miss Walsh’s room.