by Grace | May 23, 2023 | Initiatives & Programmes, News, Science, STEM
Huge congratulations to all of the St Mary’s school community, our school has achieved an SFI Curious Minds Award and have met the criteria for the PLATINUM AWARD! Our school has provided evidence of children’s engagement with STEM in the following areas:...
by Grace | May 11, 2023 | Community, News, STEM
Merck visited St. Mary’s on Tuesday 9th May and turned part of our school into a science laboratory. The Third and Fourth Class groups investigated DNA and got to do some really cool experiments. Our pupils really looked the part too in their lab coats, gloves...
by Grace | Feb 22, 2023 | Community, Green Schools, News, Picker Pals, Science, STEM, Sustainability
Second Class in St Mary’s are busy keeping Cobh clean as the partake in the Picker Pals initiative. The world faces a global crisis of waste in the environment. Every part of the natural world is affected. Neighbourhoods and beauty spots are despoiled. There’s...
by Grace | Jan 30, 2023 | STEM
Bricks 4 Kidz comes to St Mary’s NS to deliver LEGO® Technic workshops. These workshops teach the principles of science, technology, engineering and maths through LEGO®. A Bricks 4 Kidz workshop uses LEGO® that kids love, to deliver hands-on lessons correlated...
by Grace | Oct 14, 2022 | Community, Computers, Internet Safety, News, Parents, STEM, Sustainability
We would like to say a big “Thank You” to Michelle McDowall, Solarwinds for their very generous donation of 10 refurbished laptops to the school as part of their sustainability and commitment to the community initiative. Michelle is also a member of our...
by Grace | May 30, 2022 | News, Science, STEM
We were delighted to host the Merck Curiosity Cube in our school on Monday 30th May. Merck have very kindly donated a whopping €1,000.00 to our school to fund STEM activities at St. Mary’s N.S. We feel very lucky and are very appreciative of this generous donation. ...