Feb
28
Filed Under (geography, Uncategorized) by smaher on 28-02-2011
Jan
13
Filed Under (News, Uncategorized) by smaher on 13-01-2011

Today a lady from ‘The Irish Catholic’ came to see us. She is doing an article on the parish and wanted to hear all about our iPods!

Nov
16
Filed Under (News, Uncategorized) by smaher on 16-11-2010 and tagged ,

We had visitors to our class from RTÉ today. They videoed in both Ms Maher and Mr Gallagher’s class.

Nov
16
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by smaher on 16-11-2010 and tagged

Have a look at the article that appeared in the Irish Independent about our use of iPod touches in the school. The word is spreading!

Click here to go to the article.

The Independent also wrote their editorial about us – click here to read.

And another article from today’s Irish Examiner here.

Fourth-class pupils of St Aidan's Primary School, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, show off their iPod Touch devices  A student of St Aidan's Primary School with her iPod Touch

Oct
13
Filed Under (geography) by smaher on 13-10-2010 and tagged , ,

We have been working hard on our county. We used our iPods to research information about it such as the main towns and rivers. We put all our information together.

Jun
09
Filed Under (history) by smaher on 09-06-2010 and tagged , ,

Today we are continuing our work on the Normans.  We read a passage that mentioned Strongbow and we decided to learn more about him. First we spent time brainstorming the qustions that we wanted to find out about him. 

 

 

 

Once we had come up with all our questions we set about finding the answers using our iPod touch.

Jun
02
Filed Under (countries, geography) by smaher on 02-06-2010 and tagged , ,

Today we had visitors from 2nd class.  They were looking for information about their country for multicultural week. We showed them how to find their information. Once they had completed their work we let them explore our apps. They really enjoyed it and we really enjoyed showing them.

May
25
Filed Under (history) by smaher on 25-05-2010 and tagged , , ,

We are beginning to learn about the Normans.  We used our iPod touches today to find out about the different castles built by the Normans in Ireland.  

May
25
Filed Under (countries, geography) by smaher on 25-05-2010 and tagged ,

Our class is working on a project on Kenya for our multicultural week.  We are using our iPod touches to find out interesting facts today and to draw the flag.

May
06
Filed Under (Science, visual arts) by smaher on 06-05-2010 and tagged , , , ,

We used our iPod touches to find images of butterflies for art.