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On Friday the 3rd of March our school held an Action Day! Everyone wore blue to represent water and some even painted their faces! We held a assembly in our hall and 3 students out of Ms. Dawson’s 6th class explained all about our Green Schools Project , all the work we have done and demonstrated how to make an enviromently friendly window cleaner which we named Enviro Window! A couple of the classes sang songs about saving water , everyone listened carefully and were soon singing along! Then after lunch our class brought the the younger classes out one by one to play a fun jigsaw relay , we all had great fun! To explain to the jnr infants all about The Water Cycle certain students went down to the junior block to read them stories about the enviroment and The Water Cycle ! They enjoyed listening to the stories and answered lots of questions at the end! We organised this Action Day to promote saving water and also to try to get our Green Flag ! I hope we could have more days like this !!!!!!!!!!!!  Don’t forget to SAVE WATER DONT WASTE WATER!!!!!!!!

By Colleen Clarke and Yazmine O’ Neill

In this blog post we will briefly tell you about some more experiments we conducted to find out who robbed the school office on February the 11th.  At the crime scene a note was found. We had to try and identify the ink to see if we could find out who might have owned the pen. We did this by conducting a ‘chromatography’ experiment where we tested different inks using water to see which matched the one used to write the note. It was Mr Top’s pen, but the problem was that it was also his office and someone else could’ve used his pen. We had a lot of arguments and discussions, but we decided we needed more proof!

A fingerprint was found on the cabinet door and the shelf. To try to identify the fingerprint, this is what we did…Using sellotape and magnifying glasses as well as pencils and ink pads we took fingerprints off the cabinet door and the shelf. We examined them closely and this time, it began to look like either Mr Top and Mr Lock could have robbed the office. BUT again, both of them have keys so we still did not have enough proof that one of them was the thief….so we decided we had to interview the suspects… They all had reasonable answers but we were most suspicious of Mr Top because he tried to blame Mrs Baker..

In the end, we couldn’t decide who the actual thief was, but we had great fun doing all the investigations, especially the day a photographer from The Echo came into the class.. You won’t believe it but he used to take photographs at crime scenes for the Gardaí and he told us all about the way he did that! Next week we are testing our DNA…

By Courtney & Catherine (6th Class, Ms McMorrough)

We are taking part in a Fibonacci Science project with ten other schools in Ireland and St.Patrick’s college, Drumcondra.

We are doing many experiments testing for different things and looking at the nature of Science.

Last night there was a ”robbery” in our school!!! Our task as scientists is to discover who the culprit is…..

Our first forensic experiment involved us examining powders found at the crime scene. There were a number of powders found, but one of  them was a mystery powder and we had to try to figure what it was. We used a fair test with water; another one with vineger; another by smelling the powder and one test using touch. After some time, we discovered that the mystery powder was two of the identified powders mixed together. To check this theory, we had to create and conduct a new experiment. Now we have an idea who the culprit is…. but we need to conduct more experiments to make sure, so join us in Part 2 for an update…

6th Class (Ms McMorrough) ; Post created by Amy, Chloe & Louise

On the 26th of January, the Sam Maguire cup came to our school, St. Martin De Porres. Two well known Dublin players, all star winner, Michael Darragh McAuley and Eamon Fennal also came in. There was a huge cheer as they walked into the school hall waving Sam above their heads. Each of our school G.A.A teams were waiting in our jerseys to welcome them and each team got their picture taken with the two players and Sam. The two players spoke about how it is important to play for your local G.A.A club. After the players spoke Mr.de Róiste’s 1st class sang a song called ”The Sam Is Coming Home.” after all the classes went back, our principal Mr. Sweeney, our Principal brought Sam around to every class and we got pictures taken. It was a great day for our school and a great achievement for our county.

By Darragh Gilson and Karl Brennan ( 6th Class, Ms Dawson)