St. Leonard's National School, Dunnamaggin

2nd and 3rd class were investigating bridges and designed the strongest bridge they could with an A4 sheet of paper. They folded a sheet...

What a day in 2nd & 3rd Class. World Book Day 2025. As a school we did one Book throughout the classes; After The Fall by Dan Santat. We...

2nd and 3rd class were practicing their engineering skills with the Lego Education Boxes on lian from Kilkenny Education Centre. They...

2nd and 3rd class used the ipads to revise fractions and Time in maths by completing a QR Code Scavenger Hint around the school.

3rd class have been developing their engineering skills and with the guidance of the STEPS Engineering project, they came up with an idea...

2nd and 3rd class to part in the Curious Minds Science Week webinar on Monday.

🥳🥳🎉🧪🔭🔍👩‍🔬🎉🎉 Congratulations to everyone at Scoil San Lionard! You have been awarded the SFI Curious Minds Platinum Award 2024...

2nd & 3rd class combined their procedural writing and STEM as they planned, discussed, investigated, designed and tested traps to catch a...

We love Ipad time. This month we are doing Epic. Mrs Langton assigns books; some we read ourselves, some are audio and others read to us...

We had great fun exploring the different properties of 3D shapes today. Lots of great team work and maths talk from this brilliant bunch...

We observed the reaction of dancing raisins in 7Up. The raisins first sank because they are dense, however the carbon dioxide bubbles in...

Well done to all our pupils from 3rd to 6th class who participated enthusiastically in our Science Week Quiz. A special congratulations...

The younger classes loved trying out our marble runs!

We explored kinetic energy / energy in motion this week by making our very own marble runs from recyclable materials. We observed how the...

2nd & 3rd class enjoyed a wonderful Science Show exploring bubbles; their properties, shapes and investigating lots of experiments on...

We investigated the chemical reaction that occurs when vinegar (acid) and an egg shell (calcium carbonate) mix. Not only did the egg...

3rd and 4th class were busy investigating which solids dissolve in water to make a solution. We also investigated whether the heat of...

We had loads of fun making chocolate apples at Halloween.