We've reached the end of a whirlwind half term! This week's excitements included making a campfire with the wood we had collected in previous weeks, making bagels with Miles and Gráinne, opening our playtime adventure garden and completing some more projects in woodwork club. Have a look in our cla…
We had a great time at the Hockey competition yesterday. Despite being a small school we managed to field three teams, one of which made it through to the all Island finals. Jeant dy mie dagh ooilley phiagh, ren shiu ooilley prowal dy creoi. Aigh vie skimmee Tendreil!
In maths this week, we are back with money, which some children find very tricky! Can you check whether your child can tell you the total of a group of coins? Can they work out how much change is due for an item under 10p 20p, 50p £1 by counting up? Our work on changes will focus of flour, water, h…
This week in Brastyl 2 we have been honing our investigative skills in science with a range of experiments finding out about freezing and melting water. We have been thinking about why we only change one variable to make the test fair and how we are going to collect evidence to answer our questions…
Our new clubs got off to a good start on Friday afternoon. For sport, Bnr O'Meara is training up two teams for forthcoming Netball tournaments. Bnr Mc Verry is running a very popular electric model club, for which we have had to start a waiting list. There will be a small charge for materials for p…
This term we are starting of with a mini topic on forces. Last week we explored the effects of gravity and came up with our own experiments to see if the size and weight of an object would change the speed of its fall. This week we have looked at friction. We tested out different surfaces to see wh…
First of all, I hope everybody has had a lovely break with their children over Christmas and New Year. This week in Brastyl 2 we started our work on change by thinking about different types of weather. We made ice disks, and really enjoyed watching them melt on a sunny morning, while we created som…
Welcome back for the Spring Term at Bunscoill Ghaelgagh. There has been lots of interesting weather for us to enjoy in the first week back, including a wonderfully atmospheric run in the mist on Thursday. We started the new year with a look at our revamped school rules in assembly on Friday. These…
Can you see the blur in the hand of the gingerbread man? That's his spinning candy cane! For the past few weeks Brastyl 2 have been enjoying finding out about circuits and this week they augmented some of the games made in Club Keirdey for the Margey Nollick by adding some circuitry. We had a light…