Belgrove Senior Girls' School

A good project is easy to read and the information is presented neatly.  Here are some guidelines to help you.

• The title of your project is Great Britain and it is due on Monday 20th December 2021 (before Christmas Holidays).
• Projects are to be 2 pages of an A3 scrapbook- ( no longer than 3).
• Project must be handwritten in your own words.
• Project must include a Map of Britain (which I will give the girls). Include on this map the major cities, mountains, rivers and seas.
• Project must include at least 3 pictures or diagrams. They can be hand drawn or printed.

Here are some ideas of paragraphs to include, remember you don’t have to include all of them! Please choose 4 topics from this list to include in your project.

1. Where is Great Britain? How can you get there?
2. What countries make up Great Britain? What are the capital cities?
3. Draw the Flag of Great Britain and Flags of England, Scotland, Wales
4. Physical Geography- lakes, rivers, mountains, sea
5. Famous Landmarks- natural or manmade
6. What money is used in Great Britain? What jobs are there?
7. What sports are popular in Great Britain? What are the most famous? Where are they played?
8. Any event in history that involves England, Scotland or Wales
9. The Monarchy ( Kings and Queens)
10. Famous people from Great Britain? ( pop stars, artists, politicians, sports stars, authors)
11. Animals and Wildlife: What animals would you find there? Can you draw them and write about them? Are there any Zoos or parks?
12. Brexit – what is Brexit and how it effects Ireland.

Useful Resources & Websites:

• Handouts from school
• SESE copybook and Small World Geography book
• Books from school or local library
• Talk to anyone you know who can tell you about life in Great Britain.
• http://projectbritain.com/
• https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/united-kingdom/
• https://kids.kiddle.co/Great_Britain

Remember, please monitor your daughter carefully when using the Internet as although these websites have been checked for suitability, navigation away from these sites may not be safe for her

Best of luck & enjoy!

Mrs Brodie 😊 .

After learning all about the Sun as part of science and geography, the girls created 3D artistic models of the sun. They brighten up our school corridor!

We have been very busy engaging in different science activities in Room 4.

We learned all about the human skeleton. Did you know that there are 206 bones in the human body? We also learned all about our teeth and how important it is to look after them.

More recently the girls were learning about the sun and light. They performed various experiments exploring reflection and refraction. Unfortunately we forgot to photograph these experiments!

The girls had great fun taking part in the PA Halloween sponsored walk. What amazing costumes. Take a look to see who you might recognise!

The girls had great fun celebrating Roald Dahl day in Room 4.

We played Hot Seating with the various characters from Roald Dahl’s amazing novels. Dressing up really brought Roald Dahl’s characters to life. We had wonderful Matildas, Sophies, Veruca Salts, a Pelican, George, Fantastic Mr Fox, a Witch and two Violet Beauregardes!

The girls really enjoyed dressing up! Bhain siad an taitneamh as!

This blog will introduce you to lots of resources to help you to learn all about The Vikings. Details of what to include in your project can be found in the following document:

Because our book “Unlocking SESE” is in school, I have copied the pages for you. Also when you are walking on the Seafront take a look at the Information Boards which tell us all about the Vikings in Clontarf!

Here are some useful websites which will explain all about Viking life.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/3rd-+-4th-class/history/history-the-full-story/the-vikings-in-ireland/viking-traders-and-crafts/

https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/vikings/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/ztyr9j6/articles/ztqbr82#z8rtpv4

https://dublinia.ie/online-learning/primary/

Checkout the Viking History trail on the Clontarf Promenade!

Hi girls,

We hope you had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine yesterday. Imagine this is the first week in March! Next week we will be celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge in the lead up to St. Patrick’s day on 17th March.

Here is the grid for this week and the worksheets for Spellings, English choice board and the DEAR worksheet.

Make an effort to do as much as you can from the list each day. If you can’t do something, that’s ok not everything has to be completed. If you have any questions or there is something you are not sure of please ask on Seesaw or ask Mum or Dad to email me.

Have a fantastic week, stay safe

Mrs Brodie, Mrs Stokes & Ms Mohan 🙂

Gráinne Mhaol was also known as Grace O’Malley The Pirate Queen. Click on the links below to learn more about this famous lady in Irish History.

Oró sé do bheatha Bhaile is a famous Irish Song about Gráinne Mhaol. The first link below will bring you to a TG4 Video of this song and the second link it to the Abair Liom version. Listen to both and think about which you you like best. What is similar and what is different between the two versions.

https://youtube.com/embed/RR-iI0ioKyI

https://content-sandbox.folensonline.ie/programmes/AbairLiom/3rd_class/resources/Song/AL_3C_ACT_SON_CH13_007/index.html

Listen to this RTE Podcast about the Adventures of the young Gráinne.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/podcasts/21909308

Once you have learned about Gráinne Mhaol have a go at some of these activity sheets and create your own Story Board using the template below.

Hi Girls

We hope you had a lovely weekend.

Here is the grid for this week and the worksheets for Spellings, Foclóir and the DEAR worksheet.

Make an effort to do as much as you can from the list each day. If you can’t do something, that’s ok not everything has to be completed. If you have any questions or there is something you are not sure of please ask on Seesaw or ask Mum or Dad to email me.

Have a fantastic week, stay safe 🙂

Mrs Stokes, Mrs Brodie and Ms Mohan 😃