KS3 Maths Investigation - Thornfield House School, Belfast Northern Ireland
The pupils in our KS3 department, aged 11-14 years, completed a maths investigation using a large Halloween skull. He represented the myth (story) of how the Giants Causeway was built thousands of years ago.
The first part of the investigation involved them in deciding what resources they would need to measure the Giant skull and their height.
Then then did the measuring in pairs independently.We found that the Giants skull was just over 2 times the mean size of the pupils' skulls. We then found the mean height for our pupils. We used this to estimate of the giants head being twice as big as ours to double our height to estimate the height of the Giant.
The teacher modelled how to work out the Mean, Mode, Median and Range for the second worksheet.
The pupils in our KS3 department, aged 11-14 years, completed a maths investigation using a large Halloween skull. He represented the myth (story) of how the Giants Causeway was built thousands of years ago.
The first part of the investigation involved them in deciding what resources they would need to measure the Giant skull and their height.
Then then did the measuring in pairs independently.We found that the Giants skull was just over 2 times the mean size of the pupils' skulls. We then found the mean height for our pupils. We used this to estimate of the giants head being twice as big as ours to double our height to estimate the height of the Giant.
The teacher modelled how to work out the Mean, Mode, Median and Range for the second worksheet.
Earthquake investigation of Year9/10 class - Thornfield House School, Belfast Northern Ireland
9/10 class have been learning about Volcanoes and Earthquakes. We carried out our own experiment in class as well as checking out some Youtube videos for kids on Earthquakes.
From the Northern Irish Team
Click to see our presentation on Halloween
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The English 5 th November
Whilst most of the Celtic countries (Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) in the UK celebrate Halloween, either as the Winter Festival and have bonfires or All Saints Day Eve, a Christian reminder of the faithful who have died. England have always celebrated the 5 th of November. This is a reminder of Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, when James I, his son and all the protestant leaders of the time would be there to open Parliament. He was discovered and killed for treason. James I decreed that the 5 th November should always be remembered. This was after the reformation when Protesters broke away from the Catholic Church. They were called Protestants. There was a Holy war between the Protestants and Catholics it was in the Middle Ages and both sides thought they were doing God’s work! In England, they used to make up a dummy guy and pull him round the houses with a request not for treats, but a Penny for the Guy. The Guy was then burnt of the bonfires on the 5 th of November. |
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From the Irish Team- Halloween (Oíche Shamhna)
We celebrated Halloween at school by dressing up and having a parade in the school yard.
To celebrate Halloween in Galway an amazing puppetry and theatre company called Macnas put on a parade. Macnas is something we are very proud of in Galway and they perform all over the world. Unfortuneately due to covid the Halloween parade has not been able to go ahead for the past two years. Take a look at 2019's parade below.
Some Halloween words as Gaeilge
