Engineers’ Week
KNS celebrates Engineers Week annually, with special guest teachers and class trips where students get a positive awareness of and a spark of enthusiasm about the engineering profession.
Science Experiments in room 3 and 4
Thank you to Oran and Rebekah for doing superb science Experiments with us today. We used a microscope to look at dragonflies, insects and a variety of objects. We tried to mix oil with water and make colours by mixing together different coloured water. We did a gummy...
Aquarium in Room 16 and Engineer’s week
Our fish tank with fish including a blenny, a scallop, a sea anemone, two grey mullets and three prawns. Room 16 explaining their research posters based on the fish in our tank to Room 8. For engineering week, Room 16 designed boats that would carry the most weight...
Scratch Coding for Engineers Week
Room 5 and room 7 used the iPads today to do some buddy Scratch coding. This has been one of our favourite STEAM activities for Engineers Week 🌟
Engineering Club
Our engineers designed a Zipline today with marbles inside to make it sturdy.
Marshmallow Towers!
Engineers Week
This week is Engineers Week in KNS. We were very lucky to have John come in talk to us about being an engineer and his very exciting book called Jambots. He talked to us about gaming and how he came up with the idea for his book. This inspired us to create our class...
Engineering Week
Coding fun with Beebots
Coding fun in Senior Infants
We are learning how to code our Beebots this week. It is so interesting!
Rainbow Bridge
We have been busy with our STEM activities in First Class. We were challenged to put on our Engineering hats and design and build a bridge so the leprechaun could keep his pot of gold safe! We had lots of fun building our bridges. We did lots of problem solving as it...
Winter Olympics Room 15
Sixth Class children participated in their own Skiing Winter Olympics STEM challenge. They learned about gravity and forces to help them to construct their own participants and ramp. Another student chose to make a Winter Olympics themed cake as part of the project ....
Caught in a Trap!
Engineering Week
Look at our amazing engineers and builders at work in room 4! They discovered that this design was more stable and secure and they could build a taller structure as a result!
Building Bridges
Construction Site in room 4- Engineering Week #STEM
Cutting skills- We designed a detached house. Room 3 and 4 are so happy to be back with our friends! We designed bungalows, semi detached , detached and terraced houses for play time. We planned some designs and worked as a team. We made sure they had a sturdy...