St Brigids Boys National School

Congratulations to our Third Classes for their magnificent Incredible Edibles Project and worthy winners of the Dublin Section .

Dublin Winner
St. Brigid's Boys National School, Foxrock, Dublin 18

Combining forces, the two 3rd classes from St. Brigid's BNS teamed up to make an exceptional effort in documenting the planting, growth and harvest of their Incredible Edibles. An impressively sized scrapbook found its way to the Agri Aware office packed full of photos detailing every stage of their incredible journey. Interwoven with this lively photo display were the findings of class research on a variety of topics such as the history of the potato, food groups and the students even added to their growing repertoire by setting sunflowers and finding out some nifty facts about them too!
A truly inquisitive class, taste tests were conducted on fruits never before sampled by the pupils and they even took the project out of the classroom and into their local supermarket to find out what kind of vegetables people were buying and even tested customers general food knowledge!
Following a very successful harvest the students really celebrated the fruits of their labour as they all enjoyed a delicious school grown salad. The real treat in this project however were the individual copybook diaries kept by the students. Ornately decorated these diaries recorded the progress of the pupils plants from seed to supper time and included recipes, 5 a day trackers, diagrams, a fruit and veg map of Ireland and some even included comic book sketches involving the Incredible Edible characters. These hard working farmers definitely know how to reap a winning harvest!

Fourth class have been busy in recent times. Our selection of photographs show the boys working on their lighthouses ( Science : Electricity & Magnetism ) and their wonderfully constructed bridges ( Science/SESE ).

These photographs show third class boys making a rainguage.

All the boys and teachers in St Brigid's were thrilled to see our wonderful pupil Adam McGovern on TV yesterday getting his tee-shirt and football signed by the great Pele at the Children's Hospital in Crumlin.What a thrill for Adam!

Adam's twin brother, Seamus brought the football into school today to show it to all the other boys.Everyone was delighted.

We're all looking forward to seeing you back in school soon, Adam.