Monthly Archives: March 2014

How Nurse Evelyn uses science and maths in her work

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Today Evelyn the community nurse came to our school.
She told us all about her job. She works as a midwife and a nurse. She goes to people’s houses if they are sick.
If they are sick, she takes their blood pressure, and checks their pulse.She took Kian’s blood pressure just to show us how to do it. We all took notes. And at the end we asked each other questions about it.
She brought in a syringe, it’s used for measuring blood. The syringe starts from, 0ml to 20ml. You need to know maths and science for this job. It’s really important.It was really interesting learning about how she uses maths and science in her life.
She also brought in a stethoscope, she went around the class, checking our heart beat. It was really cool.
It was really cool having Evelyn in to our school. And was really interesting learning how she uses maths and science in her life.

By Niall

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Evelyn’s Visit
Last Friday a woman came to our school. Her name is Evelyn Doherty. She is a nurse and a midwife.
She is from the community. She came in to talk to us about how she uses science and maths everyday in her job. It was very interesting!

Evelyn looks after a lot of people, young and old. She brought in a syringe and a stethoscope everyone got a look at them. She told us about all the things she has done for her job. She also told us that most of the things she weighs are in kilos. She said that her most challenging job has to be being a midwife because you have to look after two people at once.

We were told to write down notes. Later on Kian got his blood pressure checked with a blood pressure monitor.
A little while before Evelyn left, we all got a chance to try out the stethoscope. It was really cool.

I really enjoyed Evelyn’s visit. It was very interesting!

💉 The End! 💉
👧 By Amy 👧

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Evelyn is a nurse and a midwife👩. She goes around to houses and helps all the people that are sick and need care. She also helps mothers when they are pregnant.

Evelyn also helps the mother after birth. Maths and Science are very very important in Evelyn’s job. She needs maths for weighing and measuring and she needs science for all the medications. She said that she would be lost without maths and science.

She told us about all about her job(s) and what she had to do. She said that you have to be a very good listener to be a nurse and a housewife.I think Evelyn’s job is great and I love how she helps so many people, I hope she will come to talk to us again.
By Lisa

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➕Maths and science.

Today Evelyn came to our school to talk about science and maths.She is a nurse/midwife😷As she spoke we all tookk down notes.📝Then she took my blood pressure👍.It was 90/50.Then she let us hear our heartbeat👍.All her equipment uses maths and science.➕✖️.

The End By Kian.

A visit from Nurse Evelyn

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On Friday, Evelyn the community nurse came to our school.
She told us all about her job. She works as a midwife and a nurse. She goes to people’s houses if they are sick.
If they are sick, she takes their blood pressure, and checks their pulse.She took Kian’s blood pressure just to show us how to do it. We all took notes. And at the end we asked each other questions about it.
She brought in a syringe, it’s used for measuring blood. The syringe starts from 0ml to 20ml. You need to know maths and science for this job. It’s really important.It was really interesting learning about how she uses maths and science in her life.
She also brought in a stethoscope, she went around the class, checking our heart beat. It was really cool.
It was really cool having Evelyn in to our school. And was really interesting learning how she uses maths and science in her life.
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The visit from our local nurse.

Today we had a visit from Evelyn our local nurse. She uses lots of maths and science in her work.
She showed us a syringe and it had ml on it.
She told us about hypothermia and if you get cold you might get it.
She told us our heart beats 72 times a minute.
When you have a pain in your throat sometimes the doctor takes a swab and sends it to the laboratory for investigation and they see what bacteria is causing it.
Evelyn uses a cuff to check blood pressure.
When a baby is born Evelyn has to weigh them to see if they are healthy or not.She uses the scales to weigh how many kilograms the baby is.
After 3 days Evelyn takes a little bit of blood from the baby’s heel.
By Siobhàn&Aoibhe

Nurse Evelyn came to our school . She taught us about her job . She uses maths
and science. She uses cm to measure the size
of the baby’s head. She looks after old people, babies and mammies.
She has to check the weight of the baby. She uses scales for this.
Evelyn is very interesting.

By Eve and John

Lá ‘le Pádraig i mBéal an Mhuirthead


An paráid
Inné chuaigh go leor daoine go dtí an paráid i mBéal an Mhuirthead. Bhì banna drumaí ná scoile ag seinnt ann. Bhuail muid lé cheile sa complex ag a leathuair tar eis a dó. Chuir mé orm mó drumaí agus mó hata dearg agus dubh. Thosaigh an paráid. Chuaigh gach duine síos go dtí an cearnóg. Stop muid ar an gcearnóg agus sheinn muid cupla port. Shiúil muid timpeall an bhhaile mór agus ar ais arís go dtí complex. Bhí sé go maith. Bhí an-spóirt agam. Ansin chuaigh muid abhaile🏠. Fuair mé uachtar reoite🍦. Bhí am deas ag gach duine.
Le Kian, Róisín agus Sophie

Our trip to the Fire station

On Thursday I went to the fire station . The fire mans name was Joe. He showed us the jaws of life and the fire engine. He put on all of his gear including the oxygen mask and tank. He turned on the beeper. It was very noisy. He showed us pictures of the factory fire. It lasted 4 days he told us. They had to use all the foam in Mayo Sligo and Roscommon.
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Gaelic Football

Our Quadblog partners asked us what Gaelic football is. So here goes:

Gaelic football: an Irish Sport
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Gaelic is an Irish sport and is a bit like soccer except you are allowed to touch the ball with your hands. Gaelic can get a bit rough at times. Our school has a Gaelic football team, we actually have two, the boys team and the girls team. Their jerseys colours are black and red. Gaelic is a fun sport. We have to wear football shorts, Gaelic boots, football socks and a body warmer.

Our trainer is James Mason. He trains us every Friday. When he trains us, we do hand passes and solos.
The Gaelic ball is hard and round.In school, we play Gaelic football matches a lot in a series of Gaelic football games for schools which is called the “Cumann na mBunscol”. Last year our teams even won the Erris final!

Nearly every county in Ireland has a Gaelic football team. Our own county Mayo has a football team too. Every year the country has a long series of gaelic football games and in the very end the winning county’s team wins a big trophy called the Sam Maguire. Our county’s team gets to the nationwide final but sadly they haven’t won the Sam Maguire in over 60 years! Last year Mayo and Dublin were in the final but sadly, Mayo lost to Dublin and they took home the Sam Maguire. We were very disappointed but we all hope that Mayo will get to the final this year and win it!

Other countries have their own type of sport but I think that everybody is Ireland is happy that Gaelic is our own country’s sport!

The End!
By Amy and Grace

Trip to the Fire Station

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Last Thursday we went to the Fire Station in Belmullet. First we went into the main room where we saw some pictures of the fires and rescues. The man that showed us around was called Joe Murphy. He is has been there for 36 years. There are 10 men on the fire team.

First he showed us how to wear an oxygen tank on his back. Then he put on a special hood for health and safety reasons. Both of these things need to be worn when they are putting out fires.

Then he showed us the radios that the firemen use to communicate to each other. Next we went into the equipment room. There were 6 lockers.All there equipment was in there lockers. They have a radio on there helmets.

After that we went in to the garage were they keep the fire engines. There was a new one and a old one. Then he showed us all the gear on them. Out the back there was a fire jeep.

The last room he showed us was where they service the oxygen tanks and wear the special suits.

I had a great day!!!!!!!!!. 🙂

By Kian

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Today we went a all the school went to the fire station in Belmullet. When we went in to the station we looked at some pictures of fires. They looked dangerous. Then we asked some questions. They were good questions. Then the fireman put on the gear that they wear. It was heavy. Then we went out to the fire trucks. They were class🚒. Then we went in to a place were they fill the water. When I grow up I would like to be a fireman.🚒🚒

By Seamus
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Welcome to our QuadBlog partners

Our School: Inver National School
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We love our school Inver NS! Our school is 129 years old but yet it is still standing tall! Sadly, we are a small school and only have 29 pupils in our school, two teachers, a help teacher and a secertary, but luckily that’s not keeping us down! Our school football teams’ colours are black and red and our school is painted white and purple. We are a green school and an active school.

A green school means a school is environmentally friendly and recycles. When you become a green school your school gets a special flag called a green flag.
When we became a green school we were very happy and we had a special raising the flag ceremony and all the parents of the children in the school came. One of the years we got the green flag Jedward came to our school! Lots of people and schools from around the area came to see them! Being an active school means that all the children in your school are involved in sports. We also had a raising of the flag ceremony for that too!

When our school became 125 years old we had a very special ceremony that lasted a while. We used to go up to the community centre, right here in Inver, and have some celebrations there, as well as the ones in the school! One night there was a party up in the community centre and lots of people went to it. We got a very special cake that was in the shape of our school and Rosín, who was the youngest in the school at the time, cut the cake. We all got a slice. It was very nice!

We love our school and we think it’s one of the best schools in Ireland!

The End!

By Amy

Our school
Our school is a nice small school with three class rooms and three toilets each for the boys and girls. We have two teachers in our school. One teacher teaches all the younger classes and the other teacher teaches 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th class.

We have 2 green flags. We are working on our 3rd one which is for conserving water. Our very first flag was for reducing litter. Jedward came to raise the flag. Our second flag was for conserving energy.

There are 29 pupils in our school. The colours on the walls of the school are cream and purple. We got an astroturf on our field. We have an interactive white board. Our teachers names are Múinteoir Máirin and Múinteoir Máirín. Our break times are at 11:00 o’clock and 12:30.

The end By Grace

Seachtain na Gaeilge

This is Seachtain na Gaeilge. As our QuadBlog partners Horningsham Primary School at http://horningshamowls.wordpress.com
Humberstone Junior Academy at http://humboblog.primaryblogger.co.uk
and Bidston Avenue Primary School at http://kidblog.org/Miss_Taylor/ look at our blog, we would like to explain what Seachtain na Gaeilge is. Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language Week) is an international Irish language festival and one of the biggest celebrations of our native language and culture that takes place each year in Ireland and in many other countries.

This year’s festival is running from 1 – 17 March 2014.

The festival gives an opportunity to everyone to enjoy Irish, whether you are a fluent speaker, learner or have a cúpla focal, with a calendar of entertaining and fun events for every type of interest and every age group.

Voluntary and community groups, local authorities, schools, libraries, and music, sports, arts and culture organisations organise events for Seachtain na Gaeilge in their local area.

Irish is for everyone, Seachtain na Gaeilge is for everyone – Croí na Teanga, It’s You!

Bain triall as!