Willow Park School Science

Lorcan Brophy in the Irish Times.

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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2012/0110/1224310041910.html

Congratulations to:

Mark Twomey and Andrew Hanley (5th Year)

Investigating the influence on peoples choices when voting

Declan O’Sullivan and Brendan Keenan (2nd Year)

Betrayal of Irish Soccer

Lorcan Brophy (1st Year)

Measuring your personal energy, can it be done?

Mark and John Heavey (1st Year)

Classical Music, teens’ attitude

These projects have qualified for the Young Scientist Exhibition, January 12th – 14th.

550 projects were accepted from a total of 1,743 entries.

The Exhibition starts on the 12th January 2012 and runs to the 14th January 2012.

I thank Mrs Culhane and Ms Fraser for their organisation of the opportunity.

We would like to wish Andrew Robinson (J1) good luck in this years Young Scientist Exhibition in the RDS, he performed very well with the judges yesterday and is now looking forward to the awards ceremony this evening.  We encourage all students to go to the exhibition to support Andrew.  We would like to thank Ms. Aoife Byrne and Ms. S. Fraser (Blackrock College) for her help and support of Andrew in completing his project "Rollerboard".

We would also like to congratulate a past student, Joshua Kieran Glennon on his entry "Cad Faoin Gaeilge? Attitudes of Urban Cared Boys Aged 8 - 14."   Joshua has carried out a very large amount of research on his topic and demonstrated an excellent knowledge on the topic to the judges and all onlookers. 

Congratulation again to Ms. Byrne and Ms. Fraser on their continued success with their Y-Knot Club. 

All students must bring a pencil, ruler, rubber, sharpener, pens to examination.  All questions are to be answered regardless of whether student absent from class on any particular day.  No exceptions.

Students may use a calculator, but a calculator is not essential.

Good Luck to all students in their examinations.

CHAPTER 21: ELEMENTS, COMPOUNDS AND MIXTURES WILL NOT BE ON THE CHRISTMAS EXAMINATION THIS YEAR. 

After each class finishes states of matter next week, there will be a number of revision classes in preparation for the Christmas Examination.

The Christmas revision programme for the exams will be given to all classes over the next 3 days.  It is important to follow this programme over the coming weeks.  It doubles up as study and homework for the month of november.  Ensure your parents see this programme and you get them to sign each section when complete.

We are starting a new chapter - Area, Volume, Density, Speed, Velocity and Acceleration. 

After your composting classes last week, it has been decided that each class will design and produce a composting poster to help build awareness of composting and its benefits.  Each class will produce posters with the headings, What is composting?,  What can you compost?,  What cannot be composted?, Why Compost?, and How to Compost.

The prize will be delivered to the successful class on Friday 22nd October 2010.

We will be starting a new chapter this week called measurement.

All classes will have a progress test on Chapter 3 - Cells this week.  Test will include parts and functions of animal and plant cells, functions and parts of the microscope, cells - tissues- organs - systems.