St. Saviour’s National School, Rathdrum celebrated the 20th anniversary of Science Week with a variety of events and activities. The week’s events included informative presentations from Karen Fitzgerald who is studying a PHD in hip replacement technology, Catriona Shannon a senior computer software engineer in IBM and Pat Lacey/Julia Mizoni from Merck Pharmaceuticals. All of the presentations gave the children an insight into how important science is in our everyday lives. On Tuesday, it was the children’s opportunity to be scientists when the children hosted their own science exhibition. The children from 3rd-6th classes conducted and presented experiments for the rest of the school. The experiments were across a variety of topics including designing a lava lamp, robots, creating fire extinguishers, investigating how strong eggshells are, designing a paddle boat and lots more. The week also included science logo and poetry competitions, science raps and whole school assemblies on famous scientists such as George Boole, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton. The event concluded with awarding certificates of participation in the Science Exhibition. Everyone agreed it was a great event and we look forward to our participation next year. The school’s activities during Science and Maths week (October) will count towards applying for an excellence award in Primary Science and Maths which will be awarded in 2016.
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