The Monks and their Monasteries

We learned a lot about monks and their monasteries. They slept in dorms with a partner or two. We learned that they tell stories from the Bible and decorated many pages and manuscripts. A famous book they decorated was called the Book of Kells. The monks work in groups of different skills. When they were sick they went to the infirmary.

By Noel and Erykah.

We worked on old manuscripts and painted them carefully as the monks would have done in the Scriptorium part of the Monastery. We used old tea bags to print stains onto the paper and make it look years old!


We know that monks prayed for many hours a day. They get up at four o’clock in the morning to pray. They kept their treasures in the round tower. The monks worked very hard. The monks were attacked by Vikings a lot.

By Leon and Nathan.

We sketched pictures of what the grounds of the monastery was like. We included the round tower, the church, the refectory, the infirmary, the chapter house, the monks cells, the fields where they worked and the gardens.

I learned that round towers were used as watchtowers. The monks prayed for over 4 hours a day! [ A big surprise for me.] The Vikings attacked the monastery hoping to find their treasures and valuable goods.

By Brendan

Trip to Galway for Science Week.

3rd and 4th class went to see a show in Leisureland during Science Week. We got a bus from school and arrived in Galway just in time before the show started. There were two other schools at the show with us. We went to see the show called 'Exploding Vegetables and other fuels of the future!'. See some of the pictures below of what happened on the day.


The girl's name at the show was Scientific Sue! She asked Stephanie to be a volunteer for one of the experiments.

Some of the explosions were very loud so we had to cover our ears. When the pressure got too much things started to explode.


Scientific Sue told us how the Great Fire of London started and used Norbert the Dragon to demonstrate how fire can spread.

In this balloon lots of paper stayed at the top and some went to the bottom. This showed us there was another type of pressure other than gravity pulling on the pieces of paper.

We were asked to help out with another experiment. We got a prize for taking part.



Miss Lardner had to try and catch a flying object from the rocket! They used a dyson vacuum cleaner to launch the rocket through the air.