5th Class were getting creative with ‘Printing’. Aren’t they fantastic?
3rd Class were busy testing out their researching skills on our i-Pads.
4th Class
Tree Walk
by Oisín Lambert 4th Class
Today, as part of Science Week, my class, my teacher and I went on a Tree Walk with Susan Lawlor. Susan told us a lot of interesting facts about the trees in our immediate environment. We went for our walk along the banks of the Erkina River beside Castle Durrow. Some of the things we learned were:
- The Cotoneaster can be grown as a tree or hedge and that it has red berries on it at this time of year.
- The Larch is the one of the few evergreen trees that loses its leaves in autumn.
- The Monkey Puzzle, which we saw in the Castle grounds, is native to Chile. It gets its name from the fact that monkeys aren’t able to climb it. But there are no monkeys in Chile!
- You can identify a Lime tree from the sprouts that are around the base of the tree trunk.
- We can make jam, jelly and wine from the berries on the Dog Rose tree.
- The Poplar tree grows very tall and is probably one of the taller trees to grow in Ireland. It is along the avenue up to Castle Durrow.
- Laurels aren’t good for bugs and insects as they die after eating their leaves. They do provide shelter for rats though!
- You should never eat Fungi because a lot of them are poisonous!
- The Oak tree in a native Irish tree and Durrow (Darú) gets its name from the Oak tree. Durrow was covered in Oak trees a few hundred years ago.
- We really enjoyed our Tree Walk around Durrow and Susan was very interesting
