October 2019
Concern Primary Debating: First Round Success
Scoil Chroí Íosa competed against Glenville NS in Round 1 of this year’s Concern Primary Debating Competition on Monday 14th October. The motion for Round 1 was ‘Homework is a waste of time.’
As the opposition, Sixth Class spent the past few weeks researching the topic of homework, assessing the benefits and the flaws of homework. Mentored by Ms Fitzgerald and assisted by Mr Cotter, the whole class’ research formed the basis of our team’s argument. Represented by team captain Matthew Carroll, Tom Forrest and Ava Hanlon, our team had a tough task on their hands to convince the adjudicators and audience full of pupils that homework is indeed a waste of time. We explored the manner in which homework can be beneficial and how it does not always have to be writing and maths. Technology can play its part as can sport and art. We also realise that if students are finding homework difficult, the teacher can help with differentiation. We also realised the many benefits of parental support in homework but also saw some possible drawbacks such as stress and much more.
Glenville’s team articulately argued against the motion and showed their debating ability by skilfully refuting some of our claims. However our team’s organisation and clarity, allied to a great use of facts down to Sixth Class' extensive research, meant that we just about won an incredibly even contest. A special mention to the rest of the debating team; Eimear Sheehan, Caoimhe Sheehan and Daniel Madden who did a fantastic jobs in organising facts and supporting their team-mates on the day. We would thoroughly like to thank Ms Coffey in Glenville and their team for a great contest.
We thoroughly enjoyed the experience and we look forward to debating a new motion in Round 2.
As the opposition, Sixth Class spent the past few weeks researching the topic of homework, assessing the benefits and the flaws of homework. Mentored by Ms Fitzgerald and assisted by Mr Cotter, the whole class’ research formed the basis of our team’s argument. Represented by team captain Matthew Carroll, Tom Forrest and Ava Hanlon, our team had a tough task on their hands to convince the adjudicators and audience full of pupils that homework is indeed a waste of time. We explored the manner in which homework can be beneficial and how it does not always have to be writing and maths. Technology can play its part as can sport and art. We also realise that if students are finding homework difficult, the teacher can help with differentiation. We also realised the many benefits of parental support in homework but also saw some possible drawbacks such as stress and much more.
Glenville’s team articulately argued against the motion and showed their debating ability by skilfully refuting some of our claims. However our team’s organisation and clarity, allied to a great use of facts down to Sixth Class' extensive research, meant that we just about won an incredibly even contest. A special mention to the rest of the debating team; Eimear Sheehan, Caoimhe Sheehan and Daniel Madden who did a fantastic jobs in organising facts and supporting their team-mates on the day. We would thoroughly like to thank Ms Coffey in Glenville and their team for a great contest.
We thoroughly enjoyed the experience and we look forward to debating a new motion in Round 2.
Maths Week 2019
It's clear we love Maths Week here in Scoil Chroí Íosa and we've been extremely busy so far exploring all strands and strand units with plenty of hands-on activities as you can see. We're having a lot of fun and we're looking forward to what the rest of the week holds. Here's some pictures of Third and Fourth Class looking busy!