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SCIENCE WEEK 2017

Winners of the Science Week Project Competition, Christabel Bakare, Second place, Virginia Sanchez Molina, Gabriel Asare, Sophie
Eniola Faleti, Ms. Murphy, Rebecca Cherry & Shayna McCaffrey. Alexander & Ms. Cahill. Missing from pictureJacob Gould.

On the 16th of November 2017, our school held a Science
Fair as part of the annual Science week activities within the
school. Form 2, with the help of their Science teachers Ms.
Murphy and Ms. Cahill, designed experiments, investigated
and researched topics of their choosing to be carried out
and displayed for other year groups in the school.
Projects ranged from ‘How to make a lava lamp’ to ‘Twin
Fingerprinting’. The Projects were researched and carried
out in the weeks coming up to Science week with the final
results displayed on the day. This year’s Science fair was
judged by Mr. Galligan.
The students who took part in the Science fair enjoyed the
process and gained useful methods for future research
and development. Students found that the time spent
and the investigation process will be useful in their future
Classroom Based Assessments. Cavan Tidy Towns

A WORD FROM THIS YEAR’S WINNING GROUPS: Window Boxes 2017
First place went to – “Sibling Relationships” which
investigated the factors that may contribute to differences The Royal School Cavan was asked by Cavan tidy
in sibling closeness. towns to make 30 wooden window boxes for Cavan
town. We were provided with the raw materials by
“If we were to do this project again we would try to think of tidy towns and together two Transition Year pupils,
a project a little quicker to make sure we had loads of time Adam Poyntz and Callum McGuigan, worked with
to research. One tip we would give future students is to the help of our Technology teacher Mr. Patterson to
keep your ideas simple. It doesn’t need to be complicated.” cut and assemble the boxes. The 5th year Technology
Sophie Alexander class then painted the window boxes with some

Second place went to – ‘Inheritance of Twin Fingerprints’ interesting designs. These window boxes help our
which investigated differences between fingerprints of sets town to look better.
of twins within our school.
“We presented them in the library and Mr.Galligan judged
them, we were so nervous! We got to go round to each
other’s desks to see each groups projects and they were
amazing. After they were judged, everyone received a
Science week gift bag for participation. Overall, it was a
great experience and hopefully we will do something like
it again next year!” - Christabel Bakare

Ms. Cahill

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