Discover Primary Science

e-Newsletter

Welcome to the ninth e-Newsletter from the Discover Primary Science Programme! We hope you've all settled back into school after the long summer holidays.


This edition contains information on all the updates to the Programme over the past couple of months.


We'd love to hear from you! Please send us feedback on the e-Newsletter, and tell us what you think.



Link to all the latest news
Programme Updates
Updates on Science Week, a review of the year's highlights and events and all the news from the Programme.

Link to Greenlanes N.S. Video Piece
Case Study - Greenlanes National School
Greenlanes National School tell us how they won their Award of Science Excellence and visit Bull Island to interview a scientist.
Link to Awards of Science Excellence
Awards of Science Excellence
494 schools attended our Awards of Science Excellence held during the month of June with 15 ceremonies at 7 different locations throughout Ireland.
Link to article about Triangles
Truss-ty Triangles
Let’s take a closer look at one of the ‘sharpest’ of shapes - Triangles! They’re used in mathematics, architecture, engineering, mapping and navigation. Who would have thought that this little shape was so useful?
Link to article about North Bull Island and National Museum of Ireland
Spotlight on Discover Centres
In January 2007, the North Bull Island Interpretive Centre became an accredited Discover Primary Science Centre. Also, find out more about the fascinating National Museum of Ireland - Country Life Tour.
Link to web review on the Environmental Protection Agency
Website Review
We look at epa.ie - a website that has responsibilities for a wide range of licensing, enforcement, monitoring and assessment activities associated with environmental protection.

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