I'm delighted to share that we have been awarded our 19th SFI award!
Here's the link to our log of evidence and below is the feedback we received from SFI Curious Minds. https://www.mqoi.ie/Page/20222023-STEM-Log-of-Evidence/1457937/Index.html
“Congratulations- your school has achieved an SFI Curious Minds Award. We have evaluated your Log of Evidence and we are satisfied that you have met all the criteria for the Gold Award.
Your school has provided evidence of children's engagement with STEM in the following areas:
- Science
- Technology
- Engineering
- Maths
- STEM Showcase
Here is some feedback on your Log of Evidence:
Congratulations to all in Scoil Mhuire Banríon na hÉireann on achieving your SFI Curious Minds Gold award. You have put in a huge amount of work on STEM this year and all of your work was very clearly labelled and easily accesible on your website. It was lovely to see the involvement of different classes in Science week, Engineers Week and Space week and congratulations to the 2 winners of the Seeing STEM competition. It was particularly great to see such a great range of STEM lessons in the infant classes from circuits to sorting and classifying autumn leaves and fruit and lovely for the infants to have an opportunity to showcase their work to older classes. Grea work by second class on their bird feeders. You should consider getting involved in the Birdwatch Ireland garden bird survey next winter as it would fit right in with your observation of birds in the school grounds.”