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🌟 Problem Solving Through Play at St Malachy’s! 🌟
In P1–P3, our pupils are learning to think, explore, question and create — all through the power of play-based learning. 🧩✨
Here’s to joyful learning, active minds, and the bright ideas happening all around St Malachy’s! 🙌💛
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🎶 Big Beginnings in P1 at St Malachy’s! 🎶
In Primary 1, learning music starts in the most natural way possible — by listening. 👂✨
Before little hands find rhythms or little voices sing melodies, our pupils learn to tune in, notice sounds, and explore the music that’s all around them.
From the rustle of leaves to the beat of a drum, listening helps children:
🌟 Build focus
🌟 Develop early musical awareness
🌟 Strengthen language and memory
🌟 Grow curiosity and confidence
It’s a gentle, joyful start — and the foundation for a lifelong love of music. 💛🎵
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Rainbow @stmalachysps
Here is how it happens, broken down into simple steps:
1. The Ingredients: Sun + Rain
You need two things to make a rainbow:
Bright Sunlight
Water Droplets (Rain or mist)
The sun needs to be behind you, and the rain in front of you.
2. The Secret: Sunlight isn't just White
Even though sunlight looks white, it is actually made up of all the colours of the rainbow mixed together.
3. The Action: Bending and Splitting Light
When sunlight shines into a raindrop, the water acts like a tiny, round mirror and a glass prism combined.
Refraction (Bending): As the light enters the raindrop, it slows down and bends.
Dispersion (Splitting): The raindrop breaks the white light into its seven individual colours.
Reflection (Bouncing): The light bounces off the back of the raindrop and comes back out.
The Colours
The seven colours you see are: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.
Top (Outer): Red
Bottom (Inner): Violet
A good way to remember them is to remember the name: Roy G. Biv.
Fun Facts
It’s Actually a Circle: Rainbows are actually full circles! We only see an arc (a semicircle) because the ground gets in the way.
No Touching! A rainbow is an optical illusion, so you can never reach the end of one, no matter how fast you run.
Your Own Personal Rainbow: No two people see the exact same rainbow. The rainbow you see is made by light reflecting off different raindrops than the ones making a rainbow for someone else.
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