News and Recent Happenings
News and Recent Happenings
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December
December
Off to Bethlehem we go again
Off to Bethlehem we go again
Christmas Crafts!
Senior Infants enjoying a Christmas Crafts Day last week. Thank you so much to Anne for taking the time to teach us! We were all very proud of our creations.
6th Class Geography Projects
Exploring Countries Around The World
6th Class Christmas Art
Snow Globes and Winter Scenes
Christmas Crafts - Fabric & Fibre
Christmas Crafts - Fabric & Fibre
Students in 3rd class designed and created their own Christmas decorations. They learned how to do the running stitch & the blanket stitch.
Collaborative Festive Fun
Collaborative Festive Fun
5th Class joined Junior Infants for some Festive Buddy reading. It was a lovely opportunity to model good fluency and expression for the younger children.
The 2 groups then joined forces for some fabric and fibre crafting, making a Christmas Card together.
Collaborative Art Activities
Collaborative Art Activities
2nd & 5th Class joined forces today for some festive activities. 5th class brought in some Christmas picture books to read for a Christmas themed Buddy Reading session. The children did some predicting, character analysis, summarisation activities and word attacks skills with their buddy.
In return the 2nd class kindly helped 5th class to create these amazing snow flake art pieces.
Learning Time
Learning Time
Students in 3rd class have been working in pairs to learn time in maths. They really enjoyed using the Ipads to practice what they have learned so far.
November
November
Messing with Maths
Messing with Maths
Junior Infants had great fun messing and measuring as part of our capacity and length lessons.
Self Help Africa
Self Help Africa
Fundraiser
Fundraiser
Today we were joined by Ollie Fahy, Adrian Connaire and Ronan Scully from Self Help Africa. They educated us about their upcoming trip to Uganda as part of the Warriors for Humanity Program. They informed us all about that challenges that face many people from Uganda and the issues that they hope to help with.
The school raised almost 1200 Euro for the charity which is an amazing amount of money.
Well done to our raffle prizewinners on the day and a huge thanks to everyone who donated so generously to the cause.
Siopadóireacht i rang a trí
Siopadóireacht i rang a trí
Cluiche Gaeilge
Cluiche Gaeilge
Chuaigh mé go dtí an bhaile agus chonaic mé...
Design your own town.
Design your own town.
All students created their own Baile Mór.
Extending & Creating Patterns
Extending & Creating Patterns
3rd class have been working on recognising, extending and creating patterns in maths this month. They have also explored skip counting.
October
October
Halloween Crafting in 5th Class
Halloween Crafting in 5th Class
2nd Class Fancy Dress for Halloween
2nd Class Fancy Dress for Halloween
4th class Fancy halloween costumes
5th Class Quiz Winners
5th Class Quiz Winners
5th Class completed a quiz on their i-pads using Kahoot conducted by children from 6th Class. Big prizes for the winners!
4th class County projects
4th class County projects
4th class created fantastic projects on different counties around ireland. The children got fantastic information and presented their projects excellently. Well done 4th class.
5th Class
5th Class
Design & Create your Unique Dream Home
Design & Create your Unique Dream Home
The pupils of 5th Class have been learning about homes in the past, traditional Irish homes and homes around the world.
Building on this, each child was tasked with the project of researching, designing and building their own unique dream home. Fun elements included water slides, huge glass windows, zip-wire exits and parking for some high end cars.
Materials used varied from cardboard, timber, Lego and everything in between.
The class then presented their projects to the other classes and answered questions about their designs and choices - a great Oral Language challenge.
Dancing Ghosts
Dancing Ghosts
3rd class had great fun using a balloon to make static electricity. They used this static electricity to to make their ghost dance.
Static Electricity
Static Electricity
It's getting a little bit spooky in second class. We made tiny little ghosts dance with a balloon!!!!
Rainforest Animals
Rainforest Animals
Second class were busy this month learning all about rainforest animals. They each picked an animal and after some research, they created excellent reports. Each report was full of information with lots of interesting facts. Each class in the school were invited to our room to find out more about rainforest animals. Second class did an excellent job retelling the interesting facts.
3rd and 4th class rugby
3rd and 4th class rugby
3rd and 4th class were very lucky to go to Loughrea rugby club for a non-competitve blitz day. Everyone got a great taste for rugby on the day and got treated to a goodie bag coming home. There was some great rugby shown, well done everyone.
September 2025
September 2025
Mini 7s Boys
Mini 7s Boys
The boys had an excellent season in both the hurling and football mini 7s. They qualified to both finals days in Annaghdown and Carrabane. Unfortunately those days didnt go their way but the boys perfromed valiantly on both occasions and were only a score or two away from qualifying to both semi finals. Well done boys.
Mini 7s Girls Football
Mini 7s Girls Football
Well done to the 5th & 6th Class girls who represented the school so competently in their Blitz in Woodford. The girls played Leitrim, Kiltullagh, Carrabane and Ballinasloe. Lots of skills were on show and the girls had a great day out.
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