We have had the best week investigating and experimenting in the Infant classroom. Lots of detailed questions asked and sharing of predictions. Scientists of the future here in Cloonacool National School. Another fun day awaits us tomorrow. We are looking forward to attending 5th & 6th Class Science Fair.

Thank you to everyone that donated to our Christmas Shoebox collection. It was a huge success!

This week is Anti-Bullying Week. The theme is “No One Left Out”. We re-visited our school’s Bí Cineálta poster slogans and discussed what we already know about bullying behaviour. We had lots of talk and discussion about various scenarios provided during the lesson and also talked about adults that we can trust. We learned about being kind in what we say and do both online and offline, learned about exclusion bullying and how to be an upstander.

4th, 5th and 6th class students had a brilliant day playing a blitz against schools from Roscommon and Mayo.

We spent a lovely morning with Martina from Heritage in Schools learning about life long ago and how people lived and used nature to survive.

Thank you Martina for sharing all your knowledge about the flora and fauna in our locality. We enjoyed our nature walk and had great fun playing outdoor games when we returned.

We had a lovely week at school this week. We enjoyed mass with the whole school on Tuesday lead by Fr Vincent to remember loved ones who have passed away. 3rd and 4th Class enjoyed creating our classroom tree for our holy space and lovely artwork using oil pastels to remember all of our family members this November and always 🕯️

A busy morning in the Infant classroom working with clay to make hedgehogs.

A quick reminder that the Christmas Shoebox collection will be open until Monday, November 9th. You can leave all donations in the GP room. Thank you for your continued support!

Today first and second class put on a very enjoyable assembly. They taught all the students in St.Michael’s the hocaí pocaí. We listened to a spooky Halloween poem and then they sang a special song called ‘hello around the world’. We hope everyone has a good time at the Halloween party later ran by our parents association and wish everyone an enjoyable mid-term.

We made a lovely brack at school this morning with Ms. Toolan & Emer. We got to put all the ingredients in a big bowl and mix, mix, mix. We also put 2 rings in the mixture. We cooked the brack in the oven and we got to eat it when it cooled down with butter & jam. It was very tasty.

3rd and 4th Class had a great day today learning lots of new basketball skills. We enjoyed learning how to do correct chest and bounce passes, how to move with the ball (dribbling) and the layup. We are looking forward to more PE lessons in the sun this year ☀️ 🏀

3rd and 4th Class had great fun yesterday and today trying to guess this household item while learning about homes in the past. Can you guess what it may be used for? 👀

Well done to everyone today who successfully completed our first fire drill of the year. All classrooms remembered to close the door on their way out and everyone got out of the building calmly and safely. Thank you to Ms Toolan for organising this drill with Shauna’s help to keep us all safe.

During the week we played lots of maths games on the Chromebooks, spent a lot of time on maths talk, practised our tables and played lots of board games. We enjoyed lots of place value activities using our lovely maths equipment purchased from the money raised at our Christmas Concert last year. Well done to 3rd and 4th Class who had the closest guess to the correct number of sweets in the jar. We can’t wait to eat all 306 sweets! 🍬

We had such a lovely week playing lots of different maths games and using all our new maths equipment. Thank you to our wonderful Parents, Grandparents, extended family and the wider community for such generous donations last December during our Christmas concert. The teachers used this money to update our concrete maths materials and now each classroom has a lovely variety of bright new resources. Thank you also to Ms. Murtagh for creating a Maths trolley with equipment for

As part of Maths Week 2026 5th and 6th class took part in an online workshop with Microsoft that taught us the basics of coding. The children really enjoyed using the chromebooks to create and explore the coding programme.

We played lots of maths games together today including the “Daily 10” maths challenge game online. We had to use our maths eyes to guess how many sweets are inside Ms Whitehead’s jar- all to be revealed on Friday 🍬 👀. We also had a round of our favourite Tables Tiger game to continue to work through our multiplication tables practise. We are looking forward to lots more maths games using our new maths equipment and board games this week too ⭐

A great start to Maths week in the Infant room. We made 2d shape monsters, played dice games and estimated how long Ms Toolan was using cubes. Lots of fun and we had great help from the boys in 5th & 6th class. We look forward to more fun & games tomorrow.

Thank you to fifth and sixth class for organising Maths stations for us. We played maths games on the website mathsframe.com . We worked hard at addition and subtraction worksheets and had fun playing dice games and bingo.

We had a special visitor at school today. Aggie came in to announce the sheep festival art competition winners! She made her way around to each class to announce the winner and present them with their prize. Well done to Cara, Cooper, Rachel, Sorcha and Jack. Thank you to the Cloonacool Sheep Festival Committee for including us. We all had great fun making our postcards and can't wait for next year!