This is where you will find all the latest news for the whole school. If you wish to find out about the latest news from any one class please click on the class links above the first blog post below.

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National Tree Day

Today is National Tree Day. The theme is "Trees are magic". We planted a Hawthorn tree in the school garden with Ms. Toolan and sprinkled...

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Oct 3, 20241 min read

Futsal Session

Today Raf did a futsal session with the two senior classes. It was a lovely day to be active outside. There were drills to improve...

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Oct 2, 20241 min read

Autumn Painting

We painted autumn pictures. We created warm autumn colours by mixing the primary colours. We were careful to paint the background first....

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Sep 30, 20241 min read

Clothes Collection

A clothes collection is underway at the moment. Bags of clean clothes (no pillows or duvets) can be left into the school.

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Sep 29, 20241 min read

Child Led Play

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Sep 24, 20240 min read

Fun Day Friday

Today we enjoyed listening to Ms. Toolan read The Colourful Monster while eating yummy icecream. A lovely ending to a very busy week.

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Sep 20, 20241 min read

A Boy Called Book

We listened to an author read his book called A Boy Called Book ! The author is Vincent Ralph. The boy's life was a set of stories- some...

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Sep 20, 20241 min read

Student council

Congratulations to Darragh and Hazel who will represent our room on the student council. Well done to the nine children who spoke so well...

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Sep 20, 20241 min read

Student council

In the senior classes the children voted for new student council members. Firstly everyone spoke to the class about their ideas and...

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Sep 20, 20241 min read

Infant Assembly

We had a very enjoyable first assembly of the year today. A big thank you to Ms Toolan and her class. Enjoy the songs and poems 🎵...

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Sep 20, 20241 min read

Pre-writing

We took advantage of today's beautiful afternoon to demonstrate our pre-writing skills to date.

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Sep 17, 20241 min read

The equals sign

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Sep 16, 20240 min read

Matching by colour and the equals sign

We are learning all about matching by colour in Junior Infants and the equals sign in Senior Infants in our maths lessons this week.

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Sep 16, 20241 min read

Our Posters

We started our posters on farm safety for the Cloonacool Sheep Festival 2024. We got good ideas from agrikids....

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Sep 14, 20241 min read

Sheep Festival 2024

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Sep 14, 20240 min read

Conscience Alley

In drama we heard a story about a wise king. A man had been sentenced to death for a terrible crime. The king always kept his promises...

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Sep 13, 20241 min read

Hedgerow Week

Michael Coughlan visited our school. We all wore wellies and investigated our local hedgerows. We found white thorn and blackthorn and...

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Sep 12, 20241 min read

Drama:TheVisitor

5/6 class are reading the poem The Visitor. We created a drama based on the poem. We had 3 groups of characters and wore costumes. Senior...

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Sep 12, 20241 min read

Summer Memories

5/6 class created fantastic sunglasses. We talked about our Summer memories and then created art to show our memories. We also included a...

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Sep 12, 20241 min read

Science in the sun!

The children had great fun locating, sorting and classifying various items found in their school yard!

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Sep 10, 20241 min read

National Hedgerow Week 2024

Today Mícheál came to speak to the classes about the importance of hedgerows. They are a very unique habitat for wildlife and they also...

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Sep 5, 20241 min read

Mé Féin

Bhíomar ag scríobh fúinn féin. Nach bhfuil na bileoga go hiontach?

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Sep 4, 20241 min read

Autumn Trees 🍂 🥮

Our first art display of the year has autumn trees. We drew trees using pencil and charcoal. We used warm colours for an autumn leaf in...

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Sep 4, 20241 min read

New Junior Infants

A big welcome to our new junior infants!

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Aug 30, 20241 min read