We had a brilliant time celebrating Science Week recently. All pupils enjoyed online workshops with Midlands Science. Pupils in the Senior Room particularly enjoyed the Rockets with Dan. The children loved making and launching their own rockets. Pupils in the Senior Room also learned about Medical Devices which were invented by Irish doctors; the two-ear […]
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Oct
Oct
Children in the Senior Room enjoyed a trip on the Viking Boat recently from Hodson Bay into Athlone town. There we met Martin Curley from Heritage in Schools who brought us on a Historic Walking Tour of Athlone. We had a brilliant day and the weather was perfect. It was great to enjoy our lovely […]
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Oct
Oct
The children in the Senior Room received a Science Kit from Cell Explorers at NUI Galway. We had great fun extracting DNA from a pumpkin, especially for Halloween! We learned all about living things and how we all have our own DNA.
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Oct
Oct
The children and staff of Clonown N.S.had lots of fun dressing up for Halloween. There were many scary characters lurking aroung the school that day! 🙂 The weather was lovely and we had great fun outside together.
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Sep
Sep
Pupils in the Senior Room have organised a Walk on Wednesday event each week. We all walk from the church together in the morning and back again for 3pm. This is part of our Green School Project, Travel Theme. It’s a lovely initiative and we are all really enjoying it.
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Jun
Jun
This year both classrooms went separately to Westshore Survival camp in Monksland. The children had a brilliant day and we cannot recommend this local outdoor camp highly enough. It’s ran by Rob Wallace and the activities include survival skills, team building, leadership skills, camouflage and concealment, escape and evasion (hide and seek) and lots more. […]
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Jun
Jun
The Senior Room had a great day for their Sports Day recently. The weather was beautiful, we couldn’t have asked for a better day. We were delighted to hold our races at the Clonown Sports Field – we are blessed to have this great facility on our door-step. Tara from Rinka held a fun workshop […]
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Jun
Jun
The children in the Junior Room had a brilliant day at Sports Day recently. Tara from Rinka came in the morning and Jean our P.E. teacher held the traditional races then. Every child won a medal for taking part. Next we had a special visit from the ice-cream van which went down very well! After […]
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Jun
Jun
The pupils in our Junior Room enjoyed a cycling workshop with Brendan recently. They learned alot about safer cycling and they had great fun. We are very lucky that we have loads of space on our school grounds. The children had a ball on their bikes and scooters. Thank you Brendan! 🙂
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May
May
The Senior Room pupils also had a brilliant day at Glendeer Pet Farm when they went recently. We were so lucky with the weather, the sun shone all day. The staff at Glendeer gave the children great time and attention, it’s the ideal venue for a school tour. The children also had […]