We are delighted to announce that our school was awarded Best New Entry in Co. Roscommon at the Tidy Schools Awards in the Roscommon Arts Centre. We were presented with our award by Eanna Ni Lamhna. We received a lovely plaque and 200 euro for our school. We thank all the pupils, staff, teachers and […]
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P.E. is an integral part of our school week. Jean, our P.E. teacher, comes every Tuesday. She covers all the strands in the curriculum. On Wednesday our soccer coaches come to school and finally our Gaelic coach comes on Thursdays. We are very lucky with the lovely grounds that we have at our school. We […]
We had a Halloween party in school. Many pupils dressed up in scary costumes! We had a great day completing our Halloween Art. The Juniors made spooky 3D pictures and the Seniors made pumpkins using balloons and paper mache. We hope all our pupils, teachers, staff and parents have a lovely mid-term break.
Reading is a very important part of our day, in school and at home. We go to the library every month which we really enjoy. We take part in the Accelerated Reader Programme. When we finish reading a book we get to take a quiz on it. It’s lots of fun! It also encourages and […]
This year we are hoping to receive out 11th Green Flag. Our project is on Marine Environments. On 30th September we went to Galway Aquarium for a workshop there. We had a brilliant day. We got to rub and feed various types of fish! We held star fish and crabs. We learned loads about sea […]
We are a committed Green School and we work very hard to reduce our carbon footprint. One of our aims is to walk as much as possible. This picture shows all pupils in our school ‘Walking on Wednesday’ around Ballinculla, in Clonown. There is a lovely view of the Shannon and the children enjoy the […]
We love Art in our school and we take part in many competitions throughout the year. We were very pleased when three of our pupils won prizes in the Road Safety Competition, organised by An Gárda Síochána Ros Comáin. We attended the award ceremony in Roscommon Arts Centre.
We take part in the Cumann na mBunscol Gaelic competition each year. We were delighted this year to travel to Mount Talbot N.S. for the boys and girls blitz. They were great hosts and we got a warm welcome there. It was a lovely, sunny day and we enjoyed playing against the other schools. We’re […]
Each year we take part in the Roscommon Soccer League. This year it was in Lecarrow. It’s a great blitz and is very well organised. We love meeting teams from other schools. Sport is in integral part of our school week in Clonown N.S. We were delighted when one of our teams got through to […]
Pupils in the Senior Room went to Tayto Park on 1st May. We had a brilliant day. The weather was really nice. We used the money which we raised from our Junior Entrepreneur Project to pay for this trip. We got a tour of the zoo and we went on many of the amusements. It […]