Roscommon Coaching and Games held a GAA activity day for Senior Pupils in the Connacht Dome today. There were lots of different schools taking part. Our pupils had a brilliant time. There were different circuits and the children got the opportunity to practise a range of football & hurling skills, with many other fun activities […]
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Nov
Nov
All pupils from 1st to 6th completed their training in our Anti-Bullying Care Plan today with Ms Quigley. We also signed our Care Cards and we are signing our Anti-Bullying Promises with our parents this evening. We received this lovely, colourful Cineáltas flag from the Department of Education which we are going to display at […]
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Nov
Nov
We continued working hard on our project for BT Young Scientists. We are so excited about going to the RDS in January! We also made robot minions with our kits from Stem Wizz (see below). This week we learned about photosynthesis. We learned that plants, hedges and trees take in sunlight and water, and they […]
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Nov
Nov
Pupils in the Junior Room had great fun celebrating Science Week. Firstly, Junior & Senior Infants focused on ‘Materials’ and they had to design and create a bridge that could hold the weight of ten farm animals. They could use only string, lollipop sticks and a bit of sellotape also! They got great help and […]
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Nov
Nov
We are delighted to announce that our school has been selected to attend the Primary Science Fair at BT Young Scientists on 11th January with our project on Hedgerows. (This project makes up part of our Green School Project also.) This is a brilliant opportunity for our pupils and teachers. We are very excited. We […]
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Nov
Nov
Well done to all our pupils who took part in the shoebox appeal this week with Team Hope. “Team Hope’s Christmas Shoebox Appeal is an annual campaign that delivers gifts straight into the hands of children affected by poverty. Often these shoebox gifts are the only gift that a child will receive at Christmas and […]
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Oct
Oct
There were a lot of spooky faces in Clonown N.S. today! We had brilliant fun together dressing up for Halloween. We hope all our pupils, staff and their families have a healthy, happy and restful midterm break. See you on 6th November.
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Oct
Oct
Cross-curricular Learning We focused on Procedural Writing in English for the past fortnight. 3rd and 4th Class read about and completed written activities on planting spring window boxes. We decided to put this lesson into action! Kevin Dooley ordered daffodil, crocus, tulip and muscari bulbs for us. They came all the way from Holland! We […]
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Oct
Oct
We are celebrating Maths Week this week with a focus on Chess. We are having so much fun. All pupils, Junior Infants – 6th Class are following the Chess lessons with their teacher on Ficheall.ie at their own pace each day. For example, pupils in the Junior Room focused on the pawn on day 1 […]
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Oct
Oct
We are very lucky to have such lovely, natural surroundings on our school yard. This provides great opportunities for imaginative play; the children play shop/restaurant using leaves, twigs and pebbles. There are lots of areas amongst the trees for building forts/huts. Today there was great activity at the Bug Hotel and lots of digging nearby! […]