This week our SNA helped pupils in the Junior Room to build a ‘hut’ out of branches which were left over from an early spring clean! The children had a ball and they were so proud of their creation. Thank you Brendan 🙂
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We went to Billionaire Boy by David Walliams in the Olympia Theatre. It was a fantastic show. We read the book already so it was great to see it performed on stage. We love reading David Walliam books and we complete quizzes based on his books as part of the Accelerated Reader Programme. The last […]
This week we celebrated Catholic Schools Week. Our activities included writing prayers for our grandparents, a prayer service in our classrooms and making St. Brigid’s Day crosses. We love making the crosses in particular and we have become very skilled at this! 6th class went into the Junior Room to help the younger pupils with […]
Ms. Keane brought Lego Progamming kits and Bee-bots into our classrooms this week and taught us how to use them. We had brilliant fun. We learned how to programme the bee-bots to follow a certain route. We worked in groups and problem-solved together. The Seniors also built various items using lego and programmed them to […]
For Art this month we used large stones which we collected at the beach and painted them using our own designs. Brendan varnished them for us. Didn’t we do a lovely job!
We have just completed a 7 week computer course. 1st class to 6th class took part. The children thoroughly enjoyed it. They did typing skills, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and this year they also did Scratch.
We recently entered the DPD Christmas Art Competition. We had lots of fun doing it and we loved looking at one another’s work and talking about it. We were delighted when two of our pupils came first in their ages categories. They each won a 50 euro voucher for Smyths. Well done girls. We also […]
The children in our school love taking part in ‘Secret Santa’. Each child buys a gift for another pupil in his/her class and we exchange gifts on the last day of school. We hope all the children, teachers, staff and parents of Clonown N.S.have a lovely Christmas. Thank you sincerely for all your help and […]
To celebrate all the children’s hard work and kindness to one another all term, we decided to go bowling together before the Christmas Holidays. Pupils in the Senior room bowled, while the children in the Junior room enjoyed playing in Adventureland. Afterwards we went to the library to exchange our books before the holidays. We […]
We recently had our Christmas Nativity Concert in Clonown Community Centre. It was a great success and we were incredibly of all the pupils in our school. All 32 pupils had a part in the show, from Junior Infants up to 6th class, and each child loved saying his/her lines into the microphones! The songs […]