What a fun, engaging, interactive, and busy year we’ve had! The children have worked so hard throughout the year, and I am incredibly proud of each and every one of them. It has been an absolute pleasure teaching them and watching them grow. Below is a little snippet from the year gone by. I hope you all have a wonderful summer! Múinteoir Lisa

Another fantastic suggestion by our Student Council was to paint a mural of our school crest on the wall near the pitch.  The children from the senior room and the members of the student council worked really well to make this happen.  All children in the school then had the opportunity to take part in the mural by adding their handprint each side of the crest.  The finished product is amazing. Well done to everyone!

On Tuesday we transformed our classroom into a mini cinema!🎥🎞️After finishing the novel Wonder  in class, we were so excited to watch the movie together. We had been looking forward to it for weeks and it did not disappoint! The movie was a great way to bring the story and the characters in the book to life. One of the biggest themes in Wonder is friendship and acceptance. Watching the movie reminded us how important it is to be a good friend, include others and treat everyone with kindness. The popcorn and treats were an added bonus, what a lovely and enjoyable way to end our school term🍿.

June has been an incredibly busy and exciting month in the Senior Room as we rounded off another fantastic school year.

One of the highlights of the month was Active Week, which took place from the 8th–12th June. The children enjoyed a wide variety of activities throughout the week. We were delighted to welcome coaches and instructors from Golden Gloves Boxing, Erris Karate, and local hurling and tag-rugby coaches who helped the pupils develop new skills while staying active and having fun.

As part of Active Week, we also had a very informative visit from the RNLI, who spoke to the children about the importance of water safety, particularly as we head into the summer months. The pupils learned valuable lessons about staying safe around water and what to do in an emergency.

There was plenty of sporting action too, including an Erris United tournament, our annual Sports Day, and a School Sports Quiz, all of which were enjoyed by the children. It was wonderful to see such enthusiasm, teamwork and sportsmanship throughout the week.

We were also delighted to celebrate a significant achievement for our school this month. The school was awarded the Amber Flag in recognition of its commitment to promoting positive mental health and wellbeing. To mark this achievement, we enjoyed a special wellbeing celebration party, which was a lovely way for the whole school community to come together. A special thank you must go to our Wellbeing Committee on this great achievement.

A special word of thanks must also go to our Student Council, who worked hard to paint the new school crest on the outside of the school. They did a fantastic job and have left a lasting mark on our school community. Thank you to all involved for their time, effort and creativity.

This week has been particularly special for our 6th Class pupils. We enjoyed a lovely lunch together in the Talbot before they celebrated their graduation today. It was a wonderful opportunity to reflect on their time in our school and celebrate all they have achieved. We wish our graduating pupils every success and happiness as they begin the next chapter of their educational journey.

As another school year comes to an end, we hope everyone enjoys a safe, happy and relaxing summer holiday.

See you all in September!

Our school recently celebrated Active Week and what an incredible week it was! The children took part in lots of wonderful activities and workshops to promote health, well being, teamwork and the joy of being active! One of the highlights of our week in the Middle room was our Fun Soccer Tournament⚽! The Children displayed fantastic sportsmanship, teamwork and determination as they competed in some friendly matches against one another! Children were also given the opportunity to try something new through the Fitness Class🏋️‍♀️, Boxing🥊and Karate workshops🥋. These workshops were not only educational but they were great fun and the children thoroughly enjoyed them. The beautiful weather today gave us the perfect chance to get back outdoors and enjoy a Nature scavenger hunt📋✏️. It was a wonderful chance to combine a break away from the classroom with some outdoor learning, the sunshine was an added bonus!🌞

Congrats to all the students for their enthusiasm, their positivity and their willingness to give every activity and workshop a go! We hope these activities inspire everyone to continue leading healthy and active lifestyles throughout the Summer. Well done to all involved!

We had a fantastic time this week celebrating Active Week.  The children learned hurling skills and went on nature walks.  We had a fantastic fitness workshop with Mary as well as superb sessions with Erris Karate and the RNLI.  We played Tag Rugy and had a really fun sports day.  A huge thank you to all the visiting teachers for taking time to come to our school and teach us the different skills.

A huge thank you to the Student Council for doing a fantastic job at organising and running our Sports Day this year.  A great morning was had by all!

We travelled to Belleek Woods for a fantastic, interactive, fun and engaging session with Tonnta Adventure.  The children had the opportunity for lots of child led free play, shelter and den building, making s’mores, woodland crafts, lots of  exploration of the woods and many more exciting activities.  We finished off the day with a trip to Supermac’s for some yummy food🍟🍟 and ice-cream 🍦🍨 The day was a great success, with all the children thoroughly enjoying the experience.

Another month has just flown by!  Once again the children worked really well this month and took part in lots of fun and engaging activities.  We also celebrated a class birthday this month.

We are delighted that hurling and tag rugby has started again.  The children look forward to the lessons each week and they are continuing to develop these skills.

Also, this month we were very fortunate to have a visit from Agatha Hurst from The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group.  We all thoroughly enjoyed the presentation and learned a vast amount of knowledge.

The children learned about Mary in our Grow in Love programme.  To celebrate this, the children walked to the grotto beside the church and said a special prayer to Mary.

Again this month, the children showcased their creativity through making beautiful pieces of Art based on summer.

We were very fortunate with the weather for a number of days in May.  We took full advantage of the sunshine and went for some lovely walks and took a stroll to the beach.

We have had a very busy and exciting few weeks in the Middle Room with lots of fun activities and great achievements to celebrate! 

We were delighted to welcome Courtney & Simon back to the school to teach us hurling & tag rugby skills again. The children really enjoyed the active sessions and had great fun improving their skills each week. Everyone loved getting involved and showing fantastic teamwork and enthusiasm. 

The children in 3rd and 4th Class had a wonderful day out at the Francis Neary GAA Tournament in Drum. They played extremely well as a team and represented the school brilliantly throughout the day. A special thank you to Alan for coaching and supporting the children on the day⚽. 4th class were lucky enough to get another day out in  Kilcommon on Tuesday for a hurling blitz with the Senior Room. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams performed very well and we were all delighted to come home with medals!🎖️ 

A huge congratulations to Saraid in 4th class, who did fantastically well in the Claremorris Athletics Competition and brought home a medal🎖️. We wish her the very best of luck in her upcoming races in June🏃‍♂️. 

In PE this month we have been working on gymnastics and the children have absolutely loved getting the mats out and practising lots of different rolls and movements outside . The “teddy bear roll” was definitely a class favourite! We took part in some lovely wellbeing activities with the children from the Junior and Senior Rooms this month. It was wonderful to see all of the children interacting together, with the older pupils doing a fantastic job leading games and activities within the groups. 

On the first week in May we had a very special visitor to the school🐬. Agatha Hurst (from the IWDG group) came to speak to us all about whale and dolphin conservation, education and rescue work. The children learned so many interesting facts. They really enjoyed the visit and getting to look at all the cool bones and artefacts that Agatha brought in to show them was an added bonus!

With the glorious weather this week, we took a stroll down to the beach and had a fantastic time dipping our feet in the water, digging holes in the sand and collecting lots of interesting shells🐚. It was a lovely way to enjoy the sunshine together! 

We are all looking forward to many more fun activities and adventures over the coming weeks!

Múinteoir Trina

Another month has just flown by.  The children worked really well this month and the lovely weather is just brilliant 🌞🌞We had some lovely walks down the shore road when the sun was shining and it was great  see all the sings of growth.  We also celebrated two class birthdays this month🎂🎂🎉🎉

We learned three Nursery Rhymes this month-‘Little Jack Horner,’ ‘One, Two Buckle My Shoe’ and ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.  We worked on two lovely stories ‘A Tree is Nice’ and ‘Are you My Planet?’  The children also learned the poem ‘A Real April Day.’  We are continuing to work on the UFLI programme and the children are working very well on the material.

We worked on the theme of Sa Bhaile this month and the children worked really well on learning the new vocabulary. In Maths, we revised Time and word on addition and Weight.

The children made beautiful butterflies and space scenes in Art and we completed the Fitness4Class programme this month.  The boys and girls loved getting their completion certificates, stickers and pencils. Also, the children worked on the Food Dudes programme this month. They worked really well on tasting the different fruits and vegetables.  We are keeping a close eye on our cress seeds that we planted as part of the programme and they are growing really well 🌱🌱

To finish off the month, on 29th April the children visited the Wild Nephin Park in Ballycroy.  We had a fantastic day and learned a huge amount of information about the flora and fauna in Ireland🐞🐝🪻🦅

We all had a fabulous day travelling to Ballycroy to visit the National Park.  We started off the day with a very informative tour of the museum and then we headed outside to explore the wonderful flora and fauna.  We were blessed with fantastic weather and we completed the day with some lovely treats in the sun.  The boys and girls had a great day and learned a vast amount of knowledge.

April was a shorter school month, but we certainly packed a lot into those few weeks! We were delighted to complete the Food Dudes programme on our first week back after the Easter holidays. There was great excitement as everyone had the opportunity to taste a variety of fruits and vegetables, alongside engaging in a range of fun cross-curricular activities! To celebrate our achievements, we finished with a whole-school fruit salad buffet on the last day in Múinteoir Lisas classroom — a colourful and delicious way to mark the occasion!🍐🍍

A very special highlight this month was on Saturday the 18th, when our 2nd class pupils made their First Holy Communion. They did an amazing job on the day and made us all incredibly proud. A sincere thank you to Fr Nallen for celebrating the beautiful mass, and to Múinteoir Diane for the time, care, and dedication she gave in helping our class prepare in the run up to their big day. On Monday we had a lovely day celebrating the 2nd class children  with more cake, a small party and lots of dancing at a disco! We had great fun!🎂🪩🕺

Back in the classroom, there was great excitement as we introduced yoga balls (stability balls) for the children to trial using during the school day. We hope these will encourage active sitting, support improved posture and help with concentration when used for short periods of time! They’ve been a big hit so far with everyone in the classroom requesting a turn!

Last week we were all incredibly excited to find that our class caterpillars had finally hatched from their cocoons and had transformed into beautiful butterflies over the weekend! 🦋We were blessed with some beautiful warm weather🌞- perfect for releasing them back into the garden! The children engaged in lots of creative and educational activities around the topic of the Monarch butterfly; we painted beautiful butterflies, made paper plate lifecycle wheels and wrote detailed reports on everything we had learnt since first bringing the caterpillars into our classroom in March!

Finally, huge congratulations to Larry in 4th Class, who represented our school so brilliantly at The National Championships karate competition in Balbriggan last weekend. Bringing home both a gold and a silver medal is an incredible achievement, and we are all very proud of his success.🎖️🥋

Well done to everyone for making April such a fun, active, and memorable month!

At a meeting of the Student Council, it was proposed that hoodies be introduced for Sixth Class pupils in their final year at the school. The pupils proceeded to explore the various options available and had an input into the final design.  The finished product can be seen below.  They look fantastic and we are absolutely delighted with them👏

The Food Dudes programme is an evidence based healthy eating programme.  It aims to encourage children to eat more fruit and vegetables.  This week the children were given the opportunity to taste a fruit and vegetable each day that was delivered fresh each morning from the Food Dudes team.  The menu for the week was as follows:

Monday: banana and carrot

Tuesday: blueberries and peppers

Wednesday: apple and cucumber

Thursday: mandarins and tomatoes

Friday: apple, blueberries, courgettes and carrots

The children worked really well on tasting the food and loved watching the videos and completing the assigned activity each day. One of the activities for the Junior Room was to plant cress seeds.  We will observing the pots very closely over the next few days for signs of growth🪴

On Friday, all classes came together and were given the opportunity to taste a variety of fruits and vegetables such as watermelon, melon, pear, pineapple, strawberries, grapes, blackberries, raspberries, peppers, cucumber and cherry tomatoes We all had a lovely time and the children really enjoyed ‘tasting the rainbow’🌈

Finally, a huge thank you to the Student Council who were a fantastic help all week.  Keep up the healthy eating 🥕🍊🍉🍇