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Mairead McGuinness visits our school!

Mairead McGuinness MEP visited our school on February 14th, 2014 to view the school environment and assess the impact of recent flooding on our school. She listened to the concerns of our principal, Edel Leech and a local deputation led by Mattie Hallinan. The concerns were 1. Sanitation hazards due to rising water table 2. Risk of […]

Junior Infants February 2014

February 2014 Junior Infants Hello everyone, welcome to wet February. This month was a busy one. We learned about St. Bridget and spring, Irish legends Oisín and Tir na nÓg, and loud and soft sounds. In Maths, we learned value of numbers, and what’s bigger and smaller than certain numbers. We would like to wish […]

Ardrahan in the Final!

Ardrahan girls in the Final Ardrahan camogie seniors are in the All-Ireland Club Final, after a heroic defeat of Mullinavat in the Semi-final. The final is scheduled for the 2nd of March in Croke Park. In honour or the occasion, we wrote poems and slogans. We composed character poems describing a player of our choice, […]

Science Experiment

  Science Experiments In the senior classroom we completed science experiments to do with Carbon Dioxide. The first experiment we undertook was making carbon dioxide gas. We put bicarbonate of soda and vinegar into a plastic bottle. Next we put two straws together to make passage for the gas to pass through. Then we filled […]

Sports Day

Sports day Every year we have an annual sports day in June. Some of the activities include Egg and spoon race, tug of war, relays, puc fada and Athletic races. We have lots of others as well. Every year we have great fun. All Children from the Montessori to Sixth class participate. There are lots […]

Write-a-Book

Write a Book Most children have finished first drafts by now. After mid-term we will be editing and completing our dedication, acknowledgments, About the author and front and back covers. Everybody loves doing it. The teachers have all helped editing them. When we are finished in early March we will post some pictures on the […]

First, Second and Third Class, February 2014

February 2014 First Class Welcome to spring in First Class. We are learning all about seasonal change in Geography even though some of the days this month looked more like winter than spring! In Maths, we are learning all about the hundred square and place value from 1-99. We can now regroup and rename tens […]

Senior Infants January 2014

Senior Infants January 2014  We are very excited in Senior Infants to call ourselves authors this month. We are currently working on our Write-a- Book projects, which we will publish and soon have home for you all to read and enjoy. Iarla, Diarmuid, Peader, Ellie, Erin,Mark, Killian, Meadbh and Eoan are doing a book on […]

Junior Infants January 2014

 Junior Infants January 2014 Welcome back after Christmas Holidays- Santa came to us all and we had a really fantastic Christmas.We wish everyone a very peaceful, safe and happy 2014. It was Alex and Corey’s birthday in December- Happy birthday Alex and Corey!We hope you both had a great time. Junior Infants are working hard […]

Archaeology Visit

On Friday the 24th of January Jerry came to visit and gave us a presentation on his work as an archaeologist. He told us about the discoveries on the 57km Gort to Tuam road. Their biggest find was Owenbristy cemetery where they found 80 shallow graves. He also talked about some the artefacts they found. […]