The school is situated ideally to take full advantage of the Castlecomer Demesne and Discovery Park. This is a fantastic woodland park with a wonderful variety of nature species, including tadpoles, fish, birds and many different species of trees. Sometimes after a nature walk we play for a while in the “Timber Tumbles” playground situated beside the Discovery Park.
November has been another fun and busy month in the senior room. We began the month by learning all about keeping dogs as pets and safety around them when The Dog’s Trust came to visit. In Art we created candle holders from jars, we painted them in bright and vibrant colours! We also looked at…
Hallowe’en is just around the corner and the pupils in 5th and 6th class have been doing lots of fun and creative work around this topic. In English we wrote Spooky Stories with a Hallowe’en theme. Art has been all about spiders and fireworks, here are our finished pictures. In Geography, Science and English…
September has been busy for us all settling back into school after our Summer Holidays! We welcomed 4 new pupils into Junior Infants: Anya Morris, Alish Cooney, Theo Neale & Clinton Griffith. We also welcomed back Senior Infants and First Class into the Junior Classroom 🙂 To start off the month, the children made their own…
Another month has flown by in 4th, 5th & 6th Class. We have been busy working in lots of different areas. In Art we made our own clay pencil holders and painted them bright colours. We also made colourful reflective pictures. In Gaeilge we listened to instructions in Irish and drew pictures based on the…
A warm welcome back from the pupils in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class. It has been a very busy few weeks and the children have settled in very well for the first part of the term and have been working hard in all subject areas! In English, the children wrote about their Summer holidays and…
