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.
Another month has come and gone and the Junior Classroom have been busy once again! At the start of the month, the children paid a visit to the Firestation in Castlecomer in support of work they have covered in Geography on “People who Help Us” The children enjoyed learning all about the equipment on the fire…
We have had a busy January in 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class! We were very fortunate to have Mr. Stephen McCorry teaching the children for the first few weeks of the month. Mr. McCorry did lots of lovely things with the boys and girls! To start 2015 off on a positive note, the children designed stars…
The Junior Classroom visited the Discovery Park earlier this month to observe and record aspects of nature around them in early Summer! We saw “white candles” on the Horse Chestnut Trees! There were beautiful bluebells to greet us along our way! We saw wild mushrooms, cow parsley, some minibeasts, a gaggle of geese and we…
On Tuesday, 21st January, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class visited the Thomas Coogan Library in Castlecomer! Mary, the librarian invited us down to listen to stories of local people from years ago. She showed us a project that was written in 1938 by local school children. The project contained memoirs and traditions in the local area. She…
Over the past number of weeks, the children in 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the beautiful season of Autumn. As well as completing lots of Art activities in school, we also went on a nature walk to the Discovery Park. We identified many species of trees and berries and were constantly on…
