The school endeavours to take all pupils on an educational tour annually. These tours cover a wide and varied choice of venues of an educational, environmental and historical nature. We have visited Dublin, Wexford, Wicklow, Carlow & Waterford for tours over the years.
Last Thursday, the whole school went on their annual school tour to the Heritage Park in Co. Wexford. During our time at the Heritage Park, we did the following! We met Danni, our tour guide, who taught us so much during our time with her. We travelled through various sites on our tour starting from about…
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…
Once again we have come to that time of year again for our Annual School Tour! This year the whole school will travel together to the Irish Heritage Park in Ferrycarraig, Co. Wexford on Thursday, 29th May 2014. On this day, the children will have a guided tour of the Heritage Park as well as participate…
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…
