We are a very busy school! Each year as a treat, we all go to the cinema at Christmas. This is kindly paid for by the Board of Management and we have a fantastic day. Sometimes we hold a Carol Service or Christmas Play in St. Mary’s Church just before the Christmas holidays and then come back to the school for a party. All the parents are invited back for tea/coffee and to see our Christmas art and craft.
December certainly has been busy with lots of activities completed by the senior pupils this month. At the beginning of the month we baked delicious brownies. In English we read all about polar bears and wrote up some facts that we learned. In Gaeilge we were focused on the topic ‘An Nollaig.’ We learned the…
October has flown by and the boys and girls in the senior room have been busy completing lots of work in different areas. 6th class spent some time cooking delicious potato wedges for us all. Well done boys, they were yummy! (Thanks to Mrs Dooley for all her help!) In geography and science we spent…
October has once again been a busy month! We started off the month making Floppy Scarecrows in small groups, in response to a poem called “The Floppy Floppy Scarecrow” in English! In SPHE, the children have been learning all about themselves. They made their own identity card with their own photograph, handprint and fingerprint! In the SESE subject areas, the…
September and October have been full of fun and activities in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class. The Summer holidays are a distant memory for us all now and we have certainly settled back in to our new classes! 2nd and 3rd Class children wrote about their Summer in English, while the 1st Class pupils drew a “snapshot” of their…
Our end of year service took place on Tuesday, 17th June in St. Mary’s Church, Castlecomer. The service was led by Rev. Patrick Burke. All the children in 6th Class were presented with a Bible and a card. We wish Liam, Scott, Roxy, Ben, Lorcan, Sarah and Shauna the very best as they start secondary…
