English is taught to all children from Junior Infants to Sixth Class. Oral language, reading and writing are all encouraged and promoted throughout the school. The child’s reading and writing experience in school can contribute greatly to their cognitive, emotional and imaginative development. The children love to write stories, complete projects and post their blogs on the school website.
Although a short month February has been a busy time for 4th, 5th and 6th class. In art we painted our silhouettes, can you guess who’s who?! We also painted cold colours such as blue and purple to create a sky and then cut out a white winter tree to create these…
Over the past number of weeks, the pupils in 3rd Class have been researching projects of interest in various topics. They first went to the library to get the books and learned to type on the computer and the rest was up to them! On Wednesday, 19th February, each pupil had to present their project…
Welcome back to everybody! It certainly has been a busy month for us and the 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class have worked very hard in all areas over the past few weeks! In Science and Geography, we have been learning about the Winter and have integrated lots of work around this cold season. The children…
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…
December has been a busy month for all of us! For the past number of weeks we have been busy practising for the Christmas play which was held yesterday in St. Mary’s Church, Castlecomer. Afterwards, we had a party in school and a visit from Santa Claus! When we were not practising, we were busy…
