Meet the New Crew

Hi everyone, Allow me to introduce you to our lovely new Junior Infants. Here we are on our very first day in “big school”. We played lots, made new friends and got to see our new classroom and school. We are looking forward to a great year ahead. Make sure to check...

Gymnastics at School

Today, October 14th was our first day of gymnastics. We were delighted to welcome our coach Gill O Keeffe from Sport Fitness Ireland. Gill brought out classes (one at a time) to our all weather surface. She was all prepared and had an individual gymnastics mat for us...

West Larkin Shield and Sarsfield Cup News

We were delighted when four of our pupils made it on to West Sarsfield Cup and the West Larkin Shield panels. The West  won their respective county semi-finals and  played in the county finals on Tuesday the 26th of November in the Gaelic Grounds. The Larkin Shield...

Junior and Senior Infant School Tour

Today, Junior and Senior Infants went on their school tour to Ballybunnion. It was a fun filled day which began in Checkers Cafe. The children did crazy golf, played in their playground, baked and decorated buns. To finish our day, we went to the beach and made...

Manga High

We have been using Manga High this year on the ipads at school and on our own devices at home. Manga High is a maths website full of different maths activities covering all areas of the maths curriculum. Miss Ryan can set math tasks for us to do or we can do free play...

Exploring Robotics and Coding

In February, 5th and 6th class pupils participated in a coding workshop run by Analog Devices. The class was split into teams and had to assemble a robot using Lego. The pupils then coded the robot to follow an assigned path. The winning team went on to complete in a...

Building Rockets

5th and 6th class pupils were given a selection of materials and had to work together to create the most effective foam rocket possible. Once the agreed rocket was assembled the children were able to incorporate maths by measuring distance travelled versus force. They...

Aistear- The Garden Centre (March)

This month our Aistear theme is the Garden Center. Gardening: We planted spinach, lettuce, turnip, carrots, chives, gherkins, lemon balm, radish and even strawberries!! It is great fun watching them grow. We also learnt all about the different flowers you can find in...

Happy St Patricks Day

Junior and Senior Infants were very busy learning about St Patrick and getting ready for the big day. Have a look at some of their photos