Staff Training: Stay Safe
On Friday, the staff were trained in the Stay Safe programme from the PDST. Our tutor Mary Dolan informed staff of the reasons for the Stay Safe programme in order for us to help prevent child abuse. Much emphasis was placed on making sure staff knew that the Designated Liaison Person in the school (Simon […]
Thanksgiving Assembly
This week’s assembly was all about Thanksgiving. Led by Adrian, the children learned a little bit about the history of America and the very first Thanksgiving. After that, some of Emer’s class read out some letters to say thank you to people they care about. Finally, we watched a video that Adrian made with Ciara […]
Snow Update 8:15pm
As of 8:15pm this evening, our school remains set to open tomorrow. We will further update from our web site and Facebook page if we hear any further news.
Students of the Week
Christmas Presents
Our school is selling Christmas cards, CDs and Gift Cards this year. In order for us to order the correct amount of products, we ask you to fill out this pre-order form. It needs to come back to the school by 9am on Monday, 29th November. All orders will be processed and ready for Friday, […]
Comenius Project
Simon was in Sweden last week for a European Conference on Education. Part of this project means that our school will be twinned with 5 other schools across Europe in a joint project. These schools will work in partnership with our school to learn from each other over the next two years. We’ll also have […]
Fun with Clay!
In Eiméar’s class we are having great fun with porcelain clay! Melissa showed us how to roll, squeeze, flatten and pinch the clay before we made pinch pots. Watch this space for the finished products! Next week, we are making clay relief tiles.
Aliens have landed!!
It appears that aliens have landed in Carlow Educate Together NS. This week in Ciara’s class we were learning about adjectives. Adjectives are describing words. We thought up some really good adjectives to describe aliens and then everyone drew their own alien in their copy, gave it a name and added adjectives to describe it. […]
Sounds Fun
Claire’s class were learning about sounds for science week. We learned that sounds are all around us and there are many ways we can make sounds. We touched our throats and we could feel our fingertips tingle as we made happy sounds, sad sounds, angry sounds and scary sounds. We played an animal sounds guessing […]
Science Week: The Strongest Magnet
We measured the strength of our magnets in school by seeing how many paper clips they’d attract. We didn’t expect this one to pick them all up!