Assembly: Communion
10 children from 2nd class made their First Holy Communion. Michael gave an interesting assembly about the ceremony and what happens.
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First Holy Communion
This is a photograph of the children who are taking their First Holy Communion this year. Everyone from the school community is welcome to come along to the ceremony, which is at 11am in St. Clare’s Church in Graiguecullen. After the service, refreshments will be served in our school. The very best of luck to […]
Origami
This week in Carlow Educate Together the children have been busy practicing the ancient Japanese art of Origami. In Japanese Ori means “Paper” and Kami means “Folding” – Paper Folding. They had to listen very carefully and follow instructions to make all kinds of things, birds, fish, penguins, crabs and even a whale. My favourite […]
Story Time!
Courtney has been doing so well at her reading that she invited some lucky junior infant students to hear her read a story called “Monkey Puzzle”. Ron, Sarah, Kristof, James and Conor all enjoyed looking at the colourful pictures and hearing the beautifully read story.
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Bring Back Chalk !
Junior Infants have been enjoying using chalk instead of the conventional modern crayon. We explored the texture that chalk creates on black paper and we especially enjoyed using our fingers to make smudges part of our designs. Our drawings are completely individual as we were able to draw anything we wanted while exploring the fun […]
Fairtrade Talk
On Friday 2oth May, we learned lots of new information about Fairtrade, we took part in a Fairtrade quiz and even tasted some Fairtrade chocolate!
Open Night
On May 25th, Carlow Educate Together will be hosting its annual Open Night for the community. This is an informal evening where you, your family and friends can visit our school and have a look at all the great activities our staff and pupils do each day. We’re opening the school at 7pm and we’re […]
Wesak Assembly
On Friday, Emer talked to the school about Wesak, an important Buddhist festival. Emer told us all about the story of Buddha and then told us all about the different things that Buddhists do for this festival. We saw pictures of the Buddhist flag and statues of Buddha. It was a great assembly and we […]