Tennis Open Day

Last week, Carlow Lawn Tennis Club opened their courts up to our children for an Open Day. Over 35 families from our school joined in this exclusive day for our school. The weather was super and the atmosphere was brilliant. It was great to see so many children and families from our school supporting the […]

Gaeilge Competition Winners

During Seachtain na Gaeilge, Michael launched a seanfhocail colouring competition where 3rd to 6th class pupils had to design a poster to celebrate a famous seanfhocail. The results were highly impressive. Michael said that they were so good that he could have made everyone a winner of the competition. Pictured here are this year’s competition […]

Assembly Report

Adrian led this week’s assembly with a lovely rendition of our school song. Adrian talked about the upcoming bank holiday and about our very exciting Healthy Eating Day next Thursday. Michael also gave out awards for our Seachtain na Gaeilge art competition.

On the Farm Competition Winners

Congratulations to the two girls in second class for their success in the On the Farm competition. Both girls some amazing art to win their certificates where they were highly commended for their efforts.

Making shapes

Junior Infants have been learning about lots of different shapes. We know all about squares, triangles, cirlces and rectangles- just ask us and see! We found shapes all around our classroom and all around the school. We made pictures with lots of different shapes too. Then we used our bodies to make shapes. We had […]

Open Night 2013

We had a wonderful Open Night in Carlow ETNS with a record number of people in the school. This is likely to be our last open night in our current building so it was an extra special one. The staff gave talks to parents about starting school, RSE and what to expect in new classes. The Parents’ […]

Fossil hunting

The Senior Infants have been learning about fossils, what they are and where they come from. They made their own fossils using play doh and items found around the class.They are great fossil detectives and had no problems finding out what items had left the marks behind.

Cave paintings in Senior Infants

The Senior Infants have been learning about cave paintings and imagining what life might have been like for the Stone Age people who did them.They read the brilliant book ‘Cave Baby’ and then drew their own pictures to show what their lives are like today. They put them in their class time capsule so they […]