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 …
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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 …
Read more »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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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 …
Read more »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!
Read more »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 …
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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 …
Read more »On Friday we had a cake sale in school. I have never seen so many cakes disappear so quickly! A big thank you to all the parents who baked, bought and brought all the lovely cakes and biscuits. Adam in Junior Infants decorated this cake in the picture with the name of our school!
Read more »Our after school club is going from strength to strength with loads of activities. Have a look at the great fun that happens every day with Trish! If you would like to enrol your child in the after school club, there are lots of flexible options. Your child can stay from 1:30pm to 2:30pm if …
Read more »Our 5th and 6th class programmers have got started on creating their cartoons using a language called Scratch. They have designed their storyboards and are now creating their sprites (Sprites are the characters in the cartoon). They are using Dropbox to store their files so they can work at home if they like. As the …
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