I am delighted to welcome you to the website of Carlow Educate Together National School. Since opening in 2008, the school has grown to become one of the most innovative schools in the country. We are well known for our friendly welcome and we’d love to meet you should you want to come and visit. You can always send me an email at simon@carloweducatetogether.ie and I’ll be happy to chat.
Our new clothing bank has arrived. We're delighted to have one of these on the school grounds. Please use this facility for your clothing cast-offs. For every one tonne of clothing the school will receive €200, or 20c per kilo. This is calculated quarterly. The more we use this clothing bank, the more funds we could raise for our school. Fundraiser.ie are also running a celebratecommunitycampagn.ie. Any organisation using their clothing banks can be nominated in a monthly draw. Feel free to nominate us as a worthy cause!
So brilliant to have access to one of these!!! Brilliant idea.
Brilliant! Will definitely be using it!
That's very good
Brilliant none left around the town
That's brilliant!
Fantastic!!
For the last 2 days of Active Week we had plenty to keep us busy. Pat came in again for more athletics fun, Garry Coady from FAIreland taught lots of classes some soccer skills, Pio from O'Hanrahan's Gaa Club helped some classes with Gaelic football, Susanne organized an amazing orienteering course around the school and Lesley helped us dance into the weekend with Zumba!
A really fun week for them 👏
Good news!
Our school was one of the winners of the Aldi Ireland Rugby Initiative.
Brilliant news! And such a great campaign by Aldi
That is soooooo awesome!!! Well done! I guess all the sticker hunting was well worth it! 💖
Wow that’s absolutely brilliant. Well done 👍🏻
Well done everyone! Congratulations!!
Wow that's fantastic , well done 👏x
That's brilliant news 😁 Congratulations 🎉
Congratulations !!
Well done Guys 👏👏
Excellent. 😊
Marlena's 2nd class had a wonderful time at African Day and then learning about biodiversity with Kate. Busy day!
Seniors Infants and 1st class had a very special visitor in today. Ciara from the Dept of Health and Sports Science in SETU Carlow and Curragh Naas Orienteering Club - CNOC came in to teach them some orienteering and map reading skills as part of active week. She created 4 wonderful courses around the school grounds. They had great fun figuring out the route using their maps. Thank you so much Ciara!
Eimear and Caroline's class have been enjoying active week. They have taken part in lots of different activities.
On day 3 of Active Week we had Pat who works with Kilkenny Recreation & Sports Partnership in doing athletics and Shannon and Eilís from Carlow Acrobatic Gymnastics Club showing us some gymnastics skills. Some classes also participated in a skipathon!
Photos from our wonderful Family Fun Day
Huge thanks to Emma and the parents association for organising a brilliant day! Thanks to Rhonda and the School Food Company for the barbecue. Thanks to Deirdre and 6th class for their fantastic JEP shop and the friendly welcomes as people came to the school. Thanks to Gary for bringing the music and to all the staff that helped out on the day. Thanks to Solomon for all the heavy lifting and for the lovely photographs below!
Looks like we have an annual event, folks!
It was a fabulous day. Thanks so much to all involved & thanks to Solomon who did an amazing job with the traffic 😀 he was so kind to me allowing me to park where I did, was very much appreciated
It was lovely, thanks to everyone who organised it!
Amazing job , everyone 👏👏👏
A wonderfully fun day, thank you!
Lovely day , well done to everyone involved 👏💕
Active Week 2023
We are loving the daily challenges, we have some very determined and strong children. The plank challenge lasted over 40minutes and the wall sit champion Ruby sat for almost an hour just to beat her own personal record! 🏆
We did a cereal box challenge in 4th class today to see who could pick up the box without using their hands.
The sun was shining for day 2 of our Active Week. Some of our classes got a chance to play tennis and soccer. Our senior classes got to try out some weightlifting and our junior classes had great fun playing games with Teresa. We must say a big thank you to Brian from the Carlow Tennis Club, Ciara and her team from SETU Carlow and Colm from Birmingham City Football Club for coming in and showing us their skills. We had a fantastic day!
5th class did a Weightlifting class today. Thanks SETU for the coaching session.
We had a fantastic start to our Active Week today. Big thanks to Aoibheann who encouraged our junior classes to get their dancing shoes on and to Gavin from Leinster Rugby who taught our senior classes some tag rugby skills. 5th class also made a very special trip to Primal Performance and Fitness! Thank you so much to Sive and Paul for welcoming us into their gym. It was such a great experience!
I don't think there's anything Carlow Educate Together kids cannot do at this point! Well done to all 💪
Our first Carlow Educate Together National School Bike Bus went really well this morning. We collected children from different points across Carlow Town as we went and enjoyed our active start to the day.
If you and/or your child would like to take part in the next Bike Bus we are looking for adult volunteers to help out occasionally. Please contact mark@carloweducatetogether.ie if you are in a position to do this.
Thanks again to County Carlow Sports Partnership who helped enable this to happen.
We had a great Bike Week 2023 and there were a huge amount of kids taking part in different activities over the week. Thanks to County Carlow Sports Partnership for the generous funding and to Jason from Cycling Safety for the lessons for the 5th classes leading up to our cycle down the Barrow. The infant classes and integration classes were practicing all week in the school grounds and we have a lot of newly independent cyclists with no stabilisers.
It was great to see the bike racks and the Geodome (the fanciest bike storage area in the country) full of bikes all week.
On Monday 22nd our school is going to trial it's first ever Bike Bus for the 4th - 6th class children. The Bike Bus will be run by parents and teacher volunteers and collect children on their bikes all across Carlow town on the way to school. This is a great start to Active Week which runs all next week.
Sinéad and Gillian's classes had a super week for National Bike Week and to top it off...Super Hero's (in aid of Ascar Youth empowering project wattuba ) on their bikes today! "Bestest day ever!!"🚴♂️🚴♀️ County Carlow Sports Partnership
Thanks so much to all the teachers involved with this. Caitlin had a fantastic week 😊
Biking to the Town Park and along the Barrow. 5th class absolutely loved it. County Carlow Sports Partnership
Margaret's class have been learning all about food and today they made their own brown bread and butter. They did a fantastic job and it tasted delicious 😄
Margaret's class have been learning about Water Safety and today they got their certificates. Well done everyone 👏
Over the last 4 weeks, our 3rd-6th class students participated in our annual Soccer World Cup. The USA battled through their group, and won 3 successive penalty shootouts to be crowned the eventual winners of this years tournament. A great four weeks of football, where leadership, humility and respect were on display throughout ⚽️🏆
Some of our budding street artists from 6th class created this new outdoor piece. Thanks to #streetartlink in Waterford for the inspiration
Well done to the team, it is a lovely piece 👏🏻
I was admiring it this morning. Looks fantastic. Well done 👏
Well done everyone looks amazing
Saw that today and thought it was lovely, well done folks!
These are our much loved family of chickens. They are cared for by 5th class who would love if someone in our wider school community might be able to provide some help with a general health check and advice. Please contact susanne@carloweducatetogether.ie
#EU50 Visit to our school from Maltese Ambassador & local TD
We were delighted to welcome Giovanni Buttigeig, Ambassador to Ireland from Malta 🇲🇹 #embassyofmalta, & Kathleen Funchion, TD #kathleenfunchion as part of the #EU50 celebrations this week. They talked to children from the Students' Council and 5th & 6th classes. We heard about Malta and Giovanni spoke some Maltese for us. They were very impressed by the level of questions from the children. We were presented with a special EU 🇪🇺 flag & a book about Malta for our school. It is really important for us that children understand how society works and how they can take part in decision making that affects their lives. This was a great opportunity for the children to see representatives from political and civic engagement.
