World Kindness Day

Did you know that today is World Kindness Day? Claire gave a great assembly about the day and gave us some great ideas of how we can be kind to each other. One simple way Claire told us was to smile at someone. Some of our children offered some other ideas like playing with friends […]

Ethos Evaluation

Yesterday three members of the Educate Together Head Office came down to Carlow to take part in workshops as part of our ethos evaluation. All members of the school were part of the evaluation – parents, children, Board of Management and staff. On Thursday night, Molly met with our Board of Management to evaluate their […]

Science Week Fun

It was Science week this week. In 2nd and 3rd class we were finding out all about space and night and day. We were learning about the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, who travelled to the moon in Apollo 11, about the special equipment that an astronaut needs going to space, watched a […]

School Trail

Junior Infants this week have been learning all about the the different rooms in the school. We went on a school trail, visiting lots of rooms and taking pictures of ourselves in each room. Some of the student themselves were the photographers. Please have a look at our photographs!

Circuit Work It!

Simon set a challenge to five pupils in Eimear’s class.  Using the materials on their table, they had to try and make the lightbulb light. The very clever bunch set off and within seconds, the first of these science buffs had solved the problem! The children learned that all lights work on a similar principle. […]

Science Week: Colours

Junior Infants had great fun experimenting with colour for Science Week.  We’re taking part in a Twitter project where our school is sharing all the great work we’re doing with other primary and secondary schools.  To see more go to Twitter and search for #twience.

Happy Diwali

Happy Diwali to everyone! Emer held a special assembly on Diwali yesterday and children learned lots of things about the traditions of the festival. From Barfi to Rangoli, we explored the fun and happy festival for Sikh and Hindu people. We learned about the story of Diwali and watched a cool video of a celebration […]