€670 raised from Lion’s Club cycle and walk

We were delighted to receive a cheque for €670 from the Lion’s Club for our fundraising efforts for the 5K walk and 14K cycle a couple of months ago. We were even more delighted when we found out that one of our children was the best fundraiser in Carlow and he got himself a gift […]

Board Games in Michael’s Class

This morning, to mark the beginning of the end of their time in 3rd and 4th class, the children were invited to bring board games to school. We had various games in our classroom, ranging from Don’t Say That to the ever popular Monopoly. The children worked on team skills amongst other key areas. After […]

A heartfelt thank you to Denise, Audrey & Mags

Denise (Jake & Josh’s mum) recently ran the Dublin Women’s Mini-Marathon in aid of the Special Needs Unit in our school. She roped in her friends Audrey and Mags too. They raised a whopping €440 on the day. On behalf of the pupils and staff we would like to thank them for their fantastic achievement […]

Junior Achievers in 1st Class

1st class have been taking part in the Junior Achievement Programme over the last 5 weeks and they completed it on Wednesday this week. Caroline from Top Oil has been visiting our class every Wednesday to do lots of fun activities with us about families. They really enjoyed the programme and were presented with lovely certificates on Wednesday. […]

5th & 6th School Tour

Today we went on our school tour to Tayto Park in Co. Meath with 3rd and 4th class. We all had a fantastic day in the glorious sunshine. We firstly had a guided tour of the Tayto factory where we learned how they produce and package the different types of crisps. They store 22 million […]

School Tours 2014

A selection of photos from some of our school tours this year! [mls_gallery id=”9795″ cols=”3″ g_title=”off” g_subtitle=”off” title=”on” subtitle=”on” desc=”on”]

Cooling down

Today was such a lovely day that Simon and Emer decided it would be nice to treat everyone to some ice-lollies at little break!

Sports Day – the pupils’ views

Our senior classes had the responsibility of taking photographs of the action at Sports’ Day this year and they took some fantastic pictures! Here is the full gallery of all the photographs. [mls_gallery id=”9757″ cols=”4″ g_title=”on” g_subtitle=”on” title=”off” subtitle=”off” desc=”off”]

Olympic Handball

3rd to 6th class teamed up to play a variation of Olympic Handball today. The children got an opportunity to work on team skills and social interactions, as well as enjoying the warm weather. Here are some photos from the games