Orienteering at Dromillihy Woods
The pupils of the Senior Room had a great time orienteering yesterday!
Author: School Administrator
Zumba fun!
We enjoyed another terrific Zumba class with Flavie this week!
Return of the library bus!
We just love to see the library bus coming every second Tuesday! Pupils are allowed to broswe the selection and check out 2 books for the coming fortnight.
Yoga on a Thursday morning with Clare!
After all the excitement of Zumba yesterday, the pupils of the Junior room had a change of pace this morning when Clare (who covers Eimear’s principal release days every Thursday) started their day with a lovely Yoga session!
Zumba in the sun!
We had so much fun today doing Zumba with Flavie. We cannot wait for next week’s class already!
Hands on Maths
Concrete materials provide wonderful learning opportunities and help to consolidate crucial mathematical topics.
Today, Infants worked together to sort objects by colour and then classified according to their type while 1st and 2nd used Numicon to assist them with addition.
Plenty fun was had along the way!
Red and yellow fundraiser for Air Ambulance
We were delighted to support such a worthy cause today and look forward to handing over €140 (and still counting!) to the Air Ambulance.
Return to school!
It was wonderful to welcome our pupils back to school on a beautiful sunny morning. A special welcome to our new Junior Infant pupils!
School reopening
We look forward to welcoming everyone back to school on Wednesday August 31st at 9:05am.
Sports Day 2022
We’ve had so much fun at our sports day today!
Well done to all the students that took part in todays activities, there were some very challenging races between the groups.
New Infants
Welcome to our newest students. We hope you’ve had a brilliant first day.
Carbery Rangers Gaelic football returns!
Football is back this Saturday morning for U9s, U7s and U5s!
School closure February 18th
School will be closed tomorrow due to the red weather alert. Stay safe everyone and see you all on Monday.
Review of Child Protection policy
At our Board of Management meeting last night, we reviewed our Child Protection policy. Be assured that we are fully compliant with all aspects of Child Protection in this school.
The Designated Liaison Person is Eimear O’Donovan and Deputy Designated Liaison Person is Colm O’Mahony. If you have any concerns about a pupil in our school, please contact us immediately.
You can view this and other relevant policies by clicking on the ‘policies’ tab above. If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Mid term break
Just a reminder that we will close for 2 days (Thursday and Friday) at 14:55 next Wednesday February 23rd and re-open on Monday February 28th at 09:05.
Internet safety training with Zeeko
We are really looking forward to internet safety training with Zeeko next Wednesday February 23rd. They will do hour long sessions with 1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th and 5th and 6th and there will be a parents session from 7-8pm. The registration link has been emailed.
Enrolment for September 2022
We are now enrolling pupils for the coming school year, starting in September 2022.
If you would like a copy of our information booklet or have any questions about our school, please contact us by emailing rnsns19@gmail.com.
We hope to hold an open day before the end of the current school year, depending on public health guidelines. In the meantime we would be happy to arrange a tour of our facilities at a times that suits in the coming weeks.
New website coming soon!
We are very excited to be working on a shiny new website which will launch soon so watch this space!
Return to school form
When a child is returning to school from any absence, please fill out this short form below
School reopens Sept 1st
The new school year is almost upon us! We will reopen our doors to our terrific pupils on Wednesday September 1st at 9:05am.
We look forward to seeing new and familiar faces – amongst our pupils and staff! We have 9 new Junior Infants joining our school. They will be taught in Eimear’s room alongside Senior Infants and 1st class. For the next year only, 2nd class will join the ranks of the Senior Room where they and their classmates from 3rd – 6th will be taught by Colm – our new teacher!
We also welcome Fionnuala who is our new SNA and it’s hello again to our other SNA Claire who is now the longest serving member of staff, we welcome back Niamh who will be our shared Special Education Teacher and Kay who came onboard as our Secretary in March.
If you have queries in advance of the new year, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Looking forward to seeing you all very soon!
Le meas,
Eimear
First Confession 2021
On Monday 24th of May two of our second class students made their First Confession in Carrigfadda Church It was a lovely service by Fr.McCarthy in preparation for the students First Holy Communion later in the year.
Printing
Not afraid to get creative (or their hands dirty) the Senior Room tried their hands at printing
Spring Planting
Spring is here… time for some gardening. The senior room busy planting from seed. We’ll be watching them grow over the coming months.
Easter 2021
The Senior Room got creative making colourful nests from recycled fabric and filling them with cute little chicks and delicious Easter treats
The Junior Room made Easter decorations for the Easter Rabbit …. we’re sure the bunny came to everyone!
Happy Christmas!
We would like to wish all our pupils and families and a happy and safe Christmas.
We will re-open on Wednesday January 6th at 9:05am
Slán go fóill, Mary
We bid a fond farewell to our Deputy Principal Mary Ronan yesterday after 23 years teaching in our school.
Santa visits us at a distance!
We were so delighted when Santa passed by yesterday!
Christmas art!
The talented pupils of the Senior Room were very busy creating Christmas decorations!
Happy pupils!
Our younger class performed a dance and we sent it home on Seesaw to their parents. We are very proud of them!
Busy at (Christmas) work!
The pupils of the Junior Room had great fun engaging in all sorts of Christmas themed work before the holidays!
Engineers of the future!
The pupils of the Senior Room were busy recently making bridges!
Scavenger hunt!
One of the Junior Room’s absolutely favourite activities is a scavenger hunt! Last week Ann had 1st and 2nd looking for items starting with each letter of the alphabet while Junior and Senior Infants had to find objects of certain colours. They had a great time working together!
Senior Room PE
Have a look at 3rd – 6th classes being put through their paces by Anne recently! There was great skill on display!
Our new parachute!
We recently invested in a parachute and took it out for the first time last week – we had so much fun!
Putting the iPads to good use!
1st and 2nd have started using the iPads to reinforce the tables that they are working so hard to learn. One of our favourite websites for all classes which we highly recommend is topmarks.co.uk. The game hit the button is especially excellent for developing speed when it comes to number facts. It hardly feels like work at all!
1st class Maths
One of the best investments we have made in recent years has been in the Maths programme, Numicon. The children absolutely love using the pieces which help reinforce mathematical concepts. Here you will see rang a haon using Numicon to learn about the number 18 and explore the various ways to make that number.
Infants tackle Science Week!
Juniors and Seniors concentrated on experiments to do with food! They did the ‘dancing raisins’ one using still and sparling water and learned about heat when they made rice krispie buns. It was very popular with everyone!
Super Science Week 2020!
Oh how we wish it was Science Week every week!
We did a variety of experiments which were so much fun. Like proper scientists, we wrote our predictions and recorded the results. We did the bubbling potions experiment, put a gummy bear sweet in water for 4 days and created a marble run.
Hard at (literacy!) work
Junior and Senior Infants have been working so hard on their letter names and sounds. They love being challenged so in addition to breaking down words and sounding them out from the ones Eimear writes on the whiteboard, they also spend time writing letters and words on their own individual mini whiteboards and in play doh. They are such hard workers!
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Halloween Fun!
We had great fun in school last Friday when everyone dressed up in costumes for Halloween! Luckily it was nice and dry for our parade! There was lots of Halloween themed work done in school all week so a little party was called for before we finished up for our well earned midterm break!
Hard at work in the Junior Room!
We have been doing a variety of Halloween themed activities this week. We even added some of our favourites to our portfolios on Seesaw!
The Creepy House by the Senior Room
The pupils of the Senior Room collaborated on a class story this week and finished off by painting their own creepy houses. The final result is absolutely brilliant. Maith sibh go léir!
Beebots!
We borrowed a set of Beebots from West Cork Education Centre this week and the boys and girls of 1st and 2nd are having so much fun with them! We definitely have some future computer programmers in our midst!
Group photos
We took advantage of full attendance and lovely sunshine recently to take class, group and sibling photos.
Lego WeDo
The pupils of the Senior Room had a great time exploring Lego WeDo recently. It was taken out on loan from West Cork Education Centre.
Senior room keeping busy!
The senior room children are busy making clay monsters. Prepare to be very, very afraid!!
Senior Room explore coding!
The pupils of the Senior Room have started to learn about coding!
Orienteering in the Senior Room
Orienteering continues to be a big hit with our older classes!
Autumn leaf collages
Monica and Christopher created some wonderful leaf displays. Maith sibh!
