We had so much fun in the sun on Tuesday for our annual sports day! The pupils of the senior room organised a very varied and challenging obstacle course on the yard while on the pitch, everyone tried various skills from the long jump and javelin throwing to a penalty shoot out and hula hooping. The day ended with tug of war events which were very hotly contested!
We celebrated the end of the primary school journey for 3 magnificent pupils this week. We are so proud of these young people and wish them all the very best as they start their new exciting journey in secondary school. There will always be a warm welcome for them in Reenascreena NS!
We had a terrific day out at Let’s Go in Trabeg Sprts Centre on Monday. Highlight included the zorb rolling ball, go karts, air jump and VR headsets. It was a very quiet journey home after the non stop acitivities!
The pupils of the Junior Room had great fun experimenting with floating and sinking recently with Finola!
The Infants love working together on various maths challenges. This hands on work is so beneficial for their development in so many ways and it feels like play time to them!
We were delighted to welcome our new pupils for an afternoon last week. The current Junior and Senior Infants showed them around and are so excited to have them join our room in September!
We were blown away by the array of amazing baking that was donated for our cake sale yesterday! After the tin whistle concert, the assembled parents, grandparents and other family members enjoyed a cuppa and chat. Lá iontach a bhí againn!
The pupils of 1st-6th have enjoyed tin whistle lessons with Martina French this year. Yesterday’s wonderful performance for parents, grandparents and other family members was the culmination of their very hard work! Martina spoke glowingly of the progress everyone has made. It was wonderful to see so many children embrace this new skill and make such improvements week on week. The Infants joined in with some singing so it really was a fabulous whole school concert!
We are so proud of all our pupils who represented the school so well at MTU yesterday. Huge thanks to Colm and Fionnuala for looking after our athletes so well on the day. Maith sibh go léir!
We really enjoyed taking part in Food Dudes this week! There are some new favourite fruits and vegetables among our pupils!
We are so proud of our 2nd class pupils who received the sacrament of Holy Communion in St Facthna’s Church, Rosscarbery.
The football competition is always a big highlight. This year’s venue was Dunmanway and our pupils played extremely well, representing the school as magnificently as always. The ice cream afterwards was well deserved!
We cooled down recently with ice cream and wafers. The pupils of the Senior Room had theirs demolished before Colm could get any snaps!
We had a terrific trip to the Long Strand today with Rory of the Ocean Plastic Project. After an hour of litter picking, the treats of chips and hot chocolate from Peter and Elaine at the Fish Basket were well earned!
Juniors and Seniors had a great time showing their teddies around the yard and garden today! Our very kind pupils even shared their treats with their furry friends!
At long last the sun has reappeared so the pupils of 2nd class took the opportunity to set up a circuit for their friends in Junior Infants, Senior Infants and 1st class. Everyone worked very hard!
The pupils of the Junior Room created wonderful Easter bunnies with Deirdre! Wishing you all a very happy Easter and enjoy the break!
2 of our pupils were very busy making treats for everyone. They were DELICIOUS! Go raibh maith agaibh!
2 weeks ago, pupils in 1st and 2nd were paired up and gave each other a book that they thought their partner would enjoy reading. Today was the feedback session where they shared their thoughts, what they liked/disliked etc. It was a great success and we’ll do it again in term 3!
Our Special Ed Teacher, Deirdre, teaches the pupils in the Junior Room every Thursday while Eimear takes a Principal Release day to attend to admin matters. Today, they had a great time painting pictures of the Easter Bunny!
The pupils of Juniors and Seniors were very busy completing Maths tasks this morning. It was great to hear them discuss, argue (constructively!), sort and achieve together within minimal input from their teacher. Maith sibh go léir!
We had great fun celebrating St. Patrick last week!
Pupils in all classes enjoyed a terrific workshop today with Eileen Beattie. They were challenged to create helicopters following very detailed instructions. It was great to see such creativity and ingenuity as some pupils made their own improvements and modifications once they had finished. Maith sibh go léir!
To encourage reading and promote peer learning, the pupils in 1st and 2nd were paired up and asked to choose a book their partner would like to read. They will check in to see how it has gone in 2 weeks time.
The pupils of the Junior Room read about a little girl called Hannah and a dog called Sugar lately. 1st and 2nd then drew different parts of the story. They did a brilliant job. Maith sibh go léir!
We were delighted to welcome Flavie back to school for a Zumba class today. It was terrific fun as always!
The pupils of the Junior Room were very busy painting pictures of Springtime lately. They did a wonderful job and have really brightened up our walls!
1st and 2nd used interlocking cubes as a unit of measurement recently. There was lots of laughing and some learning too!
The pupils of the senior room competed in a schools’ chess competition in Barryroe last Friday. They have been working very hard and did really well on the day. Well done, everyone!
We sent a team to compete in the FAI schools 5 a side soccer competition last week. They represented our school magnificently and had a great day out. Maith sibh go léir!
Some of our younger pupils were working on literacy skills this week. They are making fantastic progress!
Fionnuala, Claire and Kay pulled out all the stops to treat our pupils (and staff!) to scrumptious pancakes yesterday. They were delicious!
1st and 2nd worked on their addition tables with SET, Deirdre, and later they followed instructions and intrpreted some different shapes with great success!
Juniors and Seniors did some terrific work on numbers today!
The pupils of the Senior Room created the most incredible self-portrait prints with artist Norah Porter as part of our TAP+ partnership. The results are just terrific! Well done, everyone!
The pupils of the Junior Room had so much fun with a variety of musical instruments. It wasn’t very quiet but it was very enjoyable! We have such talented pupils in our midst!
Our wonderful pupils treated us to 2 magificent performances in the Celtic Ross Hotel last night. We could not be any prouder of them. Maith sibh go léir!
Today we enjoyed hot chocolate and marshmallows as a treat for superb work and terrific behaviour since we started back in September!
Juniors and Seniors have been keeping very busy this week creating some absolute masterpieces!
Our partnership with artist Norah Porter is coming to an end and we have learned so much from her! Norah brought back the kiln fired clay tiles for us to paint last week. The results are simply outstanding. Well done everyone!
The pupils of the Senior Room use the iPads for all sorts of work and got very creative recently!
We just love to see coaches from Carbery Rangers coming to visit!
We love to use our 6 duplo bricks in all sorts of ways to work on concentration, listening, following instructions and many other skills. Infants had great fun with Niamh recently working on their literacy at the same time!
We are always so proud of our hard working pupils and love nothing more to celebrate their great achievements with them. Maith sibh go léir!
The senior room enjoyed an Agr Aware webinar recently to celebrate world milk day.
We finished the half term with lots of Halloween themed fun and games!
Some brave pupils went digging in “slime” for sweets; the pupils of the Junior Room went on an Active sounds walk looking for letters found at the beginning of popular Halloween themed words; they also had fun doing a Monster dance while the pupils of the Senior Room enjoyed Halloween themed Dodgeball!
Be sure to look out for entry number 27 in Leap. Huge thanks to the Ronans for all their hard work on this!
The undoubted highlight of Maths Week was Friday’s cake sale. Every available gram of flour, butter and sugar in West Cork must have been utilised as we were treated to a huge array of magnificent baking. If only Maths could be like this every day! Huge thanks and well done to everyone!
The pupils of the Junior Room had so much fun working with clay last week. There was a lot of work involved – cutting and rolling the clay to begin with. You will be astounded by the end products! All will be revealed in the coming weeks – watch this space!
We are working with artist Norah Porter as part of the TAP+ (Teacher And Artist Partnership) this year. For our first session, every pupil created their own patterns using pastels and we put them together to make one big piece at the end. What talented and creative pupils we have in this school!
