We have received our Plaque of STEM Excellence Award for the 2017/2018 academic year from Science Foundation Ireland.  Our plaque will arrive in June.  The following is the feedback we received on our Log of Evidence: “Congratulations – all your hard work has paid off! Kilglass…

Over the past 10 weeks the children in Fifth and Sixth Class have been working with Mr O’ Connor on the Junior Entrepreneur Programme.  The programme teaches the children about real business life while they also learn how to develop their own skills.  The class…

On Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th the girls and boys from 4th to 6th class travelled to Owenbeg to take part in a football tournament in memory of the late Kevin Egan aimed to continue the spirit of rural Ireland where each child is supported, nurtured and…

Each week a Frása na Seachtaine is chosen, taught, developed and used.  Try using these phrases which we have focused on for Term One and Term Two around the house. Dia duit –   Dia’s Muire duit Conas atá tú? Tá mé go breá buíochas le Dia; Tá…

On Fridays, over the past 14 weeks, Catherine McGlinchey from Music Generation has been sharing her fantastic musical talents with the children in Mrs Meeneghan’s First and Second Class and Mr Brennan’s Fifth and Sixth Class. She has sung songs with our classes such as…

The school has recently invested in a new hands-on resource for Mathematics for Third to Sixth Class – Izak9.  The active learning involved is rich, shared, open-ended, investigative and most importantly fun.  Izak9 gives the children opportunities to learn through play in a way that…