P.E. with the Junior and Senior Rooms

We had a very enjoyable P.E. lesson in the sun on Friday when pupils from the Senior Room paired up with pupils from the Junior Room. They worked together to practise and improve their ball skills – passing, bouncing, striking and kicking. Well done everyone!

Nature Portraits

The Junior Room collected some items from nature, then they made a portrait with them during Art – they look amazing, well done everyone!

Happy Easter!

We had a couple of special visitors in school this morning for Show and Tell – 2 pet lambs! We enjoyed getting to know them and learning about how to look after lambs.

Our Student Council also organised a special Easter treat for us today – we had to find bunnies hidden around the school, then count up the points for each one. It was great fun! Thank you very much to Ms Gregg and the Student Council for all your hard work.

Happy Easter everyone!

STEM Challenge

5th and 6th Class took on a STEM challenge to design a way to prevent an egg from cracking when dropped from a height. There were lots of very creative and innovative ideas. Well done to everyone for their fantastic effort!

Aistear

The Junior Room have been busy in Aistear recently. We were learning about Space and made some wonderful creations!

We also had special Easter themed activities this week!

Hamper Winners

Rev. Sam came in to school this morning to draw the winners for the Parents’ Association Easter Hampers. Congratulations to all our winners!

1st – Eileen Martin

2nd – Noel Sheehin

3rd – Laura Kerr

4th – Harry Venton (Junior)

5th – Ailis Kelly

6th – Maria Higham

7th – Lynsey Vance (Senior)

8th – Ronan Shiels

9th – Emily Griffith

Water Safety

We had a visit from Jamie from Water Safety Ireland today to talk to us about how to stay safe around water. We learned about water safety at home, to Stay Away From Edges at lakes and rivers, the importance of wearing a lifejacket, how to use a ring bouy and advice for staying safe when swimming. Thank you very much Jamie – we really enjoyed your visit and learned lots of tips to keep ourselves and others safe around water!

The Hidden Village

The Junior Room had a brilliant day at The Hidden Village, Castleblaney with St Mogue’s N.S. as part of our PeacePlus programme.

The children got to become firefighters, construction workers, hairdressers, beauticians, farmers, cafe workers and lots more. There were pamper sessions in the beauty parlour, fires to be extinguished, vehicles to be driven on the farm and building work in the construction corner. What a day to remember!

Special delivery!

The Junior Room had a very special delivery this week – the masks they made last month at Leitrim School of Art arrived and they were well worth the wait! Look at all our fabulous creations!

St Patrick’s Day competition winners

We were invited to take part in an art competition as part of the Killeshandra St Patrick’s Day Parade and are delighted to have two winners! Well done to everyone who took part, and a special congratulations to our prize winners!