We the staff of Scoil Chaitríona Junior welcome you all back to school on August 31st. It will be an exciting year for us. A year like no other! A year to remember. We will keep you up to date on ...
We at Scoil Chaitríona Junior have achieved our 16th consecutive Science Foundation Ireland Discover Science and Maths Award. Well done to all our pupils, our teachers, staff, and parents for the won ...
Click here to find out how to join Aladdin Connect Advice about school re-opening in September: Coronavirus Advice Educational activities to do with your children during these home-schooling weeks: ...
Twinkl: You can have FREE membership for a month. Lots and lots of fun stuff to keep everyone entertained and learning! Simply go to www.tinkl.ie/offer and enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS ...
Like to try a quiz? Maybe you can win one of the daily €20 book voucher prizes! ...
Looking for something interesting to do over the Easter Holidays? ...
Twinkl is a wonderful website used by teachers. You can have FREE membership for a month. Lots and lots of fun stuff to keep everyone entertained and learning! Simply go to www.tinkl.ie/offer and ...
Look at the fabulous creation we made with Lara Luxardi during our art workshops! ...
Note for parents of first and second class students: ...
We will be taking part in Food Dudes from next week. It is a wonderful initiative where we will all get to try fruit and vegetables and will get rewards of stickers and cool prizes if we try the fruit ...
We, as a whole school community, really appreciate the hard work that our secretaries do on behalf of our school. We support them in looking for better conditions in their daily work. We were so proud ...
All at St. Vincent de Paul send a huge “Thank You” to everyone at Scoil Chaitríona Junior in response to their Christmas Food Appeal. What a lovely, kind, generous school community! ...
You are all invited to our 2019 Christmas Carol Service. On: TONIGHT: Tuesday, December 17th. At: 7pm (be there for 18:45) In: St. Oliver Plunkett’s church, Renmore (next to the school) ...
Mrs. Coleman is retiring tomorrow. We will miss her a lot. We had a lovely concert for her today. Goodbye Mrs. Coleman. See you again! ...
Liam Mellows hurling club is playing in the County Final this Sunday. We wish them the very best of luck. ...
We will be going on our Halloween Walk on October 25th. We are looking forward to dressing up and also to raising money for our school. ...
We have been using 10 frames and counters to help us with our number bonds to 10. We put different amounts of counters on our 10 frame and counted the squares that were left empty to help us solve our ...
Are you interested in singing and dancing? Then read on: ...
Here are details about how to join our school LEGO club: ...
Note for first and second classes: ...
Welcome to all our new Junior Infants 2019 and Welcome Back to all our returning pupils and staff. School opens this Friday, August 30th, 2019 at 8:50am. Our school calendar for 2019/2020 can be viewe ...
Wondering what to do during the summer holidays? Why not sign up for a summer camp? €100 per child, sibling discount available. ...
Note about our uniform sale TONIGHT: ...
We at Scoil Chaitríona Junior have achieved our 15th consecutive Science Foundation Ireland Discover Science and Maths Award and are one of the first schools in Ireland to receive the brand new Badge ...
Carole from Connemara National Park gave us an absolutely fantastic talk about Irish native animals. She had brought with her a hare, a red squirrel, a badger, an otter, a mink, a pine martin, a stoat ...
Our three classes had a wonderful day today on tour with the Corrib Princess, Bowling, Soft Play and Supermacs. What an amazing day! ...
All 1st and 2nd Classes are taking part in a Hurling Blitz in Liam Mellows Hurling Club. Both our classes had our blitz today. It was fantastic. We really had a great time. Hurling camps are ava ...
Community Games Athletics Event, May 6th Galway City East Community Games Athletics Event, plus Long Puck (Poc Fada) & fun activities, takes place on May 6th (Bank Holiday Monday) at Renmore Pit ...
We are really looking forward to our communion on Saturday, May 11th at 11am. Here is a note about the communion, a note about the seating arrangements and a note for the choir. Click on the photos to ...
Visiting our school: ...
The chicks we hatched in school three weeks ago have really grown. Look at them now! ...
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Here is a draft of the school’s Digital Learning Plan. Feedback, comments and suggestions are welcome. Scoil Chaitríona Junior National School Digital Learning Plan 2018 ...
Áine Mc Dermott came to visit us in school today. She represented us in bowling in the recent special olympics in Abu Dabi in Dubai. She won a gold olympic medal for bowling after getting four strike ...
Our school is holding our annual book fair all next week. Please feel free to browse or buy. ...
Are you looking for fun and excitement during the Easter Holidays. Why not sign up for a fun Easter Camp? ...
Are you looking for somewhere for your children to amuse themselves this summer? Here are some summer camps that we have heard about: ...
Are you worried about recent rumours regarding online cartoon characters? If so, please chat to your child about staying safe online. Here’s what the Irish Independent has to say on the matter: ...
Well done to all the children in our Junior School who sang so beautifully and did such nice reading at last night’s carol service. It was such a beautiful celebration of Christmas. ...
You are all invited to our 2018 Christmas Carol Service. On: TONIGHT, Tuesday, December 18th. At: 7pm In: St. Oliver Plunkett’s church, Renmore (next to the school) ...
Food donations for St. Vincent de Paul will be collected by the Parents Association Tomorrow, December 13th and Friday, December 14th. At the school hall or in your child’s classroom. ...
Scientist Jay came to visit us for Science Week. Every class went to see a show. The shows were absolutely amazing and covered air and water pressure, standing on paper cups, hovercraft and toilet pap ...
If you would like to have a professional photograph of your child/children taken at school, please read on: ...
Please see our attendance booklet: ...
A huge Well Done to Ms. Lally and her terrific dancers from the Glee Clubs and from all the second classes. Your Thriller and Ghostbuster dances were amazing! Many thanks to all our parents for help w ...
All classes are getting ready for our fun walk on Thursday (Thursday, October 25th). Watch out for great Hallowe’en art all round the school. The highlight of Hallowe’en for us is our annu ...
Big treat for us: The junior and senior schools “Glee Clubs” will perform Thriller Dance & Ghostbusters Routines on the school yard: this coming Thursday, October 25th at 10:15am. ...
We have been given Super Trooper homework journals and a wall chart so that we can have fun exercising with our families at home. We are really enjoying all the games and activities that are in our li ...
Would you be interested in free sewing lessons? @Galway Artisan Workshop, Unit 11 Sandy Road (beside GalwayBayFM) 6.30pm-8.30pm October 2018: Weds 17th, Thurs 18th, Weds 24th, Thurs 25th Read on: &nbs ...
We wish to put you on notice that IN THE EVENT of a Code RED weather status been given for the West, Scoil Chaitríona must close. We shall send you further text updates if required. We would urge yo ...
Are you free next Wednesday, 17th October from 3:30pm? For children ages 9-13 A fantastic opportunity to meet the amazing author, Shane Hegarty, creator of the Darkmouth Series of books. Free Event, N ...
We have our sponsorship cards for our Hallowe’en Walk on Thursday, 25th October. We can’t wait to dress up and to go out walking together. ...
Dear Parents/Guardians, Due to a number of children having allergies and the fact that we have a Healthy Lunch Policy in our school, we wish to advise you that we do not wish you to send in any sweets ...
We made air rockets last week in preparation for Space Week. Click here to see how they were made. Today we showed Ms. Maguire’s class how to make the rockets and we explained how they will be l ...
We know that rockets can fly if they are propelled by air under pressure. Today we had a look at our snowman rocket and two different kinds of stomp rockets. All launched well with the help of air und ...
All 2nd classes and some of our 1st classes are taking part in the Tour of Europe Challenge. Each morning this week we are all running laps of the school yard. Each lap is counted as 1km. We keep ...
Family Cycle Ride Come join Renmore Brownies! ...
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We are learning about the Water Cycle. Here are some links to help us learn: We have got our own water cycle investigation ready. We have filled a glass with water, measured how high the water came ...
Wouldn’t it be nice to know some sign language? Here are some great videos to show you how: ...
Look at the fox spotted by our night camera. ...
We made these great videos with Lara yesterday. ...
