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 ...
Wondering what to do during the summer holidays? Why not sign up for a summer camp? €100 per child, sibling discount available. ...
If you would like a print of your class photo in a mount, please send €10 to class teacher, thank you: ...
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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: ...
We have been looking at mirrors today. We worked with partners to become mirror images of each other, and we played a “spot the mirror image” game with coloured dots. We can make our own s ...
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. ...
Children making their First Holy Communion next May, and their parents, are invited to the Mass On Sunday next, December 9th. In St. Oliver Plunkett’s Renmore Church at 12pm. Other family member ...
Our trip to the Christmas market. ...
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 ...
Children making their First Holy Communion next May, and their parents, are invited to the Enrolment Mass On Sunday next, November 11th. In St. Oliver Plunkett’s Renmore Church at 12pm. Other fa ...
There will be a parent preparation meeting for the parents of all 2nd class children who are making their communion in May. It will take place TONIGHT November 6th, at 7:30pm in Renmore Church (St. Ol ...
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 ...
Important note for 2nd classes. ...
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 really enjoyed EU Code Week 2018. We tried some coding every day, and invited other classes to join us.. We even tried coding at home too. Computer programming is fun! Click on each of the pictures ...
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 ...
We had some really nice people from SAP (Bruno, Thais, Helinna and Cathal) to teach us how to code. We used a programme called Scratch, which you can download for free and use on your home computers. ...
We are celebrating EU Code Week this week by trying out some coding each day. We are inviting another class to join us at each session. We find some really good coding programmes to help us at our lev ...
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 have made two different types of straw rockets, that launch under air pressure. Today we showed Ms. Lavery’s class how to make and lunch the straw rockets. Click here to see how we made these ...
For Space Week we are launching rockets with other classes. Today we launched some balloon rockets. We discovered that ordinary round balloons fly much faster than long, skinny rocket balloons. We a ...
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 ...
We have the date for the First Holy Communion: ...
Family Cycle Ride Come join Renmore Brownies! ...
Please note: Glee club for 2nd classes is on WEDNESDAYS (not Thursdays as in the note below. All other details are correct). ...
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Welcome back to all our students, our staff and our parents. A hearty “Céad míle fáilte” in particular to our new Junior Infants. We hope that this school year will be a year filled wit ...
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All first and second classes had a wonderful morning at Liam Mellows GAA club in Ballyloughane. We had a very exciting hurling blitz. ...
We had a wonderful sports day, in glorious sunshine. ...
All 2nd classes are hoping to have sports day next Tuesday, 29th May. Please ensure that your child comes to school wearing sunscreen and wearing a sun hat and sports wear. Your child will also need t ...
Please see following notes about our First Communion next Saturday, May 26th. ...
We were delighted, in conjunction with Boston Scientific, to learn all about how to keep our hearts healthy. Every child in the school entered a Healthy Heart art competition, and we were delighted to ...
Anyone interested in a great summer camp in the school? Read on: ...
Would you like to take part in the local Community Games? ...
We saw a fantastic drama about Fionn MacCumhaill in the hall today. The different stories about Fionn were so interesting! ...
Tara Book Fair is coming to our school on the week after our Easter school holidays. We are really looking forward to it. ...
Well done to the children of all the 2nd classes who made their first confession in Renmore church last Friday. The ceremony was lovely and you sang so beautifully. A big Thank You to Fr. Peter, Sr. M ...
2nd class teachers are now collecting money for swimming lessons. ...
Scoil Chaitríona Junior and Senior schools will close today, March 1st due to adverse weather conditions and frozen water pipes. Our schools will remain closed tomorrow, 2nd March. ...
Information about the Let’s Go Summer Camps: ...
St. James’ Soccer Club in Mervue/Renmore are always looking for new players. Come and try it out! ...
1st and 2nd class boys had an interesting drama session today. You’d never know, one or other of us might be in a film sometime! ...
We at Scoil Chaitríona Junior are happy to be taking part in Friendship Week 2018! We have a friendship fish on our corridor. Whenever we do something nice for other people, we can write on a f ...
Here are some tips to keep your children safe online: ...
Today we visited Ms. McLoughlin’s classroom for an interesting session on electricity. We were able to group objects according to whether they run on mains electricity, on batteries, or on both. ...
Upcoming Drama Workshop: ...
Would you like to star in an Irish film being made this summer. If so, go to Arás na nGael in Dominic Street tomorrow between 10am – 5:30pm and try out for a casting. ...
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 ...
All our 2nd classes are using the Stay Safe programme at the moment. It is a wonderful programme suited perfectly to the level of our students and will help keep our children safe in lots of different ...
We are delighted to have been able to make a donation from our Halloween Walk collection this year to Galway Sick Kids Foundation. They do great work with the doctors and nurses of UHG (University Hos ...
Please check school bags for notes sent home today. ...
You are all invited! ...
We wore green and white today to support our local GAA club….Liam Mellows. We wish them (and Mr. Elwood in particular) the very best of luck in their county final in Pearse Stadium at 2pm next S ...
To celebrate Liam Mellows GAA club reaching club finals on December 3rd we are taking part in a colouring competition. We can’t wait for the members of the team to visit us next Wednesday. Best ...
Come see 2nd Class Rocket Morning Open Day In: Room 9 From: 9am-10:40am Outside: Launching the big air and water rockets From: 10:15-10:40 ...
We read ‘Man On The Moon’. Its all about Bob who’s 9 to 5 job is cleaning up the moon and entertaining tourists! We interviewed Bob! ...
We also found out that sound travels in waves. We used string telephones to speak to one another. Sound is converted into and then conveyed by vibrations along a solid medium (the string). We found ou ...
We also made magic milk! We added drops of food colouring to milk. We dipped a cotton bud into washing up liquid and then dipped it into the milk. We held it there for 10-15 seconds and saw a burst ...
We did lots of experiments in Room 10. We are learning all about Space this month and we launched a fizzy rocket! We also made a volcano. We added red food colouring to vinegar. We added in some bread ...
We went to visit NUIG for Health Promotion Week. We learned lots of new things! We learned about complex carbohydrates and simple carbohydrates. We tested carbohydrates using iodine. If the food turne ...
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We had a wonderful workshop on Energy today for Science Week. We listed lots of forms of energy, saw how rubbing our hands turns kinetic energy into heat energy, saw how energy can be transferred from ...
All our 2nd classes had a wonderful day at NUIG today. We went to a health promotion day, hosted by the medical students of the paediatric society. The day was superbly well organised, pitched exact ...
Another wonderful day of coding. Many thanks to Bruno and our super volunteers from SAP who worked with all the 2nd classes. We loved every minute of it. You have set some of us on the extremely int ...
If you would like a professional photograph taken of your child/children at school please fill in and return the following form: ...
Today we had three marvelous volunteers from SAP. They came to teach us how to use Scratch on our computers to make our own games. It was so interesting and we really had fun. We made a cat that could ...
We had a wonderful fun walk, in fabulous weather. Here are some photos of our staff and children. Many thanks to all for the super costumes, make up and sponsorship money. ...
Well done to Ms. Lally’s Glee Clubs (junior and senior) for their wonderful “Thriller” and “Ghostbusters” dances on the yard after school today. &nbs ...
We have really been enjoying Maths Week 2017 Have a look at some of the events we have had: Click on the photos below to go to the relevant posts. Maths TrailMaths Table Quiz Figure Me Out Mars ...
All 5 second classes came together for a monster Maths Table Quiz. Each team of 5 members had a child from each class. Some of the questions were very easy, some a bit more challenging, and some even ...
Check your child’s school bag for a newsletter from the home school liaison team today. ...
Scoil Chaitríona Junior and Senior will reopen tomorrow Wednesday 18th at 8:40am. ...
Scoil Chaitríona Junior and Senior will remain closed tomorrow, Tuesday October 17th. ...
Scoil Chaitríona Junior and Senior schools will be closed on Monday, October 16th in response to Met Éireann’s Code Red weather warning. Scoil Chaitríona is concerned for the safety of all ...
We have been learning about our senses and our sense of smell. Teacher put various mystery substances into bottles and we had to guess what was inside! We had great fun guessing what was inside each o ...
We visited Ms McLoughlin’s classroom today and helped launch some rockets! ...
We did lots of circus tricks in P.E. today! ...
Toy and Controller. Each pair worked together to come up with hand signals to let their toy know what action to perform….jump up and down, go in a circle, walk backwards etc. Great ideas from ...
We loved doing prints of our self-portraits. We rolled out the paint and etched out our print. ...
We created tableaux’s of a scene from a story “GG’s New Job”. We thought-tracked which means each character told us what he/she was thinking at that moment in time! ...
We went on a nature walk around our school grounds. We found lots of interesting things. We found mushrooms, potatoes and turnips growing in the school garden. We found lots of insects and beautiful f ...
We will be going on our Halloween Walk on October 27th. We are looking forward to dressing up and also to raising money for our school. ...
Our school is taking part in the Food Dudes programme. We will be trying fruit and vegetables in school each day, and will receive rewards for tasting them. Then we will be rewarded for bringing and e ...
It’s Space Week! Today most of the first and second classes (along with 5th class from the Senior School) helped launch air and water rockets. 5th class did all the pumping, while 2nd class di ...
It’s Space Week! Today most of the first and second classes (along with 5th class from the Senior School) helped launch air and water rockets. 5th class did all the pumping, while 2nd class di ...
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We have made foam rockets. Today we practised launching them outside. We were amazed at how far the rockets can fly. Inside we showed Ms. O’Connors class how to make and launch the rockets. We ...
We know that vinegar and bread soda react together to make a gas called Carbon Dioxide. (We saw that when we pretended to make a volcano). Now we can use this carbon dioxide under pressure to launch a ...
Important notice about a preparation meeting and pre-communion masses: ...
We have been learning about healthy eating. We made healthy smoothies and wrote instructions on how to make them. We used fruit and vegetables in our smoothies and everyone agreed they were yummy!!! ...
As part of our topic on “Ourselves” we completed a number of self portrait art activities. We explored using lines, shapes, colour and learnt about Picasso and cubism. We did sketches, ...
Why not get involved? Space Week: October 4th – 10th, 2017 Eu Code Week: October 7th – 22nd, 2017 Maths Week: October 14th – 22nd, 2017 Science Week: November 12 – 26th ...
Please have a look at the booklet that we have sent out to the parents of all of our students today. ...
Wouldn’t it be nice to know some sign language? Here are some great videos to show you how: ...
Here are some very important dates for 2nd class: ...
After school clubs are up and running: ...
We are so proud of our Galway hurlers. Today saw the Galway teams win the All Ireland senior and minor hurling finals. Maith sibh go léir! ...
Galway are playing in the senior and minor hurling finals on Sunday next. We are supporting Galway. UP GALWAY!! ...
Would you like to join our supervised homework club? It’s on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 2:30-3:30. ...
Look at the fox spotted by our night camera. ...
We learned alot about water this month. We discovered lots of interesting properties of water and learned about surface tension, streamlining and freezing and boiling point of water. ...
We made a few New Year’s Resolutions in second class. We thought about things we want to get better at this year and ways of being helpful and kind. ...
We learned alot about polar bears and penguins this month. We really enjoyed painting an Arctic scene.We created our polar bear using shaving foam and paint. ...
We decided to see whether an orange would float or sink in water.We also decided to test whether it would float or sink when we removed the skin.The results were suprising! We found out that an orange ...
We made biscuit cake as a treat after all our hard work in second class. We took turns breaking the biscuits, melting the chocolate, chopping the crunchies and maltesers and mixing our cake. It turned ...
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Halloween is coming and we will be doing lots of activities about it next week. We are making clay spiders in art and learning about the legend of Jack o’ lantern in history. ...
As part of a topic on our local area, we went to the school garden and gathered some soil samples. We poured some water in the jars containing the soil samples and left them over night. Most of the ...
First we made sketches of ourselves using pencil. We edited and changed our sketches. Then we used charcoal for our final draft. ...
We have been learning about autumn. We went on a leaf hunt and used the leaves to make prints in art and an autumn tree for a class display. As part of this topic we wrote reports about the hedgeh ...
