Such a strange bunch in Scoil Chaitríona Junior this year! ...
To the Principal, Good afternoon. My name is Jonathan Comerford, I work with Cork Institute of Technology on a project called DojoMór. I am contacting you to ask for your support on behalf of the High ...
We are delighted to announce a repeat Seesaw for Parents webinar on Thursday 24th of September from 8.30 -9.30pm. We received extremely positive feedback from our first parent webinar last week with o ...
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 al ...
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 wond ...
Congratulations! Today is your day From all of us at Scoil Chaitríona Junior June 2020 ...
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: ...
June 22nd- June 26th Virtual Tours Monday: Today, I would like you to learn about our President and where he lives in the Phoenix Park in Dublin. Click on each of the guides, Daithí Deer, Fiachra F ...
Attention parents of 2nd class students: Here are the enrolment forms for 3rd class. Please fill them and return them to Scoil Chaitríona Senior, Renmore, Galway H91 N5H6 Letter regarding Third Class ...
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! ...
Collette Furey was a teacher until three years ago when she went on the trip of a lifetime on a tall ship to the Antarctic. She hasn’t looked back. Now she works full time on boats travelling t ...
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 e ...
We are going on a beach safari on March 27th with Anna, Padraic and Noirín from the Galway Atlantaquarium and Explorers Education programme. Today Anna and Padraic helped us to think about what we mig ...
Dates for our swimming lessons as above ...
Note for parents of first and second class students: ...
Look at the video we made after our workshops with Lara Luxardi on Climate Change: ...
child-safeguarding-and-risk-assessment 2019 ...
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) ...
Mr. Gleeson organised a trip to the Christmas Market for 4 of the second classes and Mr. Haran’s class today. We had an absolutely wonderful day. We walked to town by the railway line, ate our p ...
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! ...
Fr. Declan comes to visit the second classes each month in school. He is very friendly and very interesting. Today he was telling us all about the different parts of the church. We found the talk v ...
Liam Mellows hurling club is playing in the County Final this Sunday. We wish them the very best of luck. ...
All our five 2nd classes had a visit from some really nice people from SAP (Brendan, Nathan and Brian) to teach us how to code. We used a programme called Scratch, which you can download for free and ...
Ms. Lally’s 2nd class have gone to every 2nd class in the school to try and find out which is the most popular month for birthdays. We are each hoping that our birthday is in the most popular mo ...
A good collection of Wellies and wetgear is being built up, so that we can get outside more. Getting fresh air and learning outside is very good for us and lots of fun too!! ...
Picasso is an artist famous for his cubism style. We have been learning about him, his work and we studied his boy with two faces art work. ...
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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. ...
Ms. O’Connor’s class and Ms. McLoughlin’s class had fun launching balloon projectiles during SPACE WEEK. We even tested can the balloon fly uphill (it can!) ...
We have made (painted and glued) toilet roll projectiles. These are launched using two skewers and an elastic band. By stretching the elastic band we can launch the projectiles. They look like real ro ...
Is your child making First Holy Communion in May 2020 If so, you are invited to: ...
Each second class child making his/her communion will have a received an information sheet from Fr. Declan. Please check the note for upcoming meetings and “Do This In Memory” preparatory ...
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 ...
We really enjoyed taking part in our end of year concert. Congratulations to the children of 2nd class, to their enthusiastic teachers and especially to our soloists. What a terrific celebration! &nbs ...
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 ...
If you would like a print of your class photo in a mount, please send €10 to class teacher, thank you: ...
Here are the details: ...
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 Pitc ...
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 strikes ...
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 ...
