2
Jan.2021
STARCAMP is kick starting 2021 with FIREWORKS! As a gesture of goodwill and in the spirit of encouraging children to have fun and stay healthy, mentally and physically over this new and hopefully fina ...
1
Jan.2021
We wish all of you – students, parents and staff a very safe, happy and successful 2021! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 ...
23
Dec.2020
2020 has been a very strange and uncertain year for us all. We have missed out on lots of special events this year but one thing we didn’t want anyone to miss was our Christmas performance. The ...
23
Dec.2020
17
Dec.2020
Dear Parents/Guardians, We are collecting items for our Christmas food bank this Thursday and Friday. This year our food bank will be donated to families in need in our school community. Donations ca ...
15
Dec.2020
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11
Dec.2020
There is a lovely Christmassy feeling in Scoil Chaitríona Junior. We had an exciting visit from Santa and Mrs. Clause. Santa has given each of us a special reindeer to put on our windows or mirrors. O ...
9
Dec.2020
If you would like to wear a Christmas jumper (or any nice woolly jumper) to school, please join us on Friday, December 11th for our Christmas Jumper Day. ...
20
Nov.2020
Pop Medley 2021 Choreography 2021 Instrumental ...
20
Nov.2020
Visit the virtual Galway Science and Technology Festival this Sunday from 11am at www.galwayscience.ie Also, remember to plant your seed ticket and grow some lovely lavender! ...
18
Nov.2020
We spent last week exploring materials, making predictions, following procedures and discussing our results just like scientists. We also carried out experiments from GMIT’s colourful science pa ...
16
Nov.2020
Today 5 classes from our school had an amazing Zoom lesson from Frances at the Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork. The lesson was SO engaging and we learned an amazing amount about life and living t ...
12
Nov.2020
Message from Cell Explorers and Galway Science and Technology Festival: Win a place on the Cell Explorers ‘Fantastic DNA at Home’ private workshop on Sunday 22nd Nov (1pm or 3pm). Take a p ...
11
Nov.2020
We are hoping to recruit new parents for; FREE Basic IT/Smartphone Skills Training: Emails, Zoom, SeeSaw, Shopping Online. GRETB have provided funding for an IT tutor to come to Ballybane on Tuesday ...
6
Nov.2020
Maths week was a great success in prefab 1a! We spent the week exploring our classroom and school grounds for shapes & numbers. We even made shapes using our bodies! We worked in pairs to solve ma ...
5
Nov.2020
We had great fun celebrating space week. We had a busy week learning about space, astronauts and rockets. We made our own straw rockets and even launched stomp and water rockets outside! We explored w ...
2
Nov.2020
The artist focus for September was Pablo Picasso. We learned all about Picasso’s special technique of cubism and looked at some of his famous paintings. We created some amazing Picasso inspired ...
2
Nov.2020
We were learning all about abstract artist Jackson Pollock. First, we read ‘Action Jackson’, a story describing Pollock’s life and how he became famous for the ‘drip technique& ...
23
Oct.2020
Such a strange bunch in Scoil Chaitríona Junior this year! ...
23
Oct.2020
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 ...
4
Oct.2020
Space Week Events in Scoil Chaitríona Junior 2020: Asteroids, craters and the demise of the dinosaurs 2nd class (Oct 2020) Learning about gravity 2nd class (Oct 2020) Why can’t we hear sound in ...
21
Sep.2020
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 ...
26
Aug.2020
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 ...
19
Aug.2020
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 ...
29
Jun.2020
Congratulations! Today is your day From all of us at Scoil Chaitríona Junior June 2020 ...
19
Jun.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: ...
19
Jun.2020
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 ...
16
May.2020
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 ...
21
Mar.2020
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 ...
18
Mar.2020
Like to try a quiz? Maybe you can win one of the daily €20 book voucher prizes! ...
12
Mar.2020
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 ...
12
Mar.2020
Looking for something interesting to do over the Easter Holidays? ...
12
Mar.2020
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 ...
9
Mar.2020
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 ...
9
Mar.2020
In honour of world book day here are some of the costumes we wore: ...
4
Mar.2020
Dates for our swimming lessons as above ...
4
Mar.2020
Note for parents of first and second class students: ...
28
Feb.2020
Well done to Ms. Lally/Ms. Coade and their class who have been reading the story of town mouse and the country mouse. They have written pen pal letters from Renmore in the town to Spiddal in the count ...
27
Feb.2020
Look at the video we made after our workshops with Lara Luxardi on Climate Change: ...
24
Jan.2020
child-safeguarding-and-risk-assessment 2019 ...
15
Jan.2020
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 ...
10
Jan.2020
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 ...
10
Jan.2020
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! ...
18
Dec.2019
The ‘teachers ‘ were taking a well earned break in the staff room this morning 😂😂😂😂 They managed a spot of cake decorating just in time to enjoy with their cup of tea at 11am! ...
13
Dec.2019
13
Dec.2019
13
Dec.2019
We are very busy in Prefab 1a writing letters to our penpals in An Spidéal. The theme is ‘Town Mouse, Country Mouse’. We even made mouse houses out of shoeboxes. We are really enjoying the ...
12
Dec.2019
Thanks to Mr Gleeson for a fun filled day at the Christmas market last week. We are really getting into the spirit of Advent and kindness in particular. We love opening a new door on our calendar and ...
12
Dec.2019
Look at the fabulous art we have made: some at home and some at school. We have Christmas stockings, cribs, angels, presents, cards, trees, Santas, decorations, and a wonderful push and pull pop up Sa ...
2
Jan.2021
STARCAMP is kick starting 2021 with FIREWORKS! As a gesture of goodwill and in the spirit of encouraging children to have fun and stay healthy, mentally and physically over this new and hopefully fina ...
1
Jan.2021
We wish all of you – students, parents and staff a very safe, happy and successful 2021! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 ...
23
Dec.2020
2020 has been a very strange and uncertain year for us all. We have missed out on lots of special events this year but one thing we didn’t want anyone to miss was our Christmas performance. The ...
23
Dec.2020
17
Dec.2020
Dear Parents/Guardians, We are collecting items for our Christmas food bank this Thursday and Friday. This year our food bank will be donated to families in need in our school community. Donations ca ...
15
Dec.2020
...
11
Dec.2020
There is a lovely Christmassy feeling in Scoil Chaitríona Junior. We had an exciting visit from Santa and Mrs. Clause. Santa has given each of us a special reindeer to put on our windows or mirrors. O ...
9
Dec.2020
If you would like to wear a Christmas jumper (or any nice woolly jumper) to school, please join us on Friday, December 11th for our Christmas Jumper Day. ...
20
Nov.2020
Pop Medley 2021 Choreography 2021 Instrumental ...
20
Nov.2020
Visit the virtual Galway Science and Technology Festival this Sunday from 11am at www.galwayscience.ie Also, remember to plant your seed ticket and grow some lovely lavender! ...
18
Nov.2020
We spent last week exploring materials, making predictions, following procedures and discussing our results just like scientists. We also carried out experiments from GMIT’s colourful science pa ...
16
Nov.2020
Today 5 classes from our school had an amazing Zoom lesson from Frances at the Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork. The lesson was SO engaging and we learned an amazing amount about life and living t ...
12
Nov.2020
Message from Cell Explorers and Galway Science and Technology Festival: Win a place on the Cell Explorers ‘Fantastic DNA at Home’ private workshop on Sunday 22nd Nov (1pm or 3pm). Take a p ...
11
Nov.2020
We are hoping to recruit new parents for; FREE Basic IT/Smartphone Skills Training: Emails, Zoom, SeeSaw, Shopping Online. GRETB have provided funding for an IT tutor to come to Ballybane on Tuesday ...
6
Nov.2020
Maths week was a great success in prefab 1a! We spent the week exploring our classroom and school grounds for shapes & numbers. We even made shapes using our bodies! We worked in pairs to solve ma ...
5
Nov.2020
We had great fun celebrating space week. We had a busy week learning about space, astronauts and rockets. We made our own straw rockets and even launched stomp and water rockets outside! We explored w ...
2
Nov.2020
The artist focus for September was Pablo Picasso. We learned all about Picasso’s special technique of cubism and looked at some of his famous paintings. We created some amazing Picasso inspired ...
2
Nov.2020
We were learning all about abstract artist Jackson Pollock. First, we read ‘Action Jackson’, a story describing Pollock’s life and how he became famous for the ‘drip technique& ...
23
Oct.2020
Such a strange bunch in Scoil Chaitríona Junior this year! ...
23
Oct.2020
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 ...
4
Oct.2020
Space Week Events in Scoil Chaitríona Junior 2020: Asteroids, craters and the demise of the dinosaurs 2nd class (Oct 2020) Learning about gravity 2nd class (Oct 2020) Why can’t we hear sound in ...
21
Sep.2020
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 ...
26
Aug.2020
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 ...
19
Aug.2020
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 ...
19
Jun.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: ...
21
Mar.2020
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 ...
18
Mar.2020
Like to try a quiz? Maybe you can win one of the daily €20 book voucher prizes! ...
12
Mar.2020
Looking for something interesting to do over the Easter Holidays? ...
12
Mar.2020
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 ...
24
Jan.2020
child-safeguarding-and-risk-assessment 2019 ...
15
Jan.2020
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 ...
10
Jan.2020
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 ...
10
Jan.2020
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! ...
18
Dec.2019
We have been very busy getting ready for Christmas. Take a look at some of the amazing Christmas and winter artwork created by the Junior Infants in 7A. ...
17
Dec.2019
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) ...
13
Dec.2019
13
Dec.2019
28
Nov.2019
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! ...
25
Nov.2019
7
Nov.2019
Liam Mellows hurling club is playing in the County Final this Sunday. We wish them the very best of luck. ...
11
Oct.2019
10
Oct.2019
8
Oct.2019
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. ...