Ms. McLoughlin

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. ...

We walked to Ballybane Library today to hear about the summner reading programme. We love visiting the library and hope to go there a lot over the summer holidays. If we have Tesco tokens in the next ...

We used a bicycle pump and water to compress air.  This air gave our projectile the power to lift off.  It was very exciting! ...

We love our LEGO WeDo kits and iPads! ...

Note about our uniform sale TONIGHT: ...

We spent time in our school garden this morning looking for and identifying mini-beasts.  It was very exciting and we learned a lot about the bugs and insects that live in our school garden. Thank yo ...

We had a challenge: to see how far we could fly a foam rocket. We got to choose which sized rocket we would like to use (10cm, 13cm, 20cm, 25cm or 30cm), how far we would stretch the elastic and what ...

We made lovely decorative windmills. Unfortunately they don’t actually work, but they do look nice! ...

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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 ...

We made some amazing paper whales, with water squirting out of their blowholes. ...

We had a wonderful visit from Maurice who works with the Marine Institute in Galway. We learned lots and lots about sharks and we were particularly interested to hear that if we find shark eggs or mar ...

Look at all the exciting things we did in Second Class. We love school! ...

Teacher brought some traditional Japanese toys for us to see and to play with. We also saw a “hanten” housecoat, a fan, chopsticks and “obi” belts for kimonos.  Teacher explai ...

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 ...

All our 2nd classes had a wonderful school tour to the Burren Nature Sanctuary. We really enjoyed our fairy walk, feeding the animals, the outdoor and indoor play areas, and especially the whipped ice ...

As part of our seashore theme we made some great octopuses.  They are such good friends…..like us! ...

Inspired by our seashore safari we have made some beautiful art: ...

We had an absolutely wonderful day on the beach with the Explorers Education programme. Padraic and Anna were our guides. We used nets and buckets and found seaweeds, fish, crabs and shells.  We got ...

We are learning about capacity. We love estimating and then checking containers that hold less than, about the same as and more than 1litre, 1/2 litre, 1/4 litre. We are going to be trying these at ho ...

We had a wonderful sports day. The weather was absolutely perfect:- warm, cloudy and dry. We ran long distance races, sprints, potato and spoon races, 3 legged races and sack races. We chose children ...

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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We programmed our Wonder Dots with our iPads today.  We are so fond of our Dots and we LOVE CODING! ...

Tom and Éamonn came from Fyffes to do Zoo Exercises with all second classes. We thoroughly enjoyed the session. It was hard work and we might be stiff tomorrow but we really enjoyed ourselves. ...

There is a Blue Tit nest in a nest box by the senior school. We have a web cam in there so we can see what is happening.  On May 1st 9 eggs were laid.  7 eggs hatched into lovely chicks.  Mum and D ...

It is Tech Week 2019 We used our Bee Bots at 10 different work stations. We really are experts in Bee Bots now! ...

Here’s our class at our Bee Bot work stations: and working with Wonder Dots and iPads:   ...

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Friday, May 17th! ...

We have been looking at how coloured food dyes mix and make new colours. Today we looked at mixing the colours of light. We did this with coloured spinners, a motor, a battery and two wires. We tried ...

Look at our ripe strawberry. We divided it up and everyone had a taste.  YUM! ...

May 11th, 2019 St. Oliver Plunkett’s Church, Renmore. Congratulations to our first communicants and to their families, to Fr. Declan, to Sr. Maura and to all the teachers and SNAs who made the c ...

Anna from Galway Atlantaquarium came to visit with us today, as part of the wonderful Explorers Education programme. She will lead us on a beach safari next Friday, May 17th. Today we learned all abou ...

We are talking these days about light and colour. Today we tried a colour mixing experiment. We have 6 cups, 3 filled with coloured water (primary colours: red, blue and yellow). We wonder if we can g ...

We used glass triangular prisms and empty plastic pens to focus the sun’s light into the seven colours of the rainbow: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. We could even make dou ...

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: ...

With the help of artist Lara Luxardi we wrote and illustrated our own books. We made our own storyboards, illustrated the pages, the guardians and the cover and we assembled our books. We are SO proud ...

The chicks we hatched in school three weeks ago have really grown. Look at them now! ...

An interesting question. After much discussion we decided that a candle would need air to burn and that without air the candle would go out. We sugggested how to do this using the materials that we ha ...

We investigated bubbles today.  What shape they are, how big can we make them, what colours can we see, do the bubbles change colours according to how close to bursting they are, how can we touch the ...

We made lovely bunnies, baskets, Easter eggs, ducks and other Easter objects out of clay. They look so nice when they are painted! ...

Remember the hen’s eggs from March 25th. http://junior.renmoreschool.com/hens-eggs/ The first egg hatched this morning and we have one beautiful fluffly yellow chick. Another egg has a hole in ...

We use the second class iPads and our Wonder dots to programme our dots to interact with us. We are just learning how to do this, but we are really enjoying it. We love coding, we love technology! ...

We had a marvellous music workshop with Lucinda Geoghegan.  It was a master class so some other music teachers watched us having our class.  We learned about rhymes, songs, rhythm, rounds and music ...

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We had some very interesting discussions today. First of all the materials for an investigation were shown to the children and they had to predict what the investigation might be about.  Many guessed ...

Lucky Duck (and Teddy) are our classroom toys.  They go home each night with a student who looks after them well, and lets them join in the child’s life for a night. At school they help us prac ...

One of our students got a present of a mini-bible. It is so small that she was not sure whether it was written in English or in another language, and if it actually made sense. We decided to try readi ...

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 ...

There’s a special occasion today. We have made lovely cards! ...

Ms. McLoughlin’s class finished reding Eoin Colfer’s book: The Legend of Spud Murphy. It was wonderful. We even wrote a book report on it.  We would love to read more of Eoin Colfer’ ...

We were delighted to have a visit from two wonderful Cloud Solutions Engineers. They work with HP (Hewlett Packard) in Galway, and have very intersting jobs. Aaron told us all about cloud computing an ...

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We are delighted to be having a book fair in our school. Lots of books to look at, to buy and to read. Open to Mums and Dads before and after school each day. WE  LOVE  READING!!! ...

Ms. McGrath brought some eggs to school from her farm.  There are 18 eggs, which we hope will hatch in 3 weeks time, just before the Easter break.  The eggs are in an incubator to keep them warm and ...

It was a lovely day for planting cress, lettuce, chives, turnips and carrots. We are looking forward to watching them grow! ...

Lovely posies, all unique!   ...

All second classes had a wonderful dental workshop from Helen Murphy today. We learned all about teeth and the best way to brush them and to keep them healthy. We didn’t realise that there is so ...

Our school is holding our annual book fair all next week. Please feel free to browse or buy. ...

Each of us had to bring one piece of fruit and one vegetable to school today. We used our senses to look at, to touch, to smell and to taste each piece. Before we tasted the food we classified them in ...

Are you looking for fun and excitement during the Easter Holidays. Why not sign up for a fun Easter Camp?   ...

We are learning about how sounds are made and how they travel to the ear. We are learning all about how our ears look and how they work. We can make funny sounds with balloons, grass and plastic. Ther ...

We used forks to print the beards on our leprechauns. The special thing about our leprechauns is that every single one is different and special, just like us! ...

Mar chuid de Seachtain na Gaeilge, thug Rang a dó cuairt ar Gaelscoil Dara. Bhí am iontach againn an, ag breathnú ar a dráma: An tAsarlaí ó Oz.  Chuir muid ár dráma Tír gan Sorcas ar an stá ...

We are focusing on money and on change at the moment. We also enjoy tangrams and working with 3D shapes. ...

Nursery rhymes, dictionary skills, writing skills and work were adjectives were all on today’s agenda. ...

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We had a really really interesting talk from an electrical engineer dad in our class today. He works for Valeo vision company that designs and manufactures cameras for cars (to improve safety). We got ...

Here are some videos from different perspectives showing how important we feel it is to be learning skills in science, technology, engineering and maths.   Students: Teachers: Parents: ...

We made a fizzy bomb with bread soda, vinegar, warm water and a zip loc bag. Can you figure out how we did it? ...

Our final challenge for Engineers Week was to build the tallest toothpick tower we could. We found a sample of this in our Engineers Week booklet, but since we had only toothpicks instead of spaghetti ...

Today we planted potatoes from seed potatoes, strawberries from runner plants and lettuce, turnip, spinach, chives and carrot seeds. We will look after them well and we hope they will grow. We canR ...

Beautiful home grown flowers for International Women’s Day. Much appreciated by teacher. Thank you! ...

Some of our mums and dads use STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) in their jobs every day. Today we had a wonderful visit from Tony the electrician to tell us all about his job, and how ...

One of our students had lots of interesting stones, and another had a beautiful shell. When we looked at them under our Celestron digital microscope, the results were surprising and very impressive. ...

St. Patrick’s Day is on March 17th. We heard a story in Irish about a clever leprechaun.  Today we made some toilet roll leprechauns.  They look wonderful. ...

Here are some pictures we did at home. We are very proud of them. ...

Are you looking for somewhere for your children to amuse themselves this summer? Here are some summer camps that we have heard about: ...

Comhairdeas do Rang a dó leis an ndráma Tír gan Sorcas, Tír gan Anam a bhfuair duais anocht ag bronnadh na duaiseanna do’n Fhéile Scoildrámaíochta na Gaillimhe, agus go’n máistear ...

We had another engineering challenge for the week that is in it.  This challenge also has a water focus. Today we were given materials to build a raft. We had to plan and design our rafts, then build ...

It rained very heavily all night. This morning the roads and ground are all flooded. We chatted about flooding today, looked up all about floods on our interactive board, then put our STEM skills to g ...

As part of Engineers Week, some of the 2nd classes have chosen to undertake a STEM challenge: to make catapults. We really enjoyed constructing 2 different kinds of catapults   “The PingerR ...

We had a wonderful day at the Féile Scoildrámaíochta in Kilcornan today. We are finished now and are not through to any more rounds of the competition.  It was a fantastic experience for all. Well ...

We are so proud of our students.  What a fabulous performance.  Well done to all! ...

We had fun making Favourite Food and Favourite Desert data charts today. Here are our results: ...

Can you guess what our drama is about? We are SO excited about performing tomorrow.  It will be a fun day! ...

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: ...

Best of luck to second class, Room 9 in their performance of Tír Gan Sorcas, Tír Gan Anam (A land without a circus is a land without a soul) in Kilcornan, Clarinbridge on Friday 1st March, at 9:30am ...

We went on a bug hunt today. We just love using our senses to discover all we can about this mini-world. ...

Engineers Week 2019 Engineers Week begins on Saturday, 2nd March. We had a walk planned for around our school, looking at local feats of engineering.  We took advantage of the glorious weather today ...

Engineers Week 2019 Engineers Week begins on Saturday, 2nd March. We had to try and see how a bicycle works for next week.  Instead we took advantage of the glorious weather today though and looked c ...

Ms. McGrath lives on a farm. Right now it is lambing season, when new lambs are being born. She brought Bob to school today.  Bob is three weeks old and is just gorgeous. His mum feeds him milk but h ...

We love learning about time, money, change and the calendar: ...

In our drama about a circus, we have some acrobats. They are really good at balancing. It is easier to balance when you use your hands to stabilize yourself. We made clowns today, and we used blue tac ...

We are so pleased with our performances of Tír Gan Sorcas. We are having a fabulous time bring circus life to the rest of the school. Tír gan sorcas, tír gan anam! ...

We have been celebrating Friendship Week with lots of fantastic activities: Extra skipping ropes and beanbags have been provided for yard games, cool wristbands given to remind us to be friendly, work ...

We are learning to tell the time.  We can now tell the hour, the half and quarter hours on analog and digital clocks. Please encourage us to practise this at home! ...

We practise every day for our play Tír Gan Sorcas (The land without a circus). We are really enjoying our drama.  Thank you to all (especially Martha and Maggie) for the help with the costumes Here& ...

We really enjoy construction and coding with our LEGO WeDo kits and our iPads. We will try out a few tutorials and then we will design, make and programme our own creations.   ...

We made some beautiful Valentine’s prints. We used our fingers and some red and pink paints.  They are all individually made and look lovely! ...

We had another wonderful printing session with Lara. Today we made Styrofoam squares (in exactly the same way that lino prints are made) as printing blocks to make multiple plant and flower prints.  ...

Today we had a visiting art teacher.  She helped us bring nature to life through art. We collected leaves and flowers from our school garden, and used these for our still life drawings. Then we did s ...

We tried estimating how heavy various objects weigh. We used non standard units of measurement (cubes, lolly sticks and pencils) and a balance to check the weights of different objects.  We found thi ...

Even though Japanese people celebrate New Year on January 1st (like us), on February 3rd each year they celebrate “Setsubun no Hi” which is the day the seasons change, a day for throwing b ...

We have been learning about the water cycle. We love the water cycle song, and the story about Drippy the Raindrop. We know how to make our own “cloud in a bottle”, but we need your help t ...

We are delighted to see the signs of spring around the school. We love seeing and smelling the daffodils. ...

We have been talking about body parts.  We had fun making data charts of our hair colour and eye colours. ...

We are learning about old cameras and old technology. Here are some things we have found: A replica of an old folding camera (over 100 years old!)  Old cameras and film, an old novelty phone, an old ...

We are really enjoying hearing about the Chinese New Year (5th February this year, Year of the Pig or Boar). We know the story of the Willow Pattern, we have seen a willow pattern plate and we have pa ...

Today all 5 second classes went on a trip to the Eye Cinema to see Mary Poppins Returns. We took popcorn and water in our special high visibility backpacks. The film was magic altogether and we all re ...

Today we talked about what makes objects float or sink. Teacher had some fruit for lunch. We guessed which pieces of fruit would float and which would sink. Here are our guesses: We were right only so ...

Last term we learned a lot about the Antarctic. Yesterday we learned about polar bears in the Arctic. Today we made collages of polar bear scenes. ...

We had a great visit from Santa today. It is wonderful to know that we are all on the “good” list. Merry Christmas to you all. See you in 2019! ...

After learning all about magnets we demonstrated our new found knowledge to Ms. Cunningham’s second class.  They followed our lead and had their own magnet morning this afternoon. ...

We had a magnet morning today. We learned all about magnets. We tested out what magnets are attracted to (or not). We checked what magnets will work through (or not). We tested out which side of a mag ...

We made parcels at home and filled them with love. ...

We took a vote today on our favourite Christmas things. Here are the results:   ...

We made lovely Christmas robins in class today.   ...

Look at the fabulous Christmas angels we made at home: ...

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. ...

Here are some of the literacy games we play in Room 9 ...

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) ...

We made lovely Christmas crackers with jokes and a little present inside. Merry Christmas everyone! Here are some that we made ourselves at home: ...

Look at the wonderful selection of cribs that we made at home and brought in to school to show our classmates and teacher. Well done to the mammies and daddies who gave us a hand with our craftwork! ...

We learned about circuits yesterday. Today we had to figure out how to make a circuit in order to light a bulb using two wires and a battery.  We found this quite challenging. Then we had to figure o ...

We saw lots of colourful lights at the Christmas market today. In class we have already had a discussion about how to stay safe around electricity. Today we learned lots more about electricity. We fou ...

We had a wonderful day at Galway Christmas Market. Ms. McLoughlin’s class and Ms. Cunningham’s class walked to town along the railway line, looking out for mathematical shapes and answerin ...

We made some fabulous Christmas decorations at home last night.  We brought them in to show teacher.  She ABSOLUTELY loves them and is so proud of us! ...

Weather Permitting: Ms. Cunningham’s, Ms. McLoughlin’s and Ms. Needham’s classes hope to visit the Christmas market tomorrow, Thursday 13th. We will walk into town so please ensure t ...

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. ...

We have made some really angelic angels. We hope they can sit on our Christmas trees this Christmas time. ...

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 ...

We made puppets in class. We needed felt, needles, thread, glue, googly eyes and markers. First of all we sewed the puppets, then we decorated them.  Finally we hung them on the notice board outside ...

Our trip to the Christmas market. ...

We have made pop up Santa toys that use forces to work (push force and pull force). We love combining art and craft with science and design and make. ...

We used a parachute for some fun games in PE. We made walking and running wheels, we made a mushroom and a tent, we bounced balls on the parachute, we played cat and mouse under the parachute and we d ...

We had some interesting questions today?   We used a light box to investigate these questions and we found that: Yes, we need light to see.  In a completely dark box we can’t see Lucky Duck (o ...

Advent starts tomorrow. In church there is always an advent wreath.  It is a circular wreath made of evergreen leaves (to show that God’s love is everlasting and has no beginning or end).  On ...

We painted scenes from Tom Crean’s life.  We included his voyages to the South Pole, the animals he encountered, stories from his trips across the Antarctic and scenes from his family life. Whe ...

Today students from Ms. Cunningham’s and Ms. Groarke’s classes presented 6 science experiments to Ms. McLoughlin’s class. All three classes learned a lot about friction, gravity, flo ...

During Science Week we used our digital microscope to have a really good look at our hair and some of our clothes. We were surprised at what we could see! Later we had fun with a disgusting science ki ...

Room 9 scientists gave demonstrations to pupils from Room 16 today for Science Week. We had a floating ball demonstration which focused on gravity and air currents. We made and demonstrated gloop. We ...

We have some fact wheels on display outside our door. Feel free to give them a spin to learn all about Tom Crean’s life. ...

We are wonderful musicians. Look at us at our first drumming lessons with Barra and Les. They were a lot of fun! ...

We are so lucky to have had our first ukulele lessons in school. We love playing the ukulele and singing along.  We sound great too! Thank you Tracy for a fun class! ...

We had a wonderful session with our own scientist. She showed us how vinegar and bread soda mix to make a volcano. We also saw how different colours can travel up a piece of paper at different rates. ...

We all bring drinks to school.  We have a feeling that water is the best drink for helping us to look after our teeth. Today we decided to test our drinks to find out if any of them contain acid (whi ...

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 ...

We went on a shape search in the school yard. It’s amazing how many shapes we found! ...

We really enjoyed acting out scenes from Tom Crean’s life. He certainly was an amazing Antarctic explorer! ...

We are really enjoying reading our novel about the Irish Antarctic explorer Tom Crean. Today we talked about the clothes he wore as he carried out his explorations. We used hessian cloth and felt (mat ...

Today we were looking at how light is reflected in plain mirrors. We became very good at predicting where the light would end up after being reflected in a mirror, and were able to shine a spotlight o ...

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 ...

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 noticed that cold ...

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: ...

We really enjoyed our day. Many thanks to all our parents for help with our costumes and with sponsorship for our Hallowe’en walk, and also for the treats for sharing.  We had a wonderful day. ...

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. ...

(Tuesday, October 22nd) We are all ready for our Rocket Launching Morning tomorrow.  We are really excited: (Wednesday, October 24th) We had an absolutely fabulous day at our rocket morning. See the ...

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We are delighted to be learning a Thriller dance with Ms. Lally. We will join in with tomorrow’s big performance! ...

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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 ...

We know that there are lots of volcanoes in space. The largest volcano in our solar system is on Mars, while Venus has the largest number of volcanoes. Today we did a volcano demonstration (this is no ...

We learned about asteroids, meteors and meteorites. We crashed different sized meteorites (balls) onto Earth (a biscuit tin with sand and a light layer of chocolate powder). They made different sized ...

We are learning all about space. Today we were wondering “Why don’t we fall off the Earth when it is up-side down in space?”  We were also wondering “Why do astronauts on the ...

We made some very interesting Hallowe’en potions. Have a look: ...

We really enjoy using games and activities to help us learn: the language and vocabulary of maths, addition and subtraction, 2D & 3D shapes, place value, time and fractions. ...

We have made some fabulously glittery Hallowe’en prints.   ...

Look at the fabulous haunted house I made at home: What a wonderful piece of artwork! ...

Important note for 2nd classes. ...

We are having fun measuring with non-standard units of measurement (paper clips, pencils, footprints, paw-prints, cubes and lolly sticks). We really enjoy estimating first and seeing how close we are. ...

At PE we have fun playing games. We played under-over relays, human sorting, elbow to elbow and traffic lights.   ...

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 had great fun with our mini whiteboards and a target board. We identified big numbers, small numbers, odd and even numbers.  We looked at rows and columns. We looked at bigger, smaller than and eq ...

We made scary skeletons with cotton buds. Look at how they can dance! ...

For Maths Week we are doing a survey every day. We really enjoy it, and it gets us involved in lots of discussion about number.   ...

It is Maths Week. Our school has signed up for Science Week. We are doing very interesting Maths activities every day this week. ...

It is Maths Week. Today we went on a Maths Trail. It was really enjoyable. We counted steps, measured lengths, looked around for shapes, estimated, wondered, measured. We even made our own maths trail ...

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 ...

In our school, Room 9 will take part in EU Code Week. Our aim is to run introductory workshops in coding each day in our class during the week. We hope to try Scratch, Hour of Code, Lego Robotics, Bee ...

We love Code Week. Today we got a chance to put our coding into practice, and to make and programme our own models with LEGO. We also were able to programme and interact with our wonder dots. ...

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 printed our own planets using tinfoil. They look great.   ...

We really enjoyed the coding and were so proud when our coding worked. Why not try some coding at home? ...

We have LEGO WeDo 2 Kits at school. We can use these kits to make different models, then programme them to move using our class iPad. Today was just an introductory day.  Teacher explained each step ...

We take advantage of any nice weather to do some field games on the pitch. Look at what we were using for PE today. ...

We are doing a lot of coding this week for Code Week. Today we programmed Bee Bots.  This is very simple coding but it is fun and it gives us a really good base for learning more difficult coding. ...

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 ...

To celebrate our involvement in Space Week 2018 we invite you: ...

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 ...

In Room 9 we are celebrating Space Week this week  (October 4th -10th). We are bringing books from home to help teacher and the other children learn more about space! Our mission is to launch AT LEAS ...

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 ...

We made foam rockets last week in preparation for Space Week. Click here to find out how these were made. Today we explained how to make and launch them to Ms. Groarke’s class. Then we took tur ...

We have been learning a lot about space and astronauts. We know lots and lots of interesting facts about astronauts.  We were able to share what we know with others by writing and displaying the inte ...

We had our first Hip Hop class this year with Fabiane. It is SOOO much fun!!! Fabiane also offers family classes every Wednesday night in the senior school hall for only €2 per family.  We’d ...

We know that real rockets are launched after a chemical reaction with heat and fuel takes place. Today’s rockets also used a chemical reaction for blast off. When you mix vinegar and bread soda ...

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 ...

Here’s some of the rockets we have made in honour of Space Week. ...

Look at the amazing castle that was made at home! It has working pieces including the drawbridge and the portcullis. It was great being able to explain all about the making of the castle to other clas ...

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For space week we launched some fizzy rockets. We know that fizzy tablets react with water making fizzy bubbles of gas.  We were able to guess that this gas is Carbon Dioxide. We think that real rock ...

Last week we made toilet roll rockets in preparation for Space Week. Today we explained to Ms. Coade’s class how these rockets were made, and we showed them how to launch the rockets, using skew ...

We use 2 litre bottles and a bicycle pump to launch water rockets. The launches are extremely exciting! ...

Last week we made our rocket mice. Today we explained to Ms. Cunningham’s class how these mice were made and how best to launch them. Click here to see how we made the rocket mice. ...

We have been talking about making friends and what makes a good friend. We have made a nice recipe for friendship. ...

We think that seeds need soil, light, air, heat and water to grow. We decided to test this out by planting cress seeds in different pots. One pot of seeds will grow in soil, with light, air, heat and ...

We can use all sorts of interesting materials to make rockets…even toilet rolls. These rockets will be launched using elastic bands and skewers. We are really looking forward to the launching of ...

We made two types of straw rockets in preparation for Space Week next week. Both are  propelled using air from a straw. We can’t wait to launch them next week! Watch the launching here ...

We have made rocket mice in preparation for Space Week next week. They look great.  We made big and little mice.  We can’t wait to launch them! Click here to see them being launched. ...

We have been making castles at home, after chatting about them at school. Here are some wonderful castles: ...

We often have spills in our classroom. Today we set about trying to find out which materials would be best for mopping up spills (which materials are most absorbent). We spent a while feeling, touchin ...

We used a photograph as inspiration for our paintings.  We put a small photo in the middle of a sheet of paper and we used paints to expand  the photograph.  We paid particular attention to the col ...

We are making rockets in school this week, in preparation for EU Space Week (next week). Teacher has a big rocket launcher.  We used our knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes to make our rockets.  (Cylinder ...

In preparation for Space Week next week, we have made foam rockets. We used radiator insulation foam, duct tape, and card for the fins. We can understand how to make squares and triangles from rectang ...

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: ...

We are learning about some great explorers: Christopher Columbus (who discovered America) and Tom Crean (an Irishman who was an explorer in the Antarctic). We had a fun drama lesson involving improvis ...

Ms. Moran’s tree blew down during storm Ali. There was a bees nest in the middle of the tree.  They bees lost their home when the tree blew down. Using a bee suit, she rescued the bees and move ...

We made clay mini-beasts and decorated them with lots of glitter, feathers, pipe cleaners and sequins. Some of them are insects (if they have 6 legs) and some are not. They are adorable!   ...

We enjoy playing maths activities each day. This week we are playing 2D shape snap (shape and space), bankers coins (number-addition), addition bingo (number-addition), tangrams (shape and space) and ...

Family Cycle Ride   Come join Renmore Brownies! ...

We used real apples to make printed apples on our autumn trees. They look very realistic!   ...

We are learning all about mini-beasts.  We discovered that mini-beasts are only insects if they have 6 legs and 2 body parts.  That means that slugs, snails, worms, wood lice, spiders, centipedes an ...

We tried orienteering for PE today. Orienteering is a real sport but it’s rather like a treasure hunt. We had to find and record clues. We worked with a partner and really enjoyed it. ...

We have been figuring out which colours we can mix to make new colours. RED, BLUE and YELLOW are primary colours.  We need these colours to make new colours. We discovered that red and blue make purp ...

We are delighted to be using technology to help us learn about science.  We love the tigtag website which has numerous interesting and informative videos, and we like looking up information and image ...

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Please note: Glee club for 2nd classes is on WEDNESDAYS (not Thursdays as in the note below. All other details are correct). ...

We put soil in water, mixed it well, then let it settle. It was very interesting to see the layers that were the result of the settling (soil on the bottom, dirty water in the middle and leaves and tw ...

This is our second trip to the garden this year. Today Kay helped us to harvest peas and lettuce seeds, stake the drooping sunflowers, take out weeds, harvest potatoes and clean up the garden.  We al ...

We are learning about Pablo Picasso. Here are some interesting things we learned: Also some interesting links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRT71Hx3v-k https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/w ...

We are really enjoying our GAA hurling sessions with Micheál. ...

We went on a Materials Scavenger Hunt around the school. We really enjoyed checking out the properties of stones, soil, rocks, feathers, grass, leaves, twigs, weeks, flowers, berries, nests, trees and ...

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Today we were talking about the properties of materials. We played a very enjoyable game of “Materials Pass the Parcel”.  We learned lots of new words about materials while playing the ga ...

We used a dice game to play a reading game. The winner was the person who could read three or four words in a row the fastest.  It was a great game! ...

Look at what we can make with 2D magnetic blocks.  We can also name all the 2D shapes we used and all the 3D shapes we made!     ...

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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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We celebrated the end of our school year with chips and ice creams in Supermacs. Delicious! ...

We really enjoyed using the maths activities today. ...

We made some great windmills.  They are great for this hot weather. ...

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We used Scratch Junior on our iPads to make some very interesting stories. Scratch Junior is a free app you can use on your android or apple devices. We really enjoy coding! ...

We collected caterpillars from our school garden.  They are the caterpillars of the cabbage white butterflies.  They love to eat………cabbage, of course. We are starting to notice egg ...

We have seen that white light (sunlight) can be broken into the colours of the rainbow with a glass prism. I wonder what would happen if we could spin all the colours of the rainbow?  Could we make w ...

We know that a hovercraft is a boat that floats, not on water but on a layer of air over the water. This makes for a fast voyage. We can make our own hovercrafts from an old CD, the top of a water bot ...

We found a ladybird in our school garden. We had fun making papier mache ladybirds in class. ...

We have new LEGO kits. Today we began using them.  First we use the iPads to follow directions on how to make something.  Then we use coding to  programme our creation and we can interact with it. ...

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend (especially all our dads!)   ...

We visited Athenry Heritage Centre and Athenry Castle for our tour today. Our favourite parts of the tour were: archery lessons (we were very good at this), the maze, dressing up in medieval costumes ...

We played lots of field games on the pitch for PE today. We had frisbees, horseshoe throwing, scoop games, bats, balls, paddles, sticky balls and skipping ropes. We love playing outside with our frien ...

We have some wonderful budding train engineers.  Nice job! ...

Our fish look so cute and friendly, but WATCH OUT!! ...

Realistic apples and worms! ...

Our classes went to visit the library this morning.  We heard all about the summer reading programme and we hope we can visit over the summer when  we have lots of time to enjoy great books.  Thank ...

All first and second classes had a wonderful morning at Liam Mellows GAA club in Ballyloughane. We had a very exciting hurling blitz. ...

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We made some lino prints of sea creatures. We rolled special ink onto a poly pocket and then we put a sheet of white paper on top and drew our sea creatures.   The ink transferred to our pages and th ...

We have bought a new rocket launcher in school. We have to make our own rockets.  Teacher had a rocket from home for us to test.  We love the fact that the rockets are easy to make, and also that th ...

On lovely sunny days we can use glass prisms to make a rainbow. There are 7 colours of light: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo (navy) and violet.  When light goes through a prism, all the col ...

School Tour:  June 13th 2018 On Wednesday June 13th the children will visit Athenry Heritage Centre. The school tour comes alive with medieval costumes for all the students and the centre provides su ...

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 ...

Congratulations to our First Holy Communicants who made their communion today. We were so proud of all of you. We wish a big Thank You to all of you, to your parents and families, to Ms. Maguire and M ...

We have new LEGO WeDo kits in school.  Today we got our kits organised and ready to use. We are really looking forward to programming and coding with LEGO. ...

Please see following notes about our First Communion next Saturday, May 26th. ...

Now that we have been on our beach safari, we know a lot more about fish and sea life. We each painted and made our own aquarium. ...

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 ...

We had a wonderful day on Ballyloughane with Anna from Explorers Education and the Atlantaqurium. We walked to the beach and began our safari by using our senses of sight and hearing to identify thing ...

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We are learning about how sounds are made and how they travel to the ear. We are learning all about how our ears look and how they work. We can make funny sounds with balloons, grass and plastic. Ther ...

Anyone interested in a great summer camp in the school? Read on: ...

Anna came to visit us from Explorer’s Education today, in advance of our Beach Safari in May. Today we learned all about different types of marine life – seaweeds, sea creatures and shells ...

We have been learning about the African continent and a little about some of its 54 countries. Today we made some African artifacts.  Some of us made clay animals, others made houses or African masks ...

We have happy and sad news. Our happy news is that our Cabbage White cocoon that has been in our classroom all winter has finally emerged into a beautiful butterfly. The sad news, unfortunately, is th ...

We used our Sow and Grow kits to plant seeds today. We planted spinach, lettuce, carrots and peas in rows in our bed of the school garden.   We planted potatoes at the sides of our bed and we plante ...

We are entering an art competition in conjunction with Boston Scientific and the Irish Heart Foundation. We have been talking about how to keep our hearts (and our bodies) healthy.  We have made some ...

We are learning a lot about Africa. Today we made some really realistic African masks.  They look good enough to wear! ...

Would you like to take part in the local Community Games?   ...

We had some delicious buns to celebrate a birthday in our class! ...

Pete Mullineaux is an author. He came to visit us in school today.  We had an absolutely wonderful session with him. We played a concentration word game, chatted about a rain stick, made a human rain ...

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We did a big school grounds clean up today. Everyone in our class went on a litter picking challenge today, to see how much litter we could pick up in 15 minutes.  It was interesting, a challenge, an ...

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. ...

We have been on a walk in our neighbourhood investigating local engineering structures. We looked at traffic lights (for cars and for pedestrians), their colours and their sequencing. ...

We have made some lovely Easter chick cards. We are really looking forward to our Easter holidays on Friday and to a happy and holy Easter time. ...

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 ...

We were working on more practical maths activities: We can tell the time (both in analogue and in digital), we can make different numbers using diennes blocks, we can tell all about the sides, corners ...

We have been learning about light sources and reflectors. Today we learned about objects that are opaque, translucent or transparent. We enjoyed classifying objects into their appropriate groups. ...

We used the top of a drinks bottle and a stick to print some nice shamrocks. ...

We used forks to make nice leprechaun beards on our leprechauns for St. Patrick’s Day (on March 17th). Each of our leprechauns is different and very special! ...

We are practising our new maths skills relating to money, change, time and fractions. We do our activities in groups and it is a lot of fun! ...

We wish all our mums a very special Happy Mothers Day 2018 Enjoy the day, and thank you for being so special!   ...

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. ...

Each of us had to bring one piece of fruit and one vegetable to school today. We used our senses to look at, to touch, to smell and to taste each piece. Before we tasted the food we classified them in ...

Our fabulous fear bréige (scarecrow) won best actor of our category. Well done to her, and to the rest of the class.  You were amazing!!! An unforgettable experience! Listen to the results on: http: ...

On behalf of everyone at Scoil Chaitríona Junior we are extremely proud of our 2nd class who represented us so well in their play An Fear Bréige Sona last week.  Maith sibh.  You were amazing! Tod ...

Congratulations to the first student in our class to win the Platinum Award for eating fruit and vegetables every day! Well done! And a new silver award goes to: ...

Using directions from our English book we made our own bubble bomb. We needed vinegar, bread soda, warm water, a piece of kitchen towel, a spoon and a zip loc bag. Can you figure out how we made our b ...

We have been talking about the story of Zacchaeus and the story of the Judge and the Poor Widow Watch these stories here: ...

We went on a walk in our neighbourhood to spot local structures that engineers have designed. We talked about different structures, how they were designed, how they were made and how they help us in d ...

Ms. McGrath brought her little lamb to school today. We loved visiting and petting him.   ...

Look at how we performed on Tuesday: ...

We had a fun performance in Kilcorna, Clarinbridge. Well done to all,  you were absolutely fantastic. Maith sibh! ...

We had a great day in Clairnbridge! The drama was fantastic. You did our school proud. Well done!!!  Maith sibh go léir!! A huge Go Raibh Maith Agat to Lorraine for the wonderful props, to Maggie ...

Information about the Let’s Go Summer Camps: ...

It is nearly Engineers Week.  We discussed lots of structures in our locality that engineers have designed. We were also talking about floods today.  We know that flooding can occur when rain lasts ...

In 2nd class we can tell: o’clock. half past, quarter past and quarter to. We can read these times in digital too. We are using little clocks to get lots of practice. We also need to practise at ...

Thaispeáin muid ár seo do na tuismitheoirí inniu.  Bhí an-lá againn.  Maith sibh go léir. We had a dress rehearsal for our parents today.  All went really well and we are very pleased. Many t ...

We were treated to pancakes for Pancake Tuesday. Many thanks for the deliciously tasty vanilla and coconut pancakes.  Yum!  ….and for the tasty Indian banana chips!   ...

We are so proud of the children in our class who have earned bronze, silver and gold awards for eating delicious fruit and vegetables each day.  Well done to you!   ...

Wishing you all a very Happy Valentine’s Day (in advance!)   ...

Look at the rocket and the tank that I designed and made myself! ...

St. James’ Soccer Club in Mervue/Renmore are always looking for new players. Come and try it out! ...

Rinne muid an dráma do Rang a Cúig inniu. Tá cúpla botúin againn go fóil ach bhain muid taitneamh as! ...

Today we were very fortunate to take part in a wonderful Polish tradition.  In Poland, rather than baking up some wonderful pancakes on the day before Lent begins (as we do in Ireland), all those ...

We had our first dress rehearsal today. From now on its costumes each time.  We love doing our play in costume.  It really helps us get into role. Míle Buíochas to Lorraine for the fabulous sets a ...

Meanwhile…the girls and non dramatic boys in Ms. McLoughlin’s class concentrated on robotics. We used programmable Lego to make our wheels spin and make noise. We are already familiar with ...

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 ...

Engineers Week is coming soon.  In our class we are going to learn lots about engineers and the job they do in our locality. Today we had a look at the building of bridges. We read a really interesti ...

Japanese Good Luck Custom Even though Japanese people celebrate New Year on January 1st (like us), on February 3rd each year they celebrate “Setsubun no Hi” which is the day the seasons ch ...

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Here are some tips to keep your children safe online: ...

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 used balances today to weigh classroom items. We enjoyed estimating weights before each weigh-in.  Some of us are so good at estimating! We used non standard units of weights today (cubes, pencils ...

We have been talking about water, water cycle, water pollution. Today we tried two water experiments. The first one has a fish that can dive to the bottom of the bottle and come back up again. [ngg_im ...

We found an experiment on heat energy that teacher has never tried. Boy was she impressed when we got the fan to move, using only the heat of our hands! [ngg_images source=”galleries” cont ...

St. Brigid’s Day and the first day of spring fall on February 1st. We have heard some of the stories of St. Brigid.  Today we made St. Brigid’s crosses. We used paper rather than rushes b ...

We are preparing for Chinese New Year (The Year of the Dog) on February 16th this year. We made some gorgeous colourful Chinese Dragons. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=” ...

We really enjoy being creative with our magnetic shapes. Look at the amazing things we can make: [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”333″ display_type=”photocra ...

A wonderful birthday celebration with delicious birthday buns. Yum!! ...

We are all able to programme the bee bots to go wherever we want them to go. We really enjoy sending the bee bots on journeys across all the different mats and mazes. [ngg_images source=”galleri ...

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 ...

Today we had an interesting lesson all about crows. Just as we started to draw a crow, a real live crow landed on the wall right by our classroom window.  That was a great chance to see a crow up clo ...

Our school has 6 new (technology) pupils! They are called Bee Bots and look like this: We can programme them to move around the classroom using the same commands that we use when we are doing computer ...

We are learning lots about China.  Today we practised picking up marshmallows with chopsticks.  It got easier the more we practised.  We also saw a house coat and a Chinese hat that the children in ...

We painted some wonderful bamboo pictures today.  We even signed them with our own authentic Chinese seals. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”322″ display_type= ...

A wonderful birthday being celebrated with fantastically artistic cupcakes! ...

Today we were investigating floating and sinking. We tried floating a banana, an orange and an apple.  Do you think they floated or sank? We predicted and then tested each piece of fruit. We found th ...

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 ...

It was lovely to be able to get a good look at a special smooth stone that I found. The microscope shows up all the interesting particles in the stone. [ngg_images source=”galleries” conta ...

Now that we know how circuits are made, we had a very interesting time trying to make circuits in different ways with our Bright Sparks 4 Kids kits. We love using batteries, bulbs, LED bulbs, motors, ...

We have been learning about polar bears.  We made some nice polar bear collages today. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”318″ display_type=”photocrati-nextge ...

This morning was really freezing.  It was -5 degrees celsius as we headed to school. We brought a leaf covered in frost in to show teacher. She let us examine the frost under the digital microscope. ...

A huge WELL DONE to all for the beautiful carol service last night. Merry Christmas to everyone, and best of health, love and luck in 2018. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids= ...

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 ...

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We had a magnet morning today. We learned all about magnets. We tested out what magnets are attracted to (or not). We checked what magnets will work through (or not). We tested out which side of a mag ...

We made a data chart of our favourite Christmas things. Here are the results: We had fun comparing the different columns.   ...

  We are learning a lot about electricity. We used a balloon and static electricity to pick up pieces of paper and to roll a can. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”3 ...

We have been learning about magnets, attracting and repelling, electricity, electrical circuits, electrical symbols and electrical safety. Today we tried using Bright Sparks 4 Kids kit to make differe ...

We used Golden Time today to make some lovely Christmas Cards. They look very festive! ...

We made some lovely Christmas Robins from cardboard, with google eyes, shiny red card, feathers and some red string. They look so festive! ...

Look at the wonderful painting.  Our class is so proud of the lovely art work! Well done! We made a really interesting construction from Lego during Golden Time today. ...

We have made some really nice puppets. We are very proud of our handiwork! ...

Please check school bags for notes sent home today.   ...

We decorated and cut out fabulous Christmas angels. We stuck them to painted toilet rolls, so now we can put them at the top of our Christmas trees. They look so pretty! [ngg_images source=”gall ...

We have a boy in our class who was born in Spain.  Today his Mum (Marta) and Dad (Roberto) and little brother came to tell us all about Spain and all about Christmas and New Year in Spain. We learned ...

We are enjoying eating fruit and vegetables every day. We have a champion Food Dudes girl.  She has already earned her Silver certificate for eating fruit and vegetables every day. Well done, we ...

 Mr. Elwood had the cup from the Galway County club final with him today. We all got to have a good look at it and a chance to hold it. Maybe someday we will be on a winning team and get to hold ...

We had a wonderful day at the Galway Christmas Market today. We walked from Renmore in along the railway line, we had to solve some maths puzzles on the way, in order to continue in our walk, we took ...

Ashley came to visit our school with his mobile farm. We learned all about chickens, hens, rabbits, guinea pigs, sheep and even a puppy. We all had a chance to pet each animal. We learned such a lot o ...

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We were talking about renewable and non-renewable sources of energy. We also learned about the history of light through the ages (from basic fire torches to candles to light bulbs to energy saving lig ...

The weather was nice so we had PE outside. We tried orienteering and found that we really enjoy it. We had 10 orienteering cards which we had to find.  Then we had to record the shape and solve the p ...

Since we have been talking about push and pull forces, today we made a push and pull pop up Christmas toy. Santa can be pulled down and pushed up the chimney by working the skewer in the chimney. Our ...

We have been talking about forces. We know that pushes and  pulls are forces.  We have also been talking about gravity, friction and ramps. Today we decided to test out some ideas we have about cars ...

Our class is going to walk to the Christmas Market in Galway on Friday if the weather permits. Please wear warm clothes and wear very comfortable shoes for our long walk. ...

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 ...

It is the season for coughs and colds. Today we learned how fast a sneeze can travel (as fast as a car on the motorway) and we talked about how sneezing and coughing can spread germs. With the help of ...

We have often seen our parents using sprays:- for cleaning, in perfumes, in deodorants, in polishes etc. Today we were able to make our own sprays using right (straight) or acute angles with straws an ...

The results of the colouring competition have been announced. Well done to all the prizewinners and to all who entered with such wonderful pictures. Best of luck Liam Mellows on Sunday.   ...

Ms. Warde’s and Ms. Mc Loughlin’s classes just love hip hop. It is such a lot of fun dancing to music.  It is great exercise too! ...

We had a huge welcome for Castlegar GAA Club who brought us some fabulous silverware. We are so proud of our Galway clubs who had players playing in county and All Ireland finals this year. UP GALWAY! ...

Next Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent. Each church will have an advent calendar with 5 candles on it (3 purple, one pink and one white).  Each week one more candle is lit in this order purple, pu ...

We love our hurling sessions with Stephen and Mark. We are thrilled that we will be meeting some of the team tomorrow. Some of us might even go to the county final match against Gort in Pearse Stadium ...

We welcomed 11 classes to visit us in our classroom to see our display and hear our presentations. Everyone enjoyed the launching of all the different kinds of rockets. See the videos from our rocket ...

See the photos from our rocket morning here See other videos from our rocket morning: Set 2                                  Set 3 ...

See the photos from our rocket morning here See other videos from our rocket morning: Set 1                                Set 3 ...

See the photos from our rocket morning here See other videos from our rocket morning: Set 1                                       Set 2 ...

Look at how well we are doing with our Food Dude challenges. Most of us are eating fruit and vegetables every day. ...

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 are so excited about our Rocket Morning OPEN DAY tomorrow. We are all ready for our demonstrations and presentations. Please come and visit us in our open day tomorrow. ...

We made great felt rockets. They look almost realistic! ...

We learned about asteroids, meteors and meteorites. We crashed different sized meteorites (balls) onto Earth (a biscuit tin with sand and a light layer of chocolate powder). They made different sized ...

We had fun playing space games. We had a pocket full of imaginary space dust which we could sprinkle over ourselves:- It made us move in some very strange ways! We also played Earth, Spaceship, Moon ( ...

We wrote a nice rocket piece each about a planet we would love to visit and the beings we might meet there.   ...

Mr. Carleton found a very interesting bug in his classroom. It is a Green Shield or Green Stink Bug.  We had a good look at it.  We didn’t notice its smell but  that is probably because it wa ...

We had a great time learning to skip today. We found out that it is really easy to skip if we bounce rather than jump, if we hold our rope out like a dinner tray and if we twist the rope like a windmi ...

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 ...

We used blocks, lolly pop sticks, non standard units of measurement and metre sticks to help us measure things around us:   ...

We just love hip hop with Fabiane! ...

We have learned a lot about astronauts, space and the International Space Station. Today we designed very trendy astronaut suits. ...

For art we are making amazing planet pictures. We have marbled some paper with marbling ink.  This is ink mixed with oil.  The ink floats on top of water rather than mixing in with it.  We use whit ...

We love the Food Dudes programme. We get stickers and prizes to eat a portion of fruit and a portion of vegetables every day.                 From next week we ...

Here are some interesting Healthy Eating sites: ...

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 ...

Today we were choosing which is our favourite planet in the solar system. We each cast our vote and stuck them on a data chart.  We had fun giving our reasons for choosing the planet we did, and then ...

We are learning all about space. Today we were wondering “Why don’t we fall off the Earth when it is up-side down in space?”  We were also wondering “Why do astronauts on the ...

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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 are learning all about angles. We can recognise right (straight) angles, angles that are bigger than that (obtuse angles) and angles that are smaller than right angles (acute angles). We used geost ...

We are learning a lot about space. Today we saw how the Earth rotates around the sun, and the moon rotates around the sun. We can see how it is day time for the part of the Earth that faces the sun, a ...

We are learning all about the planets in our solar system.  Here are some of the videos we are watching in order to learn as much as we can about space:   ...

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. ...

Can you get a bottle to talk to you? We can.  Here’s how: We filled a bottle with very cold water and then emptied out the water.  The bottle looked empty, but we knew it was full of cold air. ...

We had a look at what happens to hot and cold water when you mix them. We put a small bottle of hot water and red food colouring into a big glass of cold water.  Then we watched as the hot water rose ...

We made some great Halloween puppets today. ...

We used sponges to paint around a bat shape.Now the bat is really easy to see on the coloured background. ...

We love drama with Ms. Tierney. Today we played some drama games, including the zombie game where you call out another person’s name. Then the zombie changes direction and goes after your friend ...

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 made gloop today, because it is so close to Halloween. We used green food colouring to remind us of slime or intestines! You can make this at home yourself.  All you need is cornflour (or custard ...

We had a wonderful drama session with Ms. Tierney today. We are in the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.                   Our drama classes are so much fun ...

We made some lovely Halloween pictures with a sunset background.  The Halloween silhouettes look really scary. ...

The runner beans that we planted in September are growing: Here are the results so far. Runner bean with no heat (in the fridge): Not growing Runner bean with no soil (in water): Not growing Runner be ...

We had a lot of fun with target boards today. With this board we were able to add two numbers on the board to get a third number on the board, add 3 numbers, subtract 2 numbers, find the biggest/small ...

Vivien is a product builder with Boston Scientific.   She came to talk to our class today about her job. She uses some maths and technology in her job every day, and her company also use a lot of ...

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 ...

We know the name of the 2D and 3D shapes. Today teacher had a challenge for us…..could we make these shapes with cocktail sticks and mini marshmallows. We found that when we worked in pairs we w ...

Today our class borrowed Ms. O’Connor’s class’ smelly bottles. We used a blindfold to cover our eyes, and each one of us had a chance to guess and smell every bottle. We could smell ...

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 ...

We went on a Maths Trail today. It was a lot of fun. We were surprised at how many maths things are all around us. We love counting, looking for shapes, estimating and trying things out. We were great ...

Check your child’s school bag for a newsletter from the home school liaison team today. ...

Kay came to help us with our garden today. We pulled weeds, collected lots of seeds and tidied up all the plots. We brought the garden waste to the compost heap behind the senior school. We did a good ...

It’s Maths Week We have lots of interesting activities planned! ...

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 really enjoyed EU Code Week 2017. We tried some coding every day, and completed our Our of Code on Monday. We even tried coding at home too. Computer programming is fun! Click on each of the pictur ...

Kamila is an accountant with the biomedical company Boston Scientific. She came to talk to us today about the stents that her company makes, and how these work to save people’s lives. She also t ...

Still more coding in Room 9. We really are experts now! ...

More coding, this time with Minecraft.   We really love coding!   ...

We made our own skeletons. Look at the funny moves they can make! ...

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. ...

What do you think? We tried this out today, using 3 pots of ice. One pot of ice had nothing around it. One pot of ice was covered in cotton wool.  We predicted that this ice would melt first because ...

Today’ coding was with Angry Birds. We are really getting the hang of coding. Why not try this at home? ...

We are learning to say the rosary. We each have rosary beads in school. Today we said a decade of the rosary to remember Ethan’s aunt who has died. ...

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 ...

Our coding for today was with the programme Kodable. This programme is really easy and we had a lot of fun getting our little furry guy out of the maze each time. Try it for yourself and see how far y ...

One of the mums in our class has a really interesting job. She works in a company that supplies and distributes electrical goods. She brought a wonderful selection of bulbs and wires to class today an ...

  We were thrilled today to have a visit from the All Ireland hurlers and camogie player for 2017. Such an honour to see and hold the cups. One of the minor hurlers used to go to Scoil Chaitríon ...

We spent an hour today at computer programming for EU  Code Week. We really enjoyed the coding and were so proud when our coding worked. Why not try some coding at home? ...

Remember the runner beans we planted in September. Here’s how they have grown: One of our two runner beans with light, heat, water and soil is growing, the other one is not. Our jelly bean is no ...

We were so lucky today to have a visit from a computer engineer. Roberto told us all about fixing computers and also about how computers have changed over the years. He even brought us a desktop compu ...

EU code week is next week (October 7th-22nd). We will have a lot of fun with coding/programming this week and next week. Here are some of the coding/programming sites that we in Room 9 will be introdu ...

We had a visit from a very young mini astronaut today. We were delighted to see him. To celebrate Space Week we launched all our rockets for Ms. Fitzgerald’s junior infant class. Have a look and ...

We made toilet roll rockets which we painted and added fins to. Our launchers are made from two skewers and an elastic band. Watch how they launch. ...

Watch videos made on the International Space Station. Recycling water on the international space station More videos from Chris Hadfield on the International Space Station Where is the international s ...

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 ...

We made the straw rockets on Friday and yesterday. We launched them today, using air under pressure. Ms. Cunningham’s class have a different way of making straw rockets.  It is nice to compare ...

We tried to fly a rocket balloon straight across the classroom to teacher. We found that this is impossible. So we thought a bit, and came up with some good ideas of what to do. One idea was to blue t ...

We have seen how vinegar and bread soda can react together to make carbon dioxide gas (CO2). Today we launched some fizzy rockets using the CO2 gas that is made when you dissolve fizzy tablets in wate ...

Our stomp and snowman rockets fire when air pressure builds up behind the top. These kinds of rockets are easy to buy and they are a lot of fun to play with.   ...

We have a space week display outside our room so our mums and dads will know it is Space Week. We are really enjoying Space Week.   Happy Space Week everyone! We also wrote some great accounts of our ...

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I am very interested in the solar system. I mad a great mobile of the planets in our solar system. ...

Look at the fabulous rocket I made for space week! ...

To celebrate Space Week look at the fabulous space ships I made at home. Teacher was thrilled! ...

Could you spare 20 minutes to come and talk to our class about your job? We know that everyone cannot be an astronaut, but many of you have very interesting jobs, and many of these jobs involve scienc ...

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 ...

We are making toilet roll rockets from toilet roll tubes, skewers and elastic bands. Click here to see how they turned out and how we launched them. ...

In preparation for Space Week next week, we made foam rockets.  These are amazing rockets.  They use the pull force to give the rocket the energy to fly.  They really fly well.  Watch out for what ...

In preparation for Space Week next week, we had fun making straw rockets which will launch with the help of a straw. …….to be completed and launched during space week. ...

In preparation for Space Week next week, we had fun making little conical mice which we can launch into space using our incredible (milk bottle) launchers! First we traced around circles, cut these ou ...

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We have been talking about card games that we play, and card games that were played by our parents and grandparents. It’s amazing that we often play the same games as our parents and grandparent ...

We know the names of 2D and 3D shapes. We discovered that a rectangle can be made into a cylinder, and a circle can be made into a cone (so can a semi-circle). A rectangle can be cut into two equal re ...

We enjoyed playing two drama games today: Keeper of the Keys (where you have to steal keys without the keeper hearing you) and Don’t Throw Me Out (where you have to pretend you are an object in ...

The apples in teacher’s orchard are falling from the trees. We used little apples to print out our great apple tree pictures. ...

Look at the great things we found at home that we showed to our classmates: A rosary beads, A rock with sparkly stones instead, A photo of the Liam McCarthy hurling cup and conkers from the garden. ...

We often use websites to help us learn interesting things. Here I am learning about tornadoes and volcanoes from the site Tigtag World. You can check out some free videos on ...

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 ...

We were out tidying up our garden a bit. We were impressed with the giant potatoes and the giant turnips. We picked some and will try eating them at home. All the waste from the garden was thrown in t ...

We tried today to plant jelly beans.  We don’t think they will grow but we want to try anyway. We had a look at a little seed and could see its coat and its lunch.  A little seed is like a lit ...

We are learning about a volcano in Mexico (and about earthquakes there and hurricanes in America). Today we used vinegar, bread soda (and wash-up liquid and red food dye for the deluxe model) to show ...

Please have a look at the booklet that we have sent out to the parents of all of our students today. ...

We have been learning the story of Oisín in Tír na nÓg. Today we acted out parts of the story and then froze them in time while teacher took a photo (like the mannequin challenge). The other groups ...

Look at the fabulous beetle and scorpion in glass that we were shown today. Thank you for bringing these in for us all to see! ...

We have been talking about insects and bugs. We even went on a mini bug hunt last week. Today we had fun making our own strange bugs and insects from clay and other art materials. They look great! ...

We had an absolutely wonderful class with Fabiane. We love hip hop dancing! ...

All of our caterpillars are now in cocoons. We were absolutely thrilled to see this super collection of butterflies and bugs. Thank you for sharing your collection with us. ...

We use our interactive board to find out about tornadoes and other things. We can then explain what we have found out to our friends. We use our interactive board to help us in our learning experience ...

All three of our caterpillars are now in their cocoons. We will be keeping a close eye on them to see when they emerge as beautiful butterflies. ...

Ms. McLoughlin’s and Ms. Cunningham’s classes worked together to find out which material would best soak up a liquid spill.             ...

We love learning to play the recorder. We particularly enjoy the Friday jamming sessions with Ms. Cunningham’s and Ms. McLoughlin’s classes playing together. ...

We have been talking about storms and hurricanes. We have heard lots of stories of the terrible damage hurricane Harvey has done in Texas, followed by hurricane Irma in the Caribbean and in Florida. W ...

Wouldn’t it be nice to know some sign language? Here are some great videos to show you how: ...

We made lovely anti-litter posters. We will enter these posters into a competition with Galway City Council. Hopefully one of our posters might feature on the City Council’s calendar for 2018. B ...

Here are some very important dates for 2nd class: ...

Some of our Cabbage White caterpillars have died but we have two healthy caterpillars and one cocoon. By this afternoon we now have 2 cocoons and one caterpillar.  Maybe by tomorrow morning all our c ...

We are using 2D magnetic shapes to make 3D creations. We are learning about 2D and 3D shapes and all about magnets through play.   ...

We have been learning about soil. Today we set up our own investigations to see which material is best for cleaning soil. Each group could choose the material that they thought would best filter water ...

There are lots of plants and mini beasts around our school. Today we went outside to see what we could find.  We enjoyed having a look for and a look at each item. We were able to see what characteri ...

We had a sample of soil from teacher’s garden. We wondered about the soil and carried out some investigations to help us find answers: If you mix soil and water, what parts of the soil will floa ...

After school clubs are up and running: ...

We have been exploring lots of different materials. We can tell whether the materials are rough or smooth, plain or patterned, waterproof or absorbent, opaque, translucent or transparent. Today we had ...

We have been learning about a famous painter called Pablo Picasso. Learn more about Picasso here See some of his pictures here Picasso invented Cubism, a form of painting that featured simple geometri ...

We are so lucky to have Mark from Liam Mellows GAA club to help us practise our hurling skills. We love hurling. Maybe we will be on the Galway team in the All Ireland final some time. ...

We have cabbage white caterpillars in class. We are feeding them cabbage leaves. We hope they will turn into cabbage white butterflies when the weather turns warmer again. ...

We played a “Pass the Parcel” game today. It is fun but it is a little bit more work than usual. Before we unwrap each parcel we have to describe the properties of the covering. We had wor ...

We spend time at school doing maths activities that help us understand the maths around us. Each group is getting a turn at Geoboard shapes Tangram shapes Bankers game Brain Box maths Shape Snap We ar ...

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!!   ...