Mr. Gleeson organised a trip to the Christmas Market for 4 of the second classes and Mr. Haran’s class today. We had an absolutely wonderful day. We walked to town by the railway line, ate our p ...

One of our mums works with Spotlight Oral Care. Danielle came to visit us today to tell us all about her company which manufactures and sells oral care products. She is the international manager and w ...

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!   ...

We really enjoyed reading the novel “When Jessie Came Across the Sea”. We painted scenes from the book and have sequenced them according to the events of the story. ...

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One of the mammies in our class is a biochemist.  She came to our class today to talk about how biochemistry is such an important area to study.  She showed us how to make cottage cheese from warm m ...

Fr. Declan comes to visit the second classes each month in school.  He is very friendly and very interesting.  Today he was telling us all about the different parts of the church.  We found the tal ...

We can’t wait to try out the new literacy games (and a construction game) that we have for our class. Teacher got them from Cogs for the Brain shop. We especially love playing them when Ms. Kear ...

Marla in a ball sinks but we think we could get it to float if we make it into a boat shape. Today we made passenger boats from balls of marla.  When we got them to float we were able to add passenge ...

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 ...

All our first and second classes were absolutely thrilled to be given resources for our numeracy station teaching times. We got new games from Cogs the Brain shop to help us learn about fractions, mon ...

All 2nd classes, 1st classes, special classes and 2 Senior Infant classes got to visit the Space Dome today. We had a fun, educational experience and learned a lot about the planets and under the sea. ...

Here are a few sciency tricks that we can do at home in the bath: we can get water to stay in an open bottle turned upside down, we can get water to stay in a yoghurt pot with just a sheet of card an ...

We have painted scenes from the story of “When Jessie Came Across the Sea”.  When they are dry we will put these in order to recreate the story of Jessie. Look at these pictures in sequen ...

Did you know that you can get a bottle to talk to you?  All you need is a bottle full of very cold water and warm hands. Spill out the water.  The bottle looks empty but it isn’t.  It is full ...

Are all types of paper equally strong?  We thought we would test this out. We had a cradle specially made for us so we could try loading it with marbles to find out what kind of paper is the stronges ...

One of the students from last year’s Room 9 brought us two bags of wool from the sheep in his grandmother’s farm. We were thrilled to be able to see and feel real sheep’s wool before ...

For Science Week we learned how to make a spray. We have already learned about different kinds of angles:- right angles, acute and obtuse angles. To make a spray you need to be able to make right angl ...

Here are photos of us trying our best to work out a very tricky puzzle. It’s lucky that we have some practical equipment to help us! ...

We had a visit from the Dog’s Trust. We really enjoyed the talk.  We heard about how we can be safe around dogs and what to do if we are scared of a dog. We learned lots! For more information chec ...

We are loving our novel: When Jessie Came Across the Sea. We had a wonderful drama lesson where we did freeze frames of parts of the story of Jessie. ...

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One job that uses STEM every day is being an architect. Today we were very lucky to have Carmen visit us to tell us all about being an architect. Carmen’s talk was very interesting and we loved ...

We had a wonderful visit today from Deirdre who works as an immunologist in the hospital. She can study samples of blood or urine (pee) and find out about allergies. Today she showed us some of the vi ...

All classes were invited to see the castles made by the students in Mr. Faherty’s class. The castles were absolutely AMAZING!! Each one was completely different from all others and they each had ...

Liam Mellows hurling club is playing in the county final on Sunday next. We showed our support today by dressing in their colours. We did a colouring competition today and these entries will be on dis ...

We had an absolutely wonderful visit from Laura who works as a quality engineer with Boston Scientific. She was able to tell us all about how she saves lives by ensuring that the stents her company ma ...

Liam Mellows hurling club is playing in the County Final this Sunday. We wish them the very best of luck. ...

We are reading a wonderful novel in class.  It is called “When Jessie Came Across the Sea”, written by Amy Hest. In the story Jessie and her grandmother can make lace. Today we tried mak ...

Our teacher was delighted to be one of 4 Irish delegates (and the only primary school delegate) to represent Ireland at the Science on Stage festival in Cascais, Portugal during the Halloween break. S ...

What a day! Dressing up, Halloween walk, party, dances in the yard and fun in the classroom. Huge CONGRATULATIONS to Ms. Lally and her superbly talented Glee Club for their dancing. Happy Halloween ev ...

Learning to touch type is lots of fun on this site: Congratulations to one of our students who is learning to touch type on this site and is earning certificates! ...

All our five 2nd classes had a visit from  some really nice people from SAP (Brendan, Nathan and Brian) to teach us how to code. We used a programme called Scratch, which you can download for free an ...

We love Halloween and we love art.  Great combination! ...

Kay came to visit us today.  She visited each 2nd class to talk about climate change, about making our planet a better place and she also did some gardenting with one class. We learned about greenhou ...

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We know lots of 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 were real ...

We love drumming! ...

Here are some surveys about our Castle Display Day and our Space and Rockets Open Day For our students: For our parents: For our teachers: ...

How could we design a test to test this? Look at the wonderful basket made by one of the girls. We used it to hold marbles.  That way we could test how many marbles could a piece of paper hold. We es ...

Look at the beautiful book made and illustrated by a child in our class: ...

We used fabric to make these wonderful scarecrows! ...

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. ...

Look at the great games we can play (with our mini whiteboards) during class time or at lunchtime when the weather is bad.  We love making words! ...

We are celebrating Maths Week by doing extra FUN MATHS every day this week. Today we did group activities (calendar work, clock work, addition and subtraction tiles and 3D shapes exploration). We also ...

Lara was back with us for the day. She helped us to take lots and lots of photos of our animation creations.  From these pictures we can make a video that will give the message that we need to look a ...

We are becoming very good at coding now….Good enough to get a certificate! We have spent a few hours over this last EU Code Week learning the basics of coding. We love Kodables, Angry Birds, Ice ...

We are really enjoying our class novel: Killer Cat by Anne Fine. As well as reading the novel, chatting about it and doing some drama we have also made “Wanted” posters and pictures and wr ...

Ms. Lally’s 2nd class have gone to every 2nd class in the school to try and find out which is the most popular month for birthdays. We are each hoping that our birthday is in the most popular mo ...

Here’s what we wrote and drew about our open day yesterday: Surveys from our Open Days can  be read here: ...

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We have been talking about protecting our environment and the climate crisis. We watched a great vidoe on this: Then we made our own flip books with ideas for protecting and restoring our environment. ...

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2nd Class, Room 9 hosted an open day for our parents, friends, grandparents and other classes in the school. 11 other classes were invited to see our display, talk to our experts and hear and see a de ...

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We have signed up for Maths Week 2019. We can’t wait to get involved! ...

We are all ready for our Space and Rockets Open Morning tomorrow. We have all our projectiles on display and we are looking forward to visits from 10 other classes. We are hoping tomorrow morning will ...

We love using counters and 10 frames to help us with our maths. ...

Stomp and snowman projectiles are launched with air under pressure. For Space Week 2019 we are really enjoying launching all sorts of rockets and projectiles. ...

Today’s projectile looks like a rocket and sounds like a rocket. We need to put a square of newspaper into the top of the projectile.  When you throw the projectile in the air, the yellow nose ...

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

We will be going on our Halloween Walk on October 25th. We are looking forward to dressing up and also to raising money for our school. ...

We 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hour of Code Here’s how we got on for EU Code Week: Ms. McLoughlin’s 2nd and Ms. Cunningham’s 2nd classes played Kodable and Angry Birds. Kodable Angry Birds Ms. McLoughlin’s 2 ...

Real rockets are launched when fuel is burned.  This burning of fuel is a chemical reaction. We found out that when vinegar and bread soda are mixed together then this also causes a chemical reaction ...

We are great at making things.  We designed and made some rockets at home: ...

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 made cylinders from rectangles of paper.  Then we stuck pictures of rockets on top.  We can get these to fly by blowing through a straw. ...

We made little mice out of circles of card (which we drew by tracing round a cylinder of crayons).  We made these circles into cones, added tails and ears, and launched them with blasts of air from e ...

On Earth there is air all around us.  Gases like Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen, Nitrogen float all around us.  When we make a sound, waves travel through the air, all the way to our ea rs. In spa ...

We planted seeds last Monday (10 days ago).  See our post here. Look how they are growing now.  The seeds with heat, light, air and water are growing the best. Here’s what they look like after ...

We used bicycle pumps and Rokit kits to launch our projectiles. This was really really exciting!   ...

We made the rocket tops.  (This is how we made them).  Today we flew them using a bicycle pump. We could plan the trajectory by moving the pipe in the way we wanted our air projectiles to fly! ...

We had a wonderful drumming session with Barra and Brian. We are so good at rhythms and at drumming! ...

It is SPACE WEEK. We have designed trendy and funtional astronaut suits! ...

Ms. O’Connor’s class and Ms. McLoughlin’s class had fun launching balloon projectiles during SPACE WEEK.  We even tested can the balloon fly uphill (it can!) ...

We used our origami (Japanese paper folding) skills to make mini books all about the planets in our solar system. Now we can sing along to the words of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzj6U ...

We have made (painted and glued) toilet roll projectiles. These are launched using two skewers and an elastic band. By stretching the elastic band we can launch the projectiles. They look like real ro ...

We all got to vote.  Here are the results! If we take another vote after we have studied all about the planets we will have a very different result! ...

Téann Lucky Duck abhaile gach lá. Bíonn am iontach aige sa bhaile. Ar maidin bíonn ceisteanna againn dó. Bhí sé ag cluiche iománaíocht aréir! agus chuaigh sé go Brownies freisin! ...

We made wonderful castles out of recycled materials.  We are able to say what each material is and where we got it from. We added really interesting things like towers, portcullis, drawbridges, moats ...

We used rectangles to make cylinders, circles and semi-circles to make cones, squares to make triangles. Putting them all together we were able to make air projectiles (rockets).  We will launch them ...

We are enjoying learning maths through activity play. Today we played hundred square hidden numbers, shape snap, tangrams, geoboards and bankers change. We also enjoyed playing hidden numbers, tell th ...

Long ago castles were protected by drawbridges and moats. People in the castles were worried about attacks from other armies who used bows and arrows or giant catapults to damage the castle and kill t ...

We are preparing for space week next week. Today we made and flew some foam projectiles (rockets) which we powered using elastic bands.  Proper rockets use fuel and that is why these are projectiles ...

We are very excited about the world cup rugby that is taking place in Japan at the moment. At school we are collecting Aldi rugby stickers. We enjoy adding them to the sticker board.  Our school coul ...

Is your child making First Holy Communion in May 2020 If so, you are invited to: ...

We think that seeds need soil, light, air 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 water. ...

We have been learning about Fionn and the Fianna, and about old castles.  At school we have been drawing castle plans.  At home, as a home project, we have been designing and making our own castles. ...

We painted a bare tree with branches and we used real apples and real leaves to print on autumn apples and leaves. Our paintings are FANTASTIC! ...

Since Monday, you can see bioluminescent algae in Salthill once it gets dark. An absolutely AMAZING experience. These algae glow when you splash in the water.  They look like fairy dust or twinkling ...

We are learning to code.  We use Bee Bots to practise going forwards and backwards and turning left and right.  We have 6 Bee Bots, 2 computers, one whiteboard, 6 mats and a maze all so we can have ...

Our school garden badly needed weeding. We had fun in the sun, weeding out the weeds, finding some mini-beasts, bringing the weeds to the compost pile and making our school look very neat and tidy.  ...

We love doing literacy and numeracy activities in teams. A big Thank You to Ms. Kearney who joins us for our team activities. ...

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 helped teacher to design an in ...

We really enjoy some Golden Time on a Friday afternoon. It is especially fun to have this time outside if the weather is nice ...

We use 2D shapes (squares, circles, triangles and rectangles) to make interesting 3Dbuildings and constructions! ...

Each second class child making his/her communion will have a received an information sheet from Fr. Declan. Please check the note for upcoming meetings and “Do This In Memory” preparatory ...

We used oil pastels to colour Picasso (cubist) style self portraits. We are very proud of our work! ...

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We went on a materials hunt in our school grounds today. We love investigating our surroundings! ...

Are you interested in singing and dancing? Then read on: ...

Teacher brought a bag of soil from home.  We put it through a sieve to see what we could find in it.  We found leaves, roots, a worm, stones and muck.  We examined these things with magnifying glas ...

We had three cups of water and three empty cups. Teacher put a few drops of red food colour into one of the cups of water, blue into another and yellow into another.  We used strips of tissue to conn ...

We tried orienteering today for PE. We loved hiding the clues, finding the flags and working out the puzzles.   ...

We know how to mix colours: There are three primary colours: red, yellow and blue. We can mix them to get secondary colours: orange, purple and green. Red and Yellow will mix to give Orange. Red and B ...

Here are details about how to join our school LEGO club: ...

After learning about materials, using tigtagworld.com to find out more about materials, and after playing “materials pass the parcel” we used the class digital microscope to see what the m ...

We learned lots about different kinds of materials: Can you recognise materials that are: transparent, translucent or opaque; hard or soft; brittle or pliable (bendy); waterproof or absorbent; cuddly, ...

Note for first and second classes: ...

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Welcome to all our new Junior Infants 2019 and Welcome Back to all our returning pupils and staff. School opens this Friday, August 30th, 2019 at 8:50am. Our school calendar for 2019/2020 can be viewe ...

We really enjoyed taking part in our end of year concert. Congratulations to the children of 2nd class, to their enthusiastic teachers and especially to our soloists. What a terrific celebration! &nbs ...

Wondering what to do during the summer holidays? Why not sign up for a summer camp? €100 per child, sibling discount available. ...

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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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 ...

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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: ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

An Fear Bréige Sona   ...

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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 ...