This month’s theme for Aistear was polar regions. We were specifically learning about Antarctica! In our role play centre we created a clothes shop. There were lots of explorers shopping for war ...
This week we made some delicious and healthy vegetable soup. We practiced our peeling and cutting skills while preparing the vegetables. We added yummy vegetables like sweet potato, carrot, pepper and ...
We are always trying out new recipes. Today we made pepperoni pizzas! We planned out our ingredients and followed the steps of the recipe. They were so delicious 😋 ...
Here’s some interesting information from the Schoolwear Cente regarding our Saving Scheme that might be of interest to you: ...
NEW DATE FOR THE CAROL SERVICE: POSTPONED, DUE TO ICY WEATHER! ...
We were delighted to make a presentation to Galway Hospice. The fundraising was thanks to our Hallowe’en walk and to our staff coffee morning. Well done to all, and especially to Lorainne and to ...
Lots of our classes logged on today for a wonderful talk by Danielle Wilcox from the Blackrock Castle Observatory. Danielle had lots of information for us on telescopes, how they work, the pictures th ...
This month we have been learning all about the people in our community who help us. We have looked at the roles of doctors, teachers, firefighters, Gardaí and lots more. We have learned a lot about th ...
As part of science week, we had a visit from a cool scientist. He did loads of amazing experiments with air. He even let us take a ride on his hover board!! It was so much fun! ...
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We celebrated science week by going on a trip to the aquarium. It was so fun and interesting. We saw lots of different types of fish including rays, starfish and seahorses! We even saw an octopus!! We ...
We had a very busy month in room 12! We were excited preparing for Halloween and doing lots of spooky activities. We hunted for spiders, made some brownies and played some traditional Halloween games! ...
We had a wonderful coffee morning in aid of Galway Hospice. Many thanks to Lorraine for organising such a fantastic event, and to all her helpers for making the hall so welcoming and pleasant. It was ...
We at Scoil Chaitríona Junior are thoroughly enjoying Space Week 2022 Click on the image above to see our Space Display Day … Space Week 2022 … Here are some of the things we have done: Ma ...
We’ve been busy trying lots of yummy recipes. So far we have made apple crumble, cookies and a rainbow smoothie. They were all delicious! ...
We have been taking care of all the seeds we planted last year. We planted wildflower seeds, pumpkins and potatoes. They have all grown big and are so colourful outside our classroom. Take a look at t ...
We had a terrific day today. We loved showing our space boxes to other classes and our parents, and demonstrating about space and rockets. Most of the classes in the school and many of our parents cam ...
A huge Thank You to Space Week Ireland who put us in touch with Eóin Tuohy. Eóin is an Irish engineer who works with Éirespás. He was working with ESA (European Space Agency) and he knows all about a ...
The cycle bus starts again on Thursday with the plan to run everyday (once the weather allows). The idea is for a group of children with their adults to cycle together in convoy to school… Reduc ...
Wishing all our pupils, parents and staff wonderful summer holidays 2022! ...
Well done to all our students from 2nd Class who represented our school so well in the Renmore Corpus Christi parade. ...
We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded: Well done to all the students, teachers and parents of Scoil Chaitríona Junior for all the hard work (and fun) in our science projects and investigati ...
A huge “WELL DONE” to the students who represented us so well in the Chity Sports yesterday. We are so proud of you! ...
We had a wonderful walk to school this morning to celebrate National Walk To School Week. Thankyou so much to everyone who participated. We hope it will encourage you to walk to school more often! ...
Dear Parents This is how to set up Aladdin Connect on your devices. With thanks. Aladdin Set Up ...
Dear Parents and students, We invite you to walk with us on Wednesday 18th of May. We will be departing from 3 different meeting points ( see map) . The departure times are on Aladdin noticeboard. We ...
We are taking part in the Woodies Budding Gardeners completion. Every month there is a task to complete. So far we have planted dahlias, fresias and pansies. This month our task was to plant lettuce s ...
We got such a surprise yesterday when the Easter bunny came to visit room 12! We even got special chocolate eggs for being such good workers! ...
Today we had great fun in the kitchen! We made chocolate Easter egg nests. We used cornflakes, chocolate, butter and golden syrup. We even added some chocolate eggs! They tasted delicious! ...
We are very excited to be taking part in the Woodies Budding Gardeners programme. Every month there is a challenge to plant something new. So far, we have planted dahlia bulbs and pansy seeds. We have ...
We have had great fun this month learning all about food! We’ve tried out different fruit and vegetables, we’ve even used them to paint prints! We were learning about healthy and unhealthy ...
Wishing all our pupils, our parents and our staff all the best for 2022! ...
We’ve been busy in room 12 preparing for Christmas. We started by painting snowflakes on our classroom windows, then we put up and decorated our Christmas tree. We’ve made some Christmas t ...
There was lots of excitement last Friday when we had a special visitor to our class! Santa and Mrs Claus stopped by to give the children an early Christmas gift and to make sure everyone was getting r ...
An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin and Minister of Educationa Norma Foley visited our school today to announce a major new campus for the Junior and Senior schools. This process has already started and the ...
We made the most of the lovely weather last Friday and decided to walk to Lakeshore playground. Along the way we were able to practise our road safety skills. We made sure to stop at the traffic light ...
Happy Science Week. We will be engaging with many science events this week at school, and will showcase these here on our school website. You might like to book some free science shows for yourself an ...
There were some very strange characters around our school today. Who do you recognise? ...
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For maths week we learned about 2D shapes and played lots of counting games. Our favourite is the ladybird game! We practised cutting out and matching shapes. We even looked for shapes in our classroo ...
We went to the cinema this week to see ‘The Adams Family 2’. It was really funny and we loved the music in it! We even had some popcorn and treats 😋 On our way back to school we spotted so ...
Happy Halloween everyone! We’ve been busy getting ready for the holidays doing lots of spooky activities. Take a look! Have a lovely mid-term break. ...
This month we were learning all about printing. We used lots of different tools to print like foam stampers, forks, pom poms and our handprints. We even used apples and broccoli! Take a look at some o ...
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Watch out for lots of Space Week activities from all classes at Scoil Chaitríona Junior this week. Space Week posts: Here are some great sites to try: ...
Wishing you all a wonderful summer holiday. See you on August 30th! ...
Here is a letter with details for you child going to 3rd class: ...
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“Kelly Childcare provides innovative solutions for the children and families of Scoil Chaitríona Junior Renmore, offering a safe, caring, child lead environment. We offer a before and after-school ser ...
First Confession will be taking place in the coming weeks, although there is no date yet set for the First Holy Communion. Rest assured we will let you know as soon as we hear anything at all. In the ...
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭. 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐀𝐀 𝐆𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 which includes 𝐔𝟔-𝐔𝟕-𝐔𝟖-𝐔𝟗-𝐔𝟏𝟎 age groups will 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 on 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐮𝐞. We are looking forward to seeing all 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛 ...
Renmore AFC are thrilled to confirm that outdoor soccer training is resuming from this week for our boys and girls teams! The Renmore Academy is open for boys and girls U5-U6-U7-U8-U9-U10 and U11 Grou ...
St James Ladies Gaelic Football Club will return to the pitch soon. The Girls Academy will return on Sat 8th May 9.45am in Renmore for girls U5, U6, U7, U8, U9 and U10. (Girls born in 2016 to 2011). G ...
All our second classes, and our partner class from St. Mary’s in Fivemiletown in Northern Ireland have been extremely fortunate to be involved in the Aviatrix Project. Thanks to Kanchana Gamage ...
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It’s been a busy few weeks back at school! We have spent lots of time being very creative!! We’ve been learning all about Spring and Easter. Here are some of the projects we’ve bee ...
We had a great week back in prefab 1A! After a long 7 weeks of home learning it was great to see everyone back in our classroom happy and ready to learn. This week was engineers week. We designed and ...
STARCAMP is kick starting 2021 with FIREWORKS! As a gesture of goodwill and in the spirit of encouraging children to have fun and stay healthy, mentally and physically over this new and hopefully fina ...
We wish all of you – students, parents and staff a very safe, happy and successful 2021! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 ...
2020 has been a very strange and uncertain year for us all. We have missed out on lots of special events this year but one thing we didn’t want anyone to miss was our Christmas performance. The ...
Dear Parents/Guardians, We are collecting items for our Christmas food bank this Thursday and Friday. This year our food bank will be donated to families in need in our school community. Donations ca ...
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There is a lovely Christmassy feeling in Scoil Chaitríona Junior. We had an exciting visit from Santa and Mrs. Clause. Santa has given each of us a special reindeer to put on our windows or mirrors. O ...
If you would like to wear a Christmas jumper (or any nice woolly jumper) to school, please join us on Friday, December 11th for our Christmas Jumper Day. ...
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Visit the virtual Galway Science and Technology Festival this Sunday from 11am at www.galwayscience.ie Also, remember to plant your seed ticket and grow some lovely lavender! ...
We spent last week exploring materials, making predictions, following procedures and discussing our results just like scientists. We also carried out experiments from GMIT’s colourful science pa ...
Today 5 classes from our school had an amazing Zoom lesson from Frances at the Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork. The lesson was SO engaging and we learned an amazing amount about life and living t ...
Message from Cell Explorers and Galway Science and Technology Festival: Win a place on the Cell Explorers ‘Fantastic DNA at Home’ private workshop on Sunday 22nd Nov (1pm or 3pm). Take a p ...
We are hoping to recruit new parents for; FREE Basic IT/Smartphone Skills Training: Emails, Zoom, SeeSaw, Shopping Online. GRETB have provided funding for an IT tutor to come to Ballybane on Tuesday ...
Maths week was a great success in prefab 1a! We spent the week exploring our classroom and school grounds for shapes & numbers. We even made shapes using our bodies! We worked in pairs to solve ma ...
We had great fun celebrating space week. We had a busy week learning about space, astronauts and rockets. We made our own straw rockets and even launched stomp and water rockets outside! We explored w ...
The artist focus for September was Pablo Picasso. We learned all about Picasso’s special technique of cubism and looked at some of his famous paintings. We created some amazing Picasso inspired ...
We were learning all about abstract artist Jackson Pollock. First, we read ‘Action Jackson’, a story describing Pollock’s life and how he became famous for the ‘drip technique& ...
Such a strange bunch in Scoil Chaitríona Junior this year! ...
To the Principal, Good afternoon. My name is Jonathan Comerford, I work with Cork Institute of Technology on a project called DojoMór. I am contacting you to ask for your support on behalf of the High ...
Space Week Events in Scoil Chaitríona Junior 2020: Asteroids, craters and the demise of the dinosaurs 2nd class (Oct 2020) Learning about gravity 2nd class (Oct 2020) Why can’t we hear sound in ...
We are delighted to announce a repeat Seesaw for Parents webinar on Thursday 24th of September from 8.30 -9.30pm. We received extremely positive feedback from our first parent webinar last week with o ...
We the staff of Scoil Chaitríona Junior welcome you all back to school on August 31st. It will be an exciting year for us. A year like no other! A year to remember. We will keep you up to date on al ...
We at Scoil Chaitríona Junior have achieved our 16th consecutive Science Foundation Ireland Discover Science and Maths Award. Well done to all our pupils, our teachers, staff, and parents for the wond ...
Click here to find out how to join Aladdin Connect Advice about school re-opening in September: Coronavirus Advice Educational activities to do with your children during these home-schooling weeks: ...
Twinkl: You can have FREE membership for a month. Lots and lots of fun stuff to keep everyone entertained and learning! Simply go to www.tinkl.ie/offer and enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS ...
Like to try a quiz? Maybe you can win one of the daily €20 book voucher prizes! ...
Looking for something interesting to do over the Easter Holidays? ...
Twinkl is a wonderful website used by teachers. You can have FREE membership for a month. Lots and lots of fun stuff to keep everyone entertained and learning! Simply go to www.tinkl.ie/offer and e ...
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We will be taking part in Food Dudes from next week. It is a wonderful initiative where we will all get to try fruit and vegetables and will get rewards of stickers and cool prizes if we try the fruit ...
We, as a whole school community, really appreciate the hard work that our secretaries do on behalf of our school. We support them in looking for better conditions in their daily work. We were so proud ...
All at St. Vincent de Paul send a huge “Thank You” to everyone at Scoil Chaitríona Junior in response to their Christmas Food Appeal. What a lovely, kind, generous school community! ...
We have been very busy getting ready for Christmas. Take a look at some of the amazing Christmas and winter artwork created by the Junior Infants in 7A. ...
You are all invited to our 2019 Christmas Carol Service. On: TONIGHT: Tuesday, December 17th. At: 7pm (be there for 18:45) In: St. Oliver Plunkett’s church, Renmore (next to the school) ...
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! ...
Liam Mellows hurling club is playing in the County Final this Sunday. We wish them the very best of luck. ...
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. ...
