This is where you will find all the latest news for the whole school. If you wish to find out about the latest news from any one class please click on the class links above the first blog post below.

Our School Blog

cloonacoolnational

4 days ago1 min read

Christmas in other countries

Today we used the chrome books to research Christmas traditions in other countries. We looked at Greece 🇬🇷, Australia 🇦🇺, Italy 🇮🇹...

cloonacoolnational

5 days ago1 min read

Rehearsals!

We are busy rehearsing for the shows on Wednesday. We can't wait to perform 😍

cloonacoolnational

Dec 21 min read

Rock and Minerals

We have been learning about rocks and how they were formed 🪨 We also learned about Moh's scale- how hard or soft a rock is. We used the...

cloonacoolnational

Nov 281 min read

Experiment

Today Zoë, Ciaran and Máire brought in containers and we made 'telephones' in science. We could hear sounds along the strings but they...

cloonacoolnational

Nov 231 min read

New Display

Last week we painted paper plates 🎨 They will be the background to our woven Christmas trees 🎄 As you can see, everyone was...

cloonacoolnational

Nov 151 min read

One Dog and his Boy

We are reading the novel One dog and his boy by Eva Ibbotson. There are many breeds of dog in the book. We researched a dog and then...

cloonacoolnational

Oct 241 min read

Playground Games

Tomás showed us a new way to warm up. Then we played some games: Switch. Bean bag throw (and then 2 bags!) Map cones- following a map to...

cloonacoolnational

Oct 171 min read

Maths Week 4

Today we used the chrome books to play a maths week game called Pirates. It started off easy on each level but then the questions were...

cloonacoolnational

Oct 161 min read

Maths Week Zoom

Today we enjoyed learning different facts about shapes! https://www.canva.com/design/DAGTumSUkoA/m83v0-abk5Ko6Vom3sODQg/watch?utm_content...

cloonacoolnational

Oct 151 min read

Maths Week 2

Today we tried to solve a challenge that involved sheep. It was difficult to figure it out 🤔

cloonacoolnational

Oct 151 min read

Maths Week 1

We watched and listened to a book about the great mathematician Paul Erdös who grew up in Budapest being read. He had a very interesting...

cloonacoolnational

Oct 111 min read

History Trail

Today we walked to the old school and drew the plaque. It has an unusual s and the fadas are made using a dot above the letter. We...

cloonacoolnational

Oct 101 min read

Catching Skills

It's all activity in our class this week! We had a morning session with Pat today. We were concentrating on catching the ball above the...

cloonacoolnational

Oct 91 min read

New Skills

We had a lovely morning learning skills from Raf and then using them in a game. We were using the step over and the chop.

cloonacoolnational

Oct 41 min read

Halloween Pottery 🎃

Today we worked with clay. First we spent some time manipulating the clay- rolling, pulling and smoothing. Then we shaped pumpkins by...

cloonacoolnational

Sep 301 min read

Autumn Painting

We painted autumn pictures. We created warm autumn colours by mixing the primary colours. We were careful to paint the background first....

cloonacoolnational

Sep 201 min read

A Boy Called Book

We listened to an author read his book called A Boy Called Book ! The author is Vincent Ralph. The boy's life was a set of stories- some...

cloonacoolnational

Sep 201 min read

Student council

Congratulations to Darragh and Hazel who will represent our room on the student council. Well done to the nine children who spoke so well...

cloonacoolnational

Sep 141 min read

Our Posters

We started our posters on farm safety for the Cloonacool Sheep Festival 2024. We got good ideas from agrikids....

cloonacoolnational

Sep 131 min read

Conscience Alley

In drama we heard a story about a wise king. A man had been sentenced to death for a terrible crime. The king always kept his promises...