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.

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May 23, 20221 min read

Something Fishy Visit 🐟

Today Markus visited our classroom. He showed us a very interesting presentation. We learned that there are lots of water courses in our...

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May 20, 20221 min read

Names

First, we cut out our names and coloured them. We had to make sure they were big enough and decorated. Then we had the tricky, ...

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May 13, 20220 min read

Pictures inspired by Australia

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May 6, 20221 min read

Aboriginal Art 🎨

This week we read a story from Australia. All the animals worked together to solve a problem. A giant frog 🐸 had swallowed all the water...

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Apr 29, 20221 min read

Fire Fighter Visit

Jason an Rafa visited our class on Thursday to speak about fire Safety. Here are some fire Safety things to think about in our homes: Do...

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Apr 27, 20221 min read

Spring Tree 🌳

We have been watching the changes in trees over the school year. In Spring the trees have buds, the bark looks more colourful and the...

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Apr 5, 20221 min read

DEAR Time 📖 📚

This week we are having DEAR time each day. There is a wide variety of books and magazines being read. Some people are enjoying fiction...

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Apr 1, 20221 min read

James and the Giant Peach 🍑

We have just finished reading James and the Giant Peach today. It has been very enjoyable. As well as written work we did some art based...

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Mar 25, 20221 min read

Soccer Coaching with Raf ⚽️

We started soccer coaching with Raf this week. After some warm up activities we concentrated on team skills, dribbling skills and...

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Mar 15, 20221 min read

Céilí 2022

Bhíomar ag damhsa inniú sa halla. Bhí an-spórt againn!

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Mar 9, 20221 min read

Static Electricity

Today we did four static electricity experiments. 🎈 There was hair-raiser, sticky balloon, tissue jumpers and water bending. We also...

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Mar 4, 20221 min read

GAA coaching ⚽️

Today Pat Kilcoyne returned for GAA coaching. We worked on our skills. Pat gave homework 😪...to practice using our weaker foot 😄

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Mar 4, 20221 min read

World Book Day 2022 📖

For World Book Day 2022 we wrote about our favourite characters. We also coloured a quote from Roald Dahl. We are reading his book James...

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Mar 4, 20221 min read

Super Silly Museums

On Wednesday we watched a crowd cast video by Nick Sharratt who has just published a book of silly museums. There is a Snoozeum, a...

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Feb 18, 20221 min read

Friday February 18th

Although we had no school due to government advice, children were still busy. Here are some Cloonacool snowmen.

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Feb 13, 20221 min read

Spring Windmills

For art we constructed some windmills. We decorated them and then assembled them with a sail.

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Feb 10, 20221 min read

RSE:Feelings and Emotions

Today we talked about feelings and emotions. We had an activity where we had to link opposite feelings together. Some of the words were...

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Feb 9, 20221 min read

Hearts 💕

Over the last fortnight we were learning about our hearts. The heart is a muscle that pumps blood around our bodies. In this way food and...

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Feb 8, 20221 min read

Final Midnight Fox Display

This is our completed display. It includes written work and cartoons. We wrote a synopsis of the novel, an account of the hunt, a...

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Feb 2, 20221 min read

Length

We have started learning about length. Today we measured some items - including doors, magnetic boards and a blackboard. We used...