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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cloonacoolnational

Jan 6, 20231 min read

January Art 🎨

Today our art had two parts. First, we used masking tape to outline tree shapes on sheets of card. Next we painted over the sheet with...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 21, 20221 min read

Holidays

Happy Christmas 🎄 See you all on January 5th 2023!

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 20, 20220 min read

Look at our books

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 20, 20221 min read

Story Books 📚

We finished writing our story books 📚 We read them to the junior and senior infants. Ms Toolan says we will enjoy rereading them when we...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 20, 20221 min read

Santa School Visit 🎅

Santa visited our school today. He had two elves with him. We sang a song for him. 🎵 🎶 He had a present for everyone. 🎁 A big thank...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 20, 20221 min read

San Nioclás sa seomra ranga 🎅

We had a visit to our classroom from Santa. We sang San Nioclás for him. 🎶 He had a gift for everyone. 🎁 Thank you to Santa and his...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 19, 20221 min read

Don’t Tell Mum

We have just finished reading our novel Don't Tell Mum I made a Mammoth. It was a funny novel about a boy called Percy. His Mum has...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 19, 20221 min read

Ideal Bedrooms

5th and 6th class were busy designing and creating our ideal bedrooms. We all had different ideas and we spent a lot of time finding...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 17, 20221 min read

A hug for you

Another great book - A hug for you. We enjoyed reading about Adam King and the adventures his virtual hug had. Everybody thought about...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 17, 20221 min read

The World Cup, Qatar 2022

First & Second class are football crazy! We have been following the World Cup in Qutar. Thirty-two teams are taking part. It only happens...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 16, 20221 min read

Procedural Writing

This month our writing genre is procedural writing. We learned the steps to doing and making lots of things. We even created the steps to...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 16, 20221 min read

Santa’s Christmas Problem

We have finished reading Johnny Magory's Oíche Nollag Adventure. It was an exciting read and thankfully Santa still got to deliver all...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 16, 20221 min read

Maths week 2022 16th-24th October 2022

We went on a Maths trail around our school grounds and in the village. We found Maths all around us -3D shapes, road signs, car...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 16, 20221 min read

Christmas Concert 2022

A large crowd gathered on a very cold evening for the Christmas concert. The children performed beautifully with lots of poems and songs....

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 12, 20221 min read

Symmetry

Today we started learning about symmetry. We looked at capital letters, cut symmetrical shapes, folded squares and rectangles and...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 9, 20221 min read

Creating a Christmas Picture Book

Today we watched a Scholastic crowdcast. The author Linus showed us and read us his book Mrs. Claus takes a Vacation. It was very...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 7, 20221 min read

Food Collection Christmas 2022

There was a great response to the food collection organised by the student council. There will be many happy people in Sligo who will...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 7, 20221 min read

Christmas Concert Dec. 15th

All the classes are busy preparing for the Christmas concert. We hope you are looking forward to seeing us perform next week. The senior...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 6, 20221 min read

Garda Schools Programme

Two local garda visited our school on December 5th. They had many important messages for us. We now know what the job of a garda is,...

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A fun visit from Garda Inez & Garda Trevor

cloonacoolnational

Dec 5, 20221 min read

A fun visit from Garda Inez & Garda Trevor

Garda Inez and Garda Trevor visited us this morning. We had lots of fun with them but we did have a very serious discussion about road...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 2, 20221 min read

Mo Fhear Sneachta ⛄️

Tá pictúirí deasa againn sna cóipleabhair. Tharraing gach duine fear sneachta breá, le hata agus scairf. Ansin, scríobhamar faoi na...

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cloonacoolnational

Dec 2, 20221 min read

Catching Snowflakes ❄️

We stayed on a snowy theme in art. We imagined what it would be like to catch snowflakes in our mouths. We also enjoyed making colourful...

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cloonacoolnational

Nov 28, 20221 min read

Snowflake Mandalas ❄️

On Friday we created snowflake mandalas. They are very symmetrical. Some of us did hexagonal shapes and others made octagonal shapes. We...

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cloonacoolnational

Nov 23, 20221 min read

New Student Council

We had elections recently for the student council. Each person who wished to go forward for election spoke to the class to outline their...

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