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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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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...
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Oct 31 min read
National Tree Day
Today is National Tree Day. The theme is "Trees are magic". We planted a Hawthorn tree in the school garden with Ms. Toolan and sprinkled...
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Oct 21 min read
Futsal Session
Today Raf did a futsal session with the two senior classes. It was a lovely day to be active outside. There were drills to improve...
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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....
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Sep 291 min read
Clothes Collection
A clothes collection is underway at the moment. Bags of clean clothes (no pillows or duvets) can be left into the school.
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Sep 201 min read
Fun Day Friday
Today we enjoyed listening to Ms. Toolan read The Colourful Monster while eating yummy icecream. A lovely ending to a very busy week.
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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...
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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...
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Sep 201 min read
Student council
In the senior classes the children voted for new student council members. Firstly everyone spoke to the class about their ideas and...
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Sep 201 min read
Infant Assembly
We had a very enjoyable first assembly of the year today. A big thank you to Ms Toolan and her class. Enjoy the songs and poems 🎵...
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cloonacoolnational
Sep 171 min read
Pre-writing
We took advantage of today's beautiful afternoon to demonstrate our pre-writing skills to date.
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cloonacoolnational
Sep 161 min read
Matching by colour and the equals sign
We are learning all about matching by colour in Junior Infants and the equals sign in Senior Infants in our maths lessons this week.
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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....
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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...
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Sep 121 min read
Hedgerow Week
Michael Coughlan visited our school. We all wore wellies and investigated our local hedgerows. We found white thorn and blackthorn and...
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cloonacoolnational
Sep 121 min read
Drama:TheVisitor
5/6 class are reading the poem The Visitor. We created a drama based on the poem. We had 3 groups of characters and wore costumes. Senior...
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cloonacoolnational
Sep 121 min read
Summer Memories
5/6 class created fantastic sunglasses. We talked about our Summer memories and then created art to show our memories. We also included a...
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cloonacoolnational
Sep 101 min read
Science in the sun!
The children had great fun locating, sorting and classifying various items found in their school yard!
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Sep 51 min read
National Hedgerow Week 2024
Today Mícheál came to speak to the classes about the importance of hedgerows. They are a very unique habitat for wildlife and they also...
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cloonacoolnational
Sep 41 min read
Mé Féin
Bhíomar ag scríobh fúinn féin. Nach bhfuil na bileoga go hiontach?
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cloonacoolnational
Sep 41 min read
Autumn Trees 🍂 🥮
Our first art display of the year has autumn trees. We drew trees using pencil and charcoal. We used warm colours for an autumn leaf in...
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