The children enjoyed learning about the traditions of St. Brigid’s day and had fun making their crosses. Thanks to all who sent in rushes.  

Science week is in full flow with the Middle Room trying to make it snow. Create tornadoes and investigate sound waves. 
The Senior room have been making anemometers, investigating the density of liquids and were also simulating tornadoes. 

Maths Week 2024 is in full swing! We’ve had exciting maths trails, Mathopoly games, Numbots, Times Tables Rockstars, Symmetry portraits and plenty more!

We started Friendship week with a lovely Prayer service organised by the Student Council.  We looked at what friendship is, what qualities a friend has and how God can help us be a good friend. The prayer service finished with a lovely reflective poem by Spike Milligan:

 Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu,

When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.

 I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin.

When he smiled I realized I’d passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile, then I realized its worth!

There have been other lovely activities too, loom band friendship braclets have been a huge hit!!

If there is a better venue in Ireland for a Student council information session then let us know!!!

Our new Junior infants have settled in really well to ‘big school’.

The senior room were looking at craters on the moon today. We made our own moon surface and craters and tested how the height of the collision affected the size of the crater.

Our History Walk

In school we were learning about old buildings of our parish. So on the 19th of September we went to the town to look at some old buildings. We picked 3 different buildings which were The Old Parish Hall, The Heritage Centre and The Church of the Holy Family.

​​We went to the Ardara Parish Hall First and we done a small survey on the hall. It asked questions about the roof type and what the building was made out of. Then my group and I took a few pictures of the Hall and when we also took some rubbings. But when we were on our way to the heritage centre we had to stop and pet Bridie the dog.  

​After we went to meet Bridie, we strolled our way down to the Heritage Centre, aka the Courthouse. We studied the main materials, such as granite and sandstone, and before going to the next building, a couple of us got rubbings of the wall.

​​On the way to the church we stopped at the shop and Mrs. Smith bought us ice-creams (they were delicious). We took a while to eat our ice-creams but when we finished them my group and I took some pictures of the church. And we finished our survey sheet and drew some pictures we looked at the Evie Hone Rose window. It has Christ in the middle with his arms raised above him. King David with a harp and at the bottom is mosses with the Ten Commandments it also shows Matthew as a man, mark as a lion, John as an eagle and Luke as an ox. We took some more photos and then the bus took us home. It was a great day, and we learnt lots.

By Aoife, Hannah and Adam 6th Class