Scoil Ghormáin Naofa, Castletown

We welcomed Cathy Lee to school along with James Beesley and the Local Authority Waters and Communities group who planted crab apple trees with us for Tree Planting Week! Junior infants really enjoyed this welly time and the weather really helped to make it even more enjoyable!

Well done to all who entered our #engineersweek2025 competition; recreate a world famous landmark! We had Stonehenge on the beach, Statue of liberty, Golden Gate Bridge, Pyramid @ the Louvre, London Eye, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pyramids of Giza and the Eiffel Tower to name but a few!

A VISIT FROM THE NUTTY SCIENTISTS!

As part of Engineer’s Week, we treated our lucky pupils to a visit from Nutty Science crew!

RUN AROUND IRELAND!

For the month of January and February we Ran Around Ireland getting exercise and learning some geography and history on the way. We love these bright days!

Well done to all who entered our #engineersweek2025 competition; recreate a world famous landmark! We had Stonehenge on the beach, Statue of liberty, Golden Gate Bridge, Pyramid @ the Louvre, London Eye, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pyramids of Giza and the Eiffel Tower to name but a few!!

Our fantastic PA is aiming to raise €1,000 through the Re-turn scheme – if each child bring s in 25 large recyclable bottles, we would reach our target. Furthermore they will survey the students as to what they would like to purchase for our school with the proceeds! Stay tuned!!!

We purchased concrete material kits for each class following whole staff training in the new maths curriculum. Here, senior infants are using them to great effect in spatial awareness work to create models of their bedrooms. Early lessons in scale!

Ms. Hearne, Ms ní Shúilleabháin and Ms. D’Arcy entered a number of groups into Scór na bPáistí in Bunscoil Loreto, Gorey. We had ballad singers, solo singers, instrumentation groups and recitation. All children performed beautifully and represented us so well. Congratulations to PJ and Teagan who made it through to round 2 and best of luck to PJ who has progressed to round 3 – we are rooting for you, PJ!

We are delighted to have solar panels installed today. Flynn and Zac are showing us the wonderful monitor that we received as part of the package – it shows the children what emissions have been saved, how many trees/ kgs of coal have been saved and details weather, sunset/sunrise times and displays data in bar chart form. What an interesting way to bring the new maths curriculum to life as they pass by on the corridor!

Nowadays you get sent to the office for good things! I love to see wonderful children like these come to show me their achievements!

We received some photos of our pupils enjoying the snow! Isn’t childhood great!!