Well done to our school band and 5th/6th class choir who performed for the residents of Middletown Nursing Home today , including Fr. McCarney and Mr. Breen and Ms. D’Arcy’s granny who very very proud to see all.
I am so proud of the children who not only performed beautifully but treated the residents with respect and dignity and brought a lot of joy today. Click the link for a snippet of their lovely playing
We enjoyed a wonderful evening of variety last night with our annual Christmas concert. We laughed lots and we also enjoyed a special moment for peace whereby the church was lit by candles and the children sang after a special reflection. Click on the links to view.
Thank you for your generous raffle ticket purchase which was just under €1,000 and will see an upgrade of concrete maths materials to support the new primary maths curriculum in the new year. I would also like to thank all the teachers and SNAs for encouraging every child and for creating such a lovely variety show.
* We would like to thank Cullen’s Fruit and Veg, Toymaster Gorey, Canavan’s Londis, Jones Business Systems and Stafford’s Bakeries for their sponsorship of the prizes.
SANTA DASH 2023!
On Friday 8th December, Niall Breen’s 5th and 6th class pupils undertook a 5km Clone run in aid of Unicef – Gaza Emergency Appeal This fun run has become an annual event since its inception four years ago. Under the guidance of Mr. Breen, the children trained daily during the weeks leading up to the run and each child’s individual fitness level increased which was an added bonus! On the day, there was a Christmas disco in the yard for the whole school and the younger pupils excitedly cheered the senior pupils as they embarked on the run. The local gardaí were on hand to greet the returning runners with the siren and lights! Parents joined us on the run and also provided some well deserved hot chocolate and refreshments upon their return. We would like to thank Canavan’s Londis for their generous donation towards the refreshments. We chose Unicef this year as a way for children to help fellow children living in areas of conflict. While we don’t want the worries of the world to weigh too heavily on the children, we like to nurture a social conscience in allowing them to help those less fortunate than themselves at Christmas. The children raised over €2,200 euro which will go to the purchase of emergency kits, blankets, tarpaulins, medicines and water purification tablets. We are immensely proud of their efforts in raising so much money for Unicef.
The PA Festive Friday fundraiser is back and we look forward to having lots of fun! We will have a Christmas disco on yard as part of our Active Flag endeavours!
Congratulations to our chess club on their first tournament yesterday. Here is a report from Bart and Anna: ‘Everyone had their own login on Lichess. Once everyone was in, there was a three minute timer and when that went off, everyone started to play chess. You played against the clock for seven minutes. There were about 250 players, 50 teams online. It wasn’t easy, there were very good players there. You could have as many queens as pawns because it is online. It was extremely fun. It was stressful too as there was a timer and you had to go as fast as you could! The entire tournament was about 40 minutes. We came thirteenth out of fifty teams. It is our first ever competition with chess club so we were very proud. We would like to thank Sharon and Ms. Murphy for all their hard work!’
Ms. Rolland and her mathematicians worked really hard using different materials to solve problems and predict patterns. This is very much in the spirit of the new maths curriculum and we are really enjoying embracing it. Thanks Ms. Rolland!
We are delighted to welcome applicants for places in our school for the coming academic year. Full details are in the link below, including closing date. Please contact Siobhan on 0402 37596 for enrolment forms and any other information you require.
We attended both the leaders seminar and whole staff day for upskilling in the new primary maths curriculum this month.
We embrace the the focus being given to time to talk, exploring different avenues to a solution and scaffolding with concrete materials. We have decided that the funds from our Christmas raffle this year will go towards the purchase of new concrete materials.
Here is a link with information for parents: file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/269651_2c1fe0b3-c52b-47e6-b68a-ad1259c69ff6%20(1).pdf
Castletown Chess Club is a friendly, fun, social and dynamic after school club for the children of Castletown National School. The children learn cognitively and strategically while having friendly competitive fun with their peers! The Chess Club has grown from just 8 children to max capacity of 24 blossoming little chess players!! We are looking forward to taking part in some inter schools friendly tournaments this year! Watch this space!!
Huge thanks to Sharon who is coordinating this wonderful facility with support from Ms. Murphy!
Assembly was even more fun today with costumes! Well done to all our winners!
