Scoil Ghormáin Naofa, Castletown

Just some of the photos we captured today as most were taken on grandparents phones; we would love you to share them with us if you have more!
Thank you to our PA for a fabulous spread and for the lovely presentation of the hospitality area! Thank you to Fr. David for the lovely mass and to all involved in making Grandparents Day so special. It is always lovely to meet the wonderful grandparents in our community.

Tá Seachtain na Gaeilge ar siúl agus tá cultúr agus atmaisféár álainn anseo. Is é frása na seachtaine ná ‘Tá Seachtain na Gaeilge linn – is breá linn an Gaeilge’. Tá ceol agus ealaín álainn le cloisteáil/le feiceáil sa scoil. Beidh céilí againn ar an gclós amárach agus beid duaiseanna le fáil freisin!

^^^ Céilí ar scoil! Nach bhfuil na naíonáin go hálainn!? ^^^

Tá #SNAG24 linn! Tá alán gníomhaíochtaí ar siúl: amhráin, cluichí, comortais agus bíonn a lán craic sa scoil! Féach ar na naisc!

Frása na coicíse nua – don tSeachtain na Gaeilge!

The aroma of pancakes and sugary toppings floated through the school today – what a wonderful treat courtesy of our very kind PA volunteers. The addition of marshmallows to the list of options was welcomed greatly!! Thank you all, it was a lovely experience for the pupils…and staff!

As part of Internet Safety Day, we welcomed Garda Mick Dee in to speak with pupils from 2nd-6th class about the dangers online. He was excellent and the children really responded to him. He spoke separately to 5th and 6th class pupils also.
We invited him along with the chairperson of our PA, Laura Molloy, to launch our smartphone contract, something we have been working with Laura on for a while, With the findings of the survey that parents supplied months back, we composed a document that we hope will help parents who want to keep smart phones for post primary school.
We will not police who has and who hasn’t a phone thought they are not permitted in school. We are promoting the contract in partnership with parents and hope that a community of good practice will help to delay the start of smart phone usage until post primary school.
We invite you to chat about this at home and we would be happy to file all signed contracts so that children appreciate the commitment that they have undertaken.
Thank you to Laura for her design

Our pupils are VERY excited about this challenge – saving the planet whilst making art AND possibly winning a pizza party– what’s not to love!!
Prepare yourselves at home for the scavenging of all bottle tops. Children are encouraged to ask neighbours, families and friends – with your supervision. This is a very exciting project and we are very grateful to Laura and the PA!

Tá frása nua againn – is breá liom rudaí nua a fhoghlaim! Maith sibh, Darragh, Ailbhe Rose agus Francis

Ms Walker’s class are published authors! Well done to each child who wrote with imagination, drafted, edited and illustrated a page each in this beautiful class book! We hope that this inspires our young authors towards a life of writing!

Our junior infants enjoyed an experiment to investigate how polar bears keep warm. They have really enjoyed the theme of the Arctic through a multi sensory approach! @OidePrimarySTEM