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Achy Breaky Hearts 💔:Mr. Whelan’s 5th and 6th Class displayed high levels of imagination and creativity with their ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ designs for St. Valentine’s Day earlier this month. National Arts in Education

Cross Age Peer Learning in Action: The TY Students (including one past pupil ) on work experience from Heywood C.S. were a great support today in Mr. Whelan’s 5th and 6th class, as the pupils engaged in playful approaches to teaching and learning in Maths and cognitively

Willow Wonder: Great girls making use of our new Willow Dome in our biodiversity area, which was constructed by 5th and 6th Class with Beth Murphy Bethwillowwonder under the Heritage in Schools scheme Green-Schools Research Ireland Curious Minds Oide Primary STEM Laois Heritage Biodiversity in Schools

Say Yes To Languages 🇪🇸: We are delighted to be participating in the ‘Say Yes to Languages’ programme Amine De Psr again this year. Mrs. Cahill’s Middle Room & Mr. Whelan’s Senior Room pupils are receiving a block of Spanish lessons with Aurelie Le Moine from ‘Aurelie Languages’ as

Monoprinting: In advance of new life unfurling on trees in Springtime, Mr. Whelan’s 5th & 6th Class created monoprints of the bare and skeletal trees in the school grounds National Arts in Education ArtsEdPortal.ie Biodiversity in Schools Research Ireland Curious Minds

Playful Approaches to Teaching and Learning in Maths🧮 : Mr. Watson’s Junior Room pupils used Geoboards in Maths to create different patterns and designs. A great activity for fine motor skills development also 👏👏😀Research Ireland Curious Minds Oide Primary STEM

Fancy some cognitive/cerebral 🧠 challenge in early Spring?! Our Parents’ Association Table Quiz certainly meets the brief in this regard. Doogues’s Bar in Raheen is the place to be this Friday night (7th March) at 8pm. All other details can be found in the poster. Your support

Soccer Win ⚽️: Congratulations to our boys and girls soccer teams who topped the tables in their respective leagues in the FAI 5-a side soccer blitz in Killeshin yesterday ⚽️ 🥅 . The sun ☀️ shone down brightly for the occasion and high levels of teamwork and sportsmanship were

Lent: We had a lovely mass for Ash Wednesday yesterday celebrated by fr Paddy and Fr. Petru Medves. A meaningful start to the season of Lent for our school community. Mr. Whelan’s 5th and 6th Class created the Lent themed display for St. Brigid’s Church, Shanahoe ⛪️

Wildlife Pond 🐸: We are thrilled with our new wildlife pond in our biodiversity area in the school grounds 😀. It is a fantastic addition and we very much look forward to seeing what wildlife take up residence in and around it in the future. Many thanks to Environmental

STEM in action 🧮: Great Cross Age Peer Tutoring in action in Shanahoe Community Hall today, as our 5th & 6th Class came together with their counterparts from @tobaranléinn NS, Raheen & Transition Year Students from Mountrath Community School to undertake cognitively challenging tasks using

Sensory Spaces 🌱 : Well done to our super Sonas Class pupils who have planted a lovely sensory area in our ‘Outdoor Classroom’, with a section for each of the five senses😀. I think that you will agree that they did a fantastic job👏. Well done to Miss. Fisher and our

Presenting Projects on the Netherlands 🇳🇱: Mr. Whelan’s 5th & 6th Class did a great job of presenting their projects on the Netherlands at the recent whole school ‘Teacht le Chéile’/Assembly. Their group, digital projects were excellent as were their general presentation

Composting in Schools 🪱: Well done to our Green School ♻️ committee under the guidance of Mrs. Cahill, together with Mrs. Cahill’s middle room pupils, who worked with Craig Benton as part of the ‘Composting in Schools’ programme to install a wormery in our biodiversity area

Native Tree Planting 🌳: Many thanks to Paddy Mangan at ‘Free Trees Ireland’ for providing us with saplings of native Irish trees, namely Oak & Hazel to plant in our biodiversity area in the school grounds. We look forward to seeing them grow and develop over time 🌳

Europe Day 2025 🇪🇺: We celebrated Europe Day in the school yesterday, 9th May. All pupils came to school dressed in European themed outfits or costumes. Classes shook hands as a sign of the solidarity that being a member of the E.U. 🇪🇺 affords us Blue Star Programme