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Playground Leaders - " Guiding Great Play Every Day on the Yard"
This week playground leaders from 4th to 6th class are guiding the junior children with their skipping skills & playground games.
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Apr 29, 20251 min read


Active School Skip Around Europe Challenge Gets Off to a flying start….
Every class enjoyed their skipping movement break today. This will continue for 4 weeks until the 9th of May. We are very grateful to the...
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Apr 1, 20251 min read


Community Games Chess ♟️
A huge well done to the Chess team from our school who won silver in the Mayo Community Games Chess Competition in Kilmaine!
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Mar 31, 20251 min read


Green School Litter Picking
The boys and girls from our Green School committee were out litter picking in the village playground and main carpark. This is working...
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Mar 21, 20251 min read


Lá Glas!
We all had a wonderful day celebrating lá glas just before the bank holiday weekend! ☘️
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Mar 20, 20251 min read


Tráth na gceist
To celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge, the students from first to sixth class took part in an online tráth na gceist on Kahoot! Bhain gach...
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Mar 18, 20251 min read


Ukulele Wednesdays 🎶🎵
The children are really enjoying their weekly Ukulele lessons with Jamie from Galway Music Academy. Many thanks to our Parents...
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Mar 14, 20251 min read


How to Catch a Leprechaun!
To celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge and St. Patrick's Day the children from 1st and 2nd class along with the 5th and 6th class pupils took...
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Mar 14, 20251 min read


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Mar 11, 20250 min read


Branar Digital Arts Flag
Our 3rd and 4th classes here in Cong NS has had a great time engaging in the Branar workshops. Both classes thoroughly enjoyed and fully...
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Mar 10, 20251 min read


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Mar 10, 20250 min read


Spring Planting 🌱🌸🪴
Finally there has been a glimpse of Spring so the children got the chance to do some planting at the entrance to the Sensory Garden.
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Mar 6, 20251 min read


Enhancing Our Reading
Literacy lift off is a fantastic intervention programme that gives children lots of opportunity to read books. Recently 1st & 2nd class...
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Mar 6, 20251 min read


Pancake Tuesday 🥞
A fantastic Pancake Tuesday was had by all the children thanks to the lovely treat provided by Deirdre Lydon. A big thank you from all at...
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Mar 5, 20251 min read


Credit Union Quiz
Pupils from 3rd-6th class recently took part in the Credit Union Quiz. We entered two fantastic teams of master minds for both the junior...
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Mar 5, 20251 min read


Girls FAI Primary 5's
Another outstanding performance last Friday (February 28th), this time by our girls soccer team. The Cong ladies won all of their group...
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Mar 3, 20251 min read


Boys FAI Primary 5's
Incredible performance from the boys soccer team, winning all 4 of their group games by a wide margin to send them into the semi finals....
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Feb 27, 20251 min read


Thank You!
2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Boards of Management. Boards are made up of nominees from the community, the...
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Feb 25, 20251 min read


Celebrating St. Brigid
Here are photos of the 5th and 6th class children making Brídóg dolls and St. Brigids crosses. Making a Brídóg doll Making crosses
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Jan 31, 20251 min read


We like to move it, move it!
The Infants have enjoyed learning various skills and drills as part of our PE lessons! As an Active School exercising and moving our...
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Jan 31, 20251 min read


Rockin’ Researchers
1st and 2nd class have been busy the last few weeks researching animals, counties, countries famous Irish people and more recently the...
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Jan 31, 20251 min read


Story boxes!
The children in 3rd and 4th class have been busy making story boxes. They show such imagination and creativity! Well done!
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Jan 31, 20251 min read


Coding & Robotics Workshop Weeks 1-4
The children are doing Coding & Robotics Workshops each Friday for the month of January with Corrib Coding. Building, directing and...
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Jan 17, 20251 min read


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