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An Post Writing Competition
Well done to the children in first to sixth classes who took part in the An Post Writing Competition 2025. There were over 7300 entries...
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Rás Tailteann 🚴♀️🚴♂️
The rain didn't dampen the excitement of our pupils as stage 3 of Rás Tailteann passed our school!
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Orienteering
As World Orienteering Day coincided with our schools Active Week, 5th and 6th class took part in an orienteering session at the Museum of...
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Strength and Conditioning with NCC Fitness
As part of Active Week, Shane from NCC Fitness visited our school to do a strength and conditioning session with each class. A wide range...
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Badminton Fever Hits the Senior Yard
“Nothing better than playing badminton on a sunny day at school.” Thank you to the girls from 5th & 6th class who volunteered to set up...
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School Cycle 2025🚲
Some photos from our school cycle today. A great time was had by all! Many thanks to Mayo Sports Partnership, An Garda Síochána and Cunga...
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Cumann na mBunscol⚽
Great work from both the girls and boys football teams at the South Mayo Cumann Na mBunscol tournament on 8th May. The girls gave it...
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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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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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Lá Glas!
We all had a wonderful day celebrating lá glas just before the bank holiday weekend! ☘️
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Annual Christmas Tree Decoration Competition 🎄
School is very busy at the moment as the children are rehearsing their Christmas plays. Last Friday they took a break to sing a few...
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Sports Outings from September & October
The children had a busy start to the school year competing in Mini 7s football, local hurling and football blitzes and cross country...
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Team Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this year's Christmas Shoebox collection.
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This is Halloween 2024 🧙♀️🧛🎃
The children having lots of fun in fancy dress and listening to Halloween storytelling. Great excitement with the inter-classroom visits...
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Maths Week off to a flying start.....
1st & 2nd class enjoyed learning math through fun math games with their peer tutors from 5th & 6th class
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Drumming Workshop
The children took part in a drumming workshop with Lukasz, what a treat! The children had lots of noisy fun!!
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Sports Day!
The sun was shining for this years sports day! The children had so much fun. Well done and thank you to our active school committee for...
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St Brigids Day Crosses
We had great fun making St Brigids Day crosses. Thank you to the 5th and 6th class children for helping their younger peers.
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Well done to our Quiz Teams!
Congratulations to our quiz teams who did the school proud at the Credit Union Quiz competition. Our junior team came in 2nd place and...
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Clean up after Storm Isha
Well done to the 5th and 6th class children and members of our Green School Committee who organised a clean up of our school grounds...
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Table Tennis-Peer Tutoring
Thank you to the 5th and 6th class children for their kindness when showing the Junior and Senior Infants how to play table tennis. The...
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Jingle Bell Rock Zumba
5th and 6th class enjoyed dancing along to the Jingle Bell Rock Zumba dance. What a super way to have fun and get fit! Well done everyone
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Trip to Mamma Mia
The children in 4th, 5th and 6th class thoroughly enjoyed going to see the musical Mamma Mia performed by TY students in Ballinrobe...
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School Trips 2023
The Junior and Senior infants went to Pots of Fun on their Summer trip! The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th class children had a great time at Just...
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Spooky Art
5th and 6th class children were busy and did such an amazing job on their Halloween art
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Amber Flag & Green Schools Collaboration
The children in An Nead and 5th class have been busy creating these beautiful flowers for the window boxes at the front of our school. We...
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Peer Tutoring for Maths Week 1st/2nd & 5th/6th
MATHS Week -October ‘22 Our friends in 5th & 6th class were working with us on “Telling the Time, Fun with Number & Problem Solving”....
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Amazing Cong History Video on YouTube
Did you know that our pupils in 5th and 6th Classes made an amazing History of Cong video in 2017 and it now has over 2100 hits on...
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Fifth and Sixth Class love Easter Eggs too!
"There was one for everyone in the audience" - no class was left out when the Easter eggs were distributed. Fifth and Sixth Classes posed...
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A Million Dreams using Lámh.
We are really enjoying learning lámh and participating in integration.
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So Holy they Shine
Our wonderful 5th and 6th class students made their Confirmation on Sunday 3rd April. They worked so hard on the lead up to it and we are...
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It's Time for Planting!
It's great fun working in our dome at planting time. As you can see from the pictures, everyone was hard at work!
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Lego We Do!
Do we like our new Lego We Do? Yes, we do!
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Ukulele Practice
We love practising with our ukuleles - the sound is super and they are easy to learn.
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St Brigid's Day Crosses
Making St Brigid's Day Crosses was fun - but making them was tricky. We had a lot of cleaning up to do afterwards too!
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