Craggagh NS

The junior room enjoyed creating this informational video about our school last week. They showed great creativity and teamwork to direct, film and star in the video. We shared the video with 1st class in Scoil Nano Nagle, in Clondalkin, Dublin. They sent a video back telling us all about their school and we used… Continue reading Mayo vs Dublin 🟢🔴

To celebrate the arrival of our new oven we made bread sticks!

The children baked some delicious Gingerbread men today in school. They measured out all of the ingredients, rolled out the dough and used cookie cutters to make biscuits. After the biscuits were baked and had cooled, the children decorated them using icing. For those who want the recipe see below: 75g dark brown sugar 75g… Continue reading Christmas Baking

We also measured goalposts!

September was a busy month in the Junior Room. We learned about the life cycle of a chicken, made some fantastic rockets, marble runs and boats as part of our STEM challenges. We had lots of fun in our Bakery role play area. Some children made cakes using junk art materials. We even did some… Continue reading September fun

We took advantage of the glorious weather this week and went foraging for blackberries around the school field and along the roadside. Then, on Friday, we used the blackberries to make Jam. We had a taste of the jam on some crackers, then all of the children took a jar home to share with their… Continue reading Blackberry Jam

The Junior Room enjoyed an Easter Egg Hunt on the last day of term. Everyone searched very hard to fill their buckets and finished up with some lovely goodies at the end!

A massive well done to our amazing boys and girls who completed their Splash & Dash in Lough Lannagh yesterday. We are so proud of you all!