Category: Mr Charlton

(Classroom activity for the Senior Room) Here's a few puzzles to round off Maths Week 2015! Q 1 See if you can solve these spooky Hallowe'en Cryptograms Click link to view: halloween_cryptogram_1 Q 2 Complete this easy Hallowe'en Sukoku using the letters "BATS" Click here to view: halloween_sudoku_easy Q 3 Complete this tricky Sudoku using the letters… Continue reading Some spooky #mathsweek15 Puzzles!

(Classroom activity for Senior Room) Welcome to our maths map challenge. You'll need your ruler, a trundle wheel, a laptop/iPad and of course, your maths copy and pencil! Crucially, you need this link to Scoilnet Maps Answer the following questions in order. 4th class, do at least as far as Q10 5th class, do at… Continue reading #mathsweek15 Maths Trail – Angles, Measures & Maps

For our first Mystery Skype this year we connected with Ms Richman's 7th Graders in Signal Knob Middle School, Virginia, USA. Mystery Skype is an educational game played between two schools anywhere in the world, over Skype. The aim of the game is to locate the school you have connected with by asking only yes/no… Continue reading First #MysterySkype of the year! @SignalKnobMS

Volcanoes (Classroom activity) We're currently learning about Pompeii in history but now we're going to look a little closer at volcanoes all around the world. Use the links provided to answer the following questions. Britannica link 1 Approximately how many potentially active volcanoes are there in the world today? Hot melted rock is called magma. What do we call… Continue reading Volcanoes

Our local Mini 7s Cumann na mBunscol competition will take place in Swinford on Wednesday next, Oct 7th. We have been training this week and we couldn't have asked for better weather! https://twitter.com/CraggaghNS/status/648857135376396288 The bus will depart the school at 10am   Best of luck everybody!

We've been working very hard on our handwriting since we returned to school in September.  We've put some of our work on display in the hall.             

Last week we discovered the National Folklore Collection on Duchas.ie We found a number of stories written by children from our school nearly 80 years ago! You can have a closer look at some of our work here