Category: School News

This month in the Junior Room our theme was 'The Doctor's Surgery'. We learned about the work that doctors and nurses do. In our role play area we learned the names of the instruments and equipment that doctors and nurses use, how to wrap a bandage and all about x-rays. We made x-ray machines using… Continue reading Aistear: The Doctor’s Surgery

We have been asked to share the following letter from Acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr Ronan Glynn. Open Letter ACMO to Parents English

Dear Parents, The Department of Education has published the following 3 videos which you and your family may find helpful as we prepare to reopen our school next week. Please see the links below these videos for further advice especially on symptoms of Covid 19 Click here for the most up to date advice for… Continue reading School Reopening – Advice for parents and videos for children

Parents, here are some website links that may support you and your child during this time of school closure due to Covid-19. We hope they are of some use to you during this time. If you have any other suggestions of websites that you have used with your children, please let us know by emailing… Continue reading School Closure – Educational Resources

We gathered together this morning for World Book Day to "share a story" with one another. The children all brought their favourite books to school and we spent the morning sharing them with their friends. Check out some of our favourite books below!

Once again we had a full house for our annual Christmas concert last Monday night. A huge thank you to all who attended and supported our fundraiser. Well done to all of the children and their teachers. The performances can be found on the links below. They certainly are worth a watch! Junior Room Play:… Continue reading Christmas Concert 2019

A celebration mass was held in Craggagh Community Centre in honour of Mrs Macken's retirement on Friday 4th October. It was a full house on the night. Pupils, past and present, parents and members of the Craggagh community all gathered together to celebrate with Aingeal. Fr Michael, Fr Pat and Fr Paddy led us in… Continue reading Mrs Macken’s Retirement

We had a fantastic night at our Christmas Concert on Wednesday night. The children performed to our biggest audience yet! A huge thank you to all who supported the children on the night. Thanks again to Seán Dwyer for filming all of the performances on the night. You can find a link to each video… Continue reading Christmas Concert 2018

Our Parent Association are holding their annual Easter Bake Sale on April 1st, Easter Sunday. The Bake Sale will take place in the school after 9:30am Mass. Members of the PA will be available to collect baking from 6pm to 6:30pm on Saturday evening, or before Mass on Sunday morning. All proceeds raised by the… Continue reading Easter Bake Sale! Easter Sunday Morning in the school. Details:

As part of the St Patrick's Day Festivities in Kiltimagh, we participated in a lovely evening of poetry and song with our friends from St Aidan's NS. The event was hosted and facilitated by local poet, Terry McDonnagh. In the weeks leading up to this evening, Terry visited the school a number of times and… Continue reading Poetry Evening with Terry McDonnagh @KStPatricksDay

Anthony Broderick, author of The Adventures Jack and Adam series of children books, visited us this week to talk about his work as an author and as an entrepreneur. So far, Anthony has published 3 books in the Jack and Adam series. Anthony spoke at length about the writing process, what inspires him and what… Continue reading Visit from local author Anthony Broderick @JEP_ie

Junior Entrepreneur Workshop We have embarked on another Junior Entrepreneur Adventure! Our company is still in its infancy, and is as yet unnamed. However we had a very productive workshop last week with "Heritage Expert" Mark Wilson. We began production of our recycled copper key-rings and wooden key-ring holders.   We had a very busy… Continue reading JEP Workshop

Heritage Workshop with Mark Wilson We had a brilliant day with "Heritage Expert" Mark Wilson last week. Children from all classes learned about the many uses of the willow tree (sally) as well as a range of other traditional wood crafts. As you can see form the images below, we had great fun making bunny… Continue reading Heritage Workshop

Half-day closure on February 14th Publication of Child Safeguarding Statement and Risk Assessment   Dear Parents, The school will close at the earlier time of 12pm on Wednesday, February 14th. This is also the day that the mid-term break begins. We will reopen again on Monday, February 19th. This half day closure, in accordance with… Continue reading Mid Term Break Update

What a great day we had yesterday! Thanks to all who helped out in any way. Click on the links below to watch the videos. You should be able to expand to full screen. Thanks again to Seán for videoing the concerts. Infants Middle Room Senior Room