We decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather yesterday by going on a nature walk. We brought identification cards for leaves and twigs to help us figure out what types of trees we have in our local area. We found ash, hawthorn, sycamore and elder trees as well as lots of ivy and bramble… Continue reading Autumn Nature Walk
Mini 7s Report
Well done to our boys and girls who participated in the local Mini 7s competition in Swinford today. Our boys joined forces with our friends in Straide NS to form a team. Our girls got the show on the road with a great win over Bohola in a very tight game. They then went on… Continue reading Mini 7s Report
Stand Up for Primary Education
Dear Parents, The INTO has launched a pre-budget campaign calling for greater investment in primary education. The ‘Stand up for primary education’ campaign's priorities include: improvements in class size fairer funding for primary schools These two issues are of particular importance to us in Craggagh NS. Your support as parents and constituents is greatly needed in… Continue reading Stand Up for Primary Education
Volcanoes
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
Cumann na mBunscol Mini 7s
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!
Read All About It! October Newsletter is out now!
School Newsletter | October 2015 Click on the image below to download the newsletter in PDF format Lots of news to report, including: cross country running swimming lessons book rental English writing workshops 1916 commerations Newsletter sept 15
Ancient Egypt in 1st, 2nd & 3rd
We were learning all about Ancient Eygpt in our class last month. We researched Egyptian Pharoahs, pyramids, hieroglyphs and mummies! We used hieroglyphs to make a cartouche of our names.
Handwriting 4th, 5th & 6th
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.
Folklore Collection
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
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