School News

Aughacasla NS is now enrolling. We have a new Admission policy and Enrolment form. A copy of the school’s Admission Policy and the Application Form for Admission for the 2020/21 school year is available to download on the Policy Page of the website. All application...

The winners of the Natterjack Toad colouring competition have been announced. There were well over 100 entries received and we are delighted to say that Grace Cawley was the winner of the 5-8 years category. Congratulations Grace! Well done to all the children who...

Looks like winter is the theme for art at the moment. A very special visitor arrived from the North Pole in Rang 1 & 2 as the children were doing their art last week. Rang 3 & 4 did some beautiful winter scenes in art.

Science Week 5th and 6th did some fun activities for science week. They watched a presentation on optical illusions and uncanny balances. They tried out some of these in the classroom. The children also took part in a University Challenge quiz via zoom, with schools...

We are continuously trying to improve and develop handwriting throughout the school. As an incentive and motivation, a child from each class is selected as hand writer of the month and is rewarded with a cert. Below are the winners from October. Well done everyone....

Learning Tables With Mr Doyle’s 3rd class starting their multiplication tables this month, here is another reminder of a few interesting reasons why learning tables is so important. The Importance of Learning Tables We sometimes talk about giving children the ‘gift of...

Three Little Pigs is the theme for Aistear this fortnight. The aim of Aistear is to help every child to grow and develop as a competent and confident learner. Aistear provides children with an exciting, engaging and fun learning experiences and the children always...

The children went to great efforts today to get dressed up for Halloween. Well done to everyone and thank you all for putting in so much effort.        The children have been busy doing Halloween art this week. As the first 8 weeks of the new school year draws to a...

The HSE's flu vaccine campaign for children has been launched. More information can be found on the HSE website below. https://www.hse.ie/eng/health/immunisation/pubinfo/flu-vaccination/flu-vaccine-for-children/

Room on a Broom is the theme for Aistear this fortnight. This story is about a kind witch who invites a collection of animals to join her on her broom, though her cat thinks it will get too crowded. Her new friends make themselves useful, however, the witch is...