School News
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Father Duck – Aistear
Father Duck is the theme for this months Aistear. Farmer Duck is a wonderfully illustrated, funny story that tells the tale of a hardworking duck who does everything from feeding the cows to shooing the hens safely into their coop at night without a rest. When the...
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is coming to an end with next Wednesday being our final session with Teresa from Tralee Gymnastics Club. The children have thoroughly enjoyed the past few weeks and have learned so much. Thanks to the PA for paying for these classes.
Hand writers of the month
As part of our School Self Evaluation we are focusing on handwriting this year. We aim to try 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...
Credit Union Quiz 2020
Well Done to our quiz team who participated in this year's Credit Union Quiz. They were great representatives of the school and did themselves very proud. Thank you to their parents and Ms O'Sullivan for accompanying the children to the quiz last Sunday.
Lá Le Bríde
Last Friday was Lá Le Bríde. We celebrated the day by making traditional St Brigid's Crosses in the hall with 1st - 6th Class. The crosses are traditionally made on St Brigid's feast day, 1 February, which was formerly celebrated as a pagan festival marking the...
Handa’s Surpise
'Handa's Surprise' is the theme for Aistear this fortnight. Working on a new theme each fortnight the children learn new vocabulary, develop their problem solving skills, work as part of a team as well as developing communication and play skills. It is a fabulous...
Parent/Teacher Meetings 2020
Our Parent-Teacher meetings will take place on Thursday 30th January. All children need to be collected at 2.55 pm in order to facilitate the meetings, which commence at 3.15 pm and finish at 6 pm. If the time allocated to you is not suitable, please arrange to swop...
A look at what we have done so far in 2020….
We have been very busy since we returned. Junior and Senior Infants have been doing 'The Mitten' in Aistear this fortnight. 1st and 2nd Class were busy doing projects on China. 3rd and 4th Class did some procedural writing on how to make a sandwich and some magical...
Cross Country Training 2020
Cross Country training has begun with the school entering boys & girls in 3/4th class and 5th/6th class races. The 3rd/4th class race is 1200 meters long for both boys and girls and the 5th/6th class race is 2000 meters long also for both boys and girls. The...
Now Enroling for September 2020
We are now enroling for Junior Infants 2020. To enrol your child please download the form below and fill it out. Remember to include PPS Numbers and Eircodes on the form. Please return the form to Aughacasla National School by February 1st 2020. We will have an Open...