School News

On Friday night the staff of Aughacasla National School helped our former principal, Caroline McCrohan, celebrate her retirement. Caroline and the staff attended an INTO (Irish National Teachers' Organisation) dinner where Caroline was presented with a fabulous vase...

The school is extremely busy at the moment with everybody preparing for their Christmas plays which will take place on Thursday the 21st of December at 7pm in the school hall. As part of our fundraising activities in the school we will have a cover charge of 10 euro...

Preparations for the Christmas play commenced this week. Lots of time and effort will go in to the preparations and we are already very excited to see the final production. The Christmas Concert will take place on Thursday 21st December in school.  We are sure that...

Junior and Senior Infants are learning through play in Aistear. Their theme this fortnight is ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’. They made some lovely lighthouses in the art station with Mrs Galvin. Miss Williams brought in the Ipads and Mrs Heasman manned the drama station. We...

Well done to the 3rd and 4th Class girls who took part in the FAI soccer blitz in John Mitchels last Friday. The girls did fantastic and put on some great performances. However, things did not go our way on the day. Just like the boys they have made us all very proud....

Science week was great fun this year!  Science week is a great way to get the children thinking and actively involved. Everyone got stuck in and the experiments carried out were very interesting and exciting. From exploding coke bottles, eggs cracking/not cracking and...

We had the pleasure of having Martha Farrell and Susan Vicker in to talk to the children on environmental awareness of the local area. They spoke to the children about the problem of marine litter and plastics on our beaches. This was a great opportunity to learn...