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Culture Day

24/06/2026 /

Last week, our 5th and 6th Class pupils hosted an amazing Cultural Day in the school. Each group worked very hard to create a project about their country of heritage or a country of their choice. The children proudly shared traditional clothing, artefacts, arts and crafts, music and delicious food from around the world. The hall was filled with wonderful colours, sounds, smells and smiles, creating a fantastic atmosphere for everyone to enjoy.

A huge thank you to all the parents and families who helped make the day so special by sharing their culture with us and especially for providing such delicious traditional foods. Your support and generosity were greatly appreciated. It was a wonderful celebration of the diversity in our school community, and we hope this will become an annual event in the years to come!

 

Sligo Woodland School Trip

23/03/2026 /

As part of our Heritage Keepers project this year we had the amazing opportunity to visit Sligo Woodland School for a day where we got to learn all about tress, nature and how and why it is important for us to protect it for future generations. We learned how to plant trees, chop wood, make sustainable toys and crafts from wood. We also got the opportunity to build our own shelters from wood, make skewers for roasting marshmallows and had lots of fun relaxing in hammocks and playing on the wooden swings.  Thank you so much to Trisha and team for facilitating such an amazing day.

 

Wednesday Maths Puzzle

15/10/2025 /

World Cup Puzzle

There are 6 teams in a group. Each team plays every other team twice. How many games are there in total?

 

Solution: 30 games

This problem is more like the handshake problem and again introduces pupils to graph theory.

Let’s take Group D with the six teams of Republic of Ireland, Wales, Austria, Serbia, Moldova and Georgia.

Republic of Ireland will play ten games: two against Wales, two against Austria, two against Serbia, two against Moldova and two against Georgia.

Wales will have already played the Republic of Ireland twice so they will have eight games left to play: two against Austria, two against Serbia, two against Moldova and two against Georgia.

Austria will have already played the Republic of Ireland and Wales so they will have six games left to play against Serbia, Moldova and Georgia.

Serbia will have played against the Republic of Ireland, Wales and Austria so they will have four games left to play against Moldova and Georgia.

Moldova will have played every team twice at this stage apart from Georgia.

Georgia will then have played every team in the group twice.

There will be a total of 30 games for a group of six teams.

Joke: Why was the maths book crying?

Because it has so many problems!

Maths Week Tuesday Puzzle

10/10/2025 /

Space mission

A rocket blasts off from Earth heading for Mars, getting faster as it travels. In fact, the rocket’s speed doubles every week that it’s in space. If the rocket lands on Mars in week 12, in which week was it halfway there?

Joke: Why did the two fours skip lunch?

Because they already 8! 

Heritage In School Road Show In ATU

26/09/2025 /

We had an absolutely fantastic time at the Heritage In Schools Road Show at the ATU last Friday. We got to learn about traditional toys made from reeds and made our own Biddy Dolls, we learned about the different types of trees and bushes and played some traditional garden games made from wood. We also got to enjoy a delicious ice-cream to keep our energy up!

Visit to The Model

26/09/2025 /

We would like to say a huge thank you to Lorna and all The Model staff for facilitating our fantastic visit last week. We got some really interesting insights into their current exhibitions and we even got to create our very own imaginative piece to place in a Cabinet of Curiosity of our very own.

Golf

26/09/2025 /

5th Class had lots of fun trying out our golf skills. It turns out we have some budding golfers among us. We are really looking forward to developing these skills further later in the year with Golf Ireland.

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