Tag: Geography

Clontuskert Admission & Enrolment 2022-2023

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The Admission Process is now open for St. Augustine’s National School Clontuskert for 2022-2023.
Please view our Admission Notice below for details.

We will host a Virtual Open Day on Microsoft Teams on Monday March 28th 2022.

Please access the Admission Form for September 2022 here.

If you are interested in enrolling your child for 2023 or beyond, please complete this Expression of Interest Form to be kept in the loop of upcoming events including the Virtual Open Day.
Expression of Interest Form.

We will also offer tours of the school outside of school hours as per HSE COVID-19 regulations.
Please contact the principal if you wish to avail of this.

Please click on the image below to view each page of Clontuskert’s School Brochure for 2022-2023

Clontuskert Brochure Final 2022

School Policies relevant to Annual Admission:
Admission Policy

Data Protection Policy

Policies for review for Permissions in Enrolment Form

Clontuskert achieve a 6th Green Flag

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Congratulations to Ms. Cormican and the Green Schools Committee of St. Augustine’s N.S. Clontuskert who have achieved the 5th Green Schools Flag for the school in Biodiversity.

See details of their hard work here.

Explorers Education on Teams in Clontuskert

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We may be learning remotely in Ireland due to Covid-19 but deep learning moments continue in Clontuskert National School in Co. Galway. Connecting with experts on Microsoft Teams brings our Learning to Life!

Before the shut down we were participating in the Aquarium in the Classroom module with the Marine Institute and Camden Education Trust.

This week we re-connected with Padraic Creedon, live from Galway Atlantaquaria, to review the work we had completed and learn about the squid with a squid dissection and feeding of the fish.

#ExplorersAtHome
#OceansofLearning
#ASchoolWhereLearningComesAlive

SFI Discover Science & Maths Award 2020

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We have applied for our 14th consecutive SFI Discover Science & Maths Award today! Wish us luck! You can see our application below.

Congratulations to all the students in Clontuskert who have worked so hard in every class on Science this year, in the school, at festivals and showcases around the country and during their Remote Learning Classes on Microsoft Teams! We are so proud of you all!

Clontuskert SFI DSM Log 2020

Dr. Anne Dolan visits us in Microsoft Teams

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Dr. Anne Dolan visited us in Teams and we interviewed her about her time as a student in Clontuskert National School, how she became a teacher, and her career at Mary Immaculate College- University of Limerick.

Anne’s Research Interests are in primary geography; geo-literacy; sustainability; adult education; development education, and evaluation and participatory approaches to education.

She has written many journals and articles and is the author of two books. She showed us one called You, Me and Diversity and her newest book, Powerful Primary Geography: a toolkit for 21st Century Learning, will be out soon. Our work on the Climate Action Project features in this book.

Clontuskert in National Geographic

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St. Augustine’s NS Clontuskert has been mentioned in the National Geographic as part of the international Climate Action Project #ClimateActionP We have been representing Ireland in this project and collaborating with 250 other schools globally to action change against global warming.

https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/09/climate-action-250-schools-69-countries-focusing-on-climate-change/

This project has been developed and coordinated by Belgian teacher, Koen Timmers. Koen, like Mrs. Murray is one of 300 Microsoft Educator Fellows globally and last year was in the Top 50 Global Teacher Prize shortlist.

You can find out more about the project here.

Each week we worked on a varied aspect of Climate Change and researched and developed a film exploring each theme. Our work can be see on http://www.climate-action.info/users/murray

Climate Action Workshop with Dr. Anne Dolan

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Today the students in the Senior Room participated in a Climate Action Workshop with Dr. Anne Dolan. Anne is a lecturer in primary Geography in Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. Mary Immaculate is a Teacher Training college where primary teachers are prepared for Irish schools.

Dr. Dolan is also a past pupil of St. Augustine’s N.S. We were delighted to welcome her back to the school to be part of our work on the Climate Action Project.

We learnt about the Cardinal directions using a modified Compass Rose. Each direction, North, South, East and West stood for various affects of recent Hurricane Ophelia. (Natural, Social, Economic and Who decides?)

We were asked to look at a case study and develop our own ideas of the affects of the storm. Then we chose where each one should be placed on the compass. Some were between directions, for example SE South East (Social/Economic)

This is the film we created of an interview with “Siún Nic Gearilt” (aka Anne Dolan) of “RTE News Clontuskert”.

Mystery Skype

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Today we had a Mystery Skype in school. This is where our teachers organise a Skype Call with another teacher’s class through the Microsoft Educator Community. Each class asks questions and researches on the go to work out where the other school is situated. They can be anywhere across the globe. These are some of the questions we asked our Mystery Skype Partners.

1. Are you in the Northern Hemisphere or the Southern Hemisphere?
2. Are you near the equator?
3. Do you have a tropical climate?
4. What line of latitude are you on?
5. What time zone are you in?
6. What time is it in your country now?
7. What continent are you in?
8. Are you in _______?
9. Is English your first language?
10. What is your national sport?
11. Are you a primary school or secondary school?
12. Is your school well known?
13. Can you sing your national anthem?
14. Do you have a team in the six nations?
15. Has your team won the soccer world cup?

Country:
1. Are you coastal?
2. Are you situated in the north, south, east of west?
3. Are you in a city or town?

We then had to use our atlases and maps on the Surface to work out where they were situated.
We worked out that our Mystery Skype School is in Spain. They are in Catalonia, on the coast and north east of Barcelona. They are in Mataro and this is their school website; http://agora.xtec.cat/inslaialarquera/
We hope to Skype them again to learn about their culture and activities.