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1st at Galway County Heritage Awards

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with Joe Molloy, Fr. Finneran, Sean Kelly, Martina Moloney; County Manager and Galway County Mayor; Jimmy McClearn

Congratulations to everyone in St. Augustine’s NS, Clontuskert; 1st in Ballinasloe Electoral Area at Galway County Heritage Awards. We went to the Awards Ceremony last night in the Claregalway Hotel.

We were joint winners with Joe Molloy of Clontuskert Heritage Group, editor of the Clontuskert Book; ‘Clontuskert; Glimpses of the Past’. Joe has been a huge inspiration to us here in the  school and has helped us and guided us with many projects including the Clontuskert Abbey Project.

Photosynth Group in school

The Priory of St. Mary (Clontuskert Abbey) is situated approximately 2 kilometres from St. Augustine’s NS, Clontuskert. Last year 2nd to 6th class took part in a History Project on Monasteries. As part of this project the students visited Clontuskert Abbey with Joe Molloy, Adeline Finneran and Eileen Curley of Clontuskert Heritage Group. See http://clontuskert.scoilnet.ie/blog/tag/monastery/ for more.

Students with Ms. Dooley on the day the Photosynth was completed

Following this visit the school decided to create a 3D image of the Abbey using the website www.photosynth.net
The student created 3D tours can be seen here http://photosynth.net/userprofilepage.aspx?user=Clontuskert&content=Synths
Clontuskert Heritage Group also plans to create a link to their site www.clontuskert.com

With Ms. Dooley

It is a huge honour to win this award and we are especially delighted that the strong community/school links in Clontuskert have been acknowledged. We are all very excited!
 

Congratulations Clontuskert NS, nominees for a County Heritage Award

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Congratulations to the students of Clontuskert NS who have been nominated for a Galway County Heritage award for their project on The Priory of St. Mary; Clontuskert Abbey.

The Priory of St. Mary (Clontuskert Abbey) is situated approximately 2 kilometres from St. Augustine’s NS, Clontuskert. Last year 2nd to 6th class took part in a History Project on Monasteries. As part of this project the students visited Clontuskert Abbey with Joe Molloy, Adeline Finneran and Eileen Curley of Clontuskert Heritage Group. See http://clontuskert.scoilnet.ie/blog/tag/monastery/ for more.

Students with Ms. Dooley on the day the Photosynth was completed

Following this visit the school decided to create a 3D image of the Abbey using the website www.photosynth.net
The student created 3D tours can be seen here http://photosynth.net/userprofilepage.aspx?user=Clontuskert&content=Synths
Clontuskert Heritage Group also plans to create a link to their site www.clontuskert.com

The County Heritage Awards will take place in the Claregalway Hotel on Thursday the 16th of December 2010. It is a huge honour to be nominated for this award. We are all very excited!

Check out our first Photosynth of Clontuskert Abbey

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The Rood Screen

Click here to see the Photosynths we have made of the Priory of St. Mary or Clontuskert Abbey.

This is the group from Clontuskert NS that made the Photosynth

THE ABBEY

This week 8 people went to the Abbey to take photos. That is how we got the 3D image of the Abbey on the computer. The Chapter room was where the monks  read chapters of the Bible. The rood screen was separating the people from the monks. The Cloister was their little garden. The West door way is famous for the carvings of saints and symbols. The Chancel is where the monks said mass. They kept their animals in the North Transept. The East window is famous for its lovely works of art. The oven is where they cooked their food.

By Bing Bong, WBM and Butterfly 60

The Cloister

Welcome back to school everyone!

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Busy Bees in Clontuskert

St. Augustine’s N.S. Clontuskert:

We are all very excited to welcome you all back to school for this year of 2010/2011.

We started back in school today, Monday the 30th of August. You can imagine how excited our students were to meet our new pupils. This year we have four new Junior Infants and one new student in 6th class.

For those of you new to our blog here is a little bit of information about our school. You can learn about our hardworking school team, see some photos taken by students around our school and read about the achievements of the students last year. Finally you can learn about the projects we hope to get involved in this year.  As you can see we have a very hard working team in our little school.

If you would like to learn more then stay tuned to our blog or email us on clontuskertns@gmail.com or clontuskert@yahoo.ie

Recycled Art

Clontuskert Team:

  • Principal Teacher: Kate Murray
  • 3 classroom teachers; Eimil Scott, Joe O’ Riordan and Kate Murray
  • 2 resource teachers: Nicola Burke, Karin Dooley
  •  Special Needs Assistant: Angie Hannify
  • Secretary: Mary Callaghan
  • Part time Learning Support Teachers: Annette Hardiman and Catherine Burke
  • We are lucky to have a very active Parent’s Association
  • We have a new Bus Service to and from the school this year
Project Work

Achievements and Projects 2009/2010:

Sport:

  • All Ireland Champions in Spikeball (Volleyball)
  • County Champions Spikeball
  • County Champions Chess
  • County Finalists in Cumann na mBunscol Hurling
  • County Finalists in Paddy Manton Hurling Tournament
  • Handball Coaching received from Peter Mulryan
  • Swimming after Easter
  • Tag Rugby

 

All Ireland Spikeball Winners

ICT:

  • Children developed their own blog: www.clontuskert.scoilnet.ie
  • Introduced Podcasting in school
  • Linked to Oak Lake School, Manitoba, Canada. Created a digital Storybook online between the students in both schools to develop literacy levels and encourage co-operation between the schools
  • Created a film for FIS competition, children scripted, directed and acted in film based on school mascot Larry the Leprechaun
  • Member of the Empowering Minds Group of Ireland- only school in Co. Galway

 

Larry's Adventure

Waterways Project:

  1. Took part in Roboshow in St. Patrick’s College Dublin to display LEGO© Robotics Project based on Waterways of Ireland
  2. Children built a working model of Pollboy Lock and Portumna bridge, following a visit to both as guests of Waterways Ireland.
  3.  Learned about the history of Ballinasloe leg of the Grand Canal

 

Waterways Project

Environment and Science:

  • Green Flag for school, raised by John McIntyre, Galway Hurling Manager
  • 2nd year awarded the Discover Primary Science Excellence Award
  • Developed school garden

 

History:

Monastery Project:

  1. Clontuskert Abbey with Joe Molloy, editor of recent book: Clontuskert: Glimpses into the Past, and Adeline Finneran and Eileen Curley
  2. Invited to visit Cistercian Abbey in Roscrea to learn about monastic life by Abbot Richard Purcell

 

Visiting Clontuskert Abbey

Projects for 2010/2011:

  • French Language Teacher in School from September to teach French to all classes
  • 2 year Comenius European project in school focused on the environment especially bird watching and Green issues such as recycling.
  1. Links to schools in France, England, Latvia, Spain, Estonia and Sweden
  2. Skype communication between the schools
  3. Visit from schools to Ireland in March for St. Patrick’s Day
  • Working with Gifted Kids.ie and James Corbett of Daynuv to work on project using 3D Immersive technology- creating virtual worlds (avatars) using Scratch programming that can be used with our LEGO Robotics programming in tandem: whatever we build in LEGO can also be modelled in virtual world and same programme will move them both.
  • Keep on Track Project: Hoping to set up a cross curricular project to link the schools on the Galway- Dublin train line. All subjects of the curriculum. Schools linked through ICT (Twitter, blogging, Skype etc.)
  • Heritage Council: creating a virtual 3-D photo image of Clontuskert Abbey using Photosynth
Clontuskert Team

We are so excited about the possibilites for this year! Keep in touch with us by linking to our blog here. If you would like to learn more email us on clontuskertns@gmail.com or clontuskert@yahoo.ie