Tag: School Trip

Clontuskert at VEX Robotics 2025

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The Senior Room team truly shone as excellent ambassadors during the recent VEX Robotics event. Their dedication and hard work shone throughout the day, making it a memorable experience for everyone involved.

We are incredibly grateful to Thermoking who sponsor the project, VEX, and all the staff at ATU, especially Carine Gachon, for their unwavering support and hospitality.

Our heartfelt thanks to Mr. Gohery and Mrs. Murray for their training and guidance, which played a crucial role in the team’s success. Additionally, we extend our gratitude to Ms. Egan and Ms. Brunnbauer for their support and encouragement throughout the day.

The Senior Room’s performance and spirit were truly commendable, and we look forward to many more successful events in the future!

Check out the highlights of the day here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=ZYEzJoi1WrngpKUH&v=MrkqG3brzRg&feature=youtu.be

Celebrating the Epiphany at Clontuskert Parish Church

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⛪️ A beautiful morning to celebrate the Epiphany and the New Year today for the students of Clontuskert National School with Clontuskert Parish Community.

🎶 Thanks to Fr. Finneran for a lovely ceremony and Ms. Scott & Ms. Gallagher for leading the school choir.

Senior Volleyball Teams at Galway Regional Championship 2024

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Clontuskert played at Galway Regional Volleyball Championship 2024 in Ard Scoil Mhuire in Ballinasloe.

A Senior Girls and Senior Boys team represented the school.

Well done to everyone who trained so hard over the past few months. Special thanks to Ms. Egan and Mrs. Murray for training the team and our past pupil who is a qualified TY Coach visited the school to help us before the Tournament. Thanks to Conor Flood and Volleyball Ireland.

Galway Science & Technology Festival Launch 2023

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🤩 3rd & 4th class from @clontuskertns presented their FIRST LEGO League project #SuperPowered at Galway Science & Technology Festival Launch today.

🤩 It was wonderful to hear our students share their learning with dignitaries from @Medtronic @uniofgalway @atu_ie @GalwayCoCo @galwayscience

🐠Thanks to @galwayscience for inviting us to visit @GalwayAquarium afterwards 🐠

🐠Many questions were answered by Alana and great enthusiasm for fish, the sea and all things marine was shown by all of the students! 🐠

Thanks to Anne Murray for inviting us and to all at Galway Science & Technology Festival for consistently inspiring the people of Galway, young and old each year.

Thanks to Ms. Conneely for running the SuperPowered project with us and helping us with our speeches and Mr. Kres for helping us prepare for the event.

SFI Curious Minds Award

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We are delighted to announce that Clontuskert has once again achieved a SFI Curious Minds Award (formally Discover Primary Science) This is the 17th year in a row the school has achieved this award which demonstrates our sustained commitment to STEM learning in the school.

Read feedback from the judges here:

Congratulations – your school has achieved an SFI Curious Minds Award. We have evaluated your Log of Evidence and we are satisfied that you have met all the criteria for the Gold Award.
Your school has provided evidence of children’s engagement with STEM in the following areas:
1. Science
2. Technology
3. Engineering
4. Maths
5. STEM Showcase
Here is some feedback on your Log of Evidence:

Congratulations to everyone at St. Augustine’s N.S. Clontuskert on achieving the SFI Curious Minds Gold Award 2023. Your submission clearly shows the amazing work you have done throughout this year in STEM. It was great to see your learners in different classes engaged in a wide range of exciting activities and projects. We really enjoyed reading about the work that you did for STEM this year. Your work on technology during the year was really impressive. We loved seeing the photos of your investigations on designing and coding your robot, wind turbines, nature walk in your local area, and materials investigation and your video from the Galway Science Festival. It seems like there are lots of budding engineers and scientists in the making at your school!

Check out our Log of Evidence here:
SFI Curious Minds Award Application 2023

Clontuskert Seashore Safari with the Explorers Education Programme

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Clontuskert participated in a Seashore Safari with the Explorers Education Programme & the Marine Institute at Grattan Beach in Salthill, Galway city.

We found Mermaid’s Purses, Blenny fish, Butterfish, Crabs, Flat fish, Shrimp and even a European eel.

Thanks to Rory McAvinney, our guide, who showed us how to best explore the rock pools, making sure that overturned rocks were put back as they had been found. We released our catch back into the sea after we learnt about each one. It was a super day of learning fun!

🐠 🦀 🐚 🌊 ☀️ 🌬️

Video of the day here:

Clontuskert at Galway Science and Technology Festival

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Today Clontuskert’s students presented their Climate Action project at Galway Science and Technology Festival. Check out highlights from the day.

Thanks to staff, parents and students who all travelled to the Bailey Allen Hall in the University of Galway to share our work.

Learn more about the project here:

Climate Change is a massive problem.
What are you doing about it?
In Clontuskert we want change.

One small change would be to ban plastic packaging in supermarkets.
Let’s start with the Fruit and Veg Aisle.
Why do we need plastic on fruit and veg at all? It already has its own natural packaging!!!

France banned fruit and veg packaging from January 2022.
Why can’t we do the same?

We are calling on the Irish government and all of our supermarkets and shops.
Ban plastic on fruit and veg!

Sign our petition here.