Tag: Something Fishy

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

 

 

Something fishy

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Brendan Smith came to our school on the 30th of April to talk to us about the salmon and other fish. He showed us two sculptchures that his friend made for him out of wood, there was a swan about to take of and fly, and there was a salmon swimming upstrem. He showed us a book of stamps which he had had since he was a little boy. He said to us that he went to Iceland for five years and saw the great blue whale, he told us that blue whale’s heart is the size of a car. We have learnt alot about the salmon and other fish. people from the Fisheries Bord are coming in a few weeks and are going to bring us to the local river to fish, CAN’T WAIT!! by Bubbles, Primrose, Horsey97 and X-Factor

Winners of the Something Fishy competition in school. Thanks to Brendan Smith for book vouchers for Kenny’s Book Shop in Galway.