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Summer Newsletter 2026

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Bain sult agus suaimhneas as an Samhradh. Tá sé linn!

Read our round up of the Summer Term here:
Summer Newsletter 2026

🎓🏫SCHOOL CLOSURE & REOPENING: 🎓🏫

School closes today, Wednesday 24th June, with a staggered collection between 12.00p.m. and 12.30 p.m.
We wish all our pupils, families, and staff a safe, happy, and restful summer break.

School reopens on Thursday 27th August 2026 at 9.00 a.m.

We look forward to welcoming everyone back for another exciting year in Clontuskert. 🌟💚💛

Clontuskert Active Flag Celebration 2024

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đź’« Clontuskert NS is proud to announce that we have achieved our first Active Schools Flag

đź’« Congratulations to Mrs. Feehily and the Active School Student Leadership Team who worked so hard over two years to achieve this award

đź’« We held an Active Flag Celebration at the school on the 27th of June 2024.

The two year project culminated in an inspection with David Costello from Active Schools who inspected our work and application. The Active Schools Committee showed him around the school and demonstrated their love of sport and activity.

They had prepared posters to show him all of their work to go with a folder documenting the school’s journey.


đź’« Clontuskert- A School where Learning Comes Alive!

Ozzie the Emu visits Clontuskert with Gordon Glynn

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Gordon Glynn from Kiltormer came to visit us with his baby emu, Ozzie today.

We were so excited to meet Ozzie and learnt all about her and her family from Gordon. She is two months old and is growing rapidly. Gordon told us Ozzie will grow to 6 foot and will soon be too big to transport and come visit. She eats a mixture of grass and chicken feed.

Gordon showed us how fast she runs on the pitch and we were very patient and gentle with her. Some of us were even brave enough to give her a rub on her back.

Thanks Gordon for visiting us today and especially to Ms. McCormack for organising.

Mark Conneely and Fergus Finneran visit Clontuskert with the All Ireland Mixed Golf Cup

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Today we were excited to welcome Mark Conneely and Fergus Finneran to Clontuskert with the All Ireland Mixed Golf Cup. Mark and Fergus are members of the Ballinasloe Mixed Golf Team who won the All Ireland this year and are both past pupils and dads in our school.

We were delighted to hear about their part in winning the tournament. It is a long road to the All Ireland Final and a huge achievement to win!

The staff and students of Clontuskert would like to congratulate all of the team on their endeavours. Thanks to Mark and Fergus for visiting us today.

Chris Judge visits Clontuskert

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Renowned author and illustrator, Chris Judge visited us in Clontuskert as part of the Galway Schools Library Van revamp.

The students in Clontuskert were overjoyed to meet Chris who has written so many of their all time favourite books, such as The Great Explorer, The Lonely Beast, Danger is Everywhere and Cloud Babies.

Chris asked us to come up with ideas and draw what we would like to see on Galway Schools Library Van. He is tasked with designing the artwork and we look forward to seeing our ideas come to life at the hands of such a great artist.

Check out Chris’ work on www.chrisjudge.com

Thanks to Amie Lawless with Galway County Council and Sharleen McAndrew of Galway Libraries for this mind blowing opportunity.
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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

Visit from Josephine Sepeku & Bernard Kirk

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Today Josephine Sepeku & Bernard Kirk from Camden Education Trust visited Clontuskert.

Founded in 2018, The Camden Trust (CET) is a not-for-profit company with Charitable Status, based in Ireland. CET runs programs such as Africa Code Week, ACW Women Empowerment Program, the World Robot Olympiad and Explorers Education.

You can find out more about their work here: https://camden.education/

Summer has arrived in St. Augustine’s N.S. Clontuskert

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The Board of Management and Staff of St. Augustine’s National School Clontuskert are delighted to have wrapped up another successful year.
Our doors close to students today Friday 24th June at 12.30pm and we look forward to welcoming families and students back on Wednesday 31st August at 9.00am.

Check out Clontuskert’s Summer Newsletter here.