We are hosting a Book Fair on Friday the 1st of December. Parents are welcome to visit the school throughout the day to buy books. The books will remain in the school until the 8th of December if pupils want to buy books next week. Please click here to see what titles will be available to buy at the Fair.
in November we received our Cineáltas flag from the Department of Education in acknowledgement of the good work that the school is doing to prevent and address bullying. It also acknowledges the work that is being done to promote kindness, respect, inclusion, diversity and wellbeing in the school.
It is the hope of Norma Foley TD that the Cineáltas flag will serve as a visible national symbol of our shared responsibility to be kind and to work together to prevent and address bullying.
We celebrated Science Week in the school from the 13th to the 17th of November. The pupils in the Senior Room learnt how to perform a range of experiments and then demonstrated and explained them to the pupils in the Junior Room. They did a great job!
Congratulations to Patrick in Senior Infants who won first prize in the Halloween Colouring Competition run by DNG.
We also had winners in both categories in the Aughnanure Castle Halloween Art Competition. Mickolaj (1st Class) won 1st prize in the Junior Competition and Kaori (5th Class) won 1st prize in the Senior Competition. Congratulations to both of them. Take a look at the winning artworks below. A number of other children in the school were highly commended for their artistic skill. Well done everyone 👏.
“It was the cats who noticed it first; the moon had spun round. And with a great and mischievous smile, the moon asked for a new dance for all.”
On Monday the 16th of October we attended a performance of ‘When the Moon Spun Round’ in the Black Box as part of the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children. It was a wonderful show that included aerial dance, music, song, story and fun!
Our Parents Committee are hosting a Book swap fundraiser which will take place in the school on Saturday the 21st of October from 10am – 1pm. Why not come along? You can bring some books that you have read and would like to share with others and have tea or coffee and a chat.
Get reading this October with our Halloween Reading Challenge. Read everyday, fill in your reading log and you will be in with a chance to win treats and spooky prizes!
We had a great day out at the Cross Country Championships in Renmore on Tuesday the 26th of September! Well done to everyone who participated and to the pupils who came along to encourage their classmates. Congratulations to Roan in 4th class who qualified for the finals.
Over the next 12 weeks the school is part of the Tesco Community Fund scheme. If you are in Tesco in either Oughterard or the Headford Rd Shopping Centre please add a blue token to the Collinamuck National School box!
We are having a Cash for Clobber clothes collection this month to raise funds for the school. We are asking people to drop bags to the school before the 27th of September. Acceptable items are as follows;
Clean clothing, paired shoes, handbags, belts, curtains, bed lined.
Unacceptable items;
Dirty or wet clothing, single shoes, off cuts of material, duvets or pillows, carpets or rugs, uniforms.
