5th & 6th Sept. 2023

Congratulations to our 6th class pupils for graduating. Best of luck in secondary school and we will miss ye! 






















































































Local pilot Kieran Dowd came in to speak about his job. Thank you Kieran. 

Niamh Fannon came in to speak to us about the Roscommon Rose journey. She also spoke to us about working in STEM which we were very interested in. We also loved her experiment. Thank you Niamh. 



Thank you Kate Hanley for coming in to speak to us about working as an apprentice electrician. 

A very successful day for our Junior Enterprise Project sale day 🪡🦋✨🧁






































Big well done to the boys who won their hurling final 🥇





 

Huge congratulations to the girls who won their Camogie final 🏑🎉🏆 










Thank you Eugene for bringing in a pet lamb. We were very interested to hear about why she is a pet. 






 
We are a Gum Free Zone 🚫


Congratulations to Éabha who was awarded by the Pioneer Association for her piece of writing about Mattie McDonagh and his life as a pioneer. 



Well done to all our pupils who participated in the ‘Write a Book’ competition. Congratulations to Henry who received his award in Galway Education Centre ✒️📖





Thank you Alan and Sharon Gannon who gave us a tour for our Junior Enterprise Project.








 
Learning French as part of our Yes to Languages programme. 


Artwork inspired by the Northern lights ✨




Thank you to Brendan Smith who did coding with us over the last few weeks. 🖥⌨️

Well done to Henry, winner in the Write a Book Competition. Well done also to Fionán, Hannah and Etaoin who were Highly Commended also. 📖📚





Great day in Ballintubber playing Camogie🏑 well done to the girls.


Busy planting wild flower seeds 🌷 🍃


Learning the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit for our Confirmation. 


Thank you to TD Michael Fitzmaurice who came to speak to our school. 



Second week of cycling training. Luckily we were able to go outside ⛅️🚲






Cycling training 🚲 








Well done to our 6th class who organised a very successful Daffodil Day Coffee morning. Thank you to all who came and showed support.




Best of luck to Coláiste Mhuire Ballygar ⚾️




Thank you to local business woman and goldsmith Lydia Clayton who came in to talk to us for our Junior Enterprise Project. 










Henri Matisse inspired artwork. 


Our Seó Gaeilge ☘️










Mr. Dowd presented our 6th class with their Class of 2024 hoodies.
















Our 3D airplanes for Creative schools.






Lá na bpancóga 🥞



 
Well done to the boys and girls who competed in the basketball competition in Castlerea 🏀.


Daniel O’Connell silhouettes and portraits.

Darts boards inspired by Luke Littler.


Marble effect art with oil paints and water.




Happy St. Brigid’s Day 🌾












Catholic Schools Week & Grandparents Day







Baking cheesecake as Gaeilge.





Well done Etaoin who competed in the Athleague gymnastics competition ✨

A great day was had at the soccer tournament organised by Transition year students in Coláiste Mhuire, Ballygar. Both teams played brilliantly, with Team 1 reaching the semi final and Team 2 reaching the quarter final. Well done to all 🥅⚽️



We are learning all about 3D shapes as our maths topic. We created our own 3D shapes.







Welcome back to all our students after the Christmas break.
Happy New Year 🥳 🎉🎇💫





Brilliant fun at our Christmas play ‘The Xmas Factor’ 🌲







Great excitement when Santa visited us in Creggs! 🌲 🎅 



















Thank you to all our participants of the MS Readathon.


Nativity inspired artwork,



We visited the Christmas Crib done by Creggs’ Tidy Towns Committee. 




Thank you Drumadore, we really enjoyed learning to play the drums.




We were learning all about the circle in maths. We used this as inspiration for our artwork. 


Making tiles from clay. 







Thank you Majella for coming in to speak to us about your business as a milliner and for giving us inspiration for our own Junior Enterprise Projects. 🎩👒













Thank you Larry for presenting us with our certificates for participating in the Minor Bard of Connacht Poetry Competition. Larry also gifted every student an old Irish penny. 






Birthday wishes 🎂 



Halloween art 🎃 👻 🧙 🐈‍⬛ 


Artwork inspired by our visit to Rathcroghan. 



Well done to our students who won the Glenamaddy Art Competition. 





Abbeyknockmoy U12 Hurling team in the paper who won their County Final last month.


Thank you to Glenamaddy Community School for inviting us to see their musical. 


Congratulations to the Athleague Camogie team who won their county final at the weekend. We really appreciated their visit with the cup 🏆


Andy Warhol inspired art. 


Thank you to Siobhán Baker and Rita McMullen from Avondale house for giving us a very informative presentation about Charles Stuart Parnell. 



 

We had a great day at Rathcroghan Visitor Centre learning all about Queen Medb. 













We all got to make a wish on the wishing chair. 
















Well done to the Glenamaddy U11 soccer team who won their final at the weekend. 


Thank you Seamus for coming to talk to us about Charles Stewart Parnell. 




Hazel Tree Day 2023. A big thank you to Teresa who came to plant a hazel tree with us. Everyone also planted a daffodil bulb.  








October 2023


Dreamcatcher artwork made from upcycled denim.



Birthday celebrations in Avondale House 🎂




History walk around the village learning about our heritage. 





Well done to the U12 Abbeyknockmoy Hurling team for winning their county final at the weekend. 


Well done to the U12 St. Ciaráns football team who won their county final at the weekend.





Great day out playing rugby 🇺🇸






Birthday wishes 🎂 





A big well done to the Athleague U14 Camogie team who won their county final. 



Abstract artist Joan Finnegan was our inspiration for this week’s art.



Art done for the Glenamaddy Agricultural Show. 



Our dragonfly artwork inspired by the sculpture created out of bottle caps for Pride of Place 2023.




 5th and 6th class are learning about Charles Stewart Parnell. Thank you to Larry Kilcommins for bringing us to the Heritage Centre.









September 2023

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