3rd class – Room 13 This week we learned all about space with Mr Corcoran. We found out that in 1954, a dog named Laika was the first animal to orbit the earth, he was sent to space by the Soviet Space Project.  Yuri Gagarin, a Russian Cosmonaut was then the first man in space but […]

There are only two more weeks left to enter Google Ireland’s Doodle4Google competition. This is a super art competition that will ultimately lead to an Irish school pupil having their doodle live on google.ie for 24 hours, early in 2013. This year’s theme is ‘My invention…’. Only 6 entries may be made per school, regardless of […]

Welcome back everybody! Apologies for the lack of a weekly report last Friday. We’re back this week and there has been loads going on since the mid-term.Ms Liston’s 2nd class (Room 1) have started on the tin whistle and this week they learned ‘Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star’. Listen to them performing in our first Youtube […]

There was loads of Halloween artwork on display around our school this week. Take a look! We had a very busy week this week in room 9! We had a Halloween recipe competition with Darragh Ryan (1st) , Stephen Hallinan (2nd) and Stas Ionesi (3rd) taking the prizes! We learned the poem “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus […]

Maths Week was a great success in our school, the highlight being our strong performance in Mangahigh. By the end of school on Friday, we are in 16th position in the Maths Week Ireland Games Challenge. We hope to finish with more than 2000 points when the competition closes at midnight on Sunday night. This […]

The school went Mangahigh crazy this week! With Maths Week coming next week, every class got into the swing of using Mangahigh. Our log in page can be found here, where there is also information about our position on THE BRITISH ISLES MATHS GAMES CHALLENGE (including Great Britain and Ireland for the purposes of Mangahigh) […]

3rd class – Room 14 Look at some of our lovely bookmarks. We are enjoying  reading our library books so much in Ms Brophy’s that we made our own bookmarks and got them laminated. Now we’ll always know what page we’re on! (click to enlarge) 5th class – Room 7 We looked at the poem […]

Ms Glennon’s Rang 6 (Room 9) did a “mini-project” on the counties of Ireland this week. They did great work and some boys went all-out to impress, with Darragh Ryan baking a cake in the shape of county Clare, flagged with it’s county towns! Alex made a presentation of county Donegal from cardboard, using mosaic. […]

This evening, in St Mary of the Rosary church, a special celebration Mass will be held to mark the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the Christian Brothers in Nenagh. This Mass will recognise the distinguished service of the Christian Brothers to Nenagh life for the last century and a half, in […]

We’re now 10 days into the new school year and things are going well. 2nd class – Room 3 On Thursday we had RK Sports. It was fun. We really enjoyed ourselves. We made our Art folders and we are colouring in our aquariums at the moment. Our music lesson was all about fish this […]