Halloween Costumes in Cregmore NS

Our New School Singlets

Here are our new school singlets which we will be using for basketball, handball and athletics. We are delighted with them.

Extra Curricular Activities

Judo	Sebastian. 0871228512, every Tuesday @ Thursday @ 7pm.
Irish Dancing	Susan. 0872999479,every Wednesday @ 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
Foroige	Secondary school children, every Friday @ 7pm.
Karate	Pat 0879344324, every Wednesday @ 7pm.
Basketball	Ms Herwood & Ms Coyle every Wed 2.30pm to 3.30pm We organize and host County Blitz, Junior and Senior every April.
Hurling	Internal school league daily from 12.30pm to 1pm. After school training every Monday, 2.30pm to 3.30pm Coaching Sessions. Rang 5 and Rang 6 with Gerard Moran. Tuesdays.
Gaelic Football	Tomas Fahy every Friday @ 9.30am to 10.30am. School League. Every Thursday at Lunchtime.
Parish Choir	Paula. 0876184006 every Tuesday at 6.15pm. Lackagh Church.
Soccer	Commencing in February for Aviva 5 a side competition in May 2014
Olympic Handball	Olympic Handball starting next term.
Music	Session with Maude; Every Friday lunch time 12.30 – 1.00pm.
Speech & Drama	Laura 0863609841, every Monday 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
Art & Crafts	Myra 0876965840, every Thursday 2.30pm to 3.30pm.
Table Tennis	Lunchtime every Tuesday in Hall and on wet days.
Tennis	To be arranged……
Swimming	Last term. Every Friday 11am to 12.30pm.Rang 3.
Golf	Last term. Inter school competition. Organised by Declan, Cregmore.
Guitar Lessons.	Tom Portman.0851584173. Every Tuesday at 2.30pm to 3.30pm.
Athletics	Mr. McNamara – “Run for fun” every Friday in school pitch, all invited…and participation in County / Connacht Championships.
Chess	Rang 6 with Brendan 0860647816, every Thursday.
Knitting	Rang 4 with Catherine every Thursday.
Skipping	Skipping programme rolled out in February.
School Music	Banjo Tuesday… Concertina Wednesday.. .Fiddle / Flute Thursday
Computers	Rang 4 & 5 – “Scratch Programme” class based

We are always seeking volunteers to assist with sporting activities within our school….for example, we would love to have a Badminton Club and /or Table Tennis Club every Wednesday night. Are you interested…can you help?

Well done 6th class girls

Well done to Amy and Niamh from 6th class.

Who won these trophies over the summer 

for indoor soccer! 

Athletics

 

 Well done Ian and Vicka from 6th class who both won medals at the athletics competition in Renmore. 

Beginning of School year mass

                                      5th class saying their reading at the start of school mass.

Father Des Welcoming back all of the students, teachers and parents for a new school year.

Junior Infants enjoying their first few weeks at school!

Congratulations to our Cregmore students

Congratulations to the three Cregmore students, Michael, Jack and Hugh, who were part of the team that won in Craughwell on Sunday the 8th September.  They came first in their under 9s group.

A big welcome to all of our new Junior Infant students

2013 Basketball Blitz Winners

Congratulations to our girls basketball team who won the Shield in the annual Basketball Blitz on 29th May, in the Claregalway Community Centre.  The girls beat  Athenry N.S. in the final of the Shield.  The cup winners were New Inn N.S. and runners up Briarhill N.S.  Coolearne N.S. and Lackagh N.S. also give a great display of basketball. Well done to all involved.

 

Rang 2 School Tour

 Second Class had a lovely time exploring the Pre-historic Park of Craggaunowen. It features a stunning recreation of some of the homesteads, animals and artefacts which existed in Ireland over 1,000 years ago. 

Crannogs were artificial islands on which people built houses, kept animals, and lived in relative security. They were constructed by placing layers of stone, brushwood, tree trunks and even, old dugout canoes, on the lakebed. These were revetted by wooden pilings and the platform was covered with a layer of earth or sand. On this the inhabitants built their thatched houses of wattles and mud and surrounded themselves with a protective timber fence.

The Fulacht Fiadh - Hunters' Cooking Site

A rectangular hole was dug in low-lying land where it was sure to fill with water. This was clad on the four sides with wooden sections. Stones heated on the campfire were then used to boil the water in the wooden trough. A joint of venison was then wrapped in straw and put into the boiling water and cooked for a designated period.

To end the day the children played ten pin bowling at Ennis Leisure World, which they really enjoyed.  It was a great day overall. 

Congratulations Canon Walsh!

We all gathered outside in the sun today to congratulate Fr.Des on becoming a Canon. We are delighted to hear this fantastic news. Congratulations Fr. Des!

Well Done to our Aviva Stadium Finalists!

Well done to our senior girls soccer team who played their All-Ireland Finals in the Aviva stadium on Saturday May 25th. They reached the final stages of the competition and came away with medals. Well Done Girls!

Creigmhór Abú!

'Buy a Block' PayPal option now available!

You can now donate to our 'Buy a Block' campaign online using PayPal. Please see the link on the right-hand-side of our page

Thank you sincerely for your support

Receiving Our Science and Maths Excellence Award

We are delighted to formally announce our successful application for our Primary Science and Maths Excellence Award. Here are fifth class with the plaque we received today. We are all very excited and delighted that all of our hard work has paid off. The plaque will be unveiled at our School Hall opening night on June 21st. We hope to see you there! 

FAI Connacht Schools Champions

 The Girls are delighted after their big win, and with our lucky mascot Daragh.

 Great Clearance Amarachi

 A goal chance for Gemma

Well done to our wonderful girl's soccer team who represented Galway and  won the Connacht Finals held recently at Newbridge. They had some very tough matches along the way but managed to defeat all the other county representatives involed. Now the team are off to the Aviva Stadium, Dublin on May 25th for the All-Ireland Finals. What an achievement! We are all very proud of you girls. Creigmhór Abú!!

The Official Launch of our 'Buy-a-Block' Initiative!

Our “Buy a Block” initiative has been formally launched! We are inviting 200 generous donors to commit €50 each towards our current school hall building project. In turn, an individual specially commissioned plaque representing each contributor will be placed on a designated board in the main entrance hallway. This plaque will be officially unveiled at the official opening of our hall and classrooms on June 21^st. It is hoped that parents, past pupils, families and friends of Scoil Padraig Naofa will be generous in supporting this endeavour. Anyone wishing to “Buy a block” can do so by either calling the school on 091-799037, writing directly to the school or e mailing the school at cregmorens@ymail.com. As always, your support is gratefully appreciated..

More information available regarding this initiative in the new designated 'School Hall' link to the right on the main page==>

Building for the Future;

At the launch of “Buy a Block” campaign in Scoil Padraig Naofa were Junior Infants Cian O Flaherty, Sofia Murphy  and Dean Hurney.

Building is a tough job.

Also attending the launch of “Buy a block” in Cregmore National School were Foreman Murt from Carey Construction, along with his 29 labourers from Junior Infants.

Coole Park Visit

Our Visit to Coole Park

 

On 24^th April, the students from third class visited Coole Park.  Once home to Lady Gregory and her husband, Coole Park now remains a Nature Reserve. Coole Park is one of the few places where red squirrels still live. Red Squirrels are an endangered species that are being killed because of a disease that the grey squirrels carry called squirrel pox

 

William Butler Yeats (Lady Gregory called him Willie) was a close friend of Lady Gregory. Much of his work was written in Coole Park including the wild swans of Coole. Sir William Henry Gregory was Lady Gregory’s husband. They were both very fond of trees and planted lots of them in Coole. Trees native to Ireland and trees from half way across the world were in Coole Park.

 

Many famous people visited Coole including George Bernard Shaw (he visited very often, sometimes for a month at a time). These people would sign a tree called the autograph tree. When Lady Gregory was travelling, she would bring her fan and the famous people she met would sign it. Sir William Henry would travel mostly with the abbey theatre .The abbey theatre is a theatre set up  by W.B.Yeats and Lady Gregory and is still standing in Dublin today.

 

Lady Gregory and Sir William Henry Gregory had a son whose name was Robert. Robert married Margaret Carraig and had three children Richard, Anne and Catherine (aka Nu). Once World War I started, Robert joined the army and Margaret was very busy so the children stayed with their grandmother, Lady Gregory. By this time, Sir William Henry Gregory had passed away, so Lady Gregory always wore black to show she was a widow.  Of the children, Richard was the eldest and Catherine, the youngest. Richard was away at boarding school so the two girls played together. One of their favourite games was ‘hide the thimble’ which they sometimes played with George Bernard Shaw.  They were never bored at Coole Park.

 

When 3^rd class visited Coole Park, we did a Nature Hunt and found what different twigs, flowers, birds and leaves look like.  We all enjoyed our visit to Coole and retuned home with smiles on our faces.

 

By Molly McHale

 

 

 

Coole Park Tour

 

On the 24^th of April 3^rd class left school at ten O’clock to go to Coole Park for fun and adventure .When we arrived

There where lots of trees, kind of like a forest. We looked at the flowers and trees there and then met a man that was going to tell us the names of trees and flowers there. His name was Nick. There was another woman there called Aine.

Our class was split into two different groups. I went in the group with Nick. Before we started Nick brought us over to a bench. He sat down and we started talking about Hedgehogs. We talked about how they hibernated and when they’re scared or tired they curl up into a ball. Nick gave us a clipboard with buds, flowers, leaves and habitats. We had to tick off the things we saw. Then everyone had to get into a group of three. I went with Nadine and Heather. There were lots of animals there like birds. We heard the robin, sparrow, the great blue tit and a pigeon. Nick brought us to a big shed door. As we approached the door, Nick shown us that on the door there were bat droppings.. Ewww! Then he removed a box from his pocket. He opened the box and inside was a dead bat. Along the path we saw loads of trees like the oak, beech, ash and sycamore tree were some of the trees we saw. We also saw flowers like dandelion, cherry, bluebell and daisies.

Then we went inside and watched a short movie about a family whose Dad went into war and his three children Anne, Richard and Catherine have to be minded by they’re grandmother (Lady Gregory.) The youngest girl Catherine has a nickname called New. Then we went upstairs into the girl’s bedroom. I wouldn’t have liked to sleep in the beds they slept in because they were so hard. There was a cylinder shaped thing in the corner of the room that no one knew what it was. But then Aine said it was kind of the start of cartoons. Then Aine spun it around and I looked through the holes in it and saw a swan flying.

Then we went into the library and learned about how W.B Yeats (William Butler Yeats) became a very famous poet and used to perform in the Abbey theatre with Lady Gregory. After this we met up with the rest of the class and had lunch. Thanks to all for a brilliant day. I had a great day at Coole Park!!   

 

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FAI Girls Primary School Soccer Champions

Well done to our girl's soccer team who won the keenly contested tournament recently held in Drom, Salthill. They played excellently on the day, winning 7 matches and were eventually crowned champions. They will now represent Galway at the next stage of the national competition. Congratulations and best of luck at the next stage!!