A huge thank you to all who helped to make our Christmas Shoebox Appeal such a success this year. A total of 98 boxes were collected through the school. We hope these bring happiness to the children who will receive them.

Well done to all our pupils who competed in the Cross Country Running in Lees Road this week. Congratulations to everyone who took part and to our medal winners also. You should all be very proud!

We were delighted to welcome many of our past pupils back to our school over the past two weeks. They shared their enthusiasm for football and camogie with our current pupils  and we are very grateful for their visits to us. It is wonderful to have such strong sporting role models in our community! Congratulations on your success! 

It was lovely to meet our friends from other classes today during "Book Buddies". This was our first Buddy Reading session of the year and we are looking forward to our next one in October!

Being active is very important in our school and as part of Active Week, a family walk was held in Ballinruan on Thursday, 20th June. Thank you to everyone who helped out and we hope that everyone enjoyed the evening.

4th & 5th class pupils are involved in the Heritage Keepers programme for schools
This programme is enabling the pupils to explore the built, natural, and cultural heritage of their local place.  Thank you to Burrenbeo for the funding.  Thank you also to Eddie Lenihan who has met the pupils and will help the pupils produce a local history trail project.  The pupils will present their history trail to the school towards the end of this term.

​Acres CP school Visit
 
ACRES is Ireland's new agri-environment climate scheme under Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan. This new agri-environment scheme is a farmer-friendly scheme to help address biodiversity decline while delivering an income support for up to 50,000 farm families in Ireland. Many thanks to Project Officers Shane and Keith who visited the school on Monday 13th February to present a workshop on ‘How we can support Biodiversity’ to the senior classes.
 
ACRES Visit
 On Monday 12th of February 4th, 5th & 6th classes had a visit from Keith & Shane from Acres (Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme). Shane spoke to us about Biodiversity, and he also taught us how we can help wildlife by putting up birdfeeders and not cutting the hedgerows down. There were bird activity sheets, word search and habitat colouring sheets as well as lots of learning about biodiversity, wildlife and the different habitats of birds and animals. We also played a good web game that we all really enjoyed. I hope that Acres will come back next year!
 By: Oisín Collins 5th Class
 
Keith and Shane from Acres came to visit 4th 5th & 6th classes to tell us a little bit about biodiversity and nature. First, they told us what biodiversity is. Then they told us what ACRES does to help people and animals. ACRES tries to get farmers to work with them to protect nature and wildlife. After the presentation we went outside and played the ‘animal game’. It was very enjoyable.
By Evan Wherrett, 6th Class

Pupils are getting ready to celebrate Friendship Week 5th to 9th February with lots of lovely posters around the school