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BLAST arts residency with artist Daniel Guest
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Spring Walk to Milk Harbour
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Spring Art Residency in school with artist Daniel Guest
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css="%7B%22default%22%3A%7B%22padding-bottom%22%3A%2220px%22%7D%7D"] Blast Art Residency in school Feb & March 2023 with Artist Daniel Guest Day 2 of Printing in…
Our Feb 2023 Newsletter
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Learning about February Traditions in Class
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css="%7B%22default%22%3A%7B%22padding-bottom%22%3A%2220px%22%7D%7D"] Learning about Irish February Traditions in Class Learning about February traditions today in school with heritage expert Steffi…
Making Brigid Crosses & Brídeog Dolls in Carns
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css="%7B%22default%22%3A%7B%22padding-bottom%22%3A%2220px%22%7D%7D"] Making St. Brigid Crosses & Brídeóg Dolls in class We made Brídeóg dolls & various types of crosses…
Enrolment Evening 2023
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css="%7B%22default%22%3A%7B%22padding-bottom%22%3A%2220px%22%7D%7D"] Open evening 2023- Thur 9th February On Thur 9th Feb 7-8pm, we are holding our Open evening for…
Cartesian divers
As part of our science work in class, we recently made Cartesian divers, after learning the science of how submarines…
Learning the Ukulele in the senior room
We've been learning the Ukulele for 12 weeks with Gavin Murphy, musician, who teaches with Music Generation Sligo. The children…
Rope Making with hemp in class with Steffi Otto
Visit by We were delighted to have ecologist, environmental scientist & craft worker Steffi Otto in school to work with…
Our school musical Dec 2022
Our 2022 Musical is on this Thur Dec 8th at 7pm in Cliffoney Hall. This is our first school musical…
Our Reel Life Science entry Oct 2022
Our Oct 2022 Entry to the Reel life science competition, created by the children in 3rd to 6th classes. Please…
New outdoor Furniture & Play facilities at the school
Huge glee & excitement in the school, with the arrival of new outdoor play furniture for the children for the…
Learning Chess in the Senior Room
We've been learning how to play chess in class, with online support from Eamonn Barrett, from Wexford Educational Centre .…
Walk in our beautiful local environment
We recently enjoyed a beautiful afternoon for a walk to Milk Harbour, just down the road. Serenity & beauty on…
Learning how to use Keynote on our new iPads
Some great Keynote presentations from the senior room on The Vikings. We’ve been developing our skills in creating Keynote presentations…
Tennis Coaching
Tennis with Scott We're delighted to be back to tennis in Carns on Wednesdays. Scott Hubbard is our coach, who…
Stem Challenge: Build a Tower
Stem Challenge: Build a tower with 2 sheets of newspaper: We undertook our first team challenge in STEM today, with…
Working on Letter Writing in the Senior Room Recently
Each Friday, we work on genre writing in the senior room. Recently, we've been focusing on letter writing. [smartslider3 slider="6"]
The Wildflowers of Moneygold
Local Wildflowers: During the Month of May, we've been exploring the biodiversity in our local environment, including the Seaweeds of…
Exploring Seashells at our Local Seashore for Biodiversity Week
We spent 2 hours at Milk Harbour on Wednesday at low tide exploring the sea shells on our local sea…
Roinnt Samplaí Gaeilge ó Rang 3-6
Samplaí Gaeilge ó Rang 3-6: Roinnt samplaí gaeilge ó rang 3-6. Táimid ag obair go dian ar ár scríbhneoireacht faoi…
Some Recent Creative Work from the Junior Room
Recent Creative activities in the Junior Room: The Junior Room children have been busy learning about plants and gardens…
Exploring Seaweed at our local Seashore May 2021
Exploring Seaweed at our local Seashore May 2021 In science in the senior room, We've been learning all about Irish…
Looking at currencies in maths: An interesting collection
Looking at currency & foreign exchange in Maths in the senior room In maths this week in the senior room, We've…
Walk to our local seashore 13/4/2021
Milk Harbour The children in the senior classroom walked to Milk Harbour today on low tide on such a gorgeous,…
What Parents Have to Say about Carns NS
What Parents Have to Say about Carns NS Spring 2021
Remote Learning Carns NS Feb 2021
Remote Learning in Carns NS Spring 2021: Zoom & Seesaw There has been great engagement in Carns NS over the…
Our Local Environment: Walk on Cliffoney Beach
The Beauty of our Local Environment & Our Walks to Cliffoney Beach We're located at present during our building works in…
Senior Room : Investigating the Science of Nappies
Investigating The Science of Nappies Polymer chemistry in the senior room today, where we investigated the super absorbency of polymers…
Junior Room Science Week – Cloud Dough
Creating Cloud Dough in Junior Room Winter 2020 The Junior and Senior infants measured and mixed their ingredients to make…
Tudor Portraits Senior Room
Creating Tudor Portraits in Art Nov 2020 Some beautiful portrait art from children in the senior room. We've been learning…
Science week Nov 2020 in Carns
Making Automata Toy Mechanisms in the Senior Classroom Nov 2020 Both classes participated in a science week virtual workshop in early…
Science in the Junior Room in Jan
Making A Bird Feeder & Learning how Plants Drink The Junior Room made their own bird feeders in Science, to…
Printing in the Junior Room
Printing with paint & cups The Junior Room are currently learning about print in Art. Here are a few examples of print…
Making Cartesian divers in Science
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Our January 2020 Newsletter
Our January 2020 Newsletter- Details on our upcoming school extension, this year's musical in pictures & school activities. Click here…
Board Games in the senior room
For Golden Time on Fridays, we've been enjoying playing some great board games, including Monopoly Empire, Scrabble 360, 5 Second…
Our Open Evening Thur 13th Feb 2020 (7-8PM)
Our Open evening is on Thur 13th Feb (7-8PM) in the school. All welcome to call in to see our…
Our 2019 Musical is ‘What’s the Crime Mr. Wolf’.
This Year's Musical is 'What's the Crime Mr. Wolf'. We're busy preparing for this year's musical in school. Come and…
Team Problem solving in the senior room
Every Friday we spend 45 mins working in groups on team problem solving problems in the senior room. It’s a…
Hazelwood Haunting Competition for Schools- 6 tickets per school
Hazelwood Haunting Competition for schools - 6 prizes per school participating 6 Prizes Per School Participating- Each school participating will…
SuperValu Athletics Festival 26/9/2019
Great Day at the SuperValu Athletics Festival at Sligo IT 26/9/2019 - We had a great day today at the SuperValu…
Sligo Baroque Ensemble visit Carns NS
Sep 2019 - It was such a treat to have the Sligo Baroque Ensemble in Carns NS to play for the…
County Champions June 2019
County Champions 2019 - Congrats to our senior boys & girls team who were crowned County Football Champions on…
Gaelic Team Through to the County Finals
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Senior Mixed Team qualifies for County Final- We're thrilled to have qualified for the 2019 Cumann na mBunscol Finals in…
Lego We Do 2 Has arrived in Carns NS
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We've just begun working with Lego We Do 2 in class- We started using LEGO We do 2 for the first…
Learning about Acids & Bases in Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Using Red Cabbage Juice to Test for Acids & Bases- Whole school science where we learned all about acids & bases-…
Spring Trail to Milk Harbour
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Spring Nature Trail to Milk Harbour- On March 29th children of the Junior and Senior room went on a Spring…
Building Bridges in Engineering
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]April 2019 Engineering Challenge- Build a Bridge using Newspapers. Children in all classes completed a very enjoyable engineering challenge in…
Seachtain na Gaeilge in Carns
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Seachtain na Gaeilge in Carns N.S.-We celebrated Seachtain na Gaeilge this week in the school with several activities; Lá Glas, Céilí Dancing,…
Aistí Lá Le Pádraig
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Aistí Lá le Pádraig-Tá caighdeán ard gaeilge ag na paistí sa seomra sinsearach agus cuirimid an-bhéim ar an gaeilge labhartha…
Texaco Art Competition Entries Senior Room
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Texaco Art Competition 2019-All children in the school this year participated in the Texaco Art Competition for the first time. Children selected their favourite…
Engineer’s Week Science Show 2019
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Engineer’s Week Science Show-We really enjoyed going to Sligo IT on March 6th 2019 to see a science show for…
Creating a Storm in Music Class!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Creating a Storm-Children in the junior classroom have been participating in 14 weeks tuition in a music exploration programme with tutor Yvonne. They really…
Making St. Brigid Crosses Feb 2019
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Making St. Brigid Crosses in School-We spent a very enjoyable morning making St. Brigid Crosses in small groups with all…
Playing a Polka on TW & Fiddles at our recent concert
Some music from our senior classroom students. We've been learning the tin-whistle in the senior classroom since Sep 2018. Listen…
Our Recent Musical – Some Highlights
Our Recent Musical Porridge In December 2018, we performed our musical 'Porridge'. See a few snippits from the night below.…
Trip to Deerpark Court Tomb 20/12/2018
Fieldtrip to Deerpark Court Tomb with Archaeologist Auriel Robinson Wonderful trip today with archaeologist Auriel Robinson to Deerpark Court Tomb,…
Junior Room Aistear Doctor’s visit
Visiting Doctor to the Junior Room -We were lucky enough to have a GP visit the junior room recently to…
Our Christmas Stop Motion Movie
The children in the senior room recently created a stop motion video clip with a Christmas Greeting. We performed Winter…
Our Dec 2018 Newsletter
Read our Dec 2018 Newsletter , with details on our new classroom, Science week at Carns & our upcoming School Musical…
Learning about Tetrominoes in Maths this week
Tetrominoes in Maths in the Senior Classroom: In the senior classroom we've been focusing on problem solving for a session each…
Paintings inspired by US artist Georgia O’Keeffe
Paintings Inspired by the art of Georgia O'Keeffe: In the senior classroom, we’ve been exploring colour & mixing paints to develop tone…
Maths Week Oct 2018
Maths Week in Carns NS 2018-During Maths Week in Oct 2018, we did many maths activities in school. We really…
Junior Room Aistear Oct 2018
Visiting Doctor to the Junior Room in Oct 2018-We were lucky enough to have a GP visit the junior room…
We’ve started working on this year’s musical Porridge
Nov 2018. We've started work on this year's Musical which is called Porridge. We will be performing our musical this…
Blackberry Picking Sep 2018
Sep 2018. Blackberry Picking & Potting Jam at Carns NS . We made black berry and apple jam in school.…
Science Week in Carns Nov 2018
Science Week Nov 2018 in Carns NS. We had a great day on Sunday at Sligo IT, where children from…
Active Active Flag SPORT 2018 – 19
In May 2018, we received our Active Active Flag after a year long process involving all pupils in the school. In…
Music Exploration Course
The children in the junior classroom are enjoying a 14 week Music Exploration course with Music Generation Sligo, which commenced in Sep 2018. Children…