SENIOR CLASSROOM

Some maths games fun at school today.

Nice to have some fun after a hard day at school.

This afternoon we decided that as we had worked so hard all week we could have some maths game fun!

Scary times at school

Tháinig roinnt daltaí scanrúla ar scoil inniu

Just another normal Friday at Killasser NS ! Or so we thought until we opened the door and saw just who had come to school today !

Mini 7s fun

Thanks Cuman na mBunscol

Last week we attended the Mini 7s tournament in Bekan , we had so much fun playing football and meeting up with all our friends.

Cave Painting masters

We've been learning about The Stone Age

This month we've been learning about the Stone Age. We read all about the discovery of the cave paintings at Altamira in Spain and decided to have a go ourselves. Don't they look great !

Learning Chinese is fun with Yating

Thanks PPLI !

This morning Yating surprised us with some delicious Chinese food. Yating cooked us some lovely rice and tofu and brewed us a lovely cup of chai tea.

It was one of the best mornings at school !

Thanks Yating !

Confirmation 2024

Congratulations to all these amazing students.

Congratulations to our amazing 5th and 6th class on making their confirmation today. Bishop Dempsey made the ceremony very special and we all have a lovely morning.

Splash 'n' Dash 2024

Thanks Mayo Sports Partnership

For the past four weeks we've been training in school with Edel for today's Splash 'n' Dash. Today was the big day, we had so much fun........check out our photos.

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Féach ar na scannáin atá déanta againn

I mbliana tá cinneadh déanta againn roinnt scannán a dhéanamh.Phiocamar roinnt frásaí simplí agus rinneamar scannáin bheaga timpeall orthu. Bain taitneamh as!

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Féach ar na scannáin atá déanta againn

I mbliana tá cinneadh déanta againn roinnt scannán a dhéanamh.Phiocamar roinnt frásaí simplí agus rinneamar scannáin bheaga timpeall orthu. Bain taitneamh as!

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Féach ar na scannáin atá déanta againn

I mbliana tá cinneadh déanta againn roinnt scannán a dhéanamh.Phiocamar roinnt frásaí simplí agus rinneamar scannáin bheaga timpeall orthu. Bain taitneamh as!

Tri Heroes Training

Getting ready for our triathlon

Football fun in the yard

Thanks Swinford GAA

Spring is truly on the way when we start football training in the yard, we are looking forward to all the fun over the coming months.

Pancake Tuesday

6th Class were busy in the kitchen

To mark Pancake Tuesday 6th class made us all some delicious pancakes.......we added some very interesting toppings !

Credit Union Quiz 2024

Good luck to our team

This is the team for the Credit Union quiz, we've been busy preparing so now we just have to try our best and have some fun !

Happy St. Valentine's Day

Some lovely chalk hearts

Here are some lovely chalk hearts we created to celebrate St Valentine's Day.

Look what we designed

We are so stylish !

Beagan sneachta is all we need!

A mini Olaf

We had a small sprinkle of snow today but that was enough for us to make our own Olaf.

Some of our amazing Christmas art !

A busy, arty December

This is the art we have been busy creating this month, take a look.

How many jellybeans are in our jar ?

6th class fundraiser

This is tour 6th class preparing their 6th class fundraiser ...... they are entrepreneurs in the making !!!!

It's beginning to look a lot like .......

Our gingerbread houses

We worked hard at creating these lovely gingerbread houses. They will look lovely decorating our homes this Christmas.

Our clay creations

Our creative sculptures

Take a look at some of our clay creations , we are so proud of our work!

Football fun at the mini-7s

Off to Bekan for some football fun.

Off we went to Bekan to take part in the Mini 7s with all our friends from local schools. We played some matches and had lots of chats........what a fun day out !

Ancient Egypt

Pharaohs and Ancient scrolls

We've been learning about Ancient Egypt. We did lots of work , created our our ancient scrolls written in papyrus and then crowned ourselves Pharaohs!

Science Week 2023

Science is fun !!

It was Science Week this week. Thanks to Mayo Science and Technology we had lots ot experiments to try this week and we did something fun and exciting every day .

Ukulele returns

Zane is a fabulous teacher

This week Zane returned to our school, we were thrilled to see her !

She is teaching our 3rd and 4th class pupils how to play the ukulele.

We love it!

Our Writing Wall

We are all writers.

We all love writing in our classroom. We write poems, stories, reports, book reviews and lots of free writing too !

Our WOW Wall !!

Who will be next to appear on the Wow Wall ???

We work very hard in school every day and sometimes our work is so good that it makes it to our wow wall .......I wonder who's work will appear next ??

Science in the yard !

We've been learning about sound.

This week we've been learning about sound in science.

We made string telephones and had fun in the yard telling jokes, riddles and stories to each other.

Cross Country 2023

We are all athletes !!

We all attended the East Mayo Cross Country Races this month. We met up with classmates from all the local schools and we had a really enjoyable morning.

Some of us came home winners!!

Congrats to everyone.

SPORTS DAY

May 2023

What a great day for our annual sports day. Amazing weather throughout the day for all our track and field events. With all our events, from shot put to javelin, sprints & novelty races, who could resist a water fight and an ice cream after the rivalry of the day. Well done to all our students.

Céilí Ukulele

Young musicians of Mayo 2023

Today we all travelled to the Royal Theatre and took part in the Young Musicians of Mayo concert. We've been learning lots of ukulele tunes all year in our classroom and it was brilliant to bring them all to the stage for all our parents and friends to enjoy. We had so much fun!

Taking our Science out to the sunshine

This week we have been learning all about forces.

We have been learning all about forces this week and as the sun was shining so brightly we decided to take our learning outside.

We decided to try and make catapults and see how accurate was our aim........science is fun in the sun !

Fuaireamar duaiseanna!!

Scríobh Leabhar 2023

I mbliana scríobhamar go léir leabhair ar rudaí a bhfuil suim againn iontu. Nuair a d'fhillamar ó ár laethanta saoire na Cásca fuaireamar na duaiseanna álainn seo.

Go raibh míle maith agat !

 Scríobh Leabhar 2023

Comhghairdeachas lenár scríbhneoirí go léir

I mbliana bheartaíomar dul isteach sa Scríobh Leabhar.

Scríobhamar go léir leabhair i rith Eanáir agus Feabhra agus mhaisíomar iad le pictiúir áille freisin.

An tseachtain seo fuaireamar duaisenna iontach sa phoist, bhí áthas orainn.

Cleachtadh a dhéanann maistreacht.

Splash and Dash!

Tri-Heroes 2023

We have been training with Anna every Friday since January for our Splash and Dash which took place today. Thanks to Mayo Sports Partnership and Triathlon Ireland we travelled to Lough Lannagh and swam in the pool and then ran around Lough Lannagh........we were really nervous beforehand but it ended up being so much fun...........we may even do a longer one next time!!

Now time to prepare for the duathlon.......

World Book Day 

Can you guess who's hiding behind each costume ?

It's World Book Day !!!!! We love reading in our classroom, we read every day and often take books from our school library. We dressed up as some of our favourite books ..................can you guess who we are????????

Tri-Heroes

This week we practised our transitions.

As we continue to prepare for our duathlon we practised our transitions in the yard...it was hard but very very enjoyable !!!!!

Pancake Tuesday 2023

Thanks Isla and Fiona!

Lent is fast approaching and so today we decided to treat ourselves with a pancake .................or two !!! Some of us went to town with toppings but they were all delicious, thanks to our wonderful chefs Isla and Fiona !

For Lent we have been kindness calendars and this year we have decided to try and spread a little kindness every day .

Junior Entrepreneur 2023



We are nearing launch day !!

Our 5th and 6th class have been busy working away all year on the wonderful Junior Entrepreneur programme and we are nearly ready to launch our fitness calendars ! Keep an eye on our social media for more updates!

We made volcanoes at school.



We've been learning about volcanoes at school.

We've been learning about mountains, volcanoes, rocks and soils at school. Today we made volcanoes and next week we will make them explode using vinegar and bread soda.......we're so excited !!

Ceapaire ar scoil

An tseachtain seo bhíomar ag foghlaim faoi bhia sa rang. Thugamar cuairt ar an deli gach lá agus rinneamar ceapairí álainn. Anseo táimid ag obair go dian.

Allina Ndebele

This week we studied the art of Allina Ndebele. After looking at some of her colourful prints we decided to create our own colourful art work.

Our 2023 calendar

Printing calendars in school

Today is school we made some calendars for this New Year. We printed on each month and then added some special occasions we always look forward to.

Christmas dinner

Today at school we made a Christmas dinner.

Today at school we made Christmas dinner. It is always one of the highlights of our year and we all had second or even third helpings !

Christmas Play

Children of the World

Tonight we performed our Christmas play " Children of the World " . We have been working on it for weeks and we were really looking forward to it. Here are some  pictures of all the fun we had.

Making coil pots at school

We love working with clay.

We love working with clay. We created these lovely pots last Friday and decorated them today, we used all our creativity to come up with some interesting designs, now we are ready to fill them with jellies and watch the Toy Show!

Thank Crunchie !!!

We are Toy Show ready!!

We were so excited at school today, it's Toy Show Friday !!! Thank Crunchie , we had a little treat to enjoy with the show ......only a few more hours!

Making coil pots

Getting crafty at school

Today we did some clay work. We made coil pots, it wasn't as tricky as we thought it was going to be. We're going to paint them next week.

Science Week

We had so much fun!

This week was Science Week. We did an experiment every day. We had so much fun!

Making a tasty snack

It's smoothie making time !

As winter approaches we know that we need a lot more vitamins and nutrients to stave off those nasty colds and bugs. We decided to make some smoothies at school today to help boost our immunity. They were delicious!

Cycle Safety 2022

Learning to cycle safely on our roads

Congratulations to the children who completed the cycle safety course and thank you to Mayo County Council and Gerry for providing such excellent training.

Scary, spooky Halloween masks

They're so frightening !

It is soon time for trick or treating and we are busy preparing to frighten everyone we meet ! We designed and decorated some Halloween masks at school this week and they ended up so spooky but so well decorated ! The only question remains .....who is behind each mask ????

Report Writing

We've been learning about the different genres of writing and we spent some time on report writing. We used our ipads to research a topic that we were interested in. Here are the booklets we created ....hope you enjoy!

Getting ready for Halloween

We made some Halloween apples

We've been so busy and working so hard this term that we decided it was time for a Halloween treat! We made some delicious chocolate apples and even had enough to share with the Junior Room. They were scrumptious!

Cycle Safety at school

Now we are safe cyclists !

Thanks to Jerry from Mayo Safe Cycling for coming to school to teach us all how to be safe on our bikes. We learned lots and played games, can't wait until next week!

Cross Country 2022

Take a look at all of our athletes.

Last Thursday we travelled to Mellet's Hill in Swinford to take part in the East Mayo Cross Country meet for this year. We all took part and did our best. We really enjoyed our day out and some of us came home with medals around our necks and plans to race again !

Congratulations to Isla Heaney who came second in her category , to Siobhan Hyland who came fourth in her category, and to Jane Heaney who came fourth in her category.

Thanks to Swinford Athletics for a great day out !

Origami in the classroom

We are learning about procedural writing!

We have been learning all about procedural writing. This week we decided to learn how to make an origami frog and then we wrote up a procedural piece all about how to do this fun activity !

Sports Day 2022

Fun, fitness and lots of laughs !

Today was Sports Day , one of the most popular days in our school calendar. We got started first thing this morning and had sprints, three legged races, welly throwing, sack races and lots more!

Then we got on a bus and headed into Swinford Amenity Pitch where we played Culmore NS in both gaelic and soccer. It was so great to meet up with all our friends but I think the ice cream might have been the highlight of a great day out !  

Our boxing stars are now Primary Planet journalists!

Katelyn and Zoey go nationwide !

In this month's edition of Primary Planet look out for an article written by Katelyn and Zoey all about their recent All Ireland medal winning competition. The two students wrote a wonderful piece all about their winning weekend! Well done girls and happy reading everyone!

Music Generation Concert

Here are our Young Musicians of Mayo !

On Thursday May 26th we all packed up our ukuleles and headed off to the Royal Theatre in Castlebar to meet up with hundreds of young musicians who have been learning the ukulele all year. Thanks to Music Generation for a fabulous night, the atmosphere was electric and it is a night we will never forget!

Congratulations to all these amazing pupils!

A fabulous gang !

Congratulations to all these amazing students on making their confirmation this weekend. We are so proud of all of you. Thanks to our amazing choir too, such beautiful singing. We hope that you and your families had a fantastic day celebrating in the sun! Thanks to Bishop Dempsey and Fr. John for a lovely ceremony also.

Lots to celebrate this morning 

Some of our pupils were very busy this weekend.

Congratulations to Isla, Siobhan and Jane who have lots to celebrate after their very successful weekend at Fleadh Cheoil Mhaigh Eo in Achill. They are now looking forward to the Connacht finals in Sligo in June, we wish them all the best luck, we know they'll be fantastic !

Congratulations also to Jane and Lottie who did so well in the Mayo County Athletic Championships this weekend. They worked so hard all winter and now have their medals to be proud of and the Connacht finals to look forward to. We wish them all the luck in the world, we know that they will do great too !

Comhghairdeas a chailíní !!

We went to a blitz and it was so much fun.

Playing some football, meeting our friends

On Friday we went to a blitz at Swinford Amenity Park. It was so much fun. We played against our local schools, had some fun on a lovely, sunny day and sharpened our ball skills. It was a great day out !

Thanks to Cuman na mBunscol for organising it.

Paper mache magic

Our hard work really paid off !

For the past few weeks we have been working on these paper mache creations! We designed , planned and created these masterpieces...take a look at our great work.

Our creative scientists

We designed and built some lighthouses this week.

This week we learned all about electricity in our classroom. We built work simple and parallel circuits. We really enjoyed this , we learned all about how to be safe around electricity and then we designed and built lighthouses. It was really fun!

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Ceol ar scoil

Is breá linn ár n-uirlisí ceoil a sheinm ar scoil. Seo iad Jane agus Siobhán ag seinm “The Green Fields of Rossbeigh”. Bain taitneamh as! 



Lá Leabhar Domhanda 

Lá Leabhar Domhanda atá ann inniu. 

Lá Leabhar Domhanda atá ann inniu. 

Tá leabharlann iontach againn ar scoil. Tá sé lán le go leor leabhar. Is maith linn leabhair a roghnú le léamh gach seachtain. Seo cuid de na leabhair is fearr linn.

Céadaoin an Luaithrigh. 

Inniu Céadaoin an Luaithrigh. Tosaíonn an Carghas inniu. Inniu bhíomar ag caint faoi na rudaí ata á thabhairt againn don Charghas. Ní bheidh go leor againn ag ithe milseáin, brioscaí nó criospaí ar bith le linn an Charghais. Mar sin féin táimid ag tnúth le féasta na Cásca ag teacht!

Máirt na bPancóga.



Inniu Máirt na bPancóga. Is é Céadaoin an Luaithrigh amárach. Inniu rinneamar pancóga ar scoil. Seo pictiúirí duínn ag déanamh ár pancóga. Thaitin na rudaí breise go léir go mór linn!

Máirt na Pancóga



Oideas do phancóga

What a busy week !

We worked ( and played) hard this week.

Wow ! We had such a busy week at school. When we arrived to school on Monday we had a surprise waiting for us .... a climbing wall had been erected over the weekend. It was so much fun every playtime.

On Tuesday we made St. Brigid's crosses to honour St.Brigid. We are learning about Ancient Egypt so we learned to create a powerpoint presentation and on Friday we presented our work to our classmates.

We made dioramas and work in pairs in our pods on these, they looked fantastic !

Enjoy the pictures of all our hard work .

One point perspective drawings

We've been busy drawing and sketching.

This month we have been learning to draw from one perspective. Here are some of our drawings, aren't they great?

Look at our musicians warming up !

Rocking out at school

Here we are all are warming up for our ukulele lesson with Kief .

CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS IN OUR CLASSROOM

Daily acts of kindness

We are deep into our Christmas preparations in our classroom at this stage. During this Christmas season we are doing a daily act of kindness at school. We really enjoy counting down the days and seeing what is on our calendar every day.

COOKING A TASTY PASTA LUNCH AT SCHOOL

Cooking at school

On Thursday we made a lovely pasta dish at school. We used some lovely fresh ingredients to make a delicious tomato pasta sauce, we cooked three different pasta shapes and served a hot lunch to all our schoolmates. They said the sauce was amazing !! What a great day in our school kitchen ! 

Tessellating tigers

Learning about tessellating with 2-d shapes.

This week 5th and 6th class have been learning about 2-d shapes. We learned about tessellation and how to tessellate different 2-d shapes. Here are some pictures of our fantastic tessellation

creations !! Enjoy !!

ÁR BHIALANN

Ar mhaith leat ordú a dhéanamh?

Táimid ag foghlaim gach rud faoi bhia i nGaeilge an tseachtain seo. Scríobhamar roinnt biachláir agus scríobhamar dráma beag. Féach. Ar mhaith leat teacht chuig ár mbialann?

ÁR BHIALANN

Ar mhaith leat ordú a dhéanamh?

Táimid ag foghlaim gach rud faoi bhia i nGaeilge an tseachtain seo. Scríobhamar roinnt biachláir agus scríobhamar dráma beag. Féach. Ar mhaith leat teacht chuig ár mbialann?

ÁR BHIALANN

Ar mhaith leat ordú a dhéanamh?

Táimid ag foghlaim gach rud faoi bhia i nGaeilge an tseachtain seo. Scríobhamar roinnt biachláir agus scríobhamar dráma beag. Féach. Ar mhaith leat teacht chuig ár mbialann?

MAKING HISTORY

Making a motte and bailey

This week we are learning about the Normans in Ireland. As we were learning about their way of life we learned about how and where they lived. We decided to make a motte and bailey in class. Here are some that we made. We aren’t all finished yet so keep an eye out for more pictures.

Happy Halloween

Our scary students

Friday was dress up day and our pupils really put their thinking caps on, dreamed up some very scary costumes and came to school looking very frightening indeed! Can you guess who is hiding behind each costume ?



A LITTLE SCIENCE

Learning about photosynthesis

This week we are learning about plants and how they eat and drink. We did some experiments in the classroom and here some pictures of the experiments and our classwork.  

DECORATING OUR UKULELES

Adding our own stamp !

On Friday we had our first ukulele lesson. We each got a new ukulele and we are really looking forward to learning lots of tunes and songs this year. We decided to decorate our ukulele cases this afternoon.....we really enjoyed designing each case.

Uibheagán ar scoil

Rinneamar ár lón ar scoil

Ar an Déardaoin rinneamar ár lón ar scoil. Rinneamar uibheagán Bhí siad an-bhlasta. Bhaineamar an-taitneamh as na h-oidis a léamh, an bia a dhéanamh agus ithe le chéile. Is breá linn cócaireacht ach is breá linn níos mó a ithe!

CROSS COUNTRY 2021

A great day out!

Today we took a break from the classroom and went to the East Mayo Cross Country Championships. We all had fun, did our best and met up with all of our friends. Thanks to Swinford Athletic Club for organising this super event.
Special congratulations to Siobhán on coming in first place, Jane who came 3rd and Isla who placed sixth. We cheered so loudly for you all. Enjoy the pictures from our fun morning on Melletts Hill.

SEPTEMBER ART

Romero Britto

This is the art we produced this month after studying the artist Romero Britto ….enjoy

MAYO DAY 2021

Good luck Mayo!

Wishing the  Mayo team good luck this weekend, some of us might play in Croke Park one day !

BACK AT SCHOOL !

Ready to learn and have fun!

Here we are on our first day back at school. We went outside to take some pictures on our first day back - socially distanced of course ! We'll keep you posted on all the hard work and fun from our classroom this year .