St John's NS Cratloe

⚠️ PUBLIC • MEETING ⚠️

Tomorrow night (Sunday 11th August) I have organised a public meeting in Cratloe Community Hall (commencing at 8pm) so that parents of children attending secondary schools in Shannon (mainly) and also Limerick and Ennis can meet to discuss proposals to alter the 2024/25 bus service from standard school bus services to the 343 public bus service operated by Bus Éireann.

Main areas effected by the aforementioned change: Cratloe, Sixmilebridge and Newmarket-on-Fergus.

All welcome to attend - please spread the word!

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Active schools week finished with our Dunk the staff and the penalty shoot out.
Well done Elaine for being great sport.
Well done Rian for great shooting.
Bhí sár seachtain againn go léir.

Happy Holidays!! 🌞 What a great way to finish off the year. Here are some pics from the last month in Fourth Class. We did lots of fun activities including the school tour, ziplining, water fight, slip n' slide, cow art, coding with Christine, pond dipping with Geoff and much more. Wishing everyone a happy summer! 😁

What a day in Múinteoir Claire’s class! Slip n slide and a penalty shoot out.

Slip and Slide in Rang a hAon today 🛝 💦
Bhí an-spórt againn!!

We also did our penalty shoot outs against Múinteoir Sinéad!
Maith sibh Emma agus Evan - who will be in the finals tomorrow against Príomhoide Susan ⚽️ 🥅

Senior Infants sliding into summer fun 🛝💦

Slide and splash was the best fun today for Múinteoir Jo’s class.
What a fantastic week for our children.
Míle Buíochas to Múinteoir Ian who organised all this.
Youth is not wasted on these young children.
Maith sibh go léir.

Our final Seashore Safari to Quilty and Spanish Point.
Carmel once again was delighted with all the children. They were so interested and the yelps of joy could be heard from afar.
Míle Buíochas Carmel. 🐟🌊🐬🐡🐳

Congrats to everyone.

Sports day is always the best fun.
The children were all in multi class teams. 18 teams in all and lots of activities for each team.
Points were awarded to team members who encouraged and helped their younger team mates.
The co operation and encouragement was just fantastic.
Míle Buíochas to Múinteoirí Ian agus David a bhí ar scoil go luath ar maidin ag socrú gach rud dúinn.
A million thanks to Múinteoirí Ian and David who were at school very early getting everything ready.
A wonderful day for everyone.
Lá den scoth a bhí ag cách.

Congrats also to our Students Council for organising our first ever Student led Assembly.
Oisín , Kate and Josh presented three wonderful pieces about being on the student council, preparing speeches and how to get the best out of being in 6th class.
Maith sibh.

They were brilliant.
Leaders of the future, maith sibh go léir.

Bhí lá iontach againn ar school inniú.

An annual event took place today.
Teachers v Pupils in Basketball, Corn Hole Throw and Soccer.
Great great fun was had by all.
A lot of sore bodies tonight.
6th class then received their hoodies and chocolate.
Siobhán O Callaghan also presented the Community Games Trophies.
A wonderful day for all.

A little taster of the pure fun and joy in Cratloe NS today as we celebrated Múinteoir Ger.

Rang a hAon had a fabulous hour of coding today!
Go raibh míle maith agat Christine Waldron as teacht isteach 💻 😊

Some fabulous knitting project this year with Príomh Oide Susan.
Freya and Carmel have loved all their knitting and they have now knitted beautiful bags.
Maith sibh.

“Today’s the day the teddy bears had their picnic.” Infants had a lovely morning showing their teddies around Cratloe Woods.

Míle Buíochas to Valerie and the ASC for the fabulous bouncing castle and also to Christine Waldron for our coding lesson today.
An amazing day for everyone.

Spraoi ar scoil ☀️

What fun Rang a hAon have been having the past few weeks.

We watched our caterpillars spin into cocoons, and later emerge as butterflies, planted cress, designed and painted beautiful flip flop pictures, wrote reports on Summer, had Luke Murphy visit us, did Capacity in Maths outside and finally today, got to jump on a fabulous bouncy castle, thanks to Valerie in ASC.

If every day at school could be this much fun
🐛 🦋 🪴 🩴 🏖️ 🏉 💦 🏰!!

Infants having a whale of a time on the bouncy castle. Thanks Valerie!

A brilliant Q&A today with past pupil Luke Murphy who travels with the Irish U20 Rugby team for the in South Africa this weekend. Luke filled us in on his very interesting journey toward becoming a rugby international. We’re so proud of you Luke! Best of luck💪

Happy School Tour Day for Múinteoir Ciara’s class at Free Range Kids. We had a smashing time.

What a day Múinteoir Claire’s class had at Free Range Kids.

Múinteoir Davina’s class having at ball on their school tour to Free Range Kids.

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