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The Great Christmas Mix-Up

Senior Room pupils playing 'Away in a Manger'. Thank you to Ms. Carey for teaching them the tin whistle. Percussion instruments accompanying our rendition of 'The Little Drummer Boy' The cast of our Christmas show Wwll done to the pupils who received excellent attendance awards for November / December. They each received a trophy!

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Jan 71 min read

BLAST - Bringing Live Arts to Students and Teachers

Thank you so much to Athlone Education Centre for giving us the opportunity to participate in the wonderful BLAST programme. Our school was paired with Helen, who specialises in drama, dance and film. She worked with us for four days to introduce the pupils to the world of film making. The children learned all about the different shots that film directors use. In small groups, they prepared a story board of their film and then set about becoming actors, directors and camera

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Jan 71 min read

Christmas Art

Air dry clay ornaments from the Junior Room Junior Room Christmas Stars Christmas lanterns from the Junior Room Rudolph by the Junior Room Oil Pastel picture of the Nativity Some Christmas prints from the Senior Room:

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Dec 17, 20251 min read

Christmas visit to Kilbeggan Library

Thank you to Ann Marie, librarian at Kilbeggan Library, who invited us to visit on 9th December. The library has been recently refurbished so the children had an opportunity to relax in the sensory spaces, browse through some Christmas books and see all the facilities available in the library. There are always lots of free activities for children from chess to Lego to art and crafts. Here is the link if you would like to join the library: https://westmeath.spydus.ie/cgi-bin

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Dec 10, 20251 min read

Crann

Thank you to Ann Marie from Crann, an organisation which promotes trees, who visited our school on Monday, 8th December. She spoke to us about the important relationship that people have with trees and we planted two trees behind the school.

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Dec 10, 20251 min read

Christmas Jumper Day 2025

Senior Room pupils with Christmas art Thank you to all the children who wore their Christmas jumpers to school on 5th December and raised 200 euro for St. Vincent De Paul, Clara!

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Dec 10, 20251 min read

Building a Real-World Integrated Curriculum in STEM

Our Lego Spike kits have finally arrived! We are grateful to be part of the BRICS project in conjunction with Athlone Education Centre, Oide and DCU. The pupils in the Senior Room will create Lego models and build a code to programme them to become robots. You can read more about the project here: https://www.oidetechnologyineducation.ie/brics-project/

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Nov 6, 20251 min read

GAA at Horseleap N.S.

Welcome back to our GAA coach Alan who put the pupils of Horseleap through their paces on Wednesday morning.

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Nov 6, 20251 min read

Halloween at Horseleap N.S.

The pupils of Horseleap surpassed themselves this year with their wonderful Halloween costumes! Congratulations to our two pupils who received awards for full attendance during September and October. Congratulations to Johnny on his retirement as caretaker of Horseleap N.S. after many years of service. Well done to all the pupils who participated in the Tag Rugby Blitz in Moate on Thursday.

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Oct 25, 20251 min read