Horseleap N.S.

As part of ECO-Week, pupils in the Senior Room took part in a webinar presented by Dr. Nóirín Burke from the Irish Ocean Literacy Network at Galway Atlantaquaria. Map of all the traffic in our oceans This year we are working towards our Green Flag on the theme of Global Citizenship: Marine and this webinar provided us with a lot of information about life under the waves around Ireland and the dangers it faces. Map of ocean gyres (where rubbish collects in the ocean)

Thank you to Lauren from Rinka, Moate who visited the school recently. Rinka - Kids Fitness and Wellbeing - classes will return to Moate in October. The children got a taste of the range of fun activities involved. The Rinka motto is 'Strong Heart, Strong Body, Strong Mind'. Information on classes is available here.

Exploring Ireland's Wildlife Webinar This week we are celebrating UNESCO Eco-Week by tuning in to some webinars which explain the sustainable development goals (STGs). On Monday, we met Ross from Ulster Wildlife who taught us about our native red squirrel. The good news is that the red squirrel is making a comeback - thanks to the pine martin! The grey squirrel is in decline. If you spot a red squirrel or a pine martin, you can let the team at Biodiversity Ireland know here:.

Whole school parachute games

What a wonderful school we had on Tuesday, 16th June. Our first stop was the Derryglad Folk and Heritage Museum just outside Athlone. Thank you to Charlie and Bridie for showing us all the artefacts in the museum. Next, we headed to Hodson Bay where we boarded Viking Mike's boat and took a trip as far as Athlone Castle. Our final destination was Planet Play Centre where everyone had lots of fun!

Egg Toss Challenge Sports Day at Horseleap N.S. took place on Monday, 15th June. Pupils participated in a range of races including the sack race, egg and spoon race, skipping race, shoe mix up race and ladder race. The highlight was our annual egg toss! Potato Picking Race!

Congratulations to the Senior Room pupils who travelled to TUS, Athlone on 11th June to showcase their BRICS projects. The pupils have engaged with the Lego BRICS programme over the past year in conjunction with Athlone Education Centre and Oide. They learned how to use Lego to make and programme robots. For the showcase day, they were tasked with designing and creating a robot to solve a real-world problem. Horseleap N.S. had three robots to display: 'The Big Beak Blocker' w

As part of S.E.S.E., we designed our own parachutes out of various materials. We brought them outside to the playground and dropped them to see what would happen in the wind.

Thank you to Kevin and Christy for coming to our school and guiding us on fire safety.

The Swifts have returned to our attic and we hear their distinctive, high-pitched screams as they rapidly dip and dive in the sky.

We received the Green Schools Flag for Global Citizenship - Energy Many congratulations to the Green Schools Committee and all the pupils for their hard work and dedication in achieving this flag! The Committee travelled to Athlone ceremony, where the pupils were presented with the flag. Throughout the month of May, 12 ceremonies in 7 locations around the country awarded 667 schools with their flags! Our school was one of 58 who received the Green Schools Flag for Global Cit

It's been a while since one of these were spotted in Horseleap...

Thank you to Annmarie (Kilbeggan Library) for coming to visit the Junior Room. We loved having Clover the Cat too!!! Can you spy Clover in the photo?

Such a beautiful creative piece by one of our Fifth class pupils.

We enjoyed making some Easter Chocolate Nests as part of Procedural Writing in our English lessons. The best part was definitely the tasting!

Thank you to all the pupils and their parents who represented us at the St. Patrick's Day parade in Clara! Well done to you all!