St. Joseph's National School 
Derrywash, Castlebar

A peek inside the classroom as we study the seas as part of preparation for the Marine Green School Award.

The very cool ARC visited us. We learned all about aquaculture and the story of Salmon of Knowledge

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Congratulations to our winners whose posters have been submitted to the Green School's national competition.

We loved studying China these past few weeks, and we are very proud of how these two (snake and dragon eye) art projects turned out. We...

When our reading buddy partner becomes our writing buddy partner all the fun begins! We are exploring the explanation genre in our...

What a great day we had today, from our woodland walk with our buddies, a talent show and Halloween games organised by 5th & 6th class....

Things got very spooky in our class the last few weeks. Have a look at some of our spooky self portraits and hunted windows.

Maths Week in Derrywash NS was play based and so much fun. Lots of in class games and buddy activities. Here are a few pictures to give...

Junior Infants-2nd Class were excited to see the show "Bully, Bully" in the Linenhall Arts Centre.

In 1st and 2nd Class we are engaging in playful learning experiences  to explore our literacy, numeracy and SEE themes further. Check out...

What a fantastic start to the school year for 3rd & 4th class. They went to the Linenhall Arts Centre to see an art exhibition, which was...

We are excited to welcome our new Junior Infants to Derrywash.

In April Infants had lots of fun looking at old photos of themselves and Mrs Jennings and Mrs Fitzgerald to spot any changes! We were...

Throughout the school this term our genre of focus is persuasive writing, After exploring examples of persuasive texts and the key...

A fabulous morning at the Derrywash Family Fun Run/Walk Thank you to all our participants and volunteers, a fantastic community event!

3rd & 4th class are really enjoying orienteering in P.E. at the moment.

We were delighted to welcome our local historian Dr Michael O’Connor to 5th and 6th Class today to discuss the important role of our town...