St. Joseph's National School 
Derrywash, Castlebar

Active week this year was a little different but it looked like great fun. We had an active timetable and some healthy recipes to try out...

Painting using sponges and the wrong end of the paintbrush to reflect what we see in the beautiful green fields in Spring.

We celebrated World Book Day in style today in Derrywash with all the children dressing up as a favourite character from a book. A big...

We are Derrywash Student Council. We make sure that all the students in the school are happy and that everything is running smoothly at...

We were inspired to make owls after learning a lovely poem this week. Using pegs and a pompom instead of a paintbrush was so much fun

Today we were tasting some foods and recording ones that we liked and ones that we didn't like. Everyone was very good at trying each...

Dragon Art...don't worry these are all friendly dragons (so I am told!)

We are really enjoying learning new stretches in yoga and working on our balance.

Now that junior infants are learning new tricky words, senior infants are so good with showing us our new words in their books. #teamwork

Junior & Senior Infants designed houses in a town at night time and look at the amazing results. We have some talented architects here...

We decided to brighten up these cold and dark days with some hot chocolate and popcorn.

This month we have been learning all about space. We made rockets, night skies and the planets in Art. We tried to rescue stars from ice...

We love to measure the length of different things around the school using cubes. Here are a few pictures of our investigations.

Today we were doing an experiment to see how salt can melt ice so we could free our alien friends from the ice blocks.

We are loving learning all about space this month. We even made these friendly aliens in their spaceships.

Pupils in 3rd and 4th Class are enjoying working in teams researching different aspects of "Ancient Greece". Using books, laptops and...

Junior & Senior Infants set out in groups to find as many 3D shapes as they could around the school. They had so much fun!

Some amazing art work from 3rd and 4th Class inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. We have been enjoying studying Van Gogh's art work and have...

We have had lots of fun looking at 2D shapes this week. We made patterns on Monday and played games on the board on Tuesday. We sorted...

This week we had our first meeting of the newly formed Derrywash NS. There has been great excitement in the school with elections in 1st...