St. Joseph's National School 
Derrywash, Castlebar

First & second Class are learning about our solar system

Derrywash N.S News

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all the students in Junior & Senior Infants in Derrywash N.S.

We are really enjoying our ukulele lessons with Jamie, we have already learned some really cool songs! Keep an eye on our blog as we will...

Eilis Treacy, author of 'Santa Writes Back', came to visit our school today. She read us some lovely letters that Santa wrote to children...

Junior & Senior Infants are using our lovely new iPads for station teaching. We LOVE them and have so much fun learning with them.

After a busy week in 3rd class, we thought it was high time we let everyone else in on the fun! We did a number of demonstrations and...

We have been learning all about planets this week and we made this really cool display to show everyone what it looks like.

We like to get hands on with our science experiments in the senior room, we recently made our very own hovercrafts! We used balloons to...

This wonderful bunch of 3rd class zombies would like to wish everyone a Happy Halloween and Midterm! Congratulations to all of our...

Junior & Senior Infants had so much fun making some Halloween cup faces.

We are so proud to announce our participation in this year's MS Readathon! Not only will we be raising money for an important cause like...

Today we gathered our data from our shape hunt and recorded it on bar-charts using beautiful colours.

Junior & Senior Infants were learning all about 2-D shapes in Maths and went on a Shape Hunt in the school to find circles, squares,...

For the last few weeks we've been learning all about the Titanic. We began by reading our class novel: Titanic - A Voyage from Drumshee...

Today we competed in the West Mayo Cross Country Championships and had a fantastic day. The children represented their school so well and...

We were absolutely thrilled to get two special visitors to Derrywash yesterday. Benny and Marion Martin were the principal and teacher in...

Everyone here in the Junior & Senior Infant room are wishing all the best to the Mayo men and ladies lining out for their county this...

Welcome back everyone! One of our first activities this year is to learn a poem to help us remember the counties in each province. Here...