St. Joseph's National School 
Derrywash, Castlebar

Mrs Irwin's 3rd and 4th Class have been exploring the solar system in SESE. We had loads of fun with a Virtual Reality Google Expeditions...

Mrs Jennings' class had great fun with all of the animals from the Agri Aware farm.

For the past few weeks we have been observing our caterpillars as they are and grew. They did climbed up the pot and made cocoons. Last...

Junior and Senior Infants used a collection of materials to show the lifecycle of a butterfly. We used different shapes of pasta and rice...

Junior and Senior Infant students used play-dough to recreate the four stages in the lifecycle of the butterfly.

Mrs Irwin's 3rd and 4th Class worked together to create and present Adobe spark video projects on animals native to Ireland. We think...

Engineering, programming and creating with Lego WeDo in 3rd-6th Class! Check out all the fun we had learning with Lego in our classrooms...

Green fingers in 3rd and 4th Class, making the most of the sunshine! #growing#sowing#vegetables#planting#outdoor#learning#teamwork#fun

3rd and 4th Class encouraging a positive mindset with their collaborative artwork this week!

We have got lots of new fun things in our infant playground: bikes, mud kitchen, slide, art area and football goal. We are having lots of...

This month we have been looking at how plants grow. We read Jack and the Beanstalk, and watched our beans growing. We read the Little Red...

We are so lucky to have a lovely forest walk in the grounds of our school. Today we went on an adventure to see some signs of Spring.

The children in our special class are so happy to be back to school! We are doing lots of outdoor learning and today it was time to do...

We learned how to sort our waste into different categories: compost, recyclable, clothing, electronics and general waste.

Our class promises to take care of God's King dom

We learned that strong, healthy teeth help us chew foods, speak clearly and have bright smiles.

1st & 2nd Class took part in experiments for Science Week 2020. We made volcanoes and icebergs.