St. Joseph's National School 
Derrywash, Castlebar

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

1st & 2nd Class learned about 'Healthy Eating'. They learned about the importance of the Food Pyramid and were able to sort foods into...

3rd and 4th Class have been busy interviewing and researching school life in the past. Check out all of our fantastic projects.

We love to explore our feelings using the zones of regulations. We read books about our emotions, check in our emotions throughout the...

Today we were so lucky, Mary came into our class to show us how to make her famous brown bread. It smelt so good when it came out of the...

Today we made our own solar systems, have a look...

We did lots of experiments this week for Science week and I think we have some budding scientists for the future. Take a look at these...

This week we have been looking at how materials change. We mixed oil, water, food colouring and Alka seltzer together to make lots of...

Junior & Senior Infants made their own planets today in Art, check them out in our slideshow.

2D and 3D shapes Maths books: size Autumn maths: sorting, patterns and counting Number

Infants were making beautiful Autumn trees this week using all the Autumn colours.

St Gerald's Class of '89 reunion generously decided to present our special class with a cheque for more than 370 euro, a result of their...

Today we worked a lot of our fine motor skills making the most beautiful houses in art. We were cutting, sticking and painting and we had...

We are delighted to have received two generous donations in the past couple of months. The Kearns family presented us with the results of...

Mrs Jennings' class had lots of fun with the Three Little Pigs story in September. There was lots of huffing and puffing to be heard!

Check out some pictures from our trip to Turlough with Junior & Senior Infants.

Budding artists in infants drawing self portraits this week

We are very happy to be back at school. We have three new classmates so we are busy getting to know each other, having fun and getting...

Budding artists in infants. Today we used our fingers to design patterns on our names.