Fanore National School - News
Sketch Notes
April 21st, 20246th class are preparing for secondary school in term 3 by taking part in a number of different activities. They enjoyed a two part zoom series on ‘Sketch Notes’ – a method of note taking that can be used across the curriculum.
Coding
April 21st, 2024Children in the senior room have been enjoying learning the basics of coding through game based activities.
Term 2
March 22nd, 2024It’s been a busy Term 2!
Easter Holidays
March 22nd, 2024Wishing all our pupils and their families a very Happy Easter!
Easter Art
March 21st, 2024As part of Religion and Visual Art the children in the senior room created beautiful Easter Tombs from clay to remember the resurrection of Jesus.
Lá Glas
March 21st, 2024As part of Seachtain na Gaeilge the Children celebrated Lá Glas. Each child researched a topic of Irish culture and heritage they were interested in as well as a creative response of their choice. They then presented their projects to the school. We were blown away by the children’s interest and creativity. Projects included animals and plants of Ireland, Irish monuments, myths and legends, famous Irish people and aspects of Irish History. For their creative responses the children played music, created artwork, dioramas and Lego scenes, read as Gaeilge, brought in homemade soda bread and brown bread for the children to sample and more.
Sportshall Athletics
March 20th, 2024The children from 3rd to 6th class competed in the Sportshall Athletics competition for the first time in Corofin. They competed in a number of track and field events including relay races, obstacle courses, javelin, long and high jump, speed bounce and more. Fanore was paired with two other schools and the boys 3rd/4th team and boys 5th/6th team won their respective categories!
St Patrick’s Day Parade
March 18th, 2024We participated in this years parade, our theme was The Pirates of Fanore.
What a great day out!
Seachtain na Gaeilge
March 16th, 2024Ghlac na daltaí páirt i réimse leathan gníomhaíochtaí cosúil le Tráth na gCeist Kahoot, ceol, ealagus cluichí spraíúla le haghaidh Seachtain na Gaeilge. Bhí an-spórt acu agus bhain siad an-taitneamh as!
War Horse
March 15th, 2024The children in the senior room have being studying the novel ‘War Horse’ over the past number of weeks. Here is a selection of some of the visualisations they created based on the novel.