Fanore National School - News
Creative Day
June 26th, 2022We celebrated the end of our involvement in the Creative Schools programme on Thursday with our creative/sports day. We had drumming, hip hop, crazy golf and sports day games with a BBQ to finish. Thank you to our parents for coming and being a part of our day
Cruinniú na nÓg
June 10th, 2022The children have been working with Katerina Gribkoff on the project for the past number of months, they have learnt how to make their own inks and dyes from plants and flowers, they have explored their own locality for inspiration and they have each produced a beautiful ink watercolour based on a Burren flower. The whole process has been documented in video with voiceovers by the children as well as poetry and song composed and performed by the children
Today we travelled to the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan to see our finished ink drawings on display and to present our documentary to our school parents.
As part of Cruinniú na nÓg, a day of free creativity for children, which takes place on June 11th, the paintings will be available to be viewed by the public on this date and the documentary will be available to view online on Creative Ireland Clare Facebook page and on the Clare library Youtube channel
Creative Schools
March 29th, 2022As part of our continued involvement in the Creative Schools Programme, today we had the first of a series of 3 workshops with Katerina Gribkoff. Katerina is a PhD student at the Burren College of Art and will be working with the children to create their own plant based dyes which will then be used to create paintings based on the Burren landscape and plants.
Circus Skills
March 24th, 2022We welcomed Stephen into the school today as part of our Creative Schools Programme to show us some of his tricks and even to teach us a few. Great fun was had by children….and teachers alike!
Fanore St Patricks Day Parade
March 15th, 2022Very well done to the children for coming out on a very cold March day to take part in the parade. Our theme was ‘The Magic of the Sea’ which was based on the film produced by the school last year. The children dressed up and sang and played for the spectators. Well done to everyone on a wonderful parade as always
Engineers Week 2022
March 8th, 2022As part of Engineers week, we had an amazing morning with Laura from Tech Steps learning all about Lego robotics and coding. The children firstly worked together to build their own Lego robots. They then learnt how to write code which would allow their robots to change colour, make sounds, move at different speeds and much more.
The children in the senior room also enjoyed a zoom session called Sports: Engineering the game of the future, which looked at how engineering is being used to develop materials, products and systems that support athletes to compete at top level and to help sport become more accessible to all.
Lá Fhéile Bríde
January 24th, 2022The children have been working hard with Ms Coyle this month preparing a big crafts project. Watch this space…….
Creative Writing
December 15th, 2021The senior room were treated to a creative writing workshop this week with Shane Hegarty, author of the Darkmouth and Boot series of books. The workshop was informative and interesting and we can’t wait to see the children put what they have learned into practise in their essay copies
Ukulele
December 9th, 2021Today was a very exciting day in our advent calendar with the reveal of the start of our school ukulele lessons. The school has purchased 20 ukuleles under the Creative Schools programme and has enlisted Mark from the Music Generation Programme to run a 6 week programme. We look forward to performing for the parents when we have a few tunes under our belts
Festive Fun
December 6th, 2021We welcomed School Fitness Ireland today for some festive fun with Vivienne. We didn’t let the miserable weather dampen our spirits and enjoyed yoga, gymnastics, hurdling and boxercise
