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.
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!
Pi Day!
March 14th, 2024Children in the senior room celebrated Pi Day by learning all about Pi and the circle in maths and playing games using the first 10-20 numbers in Pi.
Soccer Blitz
March 13th, 20244th to 6th class children took part in the FAI School Primary 5s Blitz in Lisdoonvarna for the first time. The Girls team drew their second game. The Boys team won their group and progressed to the semi finals where they narrowly missed out on a place in the next stage of the competition. Many thanks to David for coming to train the children in advance of the blitz and coaching the teams on the day.
Dog Trust Ireland Visit
March 12th, 2024Today we had Ruth visit us from Dog Trust Ireland.
Ruth discussed dog safety with the children.
The children were delighted with the visit and even got to pet her “dog”.