Fanore National School - News


Goodbye Junior Room!

June 20th, 2025

2nd class said farewell to the Junior Room today as they move up to the Senior Room in September. Here are some of the class leaving the Junior Room for the last time. Big Bear will be missed most of all!!


Ice creams!

June 19th, 2025

The children walked to the shop and back for a tasty treat! Many thanks to Mick and Mary for sponsoring the children’s Ice-creams today to celebrate Sport’s Day.


Father’s Day

June 15th, 2025

Happy Father’s Day to the hardworking Dads in our school community! A selection of some of the beautiful cards and keyrings the children made.


Chess Tournament

June 13th, 2025

Fanore NS hosted a chess tournament for the very first time this week. Carron NS travelled to Fanore and the children played 5 rounds of chess. Many thanks to Colm for adjudicating and to Mary and Carron school for coming to Fanore. We hope to have more chess tournaments in the future with more schools next year.


Warm and Cool Colours

June 4th, 2025

Children in the junior room were learning all about warm and cool colours and created these beautiful pictures of day and night using a variety of materials – pastels, crayons, markers and chalks.


Water Safety Webinar

June 2nd, 2025

A great water safety webinar this morning from Water Safety Ireland, learning about staying safe around water.


Spike Lego

May 30th, 2025

Many thanks to ChangeX for funding our Spike Lego kits! The junior room are enjoying their bead jar reward with a morning of Lego!


Slime!

May 29th, 2025

Children really enjoyed making slime as their bead jar reward, Ms. Coyle’s favourite!


Beach Safari

May 28th, 2025

Many thanks to Sally from the Marine Institute for facilitating an excellent Beach Safari with the children as part of the Explorers program. They really enjoyed learning about and building structures to protect against the sea as well as investigating the many plants and animals on our seashore.


Fundamental Movements

May 27th, 2025

Children in both classes are fortunate to have 5 weeks of fundamental movements skills classes with Ellen facilitated by Tubber Tigers.