Wellness Month

We had a Wellness Month last December where pupils from all classes reflected on positive things in their lives as part of their homework. Each class reduced written homework and in its place children reflected on their day in their gratitude journals. Other classes were encouraged to chat with the family at home as part of the month. This led to open family discussions around questions like;

What makes us happy?
What did we do well today?
How were we kind today?

As well as this, each class had an ‘Advent Act of Kindness’ calendar, from which tasks were assigned each day; we encouraged family discussions around this too. Our Wellness month proved to be great success and fantastic fun too!!

Crinniú na nÓg

Crinniú na nÓg - On June 7th, Ireland celebrated a national day of free creativity for children - Crinniú na nÓg. This is an initiative that enables the creative potential of children and young people. We celebrated free creativity in Knockskeagh on Friday 6th June,...

Active Week 2025

Active Flag Week We had a blast in Knockskeagh NS this week. Many thanks to all the Active Leaders for organising our Morning Shake Ups, feel good music during every lunchbreak and active stations in our junior class yards. All our pupils took part in GAA sessions,...

Trip to Darrara Agricultural College

Trip to Darrara Agricultural College 2025 On Tuesday 11th March, 2025, Senior Infants headed off to Darrara Agricultural College to be shown around, and what a treat it was! The sun was shining all day for us! We got to sit up on the tractors 🚜, it didn't matter to us...

Zumba

Zumba We were delighted to welcome Flavie back to our school for Zumba dancing classes for all children recently. Flavie will visit us every Tuesday during this half term. Our classes find Zumba really enjoyable and they love to hear its time for Zumba. You know its...

Walk on Wednesday

Walk on Wednesday Last week, all classes learned about the importance of Road Safety, with every pupil receiving a high visibility jacket or high visability armband. For our next GreenSchools flag, we will be working on the theme of Global Citizenship - Travel. This...

School Community Mass

Community, Christ, and Children celebrated at School Community Masses Bishop Fintan Gavin welcomed school principals, teachers, SNAs, chairpersons and members of Boards of Management and parent representatives across the 174 catholic schools in the Diocese of Cork and...

West Cork Rapid Response Visit

West Cork Rapid Response Critical Care Jeep Visit 2024 🚨 On Monday 20th May, we were very lucky to have the West Cork Rapid Response Critical Care jeep visit us in school. 🚑 This is a fantastic resource in our community and it is completely voluntary. How lucky are we...

Wellness Week 2024

Wellness Week 2024 Last week we celebrated Wellness Week in our school. Some of the activities enjoyed included, mindful nature walks, morning shake-ups, collaborative art, yoga, feel-good lunchtime music, and practicing gratitude. The lovely mix of activities...

Thankful Tuesday

Today to launch our Amber Flag Initiative for the coming year and to mark World Mental Health Day we celebrated gratitude in our school. Pupils were welcome to bring in 'Traditional Games' like card and board games. The meaning of this activity was to help our pupils...