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!!

Our Mind Matters Mile

Our Minds Matter Mile Walk. Connect. Care. Today, we came together for our Our Minds Matter Mile in support of Pieta House, raising awareness for mental health and reminding our children that it’s okay to talk about their worries, share their feelings, and ask for...

Active Week 2026

Active Week 2026 We had a blast in Knockskeagh NS last week celebrating Active Week 2026!! Our Active Leaders can be proud for their efforts in organising our Morning Shake Ups, FMS stations in our junior class yards and our golf masters staff challenge. Well done to...

World Kindness Day

"In a world where you can be anything, be kind" Tomorrow is World Kindness Day and today our Wellbeing team informed each class of the benefits of being kind to each other on a daily basis. Encouraging kindness can help promote health, happiness, success and helps to...

World Mental Health Day

Last Friday October 10th to mark World Mental Health Day we launched our wellbeing activities for the coming school year. Our focus was "Empathy". Each of our pupils partnered up and took turns talking and listening to each other's life in school. Their chat focused...

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...