Cork School Sports

Cork School Sports

What a day for our girls and boys squads in MTU today!!

Girls

The girls started the action today and they all represented our school so well!!

In the sprints, both Keelin Collins and Kitty May Walsh took home gold.

Holly Wicks, Aideen Murphy, Eabha O’Leary and Zara Murphy took home silver in their races. While Isobel McCarthy won bronze in her race

Our Girls relay team of Kitty May Walsh, Ruby McCarthy, Aideen Murphy, and Ella Coakley ran their hearts out and took home the gold for Knockskeagh NS

Our girls squad can be very proud of all their performances, it was truly a team effort

Boys

In the afternoon, it was the turn of our boys squad.

We are very proud of each and everyone of them.

In the sprint races, Daithí O Brien took home silver in his race.

While our boys relay team of Matthew Kelleher, Michael Collins, Tim Crowley, and Patrick O Leary brought home silver in a very close relay race

Magnificent performances by all and all fantastic ambassadors for our school today. Well done!

Virtual Science Showcase 2020

Our annual "Science Showcase" involving the 6th class was a little different this year. The 6th class working in their pods completed some video-recorded experiments in their classroom. They explained and demonstrated each of their experiments. Then, the recording...

Science Week 2020

We marked 'Science Week' from Monday 9th to Friday 13th November last week. We are presently working towards the Discover Primary Science Plaque of STEM Excellence which is awarded to schools in recognition of their extensive work in Science, Technology, Engineering...

Sensory Garden Update

Sensory Garden Mr Walsh (Junior) has been doing some amazing work on our new Sensory Garden recently. He has enlisted the help of our 6th Class who completed some Trojan work. As you can see from the sneak preview below, our Sensory Garden is taking shape nicely! Stay...

Maths Week 2020

We marked 'Maths Week' from Monday 12th October to Friday 16th October. We are presently working towards the Discover Primary Science Plaque of STEM Excellence which is awarded to schools in recognition of their extensive work in Science, Technology, Engineering...

Space Week 2020

We marked 'Space Week' from Monday 5th October to Friday 9th October last week. We are presently working towards the Discover Primary Science Plaque of STEM Excellence which is awarded to schools in recognition of their extensive work in Science, Technology,...

Knockskeagh receive Primary Science and Maths Award

Our school has just received its eighth ‘Award of Science and Maths Excellence’. We are extremely proud of this award, as it once again recognises the work done in Science & Maths throughout the school. Congratulations to all staff and pupils who participated in...

Knockskeagh awarded its 6th Green Schools Flag

Green Schools Flag Last week, we received our 6th Green Flag for our school. This flag was for Global Citizenship; Litter and Waste. This theme enables schools to discover how their work positively influences our global community. We worked very hard in several...

Step One: Science

Experiment One Strand: Living Things Class: 2nd Class Activity: Mini Beast HuntExperiment Two Strand: Energy and Forces Class: Senior Infants Activity: MagnetsExperiment Three Strand: Materials Class: 6th Class Activity: Design and make a Lava LampExperiment Four...

Step Two: Technology

IPads Our school uses iPads for two classes per week per class group from Junior Infants to 6th class! Each class uses the IPads to; access information for project work, access an abundance of different programs or play educational games. They really are a fantastic...