During Engineers Week, we were delighted to welcome Niamh Ryan to 3rd class in Knockskeagh National School. Niamh Ryan is a climate ambassador and engineer and gave an insight into sustainable development and engineering. It was a really interesting and fun morning....
Active Week 2025
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, cycling, a skip-a-thon and much more movement during the week #asw25
Well done to our Active Schools Team for all their organisation of the week
Skip-a-thon for Pieta House
As part of Active Flag week – All our classes took part in a Skip-a-thon. Skipping in each class everyday during Active Week helped raise 233euro for Pieta House. Many thanks to all who supported our fundraising initiative.
Staff Race 2025
As part of the week, our Active Flag Team organised and officiated a Staff Skipping relay.
Our staff can be very proud of their skipping efforts. 
Well done to our winners for this year and of course our Active Leaders for officiating the relay.
Engineer Visits 3rd Class
Knockskeagh Virtual Tour
We welcome you to take a look at this short video which gives an insight into the activities that Knockskeagh National School has to offer its pupil's. We really think it looks amazing. Well done to all pupils and staff who helped make it a very special video tour, we...
Lego Building Competition
Fifth class pupils Evan O Crowley and Odhran O Sullivan entered a Lego building competition run by Autism-Friendly Clonakilty recently. They loved every second of creating this building of what “My Clonakilty” looks like and worked extremely hard over these last few...
Energy Workshop
We were delighted to welcome an Energy Workshop from the Lifetime Lab. Our 3rd, 4th and 5th classes engaged in the energy workshops which covered the topics of energy sources, climate change, CO2, and what we as individuals can do to reduce the amount of energy we...
Knockskeagh Podcast
Podcast: "The Story of Tojo" 2nd Class has been busy creating and recording their very first podcast recently. It is all about the visit of a spider monkey named Tojo to Clonakilty nearly 80 years ago. The podcast was recorded in Knockskeagh and produced by all...
Science Week 2021
We marked 'Science Week' from Monday 8th to Friday 12th November last week. There was a variety of science activities investigated and explored in each class this year including; a range of science experiments, bug hunts, science shows, our virtual Science Showcase,...
Maths Week 2021
We marked 'Maths Week' this week, from Monday 18th October to Friday 22nd October. We have had a very busy week in Knockskeagh doing lots of different maths activities! We had maths games in the school hall on Monday, a ‘Maths Eyes’ trail finding 2D and 3D shapes...
Space Week 2021
We celebrated 'Space Week' from Monday 4th of October to Friday 8th of October last week. This year, we introduced the "Space Booklet" for all pupils in our school. The Space booklet was packed full of space facts, information, puzzles, colouring sheets, and much...
Award of Science and Maths Excellence 2020/21
We have just received the great news that our school has been awarded its ninth ‘Award of Science and Maths Excellence’ for the school year 2020/21. We are extremely proud of this award, as it once again demonstrates the work done in Science & Maths throughout the...
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Camogie and Hurling Blitz
Our 4th, 5th and 6th class girls and boys teams took part in the recent Sciath na Scoil camogie/hurling blitz held in...
Rugby Blitz
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African Drumming
African Drumming Every Tuesday over the last few weeks, each class has engaged in African Drumming workshops. Building...
