Halloween 2025

Halloween 2025

Halloween 2025

As ever there was great excitement for our annual Halloween parade which took place on our school yard this year. 

Huge credit must go to all who helped design and create such magnificent costumes. There was so much creativity on display throughout the classes. 😁

We encouraged the use of recycled costumes this year as part of our Green Schools initiative and the standard was extremely high. 

Our panel of secret judges had a tough job on their hands to pick award winners from each class. 

Please see our video reel below for a flavour of the amazing costumes on display around our school today.

Mid-term Break

We hope all pupils, parents, and staff enjoy a well-earned rest during the midterm break.

Happy Halloweensmile

Halloween 2025

As ever there was great excitement for our annual Halloween parade which took place on our school yard this year.  Huge credit must go to all who helped design and create such magnificent costumes. There was so much creativity on display throughout the classes. 😁 We...

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Our 4th, 5th and 6th class girls and boys teams took part in the recent Sciath na Scoil camogie/hurling blitz held in St Colums GAA club, Kealkill last Thursday morning. Well done to all involved in the organisation of this competition. Last Thursday was a grading...

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Halloween 2025

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As ever there was great excitement for our annual Halloween parade which took place on our school yard this year. ...

read more
Ballinascarthy GAA Visit

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We were delighted to welcome members of the victorious camogie and hurling teams of Ballinascarthy GAA to our school...

read more

Bike Day

Bike Day

Bike Day

Bike Day 2025

Pupils from Junior Infants to 3rd Class learned cycling skills during Bike Day in Knockskeagh NS. Our pupils loved the challenges that Ulick of Bike Wizards set for them during each session. The sessions focused on balance, braking, and turning skills.
 
We are so lucky to have ample room on our school grounds for activities like this, and our school track was a fantastic area for all classes to put their cycling skills into practice. 
We were delighted to receive funding for Bike Day from Cork Sports Partnership on behalf of Cork County and City Councils. Thank you so much to Ulick for his time and to all the parents who supported us by bringing in pupils’ bicycles. #bikeweekcork @corksportspartnership

 

 

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Halloween 2025

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As ever there was great excitement for our annual Halloween parade which took place on our school yard this year. ...

read more
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We were delighted to welcome members of the victorious camogie and hurling teams of Ballinascarthy GAA to our school...

read more

Science Week 2024

Science Week 2024

Science Week 2024

We marked Science Week 2024 from Monday 11th to Friday 15th November.  👩‍🔬🔬

There was a variety of science activities investigated and explored in each class this year, including a range of science experiments, investigations, science shows and much more. 🔬🧪 

The gallery below displays a snapshot of some of the Science activities that took place in the classes during Science Week 2024.

Science Activities around the school

The selection of experiments includes the following:

The Skittles Experiment where it’s examined what happens when skittles and warm water are mixed.

The “Volcano Experiment” where the reaction that happens when you mix vinegar and bicarbonate of soda is investigated. 🌋

The coke and mentos experiment.

The “Build a Boat that will float” challenge.

Bubbles within bubbles experiment where the challenge is to make as many as possible without them popping.

The fingerprint investigation where it was examined how to use forensics to solve a crime.

The rain cloud in a jar experiment.

The jumping rice experiment.

The effects certain liquids have on eggs 🥚, with the shell resembling our teeth. 🦷

We also had quizzes, art work and much much more.

6th Class completed a Virtual Mad Scientist Showcase again this year. Their experiments were recorded and the links were forwarded to each class so they could watch them. It was an amazing show and the class did a great job explaining each experiment.

Well done everybody, it was certainly a Science Week to remember! 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🔬🧪🔎

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Halloween 2025

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As ever there was great excitement for our annual Halloween parade which took place on our school yard this year. ...

read more
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We were delighted to welcome members of the victorious camogie and hurling teams of Ballinascarthy GAA to our school...

read more

Halloween 2024

Halloween 2024

Halloween 2024

The weather failed to dampen spirits in our school today as our Halloween parade took place this year in our school hall.

What an array of creativity, color, and smiling faces!!

We must say a huge well done to all at home who helped create such magnificent costumes (and some terrifying ones too). No doubt it was difficult putting together the final touches this morning 😁

We encouraged the use of recycled costumes this year as part of our Green Schools initiative and the standard was extremely high this year.

Our Student Council judged this years halloween costumes and they  had a tough job on their hands to pick award winners from all these amazing creations. 

Please see our picture gallery below for a snapshot of some of the amazing costumes around our school today.

Mid-term Break

We hope all pupils, parents, and staff enjoy a well-earned rest during the midterm break.

Happy Halloweensmile

Gallery

Halloween 2025

As ever there was great excitement for our annual Halloween parade which took place on our school yard this year.  Huge credit must go to all who helped design and create such magnificent costumes. There was so much creativity on display throughout the classes. 😁 We...

Camogie and Hurling Finals

We'd a great week of sporting action over the last week on local GAA fields. Both our camogie and hurling teams represented our school so well displaying great endeavour, attitude, teamwork and skills throughout each competition. Huge congratulations must go to our...

Ballinascarthy GAA Visit

We were delighted to welcome members of the victorious camogie and hurling teams of Ballinascarthy GAA to our school today. We were especially proud and happy to welcome back some of our former pupils involved in both camogie and hurling teams. Huge thanks for taking...

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...

Skip Around the World

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BLAST Artist in Residency

Over the last four Thursdays, 2nd and 3rd Classes have engaged in Art workshops as part of the BLAST in Education Initiative. 🎨 Our assigned resident artist for this year was Julie O'Hea, and she has been focusing on the Visual Arts strand of Construction in the...

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 St Colums GAA club, Kealkill last Thursday morning. Well done to all involved in the organisation of this competition. Last Thursday was a grading...

Rugby Blitz

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African Drumming

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As ever there was great excitement for our annual Halloween parade which took place on our school yard this year. ...

read more
Ballinascarthy GAA Visit

Ballinascarthy GAA Visit

We were delighted to welcome members of the victorious camogie and hurling teams of Ballinascarthy GAA to our school...

read more

Walk on Wednesday

Walk on Wednesday

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 focuses on reducing our carbon footprint and so as a school, we looked at walking. We discussed the importance of walking for the environment but also for our own health and all classes took to the track at different times during Wednesday.
We borrowed some traffic lights🚦 and learned how to correctly use them, whilst being a pedestrian or in a vehicle. There were a few games of “Red Light – Green Light” which added to the excitement and the children were pretending to be cars, trucks, vans and pedestrians. All children relected back over the Safe Cross Code and discussed how to safely cross the road.
Always wear a high vis. 🦺 Be safe, be seen!
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,...

Engineers Week 2025

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Trip to Darrara Agricultural College

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Space Week 2024

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Maths Week 2023

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Space Week 2023

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Welcome to our Sensory Garden!

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Halloween 2025

Halloween 2025

As ever there was great excitement for our annual Halloween parade which took place on our school yard this year. ...

read more
Ballinascarthy GAA Visit

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We were delighted to welcome members of the victorious camogie and hurling teams of Ballinascarthy GAA to our school...

read more

Run Around Europe

Run Around Europe

Run Around Europe

Run Around Europe Challenge

Our ‘Run Around Europe’ Challenge came to its conclusion recently.
All classes ran, walked, and jogged laps of our track over the last month and reached various capital cities around Europe.

Well done to all pupils and staff for their efforts this year!!

Our Active Schools Team helped form this art display to take account of the destinations reached by all our classes too.

Great job team!!

 

 

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,...

Engineers Week 2025

We recently marked 'Engineers Week' here in Knockskeagh.     Engineering Week activities this year included the following: STEM challenges, engineering quizzes,  art work and project work to learn all about different types of engineering. You can view a snapshot of...

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...

Science Week 2024

We marked Science Week 2024 from Monday 11th to Friday 15th November.  👩‍🔬🔬 There was a variety of science activities investigated and explored in each class this year, including a range of science experiments, investigations, science shows and much more. 🔬🧪  The...

Maths Week 2024

We marked 'Maths Week' from Monday 14th October to Friday 18th October. We have had a very busy week in Knockskeagh doing lots of different Maths activities! We had Maths challenges, quizzes, art, iPad games and trails around our school grounds. We also had a very...

Space Week 2024

Space Week 2024Space week took off with a 3....2....1....BLAST OFF! 🚀🚀 We recently celebrated 'Space Week' in Knockskeagh. Everyone was incredibly busy learning all about Space and making their own creations 🌍 ☄️🚀 There were many Space Week themed activities in all...

Maths Week 2023

We marked 'Maths Week' this week, from Monday 16th October to Friday 20th October. We have had a very busy week in Knockskeagh doing lots of different Maths activities! We had Maths art challenges, quizzes, Maths games on the iPads, an orienteering Maths code-breaker...

Space Week 2023

Space week took off with a 3....2....1....BLAST OFF! 🚀🚀 We celebrated 'Space Week' from Monday 2nd of October to Friday 6th of October.  Everyone was incredibly busy learning all about Space and making their own creations, ranging from aliens to rockets to spaceships...

Welcome to our Sensory Garden!

Our wonderful new Sensory Garden! We have our very own Sensory Garden for everyone to enjoy! It is split into five areas, catering to each of the five senses: taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight. Our Sensory Garden is situated so everyone can take the opportunity...

Latest News

Halloween 2025

Halloween 2025

As ever there was great excitement for our annual Halloween parade which took place on our school yard this year. ...

read more
Ballinascarthy GAA Visit

Ballinascarthy GAA Visit

We were delighted to welcome members of the victorious camogie and hurling teams of Ballinascarthy GAA to our school...

read more