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♥ Our wonderful Junior and Senior Infants learning all about animals, food and life in Africa in Aistear this month! Oh what fun!!! #LearningThroughPlay #ActiveLearning #HandsOnExperience #ChildLedPlay #CrossCurricular ❤ ...

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️👟 Lots and lots of outdoor action in beautiful Woodquay this morning! The Run Around IRELAND Challenge continues too!!!! #ThePlots #TheSpire #TheGiantsCauseway #PhysicalEducation #FitForLife...

🎵🎷🎸 Getting right into the groove for Disco Friday in Woodquay today! 🎸🎷🎵 #HappyDays #BrightSunshine #Waterside #Woodquay #GalwayCity

☀💛 Some more measures put in place to keep our school community safer….and a new sign too! (Make sure you pass on the word!) #SchoolCommunity #HiddenGem #HeartOfTheCity #Waterside #Woodquay #GalwayCity

😎 Lunchtime fun in the sun!!!! #ActiveSchool #TheGreatOutdoors #Waterside #Woodquay #GalwayCity

💻🏗🐱‍🏍Coding, technology, construction…..STEAM at its finest! #WeBelieveInScience #ComputationalThinking #TeamWork

Teaching artist Alison MacCormaic joined 5th and 6th class via Zoom this morning for her first of three workshops. The children were looking at the steps in the design process; drawing for design, doing their own drawings and including a plan, elevation and section of...

Dr. Sarah Gundy joined 5th and 6th class via Zoom this morning for her final workshop. This workshop included the children learning about coccolithophores and coccoliths, and using coccoliths as drug carriers. The children made their own coccolithophores using...

❤ A whole school assembly this morning with Reverend Lynda joining us – what a way to begin the day - always such a lovely occasion. ❤ #SchoolCommunity

👟🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ Hundreds of laps have been completed over the Run Around IRELAND Challenge. Some classes are still en route to the Giant’s Causeway and should be there by next Friday (hopefully) whilst other...

📚📕 We just loved DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) time in St. Nicholas’ Parochial School today! You could hear a pin drop! #LoveOfBooks #LoveOfReading #LostInBooks #LetsGetIrelandReading  

Thank you so much to Enda O' Dowd from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) who joined 5th and 6th class via Zoom this morning to talk to them about designing medical devices from a human centred approach; the processes involved in medical device design,...

💐🌹🌼 Look at our wonderful 6th Class busy helping Ms. Lynch plant some window boxes this morning! #ABurstOfColour #ActiveLearning #TheGreatOutdoor #Waterside #Woodquay #GalwayCity #HiddenGem #HeartOfTheCity

🏃‍♀️👟💨 Destination Kylemore Abbey this morning! Now we’re off to the Giant’s Causeway! What a great initiative! #ActiveSchool #MorningRun #HailRainOrSnow #WhatAWayToStartTheDay #RunAroundIRELANDChallenge #Waterside...

😎 Making the most of this beautiful weather at The Plots! How lucky are we to have such a beautiful green area in the City Centre right on our doorstep! #Community #Waterside #Woodquay #GalwayCity #HiddenGem

💛 Junior and Senior Infants out and about exploring the local community! #ActiveLearning #TheGreatOutdoors #Waterside #Woodquay #GalwayCity  

🔍 Dr. Sarah Gundy joined 5th and 6th class via Zoom this morning where they discussed medical devices, both synthetic and natural biomaterials and polymers. The children first used Lego to make their own polymer and added a crosslinker and then they moved onto...

Dr. Noirin Burke from Galway Atlantaquaria joined 5th and 6th class via Zoom again this morning for her final of three workshops, which have covered topics such as how our oceans have changed over the last 500 years, our impact on the oceans, the future of our oceans...