Author: Leonie Beirne

Senior Class Pupils suitably attired for Christmas Art.

A great effort was made by all the pupils dressing up this year, we had some very scary/spooky pupils!!  

We bid a fond farewell to Mrs Pauline Ferguson on Oct 23. Pauline retired having taught for nineteen years at Cloontagh N.S. ; twelve as Principal. The children made presentations of an oak sapling, a card signed (digitally) by all the pupils with poems written by the children, chocolates , hand and heart-shaped crafts and […]

Hello Everyone, Well, actually, this is Goodbye to everyone in Cloontagh NS. As you know I am leaving at Halloween after 19 years in Cloontagh, 12 of those years as Principal.  I have really enjoyed my time in Cloontagh school. It has been such a joy to get to know and to foster the development […]

We did some drama based on what we read in ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ . The question was : Should I bring my  starving children to the workhouse ? At art time we did some visualisations based on what teacher read, and also we learned a lot of new vocabulary from reading this book. We […]

Smiling , happy children back at school !

Cloontagh NS will reopen to all children on Thursday August 27th.  As we return to school, our overriding objectives are to maintain the health and wellbeing of our pupils and staff and to prevent the spread of COVID19. To this end, we have put a number of new procedures in place. We will assess each […]

Table of Contents Introduction. 2 Cloontagh NS COVID-19 Policy. 3 Planning and Preparing for Return to School 4 Procedure for Returning to Work (RTW). 4 Return to work safely and Lead Worker Representative. 4 Safety Statement and Risk Assessment. 5 General advice to prevent the spread of the virus. 5 Managing the risk of spread […]