On Thursday November 12th, as well as a talk on Healthy Eating, we also had a talk in the school hall on Internet Safety for parents. This is an important topic for parents to be informed about and parent and IT professional Debbie Woodward gave an excellent presentation to parents. The presentation covered areas such as Social Networks (Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Messenger), Online
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On Thursday November 12th, a meeting for parents was held in the school to outline our new Healthy Eating Guidelines for school. This was the culmination of a lengthy process of consultation between teachers, parents and pupils. A committee of staff and parents consulted with the general parent body and the pupils of the school to ascertain their views on healthy eating. Some of
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The year 2014/15 saw a huge change in our school with the development of our new extension. This included the building of “The Glen”, our ASD Unit, as well as the building of a new mainstream classroom and the redevelopment of the surrounding school yards. An outdoor soft play area was also developed. Building on the new extension commenced in May 2014 and we
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Myra’s Story, a one-woman play by Brian Foster, will be performed by Coolera Dramatic Society in Kilmacowen Hall for four nights on September 16th-19th. The society have kindly offered to share the proceeds of the four-night run with the school. Tickets, priced at €10, are now on sale from the school office. We urge parents to support this night’s entertainment by purchasing tickets from
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Ransboro National School is an amalgamation of two previous national schools in the parish, namely Knocknarea NS and Kilmacowen NS. Our school opened in 1981 with the closure of these two schools. We have recently come into possession of the attendance board for the final day of Knocknarea NS in 1981. These attendance boards were commonplace in national schools in times gone by. This
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Last week the pupils in The Glen made Fruit Kebabs to give everybody an opportunity to taste different types of fruit. We used banana, apple, pear, kiwi, mango, orange, melon and kaki. We looked at the colour of the skin and the inside of each of the fruit. We cut them up into cubes and each pupil put their own selection of fruit onto
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We planted herbs in our Sensory Garden in The Glen yesterday. We planted the herbs in the soil. We dug a hole with a small shovel. Then we put the plant into the hole. We watered the plant using a watering can. Next we put the soil back around the plant and we patted the soil. We then watered the plants some more. We
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Well done to Jack in 6th class who features in the new GAA Around Ireland video. This was an all Ireland schools collaboration video where each of the 32 counties passes the ball to each other through a variety of GAA sports. It will be shown in Croke Park at the launch of the GAA Go Games.
Our Open Day for parents of prospective Junior Infant pupils for September 2015 will take place on Wednesday February 18th from 1:45pm to 2:45pm. Parents can bring along their child during this time. Principal, Mrs. Siobhán Clarke, will address parents and provide them with information about enrolment for the coming school year. Our school Enrolment Policy is available to download HERE If you require
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During our Christmas Nativity Service in Ransboro Church on Thursday December 18th, a collection took place amongst the congregation. The school would like to thank the parents, grandparents, relations and friends of the pupils of the school for their most generous donations towards the most needy in our society this Christmas. The collection was divided evenly between the Sligo Social Services and the Society
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