Thanks to our Parent's Association who organised a fun day on Thursday 17th December with Kenny Hassett delivering party games & activities to all classes. The children thoroughly enjoyed it and the selection boxes too!

 It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.....

                                Wishing everyone a lovely Christmas and all the best for 2021.

 Huge thanks to Waterford Senior Hurler Billy Power who came into school on Thursday 10th December. He did a PE session with each class who were all dressed in Blue & White to support our county team in the All Ireland Hurling Final.

Lions Peace Club Poster Competition

A huge congratulations to our very own Laura Bolger in 6th class who came in 1st place in the Lions Peace Club Poster Competition! Such a huge achievement for her and the school!! 

Some of our Junior & Senior infants enjoying using our new iPads during Aistear last week!

 

Congratutations to past pupil Kate Meehan on her entry into the Texaco Children's Art competition last year.  Well done Kate!

 

Science Week Experiments 

Chicken Bones in different solutions

Lava Lamps 

Oobleck 

 

Math's Eyes Competition Winner 

Congratulation's to Cian Quigley who won the Senior Infant Category of the Math's Eyes competition run by Waterford Teachers Centre for Math's Week.

 

Maths Week 2020

Learning the card game 25!

 

Maths Week 2020

6th class students enjoyed an array of activities during Maths Week 2020 which included learning card games, playing maths themed board games, learning maths magic tricks and completing maths trails. 

 Well done to the 6th class students who completed a Maths trail which was kindly sent to us from The Tipperary Museum of Hidden History. This trail was embedded with local history and featured an array of mathematical equations and tested the student's problem-solving abilities. 

HALLOWEEN 2020

 Our Juniors & Senior Infants and 1st Class wrote Halloween Cards to the residents of Greenhill Nursing Home.

Thanks to An Post we can send these (with some treats!), free of charge, We're in this together! 

 We would like to wish Antoinette Hogan all the very best in her retirement. She stepped down as our school cleaner at the end of August. Our Board of Management wanted to acknowledge Antoinette's hard work and service to Rathgormack NS with a card and a gift and her grand nephew Billy presnted her with a bunch of flowers. 

We would like to welcome  Bridget Hogan, our new school cleaner, to the team in Rathgormack NS also. 

Virtual Tour of the School

Our new extension and renovation is now complete, unfortunately due to Covid restrictions we can't host an open day for people to call in.  

We want to say thankyou to everyone who made this possible through their hard work and donations. 

It was fantastic to see so many past pupils and locals working on the project. We want to say a special thankyou to Eoin Hunt and his team at Clodagh Construction and all of the contractors, suppliers and the design team for their time and effort to complete the works by September despite these challenging times.  

We have created a virtual 360 tour of the new works (thanks to Francis Quigley), and we would love you to have a look around.

Awarding of Green Flag to Rathgormack NS

We were delighted to receive our latest Green Flag and Certificate. 

Thanks to Ms. Kiely, the Green School Committee (pictured above) and all the teachers, pupils and wider community for their great efforts in raising awareness of our Global Citizenship and Energy and 'For outstanding achievement in improving the environmental quality of the school and community'

Well done everyone. 

 

Dear parents / community members,

Under normal circumstances, we would love to invite you in to see our new extension and our upgraded facilities but due to Covid 19, we have to restrict visitors to our school. Therefore I have taken photographs for you to view below.

We are delighted with our new classroom and resource rooms, and the extra space in the two offices and staffroom couldn’t have come at a better time.

I would like to extend our thanks and appreciation to all parents and community members who have supported our building fund so generously. We could not have completed the work if it were not for your contributions. We have one or two projects which we would like to finish e.g a canopy over the front door, and lots of final touches inside the new extension.

Huge thanks to Eoin Hunt of Clodagh Construction and his team for managing to complete the build on time, despite losing over seven weeks on site due to Covid 19, on what was already an exceptionally tight timeline. We know Clodagh Construction put in evenings and weekends over the last few month to have the school ready for us all by September 1st. 

Kind regards,

Cathy Power

Principal

                                        Main entrance-new door/window, new ramp & railings

              New Principals office, just inside main entrance- this room was the kitchen before renovations.

Entrance area- new floor, new floors in 6th class toilets, new toilets for 6th class & new doors for toilets and 6th class classroom

Window / hatch to new secretarys office- just inside main entrance. 

View of secretaty's door and window hatch at main entrance.

                  New much larger Secretary's office- this room had been our staff room before renovations.

Corridor from main entrance leading into new extension. Corridor turns to the right at the end.

Resource room 1. Both resource rooms have interactive panels installed - similiar to interactive whiteboards.

Disabled bathroom.

                                                                  Resource room 2.

Our new classroom complete with Junior & senior infants. 

The toilets -one for boys and one for girls, are in the corner of the classroom.

            View of the top of the classroom- interactive whiteboard and regular whiteboard installed here.

                                                        Sink area in new classroom.

New larger staff room- this room had been the Resource room at the front of the school beside the old office,  before renovations.

                                                    

Corridor area outside staff room and the old office-which is now a staff toilet. New floor here, and new doors to staff toilet, staff room and into halla.