Easter Raffle Fun '25!🐣🐣

We had a fantastic time at this year’s Easter Raffle – a big thank you to our amazing Parents' Council for making it all happen! Each class won a special prize, and many lucky students went home with delicious Easter eggs. What a great way to celebrate the season! 

Easter Fun 🐰🐰
Senior Infants had a wonderful time celebrating Easter with fun learning and lots of creativity! They explored numbers using ten frames and playing cards, made colourful patterned Easter eggs, and learned about Picasso, tints, and shades.They also created Easter bunnies, decorated eggs with wool and fabric, painted cherry blossom trees, and made lovely cards for family and friends. A joyful mix of learning and art!

Green Day March '25 ☘️☘️

We celebrated Green Day for St. Patrick's Day on Thursday, with everyone dressed in their brightest green! It was a fun day filled with festive activities and creative outfits. Thank you to all the students for making it special! 

Celebrating World Book Day  6th March '25 📚📚

What a fantastic celebration of creativity and imagination today at Fenor NS! Our students dazzled us with their amazing costumes, bringing characters from their favorite books to life. From classic heroes to whimsical creatures, the ideas were truly inspiring. It was a day filled with laughter, learning, and a shared love for reading. Thank you to everyone who participated and made this World Book Day unforgettable! 

An Exciting Visit Feb.'25 🚂🚂

Our students were delighted to welcome Lareina Kirwan to the school today for a fascinating talk about her role as a 'Train Driver'. The children were captivated as she shared insights into her daily routine and the different types of trains she operates. They were especially excited to see a train driver’s key, a piece of train track, and a collection of fantastic photographs. A huge thank you to Lareina for an engaging and memorable visit! 

Féile Fichelle '25 

Well done to all the members of our Fenor NS chess teacm who took part in the Féile Fichill in Gaeilscoil Trá Mhór. A fantastic day was had by all and our school was well represented by these fine students.

Grandparents Day '25

Grandparents Day was a great success. We were so luck to have Grandparents join us from all over the country - Galway, Limerick and even Dublin! The children had great fun playing games with their grandparents in the classroom. Afterwards, grandparents had a chance to have a cup of tea and cake in the hall, which was followed by a prayer service. What a super day. Check out lots of photos HERE!

Peace Proms '25

Well done to all the children who participated in the Peace Proms this year. Once again, it was a specatcular event. Check out more photos HERE.

Christmas Buzz 2024 🧑‍🎄🎄

The past two weeks have been brimming with festive cheer as we embraced the magic of Christmas together! 

🎁 Christmas Raffle
Excitement filled the air during our Christmas Raffle. Thank you to the Parents Council who did an amazing job of organising it and helped make this event such a success! Congratulations to all our lucky winners.

🎶 Carol Service
The beautiful voices of our students and teachers rang out during our Carol Service, bringing festive spirit and joy to everyone who attended.

🌟 Nativity Play
A huge well done to all the students involved in our Nativity Play. Their performances were truly magical and reminded us all of the reason for the season.

📽️ 2nd Class Cinema Trip
The 2nd class had a special treat with a trip to the cinema! It was a memorable experience for our young moviegoers, filled with laughter and excitement.

Check out some photos HERE!

Red Kettle Visit  November '24

The Red Kettle play 'How to Steal the World'  involving all the children from Junior Infants up to 6th Class was incredible. Check out lots of photos HERE.

Novemeber '24

Senior Infants made sets of seven recently and used their maths eyes to find sets of seven around the room. They also went on a 2D shape hunt in the school garden and drew pictures of items they found. Aswell as Maths, in their station play they were playing roll and colour, threading patterns using beads and making items for the supermarket using playdoh and mats. They are exploring the theme 'shopping' this month as part of integrated learning so designed their own shop. They made shopping lists and price tags for the shop, they created items and characters for the shop out of stickle bricks and used blocks to create villages with shops. They listened to stories about shopping and retold rhymes. Check out lots more photos HERE.

Halloween 2024 👻🎃

Maths Week October '24

Maths week was a great success again this year. Junior Infants and Senior Infants participated in a  maths trail around the school which was so much fun.  All classes set up maths stations with a variety of games . 4th class students were  diving into exciting times tables games to sharpen their multiplication skills! These fun, interactive activities help build confidence in maths while promoting teamwork and a love for learning. The games offer a playful way to practice, challenge each other, and boost their number sense, making maths both engaging and enjoyable for everyone!  Lost more photos HERE.

Winning Fenor Team Visiting the School 

4th Class Oct.'24

Check out lots more photos HERE

Sports Day June '24 🏅🍦

Sports day was so much fun this year. We were blessed with the weather while children participated in all the events organised by Mr. Conway. Check out some photos HERE. As a treat, the children enjoyed ice-cream from the ice cream van at the end of the day. 

Music Generation Concert June '24 👏👏

Today we had our Music Generation Concert. It was just amazing! Junior infants, Senior Infants and 1st class sang some fun catchy melodies accompanied by Rian on the guitar.  2nd & 3rd Class sang, and the 3rd also played the ukulele. 4th Class played the ukulele and sang 'Shot Gun', 5th & 6th class played the  ukulele and sang 'Little Talks'. It was a fantastic concert and a big thanks to Rian from Music Generation.

Senior Infants Art '24 🎨🧑‍🎨

Senior infants created some amazing art during the year including pebble art and 2D shape turtles  decorating each shape with colour and pattern. They created a summer picture using lollipop sticks and craft paper to make boats on the sea with a beach in the foreground.  Not only that, but they also explored the vets in integrated learning and created some cats to bring to the vet, role played in the vets and created a small world for vets to visit and help the larger animals! Check out some of their art work HERE.

Easter  2024 🐣🐰

Fenor NS was electric this morning with the Easter Raffle. There were so many fabulous prizes organised by the Parents Council, and among them lots of delicious Easter eggs. The Easter bunny even made an appearance in every class! Check out some more photos HERE

Science Day 2024 🧪🔬

Check out lots more photos HERE.

World Book Day 7th March '24 📚📚

Fenor NS was the place to be for World Book Day. The children were very imaginative and creative with their costumes. Some children dressed up as the character Dogman, Mirabelle, Ameila Fang, Harry Potter, Farmer Tom, Spiderman, lots of princess's and even the chipmonks! Check out some more photos HERE

Literacy Bord Winners Feb. '24

Red Kettle Theatre Company Jan. '24 🎭

We had a great morning in Fenor NS with the Red Kettle Theatre Company. They performed an interactive play involving boys and girls from the all classes, playing different fairytale characters. The energy in the hall was electric! The children loved it! The talent in the school is incredible! Check out some photos HERE.

Christmas '23 🧑‍🎄🎄

Christmas time in Fenor NS is always magical. The Christmas Mass, as always was very special. Thankyou to the choir for singing  so beautifully all the lovely Christmas Carols with Ms Forristal on the organ, and Mrs. Murphy and Mr. Conway leading the choir.

The Parents Association hosted a Christmas Raffle in aid of ICT resources for the school. Local businesses donated some incredible prizes. Well done to all the lucky winners.

Lastly,  huge congratulations to  every class who put on such wonderful Christmas Plays. The talent in the school is phenomenal! The 

Halloween October '23👻🦇🎃

What a day in Fenor NS! The children made a huge effort and dressed up in the most incredible scarey costumes. Check out all the great photos below. As for the staff, they arrived as bright coloured crayola crayons! The cake sale was a huge success, with such an amazing array of buns, cakes and Halloween treats. 

Active Assembly October '23 🏋️🏃

The school had great fun Wednesday morning, starting the school day with a HIT exercise session lead by Lynne Hutchinson. The whole school gathered together in the hall and followed Lynne's instructions doing - squats, running on the spot, lunges and many more cool moves. Thankyou so much Lynne.

Literacy Board Competition Winners 👏👏

Orange Day  6th October 2023

We were delighted to celebrate 'Orange Day' in Fenor NS to support the Solas Centre. Children and staff wore something orange and made a  two euro donation in aid of the Solas Centre. The new Student Council arranged some great fun activities for each class. Well done to the School Council and to all who participated 👏👏👏.

Time Capsule Event 2023 🌈🚀

The children in Fenor National School were honoured to be one of only 25 schools in Ireland to take part in the Green School’s Time Capsule Event. In celebration of Green Schools 25th Anniversary, An Taisce chose 25 outstanding schools to design a poster outlining our hopes and wishes for the next 25 years. Each school taking part are encouraged to send the capsule to the next school using a sustainable method of travel. The Time Capsule was sent to us from a school in Wexford by registered post. We are then sending it to Knockmahon Primary School. 

One of our pupils in 5th class, Matthew Byrne’s Mam teaches in Knockmahon N.S.. Matthew was delighted to accept the Time Capsule and will pass it to his Mother who will bring it with her to school. Thank you Matthew.

Literacy Board 2023

These are the photos of the Literacy Board winners for January '23 and February '23 along with the winners of the Book Review Competition. Well done to all the boys and girls. 👏👏👏

Christmas 2022 🧑‍🎄❄️🎄⛪

Christmas, as always, is a wonderful time of year for all the children in Fenor NS.  We had an exciting Eight Days of Christmas, as a build up to the Christmas holidays. This included many fun activities including an exploration of Christmas Around the World, a  'Hot Chocolate Day' and of course our wonderful Carol Service, which can you watch HERE.

Halloween 2022 👻🎃🧙‍♀️

Fenor NS was the place to be Friday before Halloween. Check out lots more scary photos HERE

'One Kind Word' -  Anti Bullying Week Nov. 2021

Anti-bullying Week ran from the 15th to the 19th of November. The theme for this year’s week was ‘ONE KIND WORD’. During the week classes explored the topics of bullying, being a nice friend and the uniqueness of us all. It is hoped that by promoting the use of kind words, then one kind word will lead to another among the children in our school. Fifth and sixth class were visited by our friendly Community Garda who spoke with the children about Cyber Bullying. The whole school took part in Odd Socks Day and had an Outdoor Assembly around being kind and being a nice friend.  

'Christmas Concert 2020'

Every year we celebrate Christmas with a Carol Service or a  Christmas Concert, which unfortunately couldn't  happen this year! However, we decided we would share some Christmas Spirit with you by having a virtual Christmas Concert. Check it out  Here