Thoor Ballylee

Thoor Ballylee and Friendship Fortnight

We have been learning about Thoor Balylee and have made models, designed pictures and painted our sketches of the castle. We are going to visit Thoor Ballylee on the 21st of September 2017.  A big thank you to the parents and older siblings who helped with the models and any pictures done at home.  The work done was fantastic and the children really enjoyed the experience.

Since we came back to school we have been focusing on friendship and inclusion. To this end we have been assigned buddies in the junior room, we have a buddy bench in the yard to ensure everybody is included and we have designed posters and slogans to encourage friendship. 

Welcome back 2017 - 2018

A big welcome back to our First, Second and Third class children. We are very excited to be back  and are looking forward to a great year in St. Thomas N.S.  We have had a very exciting start to our school year  with our Senior and Minor hurlers winning the All Ireland finals. We were very  lucky that  the Galway captain, David Burke and Mr. Cooney brought the Liam Mc Carthy Cup to  our school. We all  thoroughly enjoyed the occasion.

Middle Classes 2017-2018

1st Class 2017-2018

2nd Class 2017-2018

3rd Class 2017-2018

Middle Classes 2017-2018

Online resources

Having had a great school year 2015-2016 and with great progress made,it would be very beneficial for children to maintain   this by staying in touch with their learning during the summer holidays.

Reading and discussing books is of huge benefit to all. Parents can download lots of books, graded according to age, from an excellent online reading resource, Oxford Owl. These are the steps required to access this resource. 

Click on the link below  

Click on class login:

The username is : Stthomasns

The password is : reading

English reader

The following provide some other great online resources which children might enjoy,                                                                                              Maths fun

General knowledge

Encyclopedia Online

More resources online

Hope everyone has a great summer.

Happy Holidays!

Useful website for spelling

In learning spellings, children often enjoy wordsearches as a means of consolidating and focussing on particular letter strings in words. As a parent you can create your own wordsearch for your child using the following website:          
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp

School Return

We are delighted to see all our children back  ready for a new year.  We hope they will enjoy 2015/ 2016 in St Thomas' National School. A big welcome to all of our new infants. Tá súil againn go mbeidh tréimhse sona sásta acu anseo.