St. Leonard's National School, Dunnamaggin

It's a hive of activity in St Leonard's these days as work has began on our new agility playground!! We can't wait to use it.

Over the past few months, 3rd class have been busy thinking, questioning, sketching and building as part of the STEPS Engineering Project . Five enthusiastic teams took on the challenge of designing something that could make life easier, safer, or more fun. Their ideas were wonderfully creative — from Pet Entertainers  to keep animals active, a Bright Bin  to help with tidy classrooms, a Toasty Blanket  for cosy winter days, a Solar-Powered Car  for a greener future, and a cl

3rd class added some music to their poem "On the Ning Nang Nong" by Spike Milligan. The result was very noisy!

On Thursday, Mrs Langton and Mrs Croke's classes set off on an exciting Science Week adventure. Our first stop was Dunmore Caves , where we enjoyed a guided tour deep underground. We saw impressive stalagmites and stalactites, and learned about the 700 bats  that live there. We also discovered that Viking remains had once been found in the caves, adding a fascinating historical twist to the visit. Next, we travelled to Castlecomer Discovery Park  to take part in their Science

3rd and 4th classhad their final session of 2025 with Philly Campion on Thursday. Thanks to Dunnamaggin GAA for allowing us to use the astro turf!

Witches, skeletons, zombies, Michael Jackson, Superheros, The Lorax and many more characters invaded St Leonard's on Thursday for Halloween dress up day. The Costume parade, followed by a spooky dance or two and the announcement of the "How many Spiders" made for a very special and scary day in school 🎃

Welcome back to After School!

4th and 5th Class visited 3rd class during Maths Week to "test" their Maths Eyes and check their maths skills!

3rd class are working on their Maths Eyes. They took a photo of someat home that showed Maths and made up 3 questions based on their photo. We are having great fun finding out the answers!

It's Maths Week in St Leonard's!! To celebrate, we had Maths Hour on Tuesday. 5th and 6th class set up the stations which included; Target Number, Shape Builders, Estimation Station, Ipads, Measures, Dice throw and more. Lots of learning and fun was had.

3rd & 4th class headed to Mullinavat GAA Pitch Thursday morning for a hurling and Gaelic Football Blitz with schools from Glenmore, ...

3rd class began their autumn tree paintings / collage. First the painted autumn colours for the leaves, mixing a variety of paint colours...

As part of our STEAM we had the task of creating the longest paper chain using only 1 piece of paper. The results were staggering!

As part of our Geography Field Trip to discover and identify the natural features around Dunnamaggin, we visited our local well. For...

3rd class investigated car registrations to practice their place value in maths.

We had very special visitors to our room when Mrs Ryan brought the new infants in to visit us. Lots of brothers, sisters amd cousins were...

Welcome to third class! We have 21 students and Mrs Langton is our teacher. We are looking forward to a fun year ahead.

Congratulations to our ten winners in the Arts and Crafts section of the Piltown Show 2025! Well done to the artists and writers and all...