St. Leonard's National School, Dunnamaggin

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...

2nd, 3rd & 4th classes visited Gairdín na Gorta in Newmarket and learned about the significance of the famine on Ireland and the Irish...

2nd & 3rd Class were busy making cards and writing newspaper articles for the special women in their lives.

The Greenschools Committee were pit in force as they took to the streets if Dunnamaggin, litter picking as part of their Day of Action.

3rd and 4th class enjoyed a lovely morning of hurling in sun drenched Mullinavat. Many thanks to Kilkenny Gaa for organising this...