St. Leonard's National School, Dunnamaggin

The Parents’ Association are working with Mrs Delahunty to help the school understand the best approach to educating children in relation...

Santa arrived in Dunnamaggin last Tuesday morning, and as you can see the excitement was electric.

Junior and Senior Infants were so excited to see Santa visit our school in his sleigh! 🎅🏻🎄

We had great fun this morning designing and creating structures with our new nexus building blocks. Some made their names, some made nerf...

From joke-telling to magic tricks, hip hop to hurling drills, mini sketches and lots more, here are some photos from the 5th & 6th Class...

We love Ipad time. This month we are doing Epic. Mrs Langton assigns books; some we read ourselves, some are audio and others read to us...

We did a Well Being Webinar with Athlone Education Centre and we really enjoyed reflecting on our year so far and discussing what we are...

We had great fun exploring the different properties of 3D shapes today. Lots of great team work and maths talk from this brilliant bunch...

2nd & 3rd class are drumming to Dance Monkey 🐒

We observed the reaction of dancing raisins in 7Up. The raisins first sank because they are dense, however the carbon dioxide bubbles in...

Well done to all our pupils from 3rd to 6th class who participated enthusiastically in our Science Week Quiz. A special congratulations...

Some of 5th and 6th class pupils did buddy reading with Junior and Senior infants today. They had great fun and the older pupils were so...

The younger classes loved trying out our marble runs!

We explored kinetic energy / energy in motion this week by making our very own marble runs from recyclable materials. We observed how the...

2nd & 3rd class enjoyed a wonderful Science Show exploring bubbles; their properties, shapes and investigating lots of experiments on...

Floating and Sinking. Will an orange float? Why? Will a peeled orange float? Why?

We investigated the chemical reaction that occurs when vinegar (acid) and an egg shell (calcium carbonate) mix. Not only did the egg...

3rd and 4th class were busy investigating which solids dissolve in water to make a solution. We also investigated whether the heat of...