St. Leonard's National School, Dunnamaggin

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3rd class took part in Dream Space Live as part of Engineers Week. They engaged in STEM and Coding activities and even created their own voting programme.

3rd class are learning about the Vikings in history. They did projects; which included PowerPoint presentations, photos, the Norse alphabet, Viking gods, made longhouse, made shields and weapons. The other classes came in to find out all about the Vikings from 3rd class.

3rd Class celebrated St Valentine's Day by practising their MFL; French in a romantic setting as they enjoyed, le croissant, le pain du chocolate et le gateaux in our petit boulangerie in Dunnamaggin. Bon appetit!

3rd class have been working on length this week. They used wool to measure how tall they are. They made paper skeletons, measuring a member of their group and assembling the "life size" skeleton onto black paper. The did Target boards and also worked on Any Three Items. They measured how far they could run in 1 second and again in 2 seconds and also howfar they could jump. A "long" week!!

We are reading about Tom Crean, Ice Man and learning about the Antarctica. We researched Arctic animals and how they are adapted to living in these extreme conditions. We investigated how blubber acts as an insulator. We set up an experiment "a blubber glove" that mimics the blubber that insulates some animals from ice cold water.

3rd class created St Brigid's Day art depicting her two most famous stories; St Brigid's cloak and St Brigid's cross. Using fabric and matchsticks they created both to remember Brigid and thank her for Monday off school!!

Last Thursday, 3rd Class had a fantastic day at the Stripe Primary Young Scientist Exhibition in the RDS, Dublin, where they proudly presented their project titled “Food Detectives – What’s in Our Food?”. Through their project, the pupils explored what is really in the food we eat every day. They carried out a range of engaging experiments, including investigating which foods deteriorate fastest, examining grease spots to identify hidden fats, observing mould growth on differ

Duck!! You could get hit! 3rd class have a snowball fight with their catapults!

Congratulations to all the children on a truly wonderful Christmas concert today. The pupils brought the Christmas Story to life beautifully in the church, creating a very special and memorable occasion for everyone present. Ms O’Keeffe’s class set the tone with lovely tin whistle music, while our 5th and 6th class pupils confidently narrated the story. 2nd class did a fantastic job acting out the Nativity, with wonderful performances from Mary, Joseph, the angels, shepherds

3rd Class designed and built catapults! They then tested their catapults by "throwing" pom poms and marshmallows. We tested their launching abilities in the hall, both on the ground (flat) and standing (tilted). We then had a "snowball fight".

Santa Claus arrived into school on Monday with his reindeer and elf on tow! The excitement was electric! Santa confirmed thst all the boys and girls in Dunnamaggin are on the 'Nice List" and just asked that they leave a carrot out for Rudolph. Merry Christmas Santa and safe travels next week. Many thanks to the Parents Association for providing selection boxes for all the children. All proceeds from the festive visit are going towards Crumlin Children's hospital.

3rd class enjoyed some hot chocolate and cookies last Friday. They wore their Christmas jumpers and some even brought in their slippers. A very festive feel to the Late Late Toy Show Friday.

3rd Class have been very busy learning about various foods and how to read food tables and nutritional information. They put labels/ foods into groups and then put the foods in each category into healthiest to unhealthiest. It was amazing what they discovered and they were shocked themselves as to what they considered healthy!!

Many thanks to Michelle Culloty for a wonderful, engaging and interesting Maths quiz. Lots of maths talk, estimation and fun was had.

On Thursday we had a very exciting visitor; local author TJ Reid came to talk to our classes about his books and how he became an author. He read a chapter from his book, "Demon Wars" and we brought his just published new book also. Lots of questions, lots of interest and lots of inspiration to start writing stories and books ensued. Many thanks to TJ for coming to talk to us.

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 🎃

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!

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.

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

2nd and 3rd class were investigating bridges and designed the strongest bridge they could with an A4 sheet of paper. They folded a sheet...

Many thanks to KRSP for the loan of 7 balance bikes and helmets. The Junior end of the school got great "mileage" from the bikes,...

What a day in 2nd & 3rd Class. World Book Day 2025. As a school we did one Book throughout the classes; After The Fall by Dan Santat. We...

2nd and 3rd class were practicing their engineering skills with the Lego Education Boxes on lian from Kilkenny Education Centre. They...

2nd and 3rd class used the ipads to revise fractions and Time in maths by completing a QR Code Scavenger Hint around the school.

2nd and 3rd class made beautiful 3D Valentine's Cards.

Well done to our Under 11 quiz team who participated in the St. Canice's Credit Union Quiz. The boys were brilliant and should be very...

Merry Christmas everyone from 2nd & 3rd Class.

We had six weeks of gymnastics with Caoimhe where children explored balance, rolling, stretch, hand stands and cartwheels.

3rd class have been developing their engineering skills and with the guidance of the STEPS Engineering project, they came up with an idea...

In art we worked with Fabric and Fibre to create some stunning haute couture for our doll templates. The results were stunning...

2nd and 3rd class to part in the Curious Minds Science Week webinar on Monday.

On Tuesday, our 2nd and 3rd class students enjoyed an exciting history trip to Kilkenny! They explored the magnificent Kilkenny Castle...

Welcome to 2nd & 3rd Class. Mrs Langton is our teacher and Ms Rodgers is our SNA. We have been very busy the past few weeks. We met the...

Juniors, Seniors, 1st & 2nd classes went down to the woods looking for signs of summer. We had a picnic and then they participated in...