​The boys and girls in Broughall NS were treated to a fantastic learning experience on Friday the 27th of September. Phil McCheyne and his team brought their hot air balloon to Broughall NS. Phil and his team had been participating in the Irish Hot Air Ballooning Championships in Birr Castle and kindly agreed to take time out of their busy schedule and visit us. The children were fascinated as to how the hot air balloon operated. Phil and his team were excellent in how they answered all the children’s questions and they gave the children a great insight into different factors needed for a hot air balloon to fly. We all learned so much about hot air balloons. All pupils got the opportunity to get into the basket, helped with the laying out of the balloon and actively prepare the balloon for take off. The whole experience exposed the children to a whole range of learning opportunities and we are very thankful to Phil Mc Cheyne and his team for making all this possible. 

Hurling Coaching is taking place every Friday for all pupils. Adrian Clancy is our football coach this year.

Aistear is in full swing in the junior room. This months theme is the 'Doctors Surgery'. Pupils in the junior room are enjoying making our doctors surgery and reception.  Aistear is a great way to teach new vocabulary and improve their oral language skills. 

Well done to all team players.  It was a great game from both sides and it was great to see everybody from 2nd class up totake part and  get a chance on the field.

Congratulations to our 2nd class pupil for celebrating his First Holy Communion. Well done to everyone who sang in the choir on the day, you made the day very special. Well done.

This week we have been learning all about 'Energy and Forces'. We had great fun learning about magnets and taking part in different experiments. 

Since we came back after the Easter break we have been busy learning all about the job of a postman. We discussed the different areas that our local postman delivers mail to, we talked about how it is an important job and we looked at the layout of the address on the envelope. We then decided we would post our own letters to a person of our choice. We had cards and letters going to all different parts of the country and even as far as England. The children really enjoyed this project and it was great to see them so interested in learning all about the local area.

Well done to Mary who represented the school in the Easons Spelling Bee competition. The competition was held in Tullamore Educate Together N.S where  21 spellers battled it out to become the County Offaly winner. It was a very tough competition and we are very proud of Mary's efforts. Well done.

The pupils in the junior room  made their own  brown bread. They worked together to measure all the ingredients and follow the recipe.  Everyone got to enjoy fresh brown bread and jam for lunch. Well done.

In geography we were learning about different habitats within the school grounds. We discussed what types of bugs we might see and where we might find them. We decided to take advantage of the fine weather and go on a bug hunt and the main bug we wanted to find was the woodlouse. There were lots of stones and flower pots gently overturned and we saw lots of mini beasts. We wanted to take a closer look at the woodlouse so we gently put three woodlouse into clear containers so we could look at them under the microscope. We also got to see some slugs and snails under the microscope. 

Thank you to our two sixth class pupils for making pancakes for the rest of the senior room and thank you Tiana for bringing in pancakes for the junior room. They went down a treat.

Congratulations to Mary and Patrick on making their Confirmation and well done to everyone who sang in the choir.

It was great to see the senior room helping the junior room making their St. Bridget's Day Crosses. Fr. Houlihan came out and blessed our crosses. We made 70 extra crosses which Fr. gave out to the sick and at Mass.

On Thursday the 13th of December we had a great day performing our show for grandparents, siblings and members of the community. That evening we performed again for parents and siblings, the concert went so well that we had a party afterwards while parents relaxed and had a cup of tea. All the pupils hard work paid off as they were super on the night. Well done to all.

Today we went on a school trip to the library.  We had a great time. Funny stories were read to us, we talked about all different types of books and even got to learn some pirate language. 

Well done Tiana.