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Books2Home
We are delighted to be involved in the Books4Home initiative, run by the Letterkenny Rotary Club in association with Kernan's, a community-focused project that encourages a lifelong love of reading among primary school children by collecting and distributing quality...
School tour to Oakfire Adventure park
yoOn Tuesday the 9th of June, 5th and 6th class went on there school tour. Everyone came super early because the bus was leaving at 9:00 and it was going take 40 minutes. The bus came and everyone got on. We headed on the journey to Oakfire adventure park. When we...
Looking after what we Share!!
Our Wellbeing theme this month was 'Looking after what we share.' The boys and girls in Magherabeg showed great respect for their own and other people's property. There were a number of boys and girls in each class who made an extra special effort and these children...
Seachtain na Gaeilge 2026
Bhí seachtain na gaeilge ar súil an tseachtain seo caite i Scoil Phroinnseas Naofa, Magherabeg. Bhí roinnt gníomhaíochtaí ar siúl. Chríochnaigh sé ar an Aoine lenár ‘Lá Glas.’ Bhí tionól againn ar maidin. Chan na naíonáin bheaga agus naíonáin mhóra an amhrán ‘Feirm ag...
Óró Scoil Naomh Proinnseas
Seo é an amhran a scríobh ár rang 5&6 faoin foirne na scoile: Óró scoil Naomh Proinnseas Óró scoil Naomh Proinnseas Óró scoil Naomh Proinnseas An Scoil is fearr in Eirinn. Máistir Ó Míocháin istigh san oifig, Deirdre ar an ríomhaire, Máistreás McGinty ag...
World Book Day
On March 5th, children and teachers had the opportunity to dress up as their favorite book characters. It was wonderful to see the creativity and effort that went into their costumes. To celebrate, senior classes paired up with junior classes to read books together,...
Ficheall Chess competition
The boys and girls from Magherabeg competed in the Ficheall chess competition this year for the first time. Our student council set up a chess club this year. It has become very popular. We were hosted by Woodland NS in Letterkenny and competed against other teams...
Confirmations 2026
Confirmations for the 5th and 6th class children from Magherabeg, Drumoghill and Ray took place on Saturday, February 28th in the Church of the All Saints in Newtowncunningham. There were 41 pupils from the three schools. Ellie Rodgers and Katie O’Donnell did the...
One School, Many Friends!
We had our February assembly on the 2nd of March. First, Chelsy came up and showed us her medals from Gymnastics. Our theme in February was ‘One School, Many Friends’. The following children got certificates for being a good friend and showing others how top be a good...
Layla builds a car!
I bought a Mini Cooper to build into a rally car. It needed a new engine, but that was all part of the plan...Apparently! The first big job was stripping the car right down to a bare shell. Everything was removed — the seats, carpets, complete dash, and the full...
Uncle Wiggly Wings
In School this year we learned about Uncle Wiggly Wings known as the Candy Bomber. He was known as the Candy Bomber because he flew planes and dropped sweets in west Berlin during the war. He dropped the sweets in little parachutes for the people. He was born on the...
Starry Night – Vincent Van Gogh
Ms. McLaughlin's class recently recreated the famous painting Starry night by Vincent Van Gogh. The two classes used water colours to recreate the flowing night sky and stars the same way Vincent did all those years ago. Every Student in the class participated...
Halloween dress up at Magherabeg
Halloween dress up day in our school. Starting with Ms. Whoriskey’s class. They carved a pumpkin and had a disco. They had a party, played twister and took pictures of their costumes. Ms. Rodgers class played loads of Halloween games. Ms McLaughlin’s class played...
Growing our Sunflowers
The Sunflower seeds were planted in the spring by 2nd and 3rd class. Frankie the gardener helped them. They grew very high during the summer. It’s Autumn now and 4th and 5th class were working with Frankie in the garden. We cut the heads off the sunflowers. The heads...
Picking Potatoes from our vegetable garden
Fifth and sixth class went out into the garden where last year’s 6th class had planted potatoes. We all split up in groups of 4. There were 4 people in 4 groups. We all took turns picking out potatoes. Some of the potatoes were green. They looked like apples. They had...
Inclusion Assembly
We held our inclusion assembly today at Magherabeg to celebrate the wide variety of diverse cultures that exist in our community. Eoghan Callaghan welcomed everybody to our assembly in our native, Irish language. Charlie Rodgers and Clodagh Kavanagh read the book ‘The...
Celebrating World Down Syndrome Day
In celebration of World Down Syndrome Day, 6th Class took part in a special learning day to raise awareness and celebrate people with Down Syndrome. We spent time learning about what Down Syndrome is, and how people with Down Syndrome are just like everyone else, with...
Seachtain na Gaeilge ar scoil
Bhí seachtain na gaeilge ar súil an tseachtain seo i scoil Phroinnseas Naofa. Bhí roinnt gníomhaíochtaí ar siúl. Chríochnaigh sé inniu lenár 'Lá Glas.' Bhí tionól againn ar maidin. Dúirt na naíonáin bheaga agus naíonáin mhóra dán agus chan siad amhrán. Dúirt na...
World Book Day – Juniors and Seniors Read Together
On the 7th of March, the students from 6th Class, 5th Class and 4th class spent some time reading stories to 2nd Class, 1st Class, Junior and Senior Infants. The older children prepared their books and some questions first. Each student had a book to read to the...
World Book day
The boys and girls in Magherabeg dressed up as their favourite characters for world book day. Some came as fictional characters while others came as non-fictional characters. We had characters from novels, storybooks, comics, sports books, books about cars..... we had...
6th Class – Silent Night
Mrs. McChrystal’s 6th class play was set in the 18th century. It was all about how the famous hymn Silent Night came to become famous. It was the first time the nativity was performed. It focused on the message of Christmas preparation, being grateful and making the...
It’s a Cracker – 4th & 5th Class
The 4th and 5th class play was an educational comedy for children and adults. Everyone put in a lot of effort and had a great time. It showed how Jesus was born and how a family Christmas dinner could be chaotic. Thank you to all the students who took part and the...
Magherabeg Elect it’s first student council
. In November, Mr. Meehan came into our classroom and announced to us that we would be having a student council. He explained all the things the student council members would have to do and the positions that there were. After that, everyone was deciding if...
Science Week
During Science Week, the pupil’s in Ms Mc Laughlin’s 4th and 5th class made 3D volcanos. This was part of their Science Week celebrations. They used paper, plastic bottles and cardboard to create their volcanoes. They then painted and decorated the volcanoes. They...
Learning about Bees
On Friday the 11th June we had a visitor Stephen Gaffney,who is a bee keeper and he came in to tell all of us at Magherabeg N.S. about bees. Now we will tell you about how bees are born. Bees start as an egg and grow to larva, paya and adult. Bee facts : 5 types of...
Local History Field trip
On Wednesday the 26th of April, Mrs McChrystal’s 5th /6th class went on a historical field trip with the local Raymochy Historical society. We went to Raymochy Abbey, Ray Presbyterian church, Fort Stewart port and Manor Village. Hugh Devlin, Ann Carroll, Willy McClure...
Speech and Drama Feis
On the 21st of May, a Tuesday, we had this year's FEIS. Margot Keegan, our drama teacher, Ann Kelly, the adjudicator and our principal Mr. Meehan were watching and listening to us do our poems. Everyone showed us their speech and drama skills and everyone did...
Exploring our school environment
On Monday, May 27th students from each class were brought out behind the school to learn about wildlife and specifically plants and different types of plants. Ross from Heritage keepers came and showed us all the different plants. He told us how plants can communicate...
Confirmations
Our Confirmation took place on Tuesday March 23rd 2024 in the Church of the All Saints, Newtoncunningham. The children in 5th and 6th class were confirmed by our parish priest, Fr. Martin Cunningham. We made our confirmation with children from Drumoghill NS and Ray...
Andrew’s Rally Car
One Friday I brought my rally car, Corsa B, to School. I showed it to all my classmates. I did a lot of work on it. I put in harnesses and rally seats. I put the battery in the boot with a battery box. I bought carburettors for it. I put in fire extinguishers. My...
Growing Strawberries
Kate in Rang a Sé was inspired by our Incredible Edibles work and has been growing her own strawberries at home – and with some more success than our first attempt! She has done some research at home and a lovely piece of procedural writing explaining the whole...
Incredible Edibles
As part of our Green School’s work on Biodiversity, 5th and 6th Class have been working on the Incredible Edibles programme. Incredible Edibles is a healthy eating and growing programme. This is a hands-on SESE programme where we’ve used skills in geography, science...
Popcorn Art
Last week Ms McLaughlin’s class did popcorn art. They started by drawing a tree with lots of branches. Then they put pink dots on the branches and on the ground. After that they painted the popcorn and stuck it on with pva glue. To finish it off they sprayed paint...
Lá Glas
We had a very successful Lá Glas to celebrate the end of our Seachtain na Gaeilge. Bhí Lá Glas an-rathúil againn chun deireadh Seachtain na Gaeilge a cheiliúradh. The children dressed up in green, white and orange.Ghléas na páistí suas le glas, bán agus...
Making St. Brigid’s crosses
The boys and girls from Ms. Crawford's 5th and 6th class had a great time making St. Brigid's crosses. They brought rushes in from home and collected some more from our school environment. They participated in a webinar that showed them how to make crosses. There were...
Something Fishy
“Something Fishy” in 5th & 6th Class On the 26th February Tommy and Raymond from Inland Fishers came to visit 5th & 6th Class. First of all they told us about the water cycle and all of its different stages. After that we learned about the life cycle of a...
Kyron builds a car!
Kyron Gibson, one of our Rang 6 students, built a car with help from his Dad and Uncle. They brought it into the school for the boys and girls to see. Kyron explained to everyone how it was done and he talked about all the different car parts. More than the children...
Wellbeing
Love Donegal Day
On 14 September 2023, Ms Crawford’s 5th and 6th took part in celebrating “Love Donegal Day”. Everybody in the class got a sheet with a letter that then spelled out “Love Donegal Day”. We had to colour them in yellow and green to match the Donegal flag! Then we all...