All Classes
School Tour to ATU
WHERE? We went to the ATU (Atlantic Technological University) on the 16/6/2026. When we got there we went to the snack room to put our lunch bags in the room. WHAT WE DID. First we did warmups in the sports hall and then we met this guy named David. The warmup was...
Sun Smart Art Competition
Our 4th class entered the Sun Smart Art Competition You had to make sun smart Superheros that includes the 5S'. The five S' are slip on clothes,slop on suncream and slap on a sun cap seek shade and slide on sunglasses. You had to use your own imagination to create...
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...
Rising Rockets Roar
Artemis II What we learned in school was that the Artemis II was a historical event for NASA and the whole world. It was launched on April 1st 2026. It completed it's mission around the moon coming back to land safely in the Pacific Ocean on April 11th 2026. It was...
First Holy Communion 2026
On Saturday, May 9th, Mrs McChrystal’s second class made their First Holy Communion in St. Columba’s church in Drumoghill. It was the first communion celebration in the recently renovated church. Fr. Martin Cunningham celebrated the mass. There were readings and...
Exploring Space
We have been having an amazing time exploring space and discovering all about the different planets and world we live in. The classroom has been full of excitement as we sang fun, space-themed songs together.During Aistear, we became real astronauts, working in space...
Seachtain na Gaeilge art competition winner
Bhuaigh Abbie, Rang 1, an comórtas dathúcháin ó chomórtas SnaG 2026 i gcomhar le Leabharlanna Dhún na nGall. Is é an duais trealamh ealaíne stórála Scentos Mega. Comhghairdeas Abbie!
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...
GAA coaching
Ms Rodger's class have been busy learning GAA skills this term with Eddie from St.Eunans GAA club. They have been learning to pick the ball up, solo, fist pass and kick pass while having fun. The boys and girls have made lots of improvements. Well done everyone.
Exploring Spring
This week in our Stay Safe lessons we explored the topic of touches and learned about our five senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. We are also learning all about Spring and the changes we notice in nature at this time of year. As part of our learning, we...
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...
Yummy pancakes!!
We got pancakes on pancake Tuesday. Mary and Moira made them for us. She put chocolate sauce and marshmallow sweets on them to make a smiley face. They were delicious. Thank you, Mary and Moira.
Dressing for Success!
Our EAL pupils have been exploring the world of fashion! While learning about the theme of clothing, the children worked together to dress our Teddy. This activity gave pupils the chance to use their new vocabulary and construct sentences describing Teddy's outfit...
We’re all so proud of Abbie!!
Abbie got her hair cut for the Laura Lynn charity. She went to her cousin Alice's house and she cut her hair. She put them into braids and cut them off for charity. Abbie said "I was so happy when I got it done!" Well done Abbie. We're all so proud of you.
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...
2nd & 3rd class Newsletter
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...
The Pumpkin Patch
In spring, 3rd Class and 2nd Class planted pumpkin seeds. We filled plastic pots with soil. We watered the seeds. We put the plastic pots in a tray. There were three trays. We put the trays on the windowsill. We checked them every day. After three weeks we saw them...
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...
Autumn Trees
We drew and coloured an Autumn tree. We used crayons and colouring pencils. We used yellow, orange, red and green colours. By Oisin Buchanan (2nd Class) and Michael Quinn(3rd Class)
Junior and Senior Infants let their voices be heard
Ms. Whoriskey's Junior and senior infant class did some beautiful art using bubble wrap. The children got to tell the world all about themselves. They are so confident and we are so proud of them!!
Welcome to our new Junior Infants for the school year 2025/26
We welcomed 10 new junior infants this year. Sasha Arlo Hannah Shane Fiadh Lincoln Darrius Scarlet Yanis Yannika They have all settled in to big school and are really enjoying learning new and wonderful things with Ms. Whoriskey.
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...
First Holy Communions
Congratulations to the boys and girls in 2nd Class who made their First Holy Communion on 10th of May in the Church of All Saints, Newtowncunningham. It was a lovely family day, made even nicer by the beautiful weather. The children carried out their roles with great...
Firemen visit our school
On Tuesday 6th May, three fire members came in to teach 3rd Class about fire safety. Their names were Barry, Seán and Fawaz. They taught us how to stop, drop and roll and to test your smoke alarm every week. Barry is working with the fire service for fourteen years,...
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Congratulations to the boys and girls in 2nd Class who received the Sacrament of Reconciliation this week. The children were wonderful and Fr Cunningham complimented each and every one of them on how well they had prepared. The children were presented with a...
Lenny the Lizard
The boys and girls in the Junior classes recently had a visit from the author of Lenny the Lizard, John David McHale and his son Finn who did the illustrations. He read the story, spoke to the children about the story and they did some colourings. Our first class were...
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...
Gymnastics Junior and Senior infants
Over the course of 6 weeks, Junior and Senior Infants were doing gymnastics at Citadel in Letterkenny. Their coaches were called Ciaran and Niamh. They were really excited when they found out they were doing gymnastics. They reallyenjoyed doing the bars, trampoline...
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...
Being creative for Valentines day
The boys and girls from Miss Whoriskey's junior and senior infants and Ms. Rodgers senior infants and first classes were being very creative for Valentines day. They made lovely gifts for Mum's, Dad's, Grandparents and special friends. Miss Whoriskey's class made...
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...
Prickly Hay – 2nd & 3rd
Mrs. McDaid’s class did a play called Prickly Hay. It was brilliant. There were great songs, fantastic acting and some wonderful costumes. It had a very important message. God loves everyone and all the small things you do can make a big difference. Andrew C. (6th...
Snr infant & 1st class play
Ms. Rodgers class did the play ‘The Nativity.’ The boys and girls were brilliant saying their lines out really loud. There were some really funny parts and actors. It was a brilliant way to show how the baby Jesus was born. Well done boys and girls! Andrew C (6th...
Jnr & Snr infant’s Christmas play
Ms. Whoriskey’s Junior and senior infant class put on the play ‘The Big Little Nativity’. It was a brilliant performance. They all sang out really loud and were excellent remembering their lines. All the Mammy’s, Daddy’s and Grandparents thought it was very funny....
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...
Cycling Safety
Third class went to Drumoghill NS and did a course in cycling safety. Fergus and Gemma McDaid were our teachers. They were kind, caring and helpful. We learned how to cycle safely. First, we learned to check weather conditions and make sure we are wearing the right...
Designing the Playground
The children in first class has been designing a future playground for the school. They have come up with some amazing ideas such as swings, slides, sand pit, football nets, basketball hoops, obstacle equipment such as more bean bags, hula hoops, snakes and ladders....