Carra National School Blog

Keira, Kayla and Rachel put together the following Powerpoint presentation.  Hope you enjoy it!

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Mrs O’Mahoney has put on her apron, dusted off the weighing scales and bun tins and has started giving us cookery classes.  We are really enjoying this and are enjoying the delicious smells that come from the kitchen on cookery days.  We especially love the tasting part afterwards 🙂 🙂

So far we have cooked Rock Buns, Chocolate Chip Cookies and today we are going to make Funfetti Blondes!!   

The proof of the pudding is in the eating 🙂 Yum Yum!!

Keira, Rachel and Kayla have been learning to play the guitar with teacher Conor Hickey who visits the school each week for lessons.  Its a slow process and the girls have been practising hard and are getting better every day!  They are really enjoying it.

The girls have also joined up with Bofield NS and attend swimming lessons in the Ballina Swimming Pool each Wednesday up to the Mid Term Break.  

Our first term this year is coming to an end! We break up for mid term break on 27th October. We have been busy in Art for Halloween!  

We have also been learning Halloween words as Gaeilge: 

On Monday, 16th October, Extratropical Storm Ophelia made landfall killing three people in different incidents.  Ophelia was a post tropical storm.  Met Éireann warned that the storm would be “a danger to life and property.” Ophelia is the latest hurricane in an unusual season. It’s the 10th Atlantic hurricane this season; the last time there were this many was in 1893.  Plus, the last time a hurricane this powerful hit Ireland was 1961.  

The Department of Educationa and Skills called for all schools to be closed on the Monday in anticipation of the severe storm and subsequently schools were also closed on the Tuesday to aid some schools who were severely hit.  Many shops and businesses also closed down on Monday. 

We got off very lightly in the Ballina and surrounding areas (thankfully) as Ophelia passed over us without leaving too much destruction in its wake but parts of the south of Ireland have been badly hit with many homes and businesses without water and electricity until early next week.  

More windy and stormy weather is forcast for the coming weekend as Storm Brian heads our way.  Lets hope its not as bad as Storm Ophelia!!!

Autumn leaves are falling around the school and area turning the place into a kaleidoscope of colour!  Ms Durkan took us around the school to see how many types of trees we could find around our school yard.  Afterwards we did lots of lovely things with the leaves we found:

We all got into the excitement and buzz of Mayo for Sam 2017 in September and decided to give the shelter a facelift to cheer the place up. The girls helped by Ms Durkan and Ms Clarke gave the shelter a lick of paint and decorated it with the “Red and Green of Mayo”!! You can see the outcome here;

Lending a helping hand!

Enjoying the fruits of our labour.

Ms Clarke and girls all excited for the Mayo v Dublin All Ireland

Welcome back to another school year in Carra NS. Sadly due to the small numbers on the Roll Book we have been given notice by the Department of Education & Skills that our school will close in June 2018! Although we know that our days are numbered here we intend to work hard and enjoy every minute that we have left in our school.

This year we have three pupils attending school; Keira Harrington and Rachel Moran in 6th Class and Kayla Pearse in 1st Class. We wish the girls a great year ahead!

We will keep you posted of our hard work and the adventures that come our way throughout the year. Tune in to this channel!!!

World Book Day was in early March. All our pupils dressed up as their favourite character!!
Well done guys!!!

Such lovely weather we’ve been having 🙂 Everyone is really enjoying their break times around the school!!!