St. Joseph's National School 
Derrywash, Castlebar

A super spooky day in Derrywash N.S. thank you to our 5th and 6th Class and Mr Tiernan for an amazing Halloween show and games, we had a Spooky Walk in the Forest together with our buddies and everyone put in fantastic effort with their costumes! Oíche Shamhna Shona Daoibh

Maths Week 2025 in Derrywash NationalSchool  Maths trails, playful learning and fostering positive dispositions towards numeracy, we have had a fantastic week collaborating with our peers and learning inside and outside our classrooms

An active and fun day in Derrywash. We are so lucky to be 1km away from the Castlebar Rugby Club facility. Our whole school walk to the...

Engineers Week in Derrywash National School Starting off Engineers week with a visit from engineers Ronan and Christina from AbbVie , we...

A peek inside the classroom as we study the seas as part of preparation for the Marine Green School Award.

The very cool ARC visited us. We learned all about aquaculture and the story of Salmon of Knowledge

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Congratulations to our winners whose posters have been submitted to the Green School's national competition.

We loved studying China these past few weeks, and we are very proud of how these two (snake and dragon eye) art projects turned out. We...

When our reading buddy partner becomes our writing buddy partner all the fun begins! We are exploring the explanation genre in our...

What a great day we had today, from our woodland walk with our buddies, a talent show and Halloween games organised by 5th & 6th class....

Things got very spooky in our class the last few weeks. Have a look at some of our spooky self portraits and hunted windows.

Maths Week in Derrywash NS was play based and so much fun. Lots of in class games and buddy activities. Here are a few pictures to give...

Junior Infants-2nd Class were excited to see the show "Bully, Bully" in the Linenhall Arts Centre.

In 1st and 2nd Class we are engaging in playful learning experiences  to explore our literacy, numeracy and SEE themes further. Check out...

What a fantastic start to the school year for 3rd & 4th class. They went to the Linenhall Arts Centre to see an art exhibition, which was...

We are excited to welcome our new Junior Infants to Derrywash.

In April Infants had lots of fun looking at old photos of themselves and Mrs Jennings and Mrs Fitzgerald to spot any changes! We were...