St. Joseph's National School 
Derrywash, Castlebar

Lots of fun and creativity in 1st & 2nd Class constructing gingerbread houses, creating clay gingerbread people and exploring how to...

Watch this short video to see 3rd & 4th class sprinkle some festive creativity in their classroom. #'tistheseason

As part of our Amber Flag initiative we all had a lot fun constructing and problem solving while building forts and reading together in...

It was all about food in Infants for November. We loved the stories Handa’s Surprise, The Tiger who came to tea and the Gingerbread Man....

Fabulous standard of entries for our Green School Poster Competition focusing on the Marine Environment. The winners are pictured here...

We made our own rockets in 3rd & 4th class this week (totally influenced by the fun 1st & 2nd were having!) We fuelled our rockets with...

In October Junior and Senior Infants learned all about dinosaurs. The class was a creative, informative, explorative and playful place to...

Very exciting Halloween celebrations in Derrywash N.S. which included Halloween fest by 5th and 6th Class, a spooky forest trail, games,...

Everything got a little bit festive in Art this week. We loved seeing these ghost decorations come to life and glow in the dark 👻

A fantastic day for 1st-4th Class at the Castlebar Rugby Club blitz today. Learning new skills, working as a team and having a lot of...

Here's a before and after picture of the beautiful Halloween pumpkin art that 3rd & 4th class did this week.

Thank you Olwyn for coming to Derrywash and doing a fabulous, inclusive tennis blitz with all of our students. Here's just a teeny...

Mixing warm and cold colours to create these beautiful autumn paintings in 3rd & 4th class

The theme for our first month in Junior and Senior Infants was Colour. We read some great books together and created art based on them....

Artwork inspired by Jim Dine's 'The Little Heart in Landscape'. 3rd & 4th really enjoyed learning about the artist and creating their own...

During Art this week 1st and 2nd Class celebrated International Dot Day, a global celebration of creativity, courage and collaboration. ...

3rd & 4th needed a little help from the infant class today in order to complete their art lesson. Take a look at the video to see all the...

Congratulations to both our girls and boys teams on a very successful mini 7s outing today. Our girls were victorious after a hard fought...

Making memories on the first week back to school with a little walk to the rugby club on a sunny day. Such an enjoyable exercise...

The smiles that come with ice-cream are extra special! Thank you to our fabulous parents association for treating all the pupils to this...