Activities

Scoil an Chroí Naofa are proud to be part of An Táisce’s Green School Programme. To date we have achieved 4 Green Flag Awards in the areas of Litter & Waste, Energy, Water and Travel. In order to achieve a Green Flag Award the school community must commit to implementing a new theme over a two year period. A Green Schools Committee, consisting of children representing each of the class bands, has been established in our school. The committee, in conjunction with the Green Schools coordinator, decides what needs to be done and involves the rest of the school community in implementing our plans. At the end of the two years, a member of An Táisce visits the school. They meet with the Green Schools Coordinator, Green Schools Committee and with a few classes whom they pick at random on the day. They assess the plans that have been drawn up and implemented over the agreed time frame. They also interview the committee based on the work that has been done in the school. If they are satisfied with our work the school is then presented with a Green Flag Award. In June 2010 we were delighted to receive our new Green Flag for Travel. Galway hurler Ollie Canning was our guest of honour on the day and raised our new flag for us. It is flying proudly at the entrance to Scoil an Chroí Naofa. In September 2010 we began our journey towards achieving our 5th Green Flag Award based on the theme ‘Biodiversity’. We hope that with a lot of hard work and commitment from everyone in our school, we can keep Scoil an Chroí Naofa a Green School and achieve our 5th Green Flag Award.

Guest of Honour - Ollie Canning

With great excitement,the Green Flag is raised!!

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Drama in Scoil an Chroi Naofa

Drama and the arts play an important role in life at Scoil an Chroi Naofa. We enjoy performances from various classes at Christmas and at summer. Every child in Scoil an Chroi Naofa has an opportunity to perform on stage or be part of the back stage crew; thus boosting self confidence and attaining a huge amount of joy from the experience.
This Christmas we all enjoyed “The Nativity” performed by junior infants, “The Missing Christmas Trees” performed by 2nd class and some children from the Rainbow room and “A Substitute for Santa Claus” performed by 6th class and the senior language class.
We are really looking forward to our summer performances!!

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School Choir

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

Scoil an Chroí Naofa’s choir was established in 1998. Since then our school choir continues to perform for many school and community concerts as well as liturgical events. We have taken part in the Hallelujah Christmas Concert from 1999 - 2002 which was staged in the then Point Depot now the O2. We have performed in local choral events most notably the Mid West Choir Fest in which we received a runner up prize for the large school choir category in 2004. Our choir’s involvement with The National Children’s Choir began in 2003 and this year sees us busily preparing for the regional concert which will be held in Athlone IT on April 13th with nine children from our choir then being selected to perform in the National Concert Hall during the weekend of May 28th – May 30th. This year’s choir of seventy pupils from fifth and sixth class is under the direction of Edel Moriarty, Christine McLoughlin, Teresa Finnerty and Carol Kilcoyne.

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Sport in Scoil an Chroí Naofa

Boys Football
Mr. Rynne trains the boy’s football team in the school after school on Thursdays from 3pm-4pm. The boy’s football blitz will take place on Tuesday 29th March 2011 in Kilconieran pitch. We are playing in the 11-a-side competition. We will be up against Carrabane, Gaelscoil Riabhach, Bullaun and Ballymacward. The team which finishes top will qualify for the county final which will be held later in the year.

Girls Football
Miss Naughton and Mr. Rynne are responsible for training the girls football team. Training takes place at lunch times on Wednesdays and Fridays.
The girl’s football blitz will take place on 12th May 2011 in Kiltormer. There will be 2 groups playing each other on the day and the winners of each group will meet in the final.

Group A
Ballymacward
Clontuskert
Lawrencetown
Kilconnel
Duniry

Group B
Mullagh
Cappataggle
Ballinasloe
Ahascragh
Fohenagh

School Leagues
Mr. Rynne also organises a boys and girls school football league every summer. Four boys from 6th class and four girls from 6th class pick teams consisting of children from 3rd to 6th Class. The games are played in a league format with the top 2 teams facing each other in the finals. The winning captains receive the Thomas Hughes Trophy (Boys) and the John Keane Trophy (Girls). There are also medals for the winning teams.

Hurling
Mr. Noone is in charge of preparing our school hurling team for the championship. Training is on every Thursday after school. In our group this year is Eyrecourt, New Inn, Leitrim and ourselves. The blitz will be on the 11th May in New Inn.

Camogie
Every Monday from 3-4pm camogie training takes place, Ms.McCarthy trains the camogie team in Scoil an Chroí Naofa. Last September we won two of our three games in the 7 a-side competition in Kiltormer. At the moment we are training to compete in the Cumann na mBunscoil competition and are really looking forward to our next game.
well done to all the girls who show great commitment and enthusiasm!

Spikeball
this year 5th class have taken up the game Spikeball. This is an adapted form of volleyball. A boys and a girls team competed in a blitzearlier this year. At the moment they are being trained by Transition students fron Ardscoil Mhuire for six weeks. After the six weeks the children will take part in a mixed blitz in May.

Spikeball

Gaelic Football Team

Gaelic goalie!!

Girls rule!!!