Fáilte go suíomh idirlíon Scoil Chroí Íosa, Blarney. Our website hopes to provide an insight into the everyday life of our school including the wonderful and unique opportunities that are afforded to the children of Scoil Chroí Íosa. The website also contains lots of valuable information for parents and those in the wider community.
Scoil Chroí Íosa is a provider of high quality education to students from Blarney and its surrounding area. As a professional body of teachers, the staff are committed to working in partnership with parents to ensure every child reaches their full potential in a happy and stimulating learning environment. The school aims to promote full and harmonious development of all aspects of the child. We foster a love of learning, working to the best of one’s ability and developing a sense of respect and responsibility amongst our pupils.
With the above in mind, I am always extremely grateful to the hard work and goodwill of our Parents, Pupils, Teachers, SNAs, Secretaries & Caretaker, as well as our Parents Association, Board of Management and the wider community of Blarney; all of whom help make Scoil Chroí Íosa the unique, warm and welcoming school that it is.
I hope that you will find this website useful and informative and the staff and I look forward to sharing your child’s educational journey with you.
Le meas,
Michael Foley
Principal
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We as a school are proud to raise awareness of Developmental Language Disorder 💜💛
A special morning at our school as we welcomed the Lord Mayor of Cork, Fergal Dennehy! An inspiring visit for our students. 🌻🌈☀️
Last week we took time to slow down, get comfy and focus on our wellbeing 💕
Our Cosy Day was all about comfort, calm and care — a reminder to look after our minds as well as our bodies 🌸
#CosyDay #WorldMentalHealthDay
Maths Week 🎃🔮
Ms. Humphreys’ Third Class mixed up some spooky fun while learning about capacity and weight! 🧙♀️⚖️💫
Our Witch’s Brew lessons were bubbling with magic and maths! Even Mr Foley popped in to join the fun!🪄🧪
#AWitchsBrew #MathsWeek #SpookyLearning
Junior Infants Enjoy Maths Week Stations in the Halla!
Our Junior Infants are having a fantastic time taking part in super Maths Stations in the halla this week! The children are exploring counting, shapes, patterns, and problem-solving through hands-on games and activities. There’s lots of laughter, teamwork, and learning as they discover that Maths is all around us — and lots of fun too!
✨ Maths Week Madness! ✨
5th Class have started their Maths Challenges of the week with a fantastic start! 🔢
Tonight’s homework: an Angle Hunt around their homes 🏠📐 Spotting right, acute, and obtuse angles everywhere and getting creative with everything from baked goods to wheelie bins! 🐝 #MathsWeek #mathsweekireland
🎵 We Will Rock You! 🥁 Ms Humphreys’ 3rd Class showing off their percussion skills!
A big thank you to @blarneywoollenmills ! 🧶 Ms. Walsh’s Rang a Cúig enjoyed a fantastic tour learning how jumpers are made,from traditional methods to modern techniques, and we even saw how they still make them by hand today! We also visited the original Christie’s gift shop and the old Muskerry Tram station 🚋 A great morning exploring local history as part of our Cork Heritage Project!
🏐 Huge congratulations to our boys’ Sciath na Scol football team! After a hard-fought battle, they’ve secured a fantastic semi-final win! A brilliant performance — onwards to the final! 🏆
Cosy Day in Senior Infants! - first things first… Puzzle Time!
Junior Infants had a wonderful Cosy Day at school! Everyone came dressed in their favourite pyjamas, cuddled up with soft toys, blankets and beanbags, and even built a fort. It was a warm, relaxing day full of smiles, laughter, and friendship!
Ms. Fitzgerald’s 4th class loved World Mental Health Day. They enjoyed working collaboratively to solve team challenges, paying each other compliments , clay projects, mindful movements and having fun together 🌞🌞
Classes in the senior building joined @fionaformanwellbeing a well known Wellness guru for a workshop about minding their mental health.
Mr. Carroll’s class enjoyed a lovely guitar and song session with Antonia, Keith, Michelle and Susan today, while sipping on hot chocolate, nibbling cookies, and relaxing in their cosy pyjamas to celebrate World Mental Health Day! 🎸☕🍪💛
✨ For Mental Health Day, Ms.Burke’s 2nd class embraced comfort and connection as they came to school in their cosy clothes and enjoyed fun games during golden time! A perfect reminder to relax, laugh, and look after our wellbeing 💚 #MentalHealthDay #WellbeingMatters
As part of our school’s Cosy Day to mark Mental Health Day, Ms. Walsh’s 5th class joined Ms. Priestley’s junior infants and Ms. Carroll’s junior & senior infants for some shared reading 📚✨ A lovely mix of cosy, calm and community spirit!
Massive congratulations to both our boys’ and girls’ Sciath na Scol football teams who finished their group stages in style today! Both teams winning all 4 games out of 4! 🏆👏 An incredible achievement and now on to the semi-finals! 🥳 @blarneygaa
Nature’s little visitor stole the show in our outdoor classroom today 🐛
Today Rang a Cúig had a very special visitor, our much loved former caretaker, Michael Murray!
Michael shared wonderful stories about local history with the class, bringing the children’s history projects to life. It was a real treat to welcome him back! ☀️🌈🌻
River Walk 🏞️
3rd class are learning about rivers with our student teacher Emma Forrest.
Junior Infants cut out and coloured pictures from the rhyme Humpty Dumpty. They glued them onto their pages in the right order. Junior Infants are so good at sequencing 🌟 🌈
Massive congratulations to these boys on their fantastic win at a recent hurling blitz they played with @blarneygaa ! 🏆🎉
Maths on the move! 🚗✨ Ms. Walsh’s 5th Class headed outside today to tally the colours of cars passing the school and then turned their results into bar charts. A fun way to explore averages, mode, median and more! 📊🌈
Well done to all our children who took part in the student council elections. The speeches were excellent and we are so proud of you all. Congratulations to our newly elected student council, we look forward to seeing all the great work you will do this year! 🌟 🎉
A beautiful autumn outing for Mrs Humphreys’ 3rd Class 🍂 Blarney Castle Gardens, picnic treats and playground fun!
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