Niall Bruton, an artist working from Donegal Craft Village in Donegal Town for over 30 years, was recently awarded the commission to design and make a permanent sculpture along the new N56 road at Drumconnor for Donegal County Council. Part of the commission asked Niall to carry out some art workshops in two nearby local schools and we were lucky enough to be asked to participate. Niall came to the school and talked to the 5th & 6th Class pupils and showed them a slide show of other sculptures he has made. He also showed them a model of the proposed sculpture for the new road.
After this, Niall held a clay workshop, getting the pupils to impress different objects into a prepared clay tablet. As the sculpture in this case is themed on the heritage of the area such as the local quarries, the mills, the creamery etc., Niall chose a heritage theme for the pupils to work on asking them in advance to bring in a hard object or two that perhapy represented their grandparents livelihoods such as old keys, farm or other old small tools, old small kitchen utensils etc. that could be pushed into the soft clay.
The finished clay tablets were then taken away and cast into decorative concrete kerbstones to surround the finished big sculpture that Niall is making Drumkeelan Quarry. The pupils put their initials on their individual tablets so that if they visit the sculpture in years to come they can look for their artwork and feel a part of it.
The finished sculpture will be on display hopefully in Autumn 2023 and the children will be able to see their artwork for many years to come! Our thanks to Niall for involving us in this project.
We were honoured today to be a part of history as Christy Jordan delivered his very last letter after 35 years working with An Post. Christy has been a great supporter of our school for all these years and has even come into the school in the past to talk to the pupils about his job. The whole school community would like to wish Christy all the very best on his retirement. Thanks Christy!
Congratulations to the Joint Winners of our Last Person Standing Competition. We were delighted to present the cheques for €250 each to Anne Kerrigan and Sean Campbell, whose cheque was accepted on his behalf by Aisling. We would like to thank everyone who took part in our competition, which we hope to run again in September. Thank you for your support.
Great fun around the school today as the sun shone on our pupils as they celebrated the feast of St. Patrick. From artwork to dancing – great craic at St. Naul’s N.S. today!
We are always keen for the pupils to be appreciative and thankful for all that they have in their lives.
In 3rd/4th Classes the children have made a ‘Gratitude Tree’
World Book Day 2022 in the Infant Classroom! The Infants loved dressing up as their favourite characters, reading and sharing their favourite books and doing some Mr. Men colouring!
The competition has been between two people for the past three weeks! Having both ‘lost’ in last weekends games, the competitors had the choice to go forward to week 15 or split the prize between them. They have decided to spilt the prize and they have now won €250 each! Congratulations to Anne Kerrigan and Sean Campbell. Thanks to all those who supported this fundraiser and entered the competition.
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Well, Norwich did it again! Another shock result for our 8 Watford supporters. Together with another 6 entrants, we lost a total of 14 from our competition this weekend – leaving us down to two!!
Best of Luck to our two remaining ‘People Standing’ in the next round as they hope for a win for both Aston Villa & Norwich!!
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28 Entrants left our competition this weekend with three drawn games and another shock win for Norwich (with Rafa Benitez joining Ole as another casualty of Norwich wins!). We are left with just 16 entrants going into this weekends games with the 8 Watford supporters hoping that the Norwich winning run doesn’t continue! Best of luck to all those going forward.
Click the link below to see who is left – if the line is green they are still in it to win it!
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