5th and 6th class have been learning all about the Great Famine for the last number of weeks. We were delighted to be in the Jackie Clarke Museum where we deepened our knowledge further of this seismic event in our history.

Our school currently has an art piece on loan from the Glucksman Exhibition. We are delighted to be involved with this creative initiative which is supported by the Arts Council. It has been a great stimulus and inspiration for the childrens' artistic activities.

All roads lead to Rathlee on Friday June 13th for our annual 5k fundraiser for our school. It is always a fun evening and is a great way for everyone in our school community to get together. See you all there!

Our boys and girls footballers were in Gurteen today to play Culfadda NS. Both teams played very well and our boys have progressed to the next phase of the Cuman Na mBunscol competition.

We learned all about water pollution this week. Our 5th and 6th classes demonstrated to our 1st and 2nd classes an experiment about how different pollutants can impact water quality.

Well done to our 4th, 5th and 6th class boys and girls who played against Curry NS. Both teams worked really hard in lovely, sunny conditions. Training continues every Monday after school.

The weather has been fantastic this week. We were able to transplant our peas and beans to our raised beds. We will be busy weeding and watering for the next few weeks!

The weather has been glorious the last couple of weeks and we have been on our school pitch practising our skills regularly. We have training every Monday after school and GAA coach John works with each class on Thursdays. We are really grateful to have such fantastic facilities.

We had great fun last week getting active and working with our team-mates as we solved some tricky riddles which we had to find around the school grounds.

5th and 6th explored the concept of buoyancy by designing boats from a variety of materials in different shapes. Then we added weight to see which boat would sink first!

Well done to the boys and girls who competed in the hurling amigos skills competition in very pleasant conditions at the Sligo GAA Centre of Excellence in Scarden.

We all love reading in Rathlee NS and this year's Book Fair has been a tremendous success. Thanks to everyone in our school community for your support.

Creative Writing Workshop We were delighted to welcome author Gerry Boland back to our school. This week we worked on writing short stories and we got loads of great tips on how to become better writers.

Well done to our sports quiz team who represented Sligo and put in a great performance in the Cuman Na mBunscol All Ireland Sports Quiz held in Tullamore.

Bonjour! Our 3rd - 6th class children have just completed a very enjoyable and useful series of French lessons with tutor Brendan Doyle.

We were delighted to participate in the Easkey St. Patrick's Day Parade. The children dressed up in environmental themed costumes and played their tin-whistles. Thank you to all who took part and all the staff in our school who helped on the day.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

This week in science, we investigated surface tension using our art lesson on the northern lights as a starting point. We mixed food colouring with milk and then dipped soap in to observe the chemical reaction.

Seachtain Na Gaeilge is ea an tseachtain seo. Comhghairdeas le buaiteoiri ar dtrath na gceist rang a cuig agus rang a se!

Author and poet Gerry Boland worked with our 3rd-6th class children in a very enjoyable poetry workshop. We were delighted to welcome pupils from Killeenduff ns who also participated as part of our Creative Cluster.

Well done to our boys and girls teams who performed very well in the Cuman na mBunscol Amigos gaelic footballl skills competition held at Enniscrone GAA club.

Congratulations to our 5th and 6th children who received the sacrament of Confirmation from Archbishop Francis Duffy in St. James' Church Easkey. Thank you to our Parents Association and all who helped prepare refreshments for the children and their families back in our school after the ceremony.

We had a very enjoyable morning in Easkey yesterday where we played Enniscrone and High Park in an indoor hurling blitz. Well done everyone.

At break we took some photos. We were very excited to spot a small nest in a tree in the front yard. We painted some lovely spring flowers in our art class.