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!

Congratulations to 2nd class who received the sacrament of First Holy Communion today with Fr. Joseph. Thank you to the Parents Association who organised a wonderful celebration with refreshments and cake in the school afterwards for the pupils and their families.

1st and 2nd had fun making these chicks using card, wool and googly eyes. We also made paper bouquets this month also.

What you need :Daffodil, jar, water, blue food colouring What you do: Fill a jar with water and add a little blue food colouring. Place the daffodil in the jar and leave for a few hours. Observe the flower over the next couple of days.

Healthy eating is very important in Rathlee NS and we are really enjoying participating in this year's Food Dudes Programme which encourages us to eat more fruit and vegetables at home and in school. Well done everyone!

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.

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.

We planted our potatoes, strawberries, carrots and lettuce seeds. We look forward to watching these grow over the next couple of months.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

Congratulations to second class who celebrated the sacrament of Reconciliation in Rathlee church on the 11th March 2025.

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.

1st and 2nd class made St.Brigid’s crosses from coloured card. Thank you to Michelle for demonstrating how to make a cross from rushes for us. 1

We are really excited to be hosting our annual Enrolment Evening on Tuesday January 28th. We are really looking forward to meeting the children and parents in our community as they take the first step in their primary school education.

Wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas from the staff and pupils of Rathlee National School

We explored data this week using smartie sweets. We sorted all the smarties into coloured sets and then counted each of the sets. We coloured block graphs to display the contents of our smartie box. We had great fun and enjoyed having them as a treat after the maths activity.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our chosen charities - Vincent De Paul and the Red Cross Childrens' Gaza Appeal.

1st and 2nd class had great fun experimenting with a variety of magnets. First we predicted which items magnets would attract and which items would not.   We sorted these into 2 groups will attract and will not attract.  We also learned new vocabulary associated with magnets such as attract, repel, pole.

We are had lots of fun creating wonderful pictures in our art class

Junior to 2nd class had a wonderful trip to the Hawkswell Theatre to see “The Snowman”. Thank you to all involved in the show. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

We have been covering pattern in maths. We decided to integrate this science experiment with the topic. You will need Skittles White plate Warm water Instructions Place the skittles around the edge of the plate. Carefully pour warm water over the top. Watch as the colours spread through the water! The Skittles are coated in food colouring and sugar. When you pour water over the skittles the coloured coating dissolves and diffuses through the water. Colourful patterns can be

We planted daffodil bulbs in pots before the Midterm break. We have a hyacinth bulb on display in our classroom and look forward to watching the roots grow over the coming months.

We had great fun making shapes with mini marshmallows, cocktail sticks and spaghetti.

We had great fun harvesting our potatoes. Our potatoes grew very well in the grow bags. We steamed the potatoes and served them with salt and butter and sprinkled some herbs from the garden. They were delicious.