Visit from Gardaí / Creative Committee

We were delighted to have a visit from Garda Moloney and Sergeant Condon on Tuesday, May 11th. The gardaí spoke to us about our experiences of Covid 19 and commended us on our compliance with all the restrictions. We were delighted to welcome our creative associate, Andy, back to school on Tuesday 18th May. Andy […]

May 2021 Newsletter

Sacraments As previously communicated to relevant parents, Archbishop Kieran released a statement on Friday last to explain that First Holy Communions and Confirmations will not take place during the month of May and most likely not in June either. We continue to prepare the children and to look forward to their big days. As soon […]

First Penance – April 2021

Congratulations to our second class pupils who celebrated their First Penance in Templebraden Church on Thursday, 22nd April. Thank you to their teacher, Ms. Hickey, who prepared the children so well and also to Fr. Pat who celebrated this sacrament with our pupils. These children enjoyed treat bags on their return to school and also […]

Community Games – Art Competition Winner

Congratulations to our Community Games Art Competition winner who received his medal today!!

Daffodil Day – Mar 26th 2021

Garrydoolis N.S. was awash with yellow on Friday, March 26th, as we celebrated Daffodil Day. We sincerely thank our families and wider school community who together helped to raise an amazing €615 for The Irish Cancer Society, through the purchase of daffodil pins and by making donations. We are incredibly proud of our students. Well […]

Green, White & Gold Day 16/3/2021

Engineer’s Week 2021

Junior room building paper towers for Engineer’s Week!

Junior Room – First week back! Mar 2021

Junior room having fun on their return to school!

Enrolment 2021/2022 – Virtual Tour of Garrydoolis NS

Virtual Tour Enrolment 2021/2022 Now taking enrolments for 2021/2022 Garrydoolis National School is over 150 years in existence. We are proud to be a “Creative School” . In 2017, Garrydoolis became a three teacher school. We have two Classroom teachers and we now have one full-time support Teacher. We have a current enrolment of 37 […]

Christmas Show – Poetry Recital

Unfortunately due to COVID 19 restrictions, we could not invite our school community to join us for our annual Christmas show this year. Instead, our senior pupils recorded a poetry recital to share. These pupils learned “An Sneachta”, “Winter” and “The Pine Tree. An Sneachta Winter The Pine Tree

Our Motto: Working Together / Ag obair le chéile