World Book Day 2026

Well done to our World Book Day quiz winners. An excellent quiz based on all the books, poems and comprehensions covered so far this year. 

Volleyball

Doon CBS were represented by 3 great teams today at the regional finals of Primary Schools Volleyball Championship. Doon 2 narrowly missed out on qualification, while Doon 1 were successful on the day. They have now qualified for the National finals on March 20th in UL.

Active Slogan 2025/26

'Hop, Skip, have some Fun - Lets Get Active Everyone' is Doon CBS's active slogan for this school year. Well done to Tommy Quillinan who came up with the wonderful slogand and to Zach, Dara & Cormac for all their artistic work. All slogan entries were so wonderful we decided to keep all as tag lines to this one. Well done everybody. 

Credit Union Quiz 2026

Well done to our U11 and U13 quiz teams who took part in the Credit Union quiz in Ballykisteen hotel. Special mention to our U11 team who came first and will go onto the next round on March 7th in Templemore. Congratulation boys!!

St. Brigid's Crosses

Well done to all who made lovely St. Brigid crosses. Special thanks to Mr. O' Connell and Mary for giving all a helping hand. Also thanks to former past pupils Seán Fox, Charlie Hyman, Paddy O' Brien and James Bracken for lending a helping hand. 

Grandparents Day 2026

Grandparents Visit

Many thanks to Ann Fitzgerald and Bernie Quillinan who came to visit our school last Friday. They shared many stories with the pupils about their lives and especially what school was like for them growing up. We look forward to our Granparents day mass in Doon Church on Tuesday January 27th.

January Activities

Such a great start back to January. On Thursday's all 5th and 6th class are participating in cycling lessons and road safety. Such an important skills and something we will put to the test later on in the school year. 

Also, the whole school are participating in Fundamental Movement Skills with Paul from Paul's ABCs. This has been such fun so far and great to improve our fundamental movements and coordination. 

Draughts League 2025

Once again we had a very successful draughts league with great participation. Many thanks to Mrs. O' Connell for facilitating this during lunch time. It was great to see so many boys wanting to play and we had a very sporting final between PJ and Jenson. Well done to Jenson who was our overall winner. Keep practicing for next year!!

Sarsfield Cup

Well done to Fionn O' Brien & Oisin Ryan who represented Doon CBS today on the East Sarsfield Cup team. A great achievement and better days yet to come!

Miss Breen

Firstly we learnt all about gravity.  We dropped a grape and a mandarin from the same height at the same time. The more mass and air resistance the faster it falls. We tried this experiment with a smooth sheet of paper and a crumpled sheet of paper. Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity whilst sitting under  an apple tree.

Next we learnt about levers. Our arm is a lever. We made a seesaw for Molly and her brother. We had to balance the ruler with the pencil. We also created a lever using just a ruler and a sharpie for the pivot. It was easy to lift the book up ! We also learnt about Air Pressure. We managed not to spill any water when we turned the glass and beer mat over. This was very exciting!!

Finally we were introduced to buoyancy which is an uoward force. We see buoyancy in icebergs, swimming and when a bucket is in water it feels lighter. To finish off we had to mske the ring of six balloons hover in a ring using a blow dryer.  This wax the highlight of the afternoon!!

To conclude we took part in a multiple choice quiz on what we had learnt. 

Mr. Moloney

Today we looked at electricity and liquids. We examined circuits and how they work. We learned the difference between an open circuit and a closed circuit and found out that electricity flows in a current. Pupils were given the chance to then see which objects were conductors (allow electricity to pass through it) or insulators (don't allow electricity to pass through it). We tested a coin, scissors, a pencil, a screw and a rubber band. We all predicted and then compared our results. All pupils were given a chance to try Mr. Moloney's Steady Hand game as well. 

For our second science experiment, we looked at liquids and their density. We examined the flow rate of honey, cooking oil, soap and washing up liquid. We also saw their density when placed in a clear glass. We looked carefully at fizzy drinks as well and what makes them fizz. All fizzy drinks contain Co2 and this gets released the more you open and close the bottle. Pupils were then given a chance to make their own using Miwadi, water and baking powder. 

Finally, Mr. Moloney had one last challenge.... get the mandarin out of the glass of water, without spilling any water. We all had a go, and using buoyancy and centripetal force were able to get it out. Great fun was had by all.  

Mr. O' Connell

In our final Science afternoon with Mr. O’Connell, we investigated the topics of Sound and the Eye. Firstly, we learned that sound travels through the air in waves caused by vibrating molecules. We learned that sound moves through liquids and solids as well and that it moves fastest through solids. We made a musical instrument from 8 glass bottles filled with

different levels of water to create a scale. We had great fun playing some tunes on our new instrument. We also investigated if we could make our own stringed instrument from elastic bands and how we could vary the pitch of the note by changing the length of the band. Our second topic was the eye. We learned about the parts of the eye, how we see things and why we see particular colours. We also learned how the signals are sent from the eye to the brain. We learned that our brains can be tricked by different types of optical illusions and we had great fun trying to work out what we were looking at in the illusions. We even tried an illusion that made it appear we had a hole in our hand. We couldn’t believe our eyes!

Bake Sale 2025

Thank you to all those who baked delicious treat for our school bake sale 2025. We raised a lot of money which will all be put back into the school for the children. Thanks to our wonderful student council for helping to promote and organise this event also.

Maths Week 2025

Thanks to Mrs. Breen for running a great Maths Week 2025.  We had loads of estimating games, nightly maths puzzles with our families, in class maths games as well as our Maths For Me sheets. We also completed some lovely artistic work into our maths journals and had 2 wonderful quizzes with Michelle Culloty as well as a whole school quiz. Have a look at some of our pictures below. 

Rugby Blitz Kilfeacle

Well done to the boys in 5th & 6th class who took part in a well organised rugby blitz in Kilfeacle rugby club today. We were very fortunate to meet two Munster rugby stars who were very accommodating with all the children. 

European Sports Day

On Friday last, we help our European Sports Day. We played basketball, table tennis and soccer. In conjunction with this we had a jersey day and also decided to raise money for the Irish Health Foundation. Thanks to everyone who donated.  

Chocolate Chip Cookies

On Wednesday 10th  of September,  2nd and 3rd class were very busy baking chocolate chip cookies. We learnt how to read a recipe. Ms. Breen reminded us the best way is to start from the top. This way you don’t forget any of your ingredients. We enjoyed using the digital scales to weigh our ingredients. We then proceded to using our electric beaters to cream our mixture. Following this we sieved our flour, salt and bread soda. Finally we added in our chocolate chips. We loved rolling the mixture into small balls. We then placed them on a baking tray allowing a little space for them to spread. We were delighted with our cookies at lunch time.They tasted delicious!  We look forward to our next baking exploits! Watch out Jamie Oliver!

Summer Camp 2025

Some action shots from our wonderful summer camp 2025. Lots of fun activities from kickboxing & baking to first aid and plenty of playground games. We hope all had a great time and have a fantastic summer. 

Puncture Repair

Thanks so much to former past pupil John Bryan for coming to our school to demonstrate how to fix a puncture on a bike. We learned loads and hopefully if the day should arrive, we will all be equipped to fix our tyres.

Primary Game 2025

The Great Bleisce Bake Off

Well done to all those in the baking club who participates in Mrs. Breens 'Great Bleisce Bake Off'. There were so many wonderful (and tasty) entries and all are a credit to the hard work they put in. We had 17 excellent entries. Well done to Daniel, Seamus, Tommy, Charlie & Kyle who all all received honourable mentions and congratulations to Evan who was our overall winner. 

In our final Science afternoon with Mr. O’Connell, we investigated the topics of Sound and

the Eye. Firstly, we learned that sound travels through the air in waves caused by vibrating

molecules. We learned that sound moves through liquids and solids as well and that it

moves fastest through solids. We made a musical instrument from 8 glass bottles filled with

different levels of water to create a scale. We had great fun playing some tunes on our new

instrument. We also investigated if we could make our own stringed instrument from elastic

bands and how we could vary the pitch of the note by changing the length of the band.

Our second topic was the eye. We learned about the parts of the eye, how we see things

and why we see particular colours. We also learned how the signals are sent from the eye to

the brain. We learned that our brains can be tricked by different types of optical illusions and

we had great fun trying to work out what we were looking at in the illusions. We even tried an

illusion that made it appear we had a hole in our hand. We couldn’t believe our eyes!