Ethos & Initiatives

Here at St. Rónán's N.S. Taughmaconnell, we believe that every child is unique and special. We provide every child with a broad range of experiences so that each and every child can find a passion that will hopefully stay with them for the rest of their life. We fully utilize our teaching staff's broad range of interests, skills and expertise by promoting collaboration between teachers and to enable teachers to share their unique skill sets with other classes within the school. Throughout a child's educational experience in our school, they will get to experience a wide range of experiences. Here are just some of the wonderful experiences that children attending our school get to try.

Incredible Edibles

We have great fun learning about Irish Produce, growing our own vegetables and creating meals with locally grown produce.

Gardening

In the spring, we fill our windowsills, raised beds and keyhole garden with seeds hoping to have a bountiful harvest before our summer holidays.

Seasonal Events

St. Patrick's Day Parade's, Easter Egg Hunts, Visits, from Santa Clause, traditional Halloween games are just some of the wonderful events that all play an important part of our school year.

Sports

We partake in a wide range of sports and where possible we travel to various venues to play with other schools. Of course, we also get the odd trip to the wonderful Cuckoo Hill.

Cycle Right Training

Roscommon Sports Partnership visit our school every year to ensure that our senior students are equipped with the right skills to travel safely on our roads.

Experiential Learning

Where possible, we try to bring learning alive with practical lessons and trips to local places of interest.

World Book Day

We believe reading should be enjoyable and fun parttime. Children get to partake in various reading initiatives such as World Book Day, Literacy Circles and Book Club.

Chess

“The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with.” – Benjamin Franklin

Baking & Cooking

The way to every teacher's heart is through their belly!

Aistear

Learning through play

Junior Entrepreneur Project

5th and 6th class children partake in the Junior Entrepreneur Project every second year, creating their own business and hopefully bringing their creative business ideas to fruition while making a small profit to treat themselves with.

Music & Choir

Tin whistle and choir play a central role in our school. The Army Band from Athlone also visit us from time to time to perform and demonstrate their wide range of instruments to us.

IT skills and Coding

We have a full suite of modern I-pads which we use for a plethora of lessons from fun math games in junior infants to creating presentations and coding in senior classes.

Environmental Awareness

We have been awarded 5 Green Flags to date. Environmental awareness and care also form a central part of our SESE curriculum.

Swimming

Children from 3rd to 6th class attend swimming lessons every second year for 1 term.

Arts and Crafts

"Creativity is intelligence having fun!" Albert Einstein

Helping Charities

We participate and organise a range of events throughout the year to help local and national charities. We are also very proud of the tradition among children making their Confirmation whom donate some money every year to a charity of their choice.

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