MUSIC

We are fortunate to have an excellent music teacher Mrs. Marian Egan, visit our school every Thursday. Pupils from second to sixth class all begin by learning traditional tunes on tin-whistle. They may then go on to take up the fiddle, accordian, flute badhrán or drums.

Our school band takes part each year in local St.Patrick's Day Parades. They also perform in our school concerts and also take part in many liturgical services in our parish church, eg. Advent, Christmas, First Communion, Confirmation and our beginning and end of year school masses.

DRAMA

Every Wednesday to the delight of our students Mrs. Margaret Niland, our drama teacher, spends the day in our school. Every class from junior infants to sixth class take part in drama class throughout the day.

Great emphasis is placed on promoting self-esteem, social skills, and responsibility amongst the pupils. Our Christmas concerts over the past number of years have been a great success as have our end of year concerts. Each year we have four plays one from each class grouping and we all enjoy dressing up and performing for our parents and families.

SPORT

The children in third fourth, fifth and sixth class regularly represent the school in Mini-Sevens and Cumann na mBunscoil competitions. Here the emphasis is mainly on enjoyment and participation. We have both a girls team and a boys team. Mr. Bracken trains the two teams with help fom Mr. Dillon.

At Scoil Íosa we realise how important exercise is for every child. We are lucky that we have a general purpose room in the school that allows us to do P.E. even if it is raining. We also have a large playground and lots of green areas outside the school, where children can play soccer, gaelic, hurling or basketball. The Parents Association organise an oppourtunity for the children to go swimming after school.

ART & CRAFTS

All of our teachers implement the new visual arts programme within our school. In addition to this Mrs. Kate Roberts comes to our school every fortnight to help us with art and crafts. All of the children really enjoy this time. Recently third to sixth classes had an oppourtunity to make their own candles. They have also made pots using modelling clay and regularly paint lovely scenes based on themes for use in our school or in our local church for Christmas, Easter, First Communion, Confirmation, Lent etc..