All students are taking part in a 6 week drumming workshop with Anthony McNamee throughout January and February. Drumming brings so much energy and fun to the day. The children enjoy exploring new rhythms, trying out different beats and making music together. They are working towards a final performance on 26 February.

Ms Berry's Junior Infants loved decorating some gingerbread people! They had great fun listening to the gingerbread story, learning the gingerbread dance and of course eating the ginbgerbread creations.

The BCP Sensory Garden was offically opened on 3 October 2025. Our Explorers classes had great fun at the opening. We are very lucky to have it suituated close to the school and we look forward to visiting the garden often and enjoying it throughout the seasons. All our classes have visited it over the past 2 months. It has been an adventure destination, an area that has provided inspiration for project ideas for our young engineers and just somewhere nice and peaceful to

Our students and staff embraced the Halloween fun. See who if you can guess some of the scary characters.

Everyone at Newport NS enjoyed the Halloween Spooky Stroll around the school yard and through the town. We were joined by members of the Parents Association and other parents and family members.

Fiona got in touch to let us know what we can expect at this year's Mayo Dark Sky Festival 31 October - 2 November... Dear Parents, Firstly, I wanted to say a big  THANK YOU  to the whole school community for your support of the  Mayo Dark Sky Festival  since it first started back in 2016.  While I have retired from school life, I am keeping busy with the upcoming festival, which takes place at the end of the mid-term break  31 October - 2 November .  The festival always attr