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Breaffy Road,

Castlebar, Co. Mayo, F23WF99

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Touch Type Read & Spell News for 1st Class to 6th

Touch Type Read and Spell  We are introducing a new programme to improve reading and spelling through touch-typing skills for all classes from 1st to 6th . This programme is a unique multi sensory package that improves reading, spelling and the key skill of typing . This highly accessible , multisensory course teaches touch-typing , reading and spelling at the […]
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Great Science Week in Breaffy NS

Chemical Volcanoes , chemical reactions , magnets , robotics, programming , scratch , famous scientists , engineering constructions and much much more last week . Here Mrs O Shea and her class talk about famous scientists .
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Breaffy School Video Promo

All classes involved in a video promo shooting in our school today . This gives a view of life in our progressive school. This will be featured on our website when complete. We will also be using it as a video presentation of our school for our upcoming Erasmus trip to Italy to give other participating countries a perspective on […]
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2018 Mayo Cross Country

Our 3rd/4th class girls cross country athletics team who enjoyed great success winning silver medals in Belleek on Thursday 28th September  They now go forward to represent our school in the Connaught Cross Country Competition in Loughrea in October.  Well done girls! A special mention to Niamh  Moran (4th Class) who won gold in this event . This was a […]
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Our 2018 Cross country teams wearing their new Athletics singlets . Our teams enjoyed great success today at the west mayo cross country event held in Ballyvary. Our 3rd/4th girls team won gold as did our 5th/ 6th boys . 6th . A special congratulations to all our individual winners; Niamh Moran Emily Moran Sarah Jane Bourke Aoibheann Hanrahan Alan Hegarty Jack Canny Conor Loftus Ross Connolly
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2018 West Mayo Cross Country

Our 2018 Cross Country teams wearing their new Breaffy NS  Athletics singlets . Our teams enjoyed great success today at the West  Mayo  Cross Country event held in Ballyvary. Our 3rd/4th girls team  won gold as did our 5th/ 6th boys . 6th . A special congratulations to all our individual winners; Niamh Moran Emily Moran Sarah Jane Bourke Aoibheann […]
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School Traffic Management & Parking Plan

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Robotics in Breaffy NS

Robotics . Mr Canny and Mr Hennelly have piloted LegoWedo robotics in 6th class. Pupils learn to design , build , code and programme lego pieces with the use of our  class set of ipads. This new initiative is proving very successful in the senior classes and is being rolled out to 5th and 4th classes also. This forms part of […]
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Golf Classic for 6th Class pupils in Balla Golf Course.

Mr Duffy brings pupils in our senior classes for golf lessons at Mayo Driving Range after school.  Today  the pupils went to Balla Golf course  for a day out playing golf . They went for a treat in the Rendevous afterwards. The aim of this afterschool activity  is to gave our pupils a flavour of another sport in our broad  […]
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Aviva Success for our Girls Team

Well done to our girls soccer team who played brilliantly in the Aviva Stadium coming third in Ireland. Well done to their coaches Mr Duggan and Mr Moran . Well done also to the great support they recieved from 5th and 6th classes who travelled for this great occsasion.
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Stay Safe, Social, Personal & Health Education (S.P.H.E), Realtionships & Sexuality Ed (R.S.E)

We have recently reviewed and ratified our SPHE, Stay Safe & RSE policies. Parents should note that the section on My Body and Developing Citizenship is being taught by all class teachers at the moment. Parental consent forma have gone out to all classes. All staff and Board of Management members have received training in Child Protection recently and the […]
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Our school is beautifully situated beside Breaffy Wood, two miles east of Castlebar on the main Castlebar-Galway road. There are 415 pupils on the roll. This is a mixed school catering for pupils from infants to sixth class. We have twenty-six teachers, one SNAs, a secretary , a caretaker and a cleaner.

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Breaffy Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, F23WF99

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Saturday & Sunday: Closed

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