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Redwood NS:          A little bit about us!

We are a two teacher rural school located just off the main Birr-Portumna road beside the historic Redwood Castle. We have two shared learning support teachers for 10 hours weekly and our pupils enjoy the benefits of low pupil-teacher ratios.
Phone: 090 9747186
E-mail:redwoodns@live.ie
Don't forget to 'like' us on our facebook page!!!

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                         Our Opening Times...

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Redwood N.S.  opens daily from 8.30am for pupils to arrive
All classes begin at 8.50am
Junior & Senior infants finish school at 1.30pm
All other classes finish at 2.30pm
Our After School/Homework Club runs daily until 3.45pm
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Bag2School clothes collection will visit the school on Wednesday, 20th February at 9.30 a.m.

Donations of unwanted clothes, paired shoes, handbags, soft cuddly toys may be left into the school at your convenience. 

Heritage in School scheme 2019 - Simon O' Dwyer

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Heritage expert, Simon O'Dwyer recently visited our school and shared his expertise on the designs, timeline and the history of musical instruments throughout the different ages in Ireland.
08th February 2019 - Please see gallery, event page for more images!!   

Junior Entrepreneur Programme 2019 

06th February 2019

Colm Kennedy from Tearaways Pet Farm and Activity Centre came in to Redwood NS as a 'business person visit' as part of their participation in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme.

​See gallery - events for more images

Grandparents Day - Catholic Schools Week, 30th January '19

On Wednesday, 30th January 2019, we celebrated Grandparents Day as part of Catholic Schools week. Parents, grandparents, relatives and members of the school community were invited into the school for a short prayer service and refreshments. The children displayed their many talents in music and song and a wonderful question and answer session between the children and the grandparents began! 
More images on gallery, event page!!

Lismore Primary Mobile Science Workshops..........17/12/2018

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Please see School Initiatives  - Discover Science & Maths Awards for more images

Author Marguerite Tonery visited on 12th December 2018

Thank You .......

We would like to sincerely thank all those who came to our Christmas Variety Show and all those who supported our Christmas Raffle. Many thanks to our parents for all their support and assistance and congratulations to the children on a fantastic show.
We would like to wish everyone a very happy and peaceful Christmas from all in Redwood 
Prize Winners        1st - Hamper Anne Marie Darcy
                              2nd - Hamper Riain Lane
                              3rd - Gearóid Duggan
Raffle:Siofra Lawlor, Tom Dagg, Ute Duggan, Carmel Molloy, Mike Houlihan, Leanne Sullivan, Mikey Houlihan, Liam Lennon, Meta Darcy, Caitlin Judge, Kathleen Tierney, Loretta Canning.
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Please check out our Event page for more pictures.....
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The ever popular annual Christmas Variety Show performed by the children of Redwood NS will take place on Tuesday, 11th  December at 7pm in
Redwood Church.

Enrolment for September 2019 now open.....

Enrolment forms are available from the school now or can be downloaded here. If any parents would like to arrange a private viewing of the school and to meet the teachers please contact the school on
​ 090 9747186 to arrange an appointment.

Team Hope Shoebox Appeal Christmas 2018 

Well done to all the pupils who participated in the Team Hope Shoebox appeal this year.
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Melting chocolate experiment!

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Melting chocolate experiment

The junior room had great fun melting chocolate  for their Rice Krispie buns and discovering the differences in the chocolate once melted.

Good enough to eat!!
​See Discover Science and Maths award page for more....

Trick or Treat for Temple Street

'Spooktacular' time in Redwood NS recently!!!
Many thanks to all the children and parents who donated generously to Temple Street Children's Hospital

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Energy workshops with Hans from SEAI - Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

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'Smiley Eileey'

​Eileen McGlinchey - Oral Health promoter came to visit the school recently to give us advice on the importance of caring for our teeth properly.  


​More on events.....

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Cross Country Athletics

The pupils from 3rd to 6th class took part in the Tipperary Cross Country Athletics in Thurles

​See our gallery for more photos!

Junior room nature walk

Múinteoir Helena and her Junior room went on a lovely local nature walk recently and gathered autumn berries and leaves to bring back to school for their nature table
See gallery for more pics...
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Senior room nature walk

The senior room pupils had a great time on their nature walk

​See gallery for more pics...

5 km Fun Run / Walk / Crawl
Sunday, 23rd September

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Warming up with David Fogarty, House Fitness, Birr before the fun run and making our way down past the school on towards the lovely Redwood Castle
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See our school initiatives page - Active School, Partnership page for more photos!!!

Welcome to our two new Junior Infants....

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Check out our new Discover Primary Science & Maths page under school initiatives!! 

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***NEWSFLASH***
We now have our popular Christmas show 2017 available for parents to download and view. Please contact the school should you wish to obtain the link!!

Fun Academy - School Tour 2018, Cistercian College, Roscrea

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See gallery page, events for more photos!!

Green Schools Expo - Thursday 22nd February 2018

Aistear January 2018 - The Doctors Surgery

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The Nappy Experiment

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How does a nappy work??
Our senior class got to work to discover just that!!!
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Cycle Right - with Birr Outdoor Education Centre

Cycle Right is a new initiative of the Department of Tourism and Sport in association with Cycling Ireland.
It is a cycle safety training course which is run for 2 hours per week over a 4 week period.
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Check out our gallery and event pages for more pics!!​​

Redwood NS Christmas Variety Show

Our Christmas Variety Show took place in Moatfield GAA centre on Wednesday, 20th December. The children performed to a packed house once again and it received a standing ovation at the end of their performance. Well done and congratulations to all the pupils!!

Redwood Nursing Home

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The Night Before Christmas....

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Snowmen - both inside and outside!!

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Making Rice Krispie Cakes

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Nursing
Home
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​2017

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'Super Troopers'
​Supervalu Nutri Safari Visit - 29th November 2017

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Bank of Ireland - Enterprise Town Winners!!

Huge congratulations to our two winners in the recent Bank of Ireland Enterprise town competition. Overall category winners in 1st / 2nd class and in 3rd / 4th class. Well done girls!
​ They were presented with their prizes from Dragon's Den Gavin Duffy.

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Mind the Gap - Fairtrade drama show & workshop

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Check out our school initiatives​ page - Green schools for more photos!!

Science - Bridge construction & magnets

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See our work page for more photos....
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Gone Fishing!!

Junior room experimenting with magnets
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Dance It Out Ireland - with Lisa Hogan

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Football Blitz with 3rd & 4th Class

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Redwood Castle visit

A big welcome to our new Junior Infants for 2017/2018

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History Tour of Lorrha with Lorrha Historical Society

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Active Week 2017: We enjoyed modern dance, cycling, tennis, hurling, nature walk and sports day....phew! (Check out our 'Active School Award' page for more pics!)

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School Tour to Birr Outdoor Education Centre 2017
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Congratulations to our second class pupils on receiving the Sacrament of Communion for Life in Lorrha Church on May 28th 2017
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Congratulations to our sixth class pupils on receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation in Rathcabbin Church on May 14th 2017

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Fin's Pottery

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We were very lucky have enjoyed six sessions of pottery with Fin's Pottery at the start of our school year.
Look at our gallery page for some of our creations .....

Our Treehouse

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Jersey Day 2016 

We recently took part in Jersey Day in support of  the charity GOAL where we aised an outstanding amount of €115.00 
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Trick or Treat for Temple Street...

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We love Tipperary! 

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Liam McCarthy comes to school...

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If every day in school was like this!!
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The children met their heroes on Tuesday 27th when Bonner Maher, Brian Hogan and Redwood's own John Madden came to visit with the cups!
The children gave them a rendition of Queen's 'We will rock you' and played Slievenamon on the tin whistles.
A huge thank you to Paudie Malone for organising such a wonderful occasion for the children!!
​(See more images in our event page!!)

Portumna Shorelines Festival 2016

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Congratulations to our two winners in this year's Shorelines Arts Festival for the prose pieces they wrote on the theme of 'Wings'

UP TIPP !!! Bring on the celebrations!!

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Some really delighted young fans, so proud of their heros!!
Well done to Lorrha's own Bonner Maher, John Madden and Brian Hogan! 

The importance of bees...

Councillor Michael O' Meara, who is also an avid bee-keeper, visited us in school recently. He brought in a hive, a piece of honeycomb and some of his own honey for the children to taste. The children all learned a great deal about bees and their work and the great health benefits of eating local honey. We have adopted one of Michael's hives which we will decorate and return to his apiary so we can keep up to date with the work of the bees!!

Visit from Road Safety Authority

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Many thanks to Catherine Flaherty of the RSA who visited us recently and gave two excellent presentations to the junior and senior classes on road safety.

We would like to welcome our two lovely girls that have joined us in Junior infants this year - Pictured here with their teacher Helena.
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Holy Communion 2016



​The Sacrament of First Holy Communion
took place on Sunday, 29th May in
Rathcabbin Church

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Congratulations is extended to all the
children in the parish  who received
their First Holy Communion.




Confirmation 2016

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The Sacrament of Confirmation took place on Sunday, 15th May in Lorrha Church.
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Congratulations is extended to all the children in the parish  who received their Confirmation.





County League Final Camogie Champions!!
(​captained by our very own Miss. Hogan!!)

Congratulations to Miss. Hogan and to all the Lorrha Junior camogie team on their recent win against Boherlahan.
​Lorrha 5-09      Boherlahan 1-09
The children were delighted to raise the county league final camogie cup!

Redwood gains 5th green flag for Biodiversity

​Well done to all the pupils of Redwood NS on being awarded their fifth green flag during the week in the area of Biodiversity.

Many thanks to Declan Houlihan for creating our jungle garden with the children and to Christy Hough for maintaining our school grounds, and of course to all the children for their planting, sowing and harvesting!
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    All the hard work is rewarded!!

Check out our Biodiversity page for more images!!!
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 Moo Crew 

The senior classes were delighted to take part in the National Dairy Council competition recently! 
The children were asked to create a poster showing what they had learned about dairy and about living a healthy, balanced lifestyle!
Best of luck!!

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​Hurling blitz
​in Puckane!!

The junior children were delighted to play their first ever hurling blitz recently in Puckane where they played Aglish,Boher and Kildangan. They had a fantastic day and played excellently in all three matches

Raising the Irish Flag - 15th April 2016

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1916 Rising - Redwood NS present ' A Triumph of All Sorts'

Food dudes - Healthy eating initiative 

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 We were delighted to be chosen to take part in this wonderful healthy eating initiative once again. 
It is being run over a 16 day period for the Junior room and over 8 days for the Senior room


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This year we are delighted to donate the proceeds of our collection to the Mark Heffernan Trust in Tullamore who kindly gifted us with a defibrillator earlier in the year

Bag 2 School collection

€258.75
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Grandparents Day 2016

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The Grinch that Stole Christmas

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It was to a packed house that the children of Redwood N.S. performed their Christmas variety concert show early December.
The show began with a dazzling display of Irish dancing choreographed by dance teacher Stephanie Power of Portumna. The children performed slip jigs, light jigs, heavy jigs, reels but it had to be the boys brush dance that went into Gangnam Style that stole the show! The junior children performed the finale of the dance routines with a gorgeous dance to ‘Santa Claus is coming to town!’

The senior children then performed some beautiful instrumental music on the piano and tin whistles including Mary’s Boy Child, Silent Night, Away in a Manger and the First Noel.
Finally it was time for the main part of the show ‘The Grinch Who Stole Christmas’ which was produced by drama teacher Jared Madden of Banagher. The show was a huge hit with the audience with some very funny scenes. The classroom scene was hilarious with some very witty lines and characters such as snotser Flannery and Bugsy who gave the poor teacher a very hard time!!


Redwood N.S. would like to thank all those who attended the show and everyone who supported the Parents Association raffle afterwards. 

Miss. Darcy's getting married!!

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St. Kieran's Nursing Home Christmas visit, Rathcabbin

Christmas Team Hope Shoebox Appeal 

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CPR and AED Training for 3rd to 6th classes

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Trick or Treat for Temple Street

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Visit from Angela Sheehan (Tipp Co Co)from the Artist in Primary School Scheme pictured with the children & artist Joanna Williams 

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     Delivery of our National Flag by the Defence Forces

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Visit from Nora Stapleton
We were delighted to welcome Ireland's number 10 to our school recently with Portumna Rugby Club.
We all got to hold the Six Nations Cup!!

Athletics...


The Tipperary Cross Country Athletics took place on Wednesday, 30th September.
The  boys were delighted with their silver medal for coming second!!
​Well done, you all did us proud!!!
See school initiatives - active school for more photos!!! 


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Fifth Green Flag
Biodiversity

Redwood N.S. are currently working in our 2nd year towards achieving our fifth Green Flag with An Taisce. We have had an exciting and busy year last year with farm visits, trips to Portumna Forest Park,sowing seeds, building our jungle garden and so on! 

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​See school initiatives - Green school page for more information & photos!! 


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Artist in Primary School

We are delighted to have been selected to take part in this scheme funded by Tipperary Co.Co. The children will be working with artist Joanna Williams in the area of shadow performance and puppetry. The work the children will undertake will all fall under the theme of ‘Biodiversity’
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See school initiatives - 
​Green school page & gallery event page for more photos!!
 
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Digital School of Distinction Award

The digital school of distinction programme  "aims to promote, recognise and encourage excellence in the use of technology in schools" 
This award is accredited by the Department of Education.
We have being working towards this award  and aim to achieve it this year
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