Our Opening Times...

​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

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Team Hope Shoe Boxes Nov '24
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Every year the Pupils and Staff of Redwood NS partake in the Team Hope Shoe Box Appeal. This is a very worthy cause, sending boxes filled with a combination of practical and fun gifts directly into the hands of children in areas affected by poverty. Often, this box is the only Christmas gift these children receive so it gives us great joy to be a part of this campaign. Thank you to all involved!!

New Junior Infants 2024/25

On Wednesday 28th August we welcomed two new Pupils and their families to Redwood NS. Exciting times ahead for these two girls as they start their Primary School journey with us!

First Holy Communion Class 2024

Congratulations to our 2nd Class Pupils who celebrated their First
​Holy Communion on Sunday 12th May in Lorrha Church. 

YES TO LANGUAGES

We are delighted to be part of the 'Say Yes to Languages' programme for the third year running. The pupils are enjoying learning German with their tutor Ute Duggan.

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A visit from our County Heroes

We had great excitement on the 1st December when members of Lorrha & Dorrha GAA Club came to visit us with both the North Final & County Final Cups. Congratulations to all involved in this great achievement. Thanks to the players for answering all our questions, sharing their tips & advice and posing for photos. We really enjoyed your visit.
UP LORRHA!!!!!

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We welcomed our nine new Junior Infants on Friday 1st September. Exciting times ahead!

Confirmation 2023


Congratulations to our 5th and 6th Class pupils who celebrated the sacrament of Confirmation on Sunday 21st May in St. Ruadhan's Church, Lorrha.

First Holy Communion 2023

Congratulations to our 2nd Class pupils who made their First Holy Communion on Saturday 6th May in Our Lady Queen of Ireland Church, Rathcabbin.

Open Evening 2023

This year's Open Evening will be held on Tuesday 21st February from 7- 8.30pm. We invite any families and children hoping to enrol in September 2023 to come along.

It is the ideal opportunity to visit the school, meet the staff and view the resources available to students. Enrolment forms will be available on the night and can also be downloaded under this notice. 
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​If you cannot attend on the evening or would like any other information,
please call (090) 9747186 or e-mail [email protected]

Pupils in the junior room were excited to welcome our new Junior Infants when we returned to school on the 29th August

Confirmation 2022

Congratulations to our Confirmation class on receiving the sacrament in Our Lady Queen of Ireland church, Rathcabbin.  

Pupils and Staff enjoyed dressing up as their favourite characters for World Book Day, on Friday 11th March

Supporting Team McIntyre on Ireland's Fittest Family

Staff and pupils took part in 'Trick or Treat' for Temple Street and raised €120 

New​ Junior Infants enjoying their first day with Múinteoir Helena and SNA Paula

6th Class Graduation Movie:
​ Such fond memories of our time together. We wish our 6th class the very best as they move on to the next step in their lives.

Enrolment 2021/2022

We are now accepting applications for enrolment of pupils for the 2021/2022 school year. Application and registration forms are available to download here on our website- go to the 'Parents' section and click 'Admissions'. Alternatively call or email us on 0909747186/[email protected] and we will post forms out to you.

Please visit our new page - Farm Safe Schools
Click on School Initiatives to view page, see our pictures, read our stories!

Nature Walk with the Junior room

See gallery - Our Work for more images

Easter Egg Hunt 2021
See gallery - Our Events for more pics...

Senior room active fundraisers!
Well done to the children for raising €640 for the Irish Cancer Society and €220 for Galway SPCA
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We proudly raised our 7th Green Flag for
​'Global Citizenship-Energy'

Redwood Athletics October 2020

We usually head of to Thurles Crokes at this time of the year for the annual cross country athletics so instead this year, we donned our jerseys and headed off to our local GAA pitch, Lorrha & Dorrha GAA club and ran our races there!
See gallery - our events for more pictures

The Golden Mile
See gallery for more pictures - Events

3rd to 6th Class recently went on a voyage of discovery along 'The Golden Mile' of Redwood to find the previous buildings used as Redwood NS. One building is located at Kilmurry and the building previous to that is beside Redwood Castle. Prior to that a hedge school was in operation in the area.
Check our Blog page - senior room blog for more detailed versions of our trip written by the children 

Redwood NS Outdoor Assembly

We came together in the beautiful sunshine for an outdoor assembly. We shared poems, songs and laughter and enjoyed each others company.
​See gallery - our events for more images...

Dogs Trust - Zoom webinar
See gallery - our events for more pictures.....

Good Luck Lorrha in the County final

Nature Walk ...... senior room exploring Redwood
See gallery for more pics....

Huge welcome to our 6 new Junior Infants....

Sixth Class Graduation 2020 

Apps we use in school for senior classes- English & Maths

Apps used in school in the Junior Classroom: English & Maths

librariesireland.ie have a range of Eservices, digital storytimes and a bank of online resources available- check it out!

Home Schooling on the Telly! Home School Hub-Daily 11.00-12.00 on RTE2. Cúla 4 ar Scoil-Daily 10.00-10.30

Schoolbook companies: Free access to their resources

Confirmation 2020

Celebrated by Bishop Fintan Monahan with Fr. Michael and Fr. Tom in Lorrha Church on the 8th March 

Bonner Maher and Brian Hogan bring the Liam McCarthy Cup and the U20 James Nowlan Cup to Redwood
​Friday, 31st January 2020

See gallery, our event page for more pictures of the Liam McCarthy visit!

                             Grandparents Day                               
               Thursday, 30th January 2020           

See gallery, our events page for all our wonderful pictures taken on Grandparents Day!!

Lismore Heritage Centre visits Redwood NS
Science workshops          17/01/2020

We were delighted to have Lismore Science visit us in school!
We got to do experiments on static electricity, the digestive system, acids and bases and chemical reactions!
See gallery, events for more pictures....

County Colours Day                     17th January 2020

Well done to the children of Redwood who proudly wore their County Colours to school on Friday, 17th January 2020 to support Cumann na mBunscol

History & Nature walk
with local historians Jame Heenan & David Broderick

The children from 3rd - 6th class had a very interesting history and nature walk and talk recently. We started off at Lackeen Castle finding out all sorts about the O' Kennedys and life at the castle over the years. We then followed the Beara Breifne Way through the fields and came by the ruins of Curragha Church. From there we followed the path of The Stolen Railway along Curragha bog, we passed through a native tree plantation of silver birch, oak and ash and ended up out on the New Line! Fantastic day out!!!
More pictures on Gallery - our events page!!

The Redwood NS Christmas Variety Show took place on Thursday, 12th December  in Redwood Church.

     Congratulations to the hamper winners, the timber winner and the many spot prize winners!
A great night was had by all!!

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Bring 'n' Buy for Charity!

Well done to the children for organising and running a very successful Bring 'n' Buy sale!
They raised €190.00 which will be split evenly towards their two chosen charities -         The ISPCA and The Irish Cancer Society
More pics on Gallery - our events page!

Drumming session with Mark Jerome

See gallery - our events for more images!!!

Redwood NS wins Microsoft Surface Go Device - NIS Ltd.

Well done to the pupils at Redwood NS who recently won a national competition from NIS                                                 Ltd - Network and Infrastructure Support.                                          They were thrilled to accept their new Surface Go device!

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Trick or Treat for Temple Street 2019

The children of Redwood NS had a Spooktacular time recently where they raised €120 for Temple Street
See gallery - our events for more pictures

Making stewed apple in the senior room

See gallery - our events for more images!!!

Visit to Redwood Organic Market

Visiting our neighbour, Conor Foxton, who showed us his wonderful organic vegetables.
See Active School Flag - Partnership page for more pictures!!!

Blackberry Jam at Redwood NS

The children of the junior room had a wonderful time making jam from the blackberries that they had picked!
See our work page for more images....

Redwood N.S. North Tipperary Football Finalists!!!
Redwood NS V's Kyle Park 
16th October 2019 - Borrisokane GAA grounds

See Active School Flag Page - Physical Activity for more pictures!

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Buddy Reading at Redwood N.S.

See gallery - our events for more images

Athletics September 2019
Silver Medalist in Cross Country!! Congratulations!!!
More photos on Active School Flag - Physical Activity

Warriors!

Norman Soldiers


See gallery for more images!!!

Ready for battle!

Wild Food Mary visits Redwood NS

Both the junior and senior rooms had an excellent morning foraging with Mary Bulfin and learned so much about our beautiful surroundings.
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A very big warm welcome to our new Junior Infants

School Tour - Limerick 2019
Nevsail and The Hunt Museum.

Check out our photos on our Gallery page - our events!!

First Holy Communion                               19th May 2019 

Sean Nós with Olive Kilgannon, Artist in Primary School 

We're delighted to be taking part in 'The Artist in primary School Scheme' funded by Tipperary County Council.
We are working with Olive Kilgannon from 'Creative Minds' on Sean Nós dancing. We are also exploring that area through art and photography.
We're having a blast with it!!
Please see gallery, events for more images!!!

Moneysense with past pupil Claire Gleeson Healy

Redwood NS were delighted to welcome back past pupil Claire Gleeson Healy to facilitate a workshop on money and budgeting from Ulster Bank.

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See gallery, events for more pictures!!

The annual easter egg hunt is under way!

Senior room work

Garda Blitz

The children from 1st, 2nd and 3rd class recently travelled to Kilcolman to take part in a hurling blitz organised by An Garda Síochána.
​Many thanks to Paudie Malone GDA and Garda Maureen Finnerty of Nenagh Garda Station. 

Junior room work

Paddy's Day Art from the Junior room

Borrisokane Fire Brigade visit to the school

FAI Soccer     Boys 4th / 5th      21st March     Ballymackey FC

Well done to our boys
​ in 4th, and 5th who took part in 5-a-side FAI soccer in Ballymackey FC today.

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More pics available under School Activities - Active School Flag Page

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FAI Soccer - Girls                                    Tuesday, 12th March

 Well done to our girls in 4th, 5th and 6th who took part in 5-a-side FAI soccer in Ballymackey FC today. With 2 wins out of 3, and lots of goals scored; it was a fantastic day!
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Many thanks to organiser James Scott from FAI soccer.

More pics available under School Activities - Active School Flag Page

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Indoor hurling blitz                           Nenagh College 07/03/19

​The children of 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes travelled to Nenagh College recently to take part in a non competitive indoor hurling blitz.
A great time was had by all.



Please see more pictures under School Activities - Active school Flag page

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 Scientific Sue at Birr Theatre                    06 March 2019

Engineers Week 2019
The children from 1st - 6th class travelled to Birr Arts Theatre to watch this amazing show The Ingenious Engineers Show

They travelled through time for the last 350 years and learned about our own Irish scientists throughout the years!


More pics available in school initiatives page under Discover Science and Maths Award

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Engineers Week 2019
World famous landmarks created by the children

The children recreated lots of world famous landmarks as part of Engineers Week 2019





Please see School initiatives - Discover primary Maths & Science Awards page for more pics!!

Bag2School clothes collection raised an outstanding €332.55

Well done to all involved and many thanks for all your donations!!!

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Peace  Proms

• The pupils from 2nd class to 6 th class travelled to Limerick on Saturday, 02nd March to perform as part of the choir for the cross border Orchestra of Ireland.
• A wonderful day was had by all in UL Arena
  

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Heritage in School scheme 2019 - Simon O' Dwyer

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

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.

Please check out our Event page for more pictures.....

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.

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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.

Melting chocolate experiment!

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....

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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

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.....

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...

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

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

See our school initiatives page - Active School, Partnership page for more photos!!!

Welcome to our two new Junior Infants....

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

***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!!

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Fun Academy - School Tour 2018, Cistercian College, Roscrea

See gallery page, events for more photos!!

Green Schools Expo - Thursday 22nd February 2018

Aistear January 2018 - The Doctors Surgery

The Nappy Experiment

How does a nappy work??
Our senior class got to work to discover just that!!!

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.

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

The Night Before Christmas....

Snowmen - both inside and outside!!

Making Rice Krispie Cakes

Nursing
Home
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​2017

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

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.

Mind the Gap - Fairtrade drama show & workshop

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

Science - Bridge construction & magnets

See our work page for more photos....

Gone Fishing!!

Junior room experimenting with magnets

Dance It Out Ireland - with Lisa Hogan

Football Blitz with 3rd & 4th Class

Redwood Castle visit

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

History Tour of Lorrha with Lorrha Historical Society

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!)

School Tour to Birr Outdoor Education Centre 2017

Congratulations to our second class pupils on receiving the Sacrament of Communion for Life in Lorrha Church on May 28th 2017

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

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

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 

Trick or Treat for Temple Street...

We love Tipperary! 

Liam McCarthy comes to school...

If every day in school was like this!! ​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!!)

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Portumna Shorelines Festival 2016

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!!

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

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.

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

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.

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Confirmation 2016

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.

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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!

    All the hard work is rewarded!!

Check out our Biodiversity page for more images!!!

 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!!

​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

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

Food dudes - Healthy eating initiative 

 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

The Grinch that Stole Christmas

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!!

St. Kieran's Nursing Home Christmas visit, Rathcabbin

Christmas Team Hope Shoebox Appeal 

CPR and AED Training for 3rd to 6th classes

Trick or Treat for Temple Street

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

     Delivery of our National Flag by the Defence Forces

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!!

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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!!
 

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