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6th Class went on a history trip to Dun Laoghaire pier on Friday. They learned about the reason the pier was built and all the fascinating stories connected with the harbour and the surrounding areas. They had a great day on the trip. Thank…

Well done to our senior camogie team who had a one point win against St. Patrick's Glencullen. It was a great team performance. Next up is Holy Trinity NS. Congratulations also to our senior hurling team who beat St. Annes Shankill on a scoreline…

      There is lots happening here in Carysfort NS as we prepare to break for Easter. Our chicks have hatched and we have beautiful art around the school!

Congratulations to our 4th class children who are Fis Film Award Winners!!! The children  won the Outstanding Achievement Award for editing. Huge thank you to Ms Egan for preparing the children so well! Their movie can be viewed here: …

During Sea Life Week the children collected treasures from the seashore which were then used to decorate our school fish, Alan, who was named after our fantastic caretaker who made the fish template for us. Alan the Fish is proudly displayed…

Kieran is working with 3rd-6th Classes on the Gymnastics strand in PE this month.   They are learning how to do tumbling, flipping, handstands and headstands safely.   They are making great progress and having fun too!

Our fabulous choir led by Ms Cooper and Ms Murphy, sang beautifully today in UCD Smurfit Business School.

    Huge congratulations to our hockey team on a superb 6–0 victory against Whitechurch National School. A fantastic performance by all involved. Many thanks to the teachers, staff and parents for their continued support and…

Junior Infants made potions with  lots of magical ingredients! It was so exciting to watch the reaction. We had great fun!

We have recently purchased new yard games and toys for the senior classes to use at break times. Based on suggestions from children and teachers, we have boxes for each yard filled with:  Large soft balls  Soft rugby balls  Tennis…

Junior Infants did a shape hunt and made some shape pictures for Maths Week 2025.

    We have many assemblies here in Carysfort and this October, was an extra special one. We included topics such as Road Safety Week, our excellent Bí Cineálta  class posters, golden apples for kindness and character strengths,…

5-12 to 2-5 Great score for the Carysfort Boys Football Team against St Patrick's Glencullen. Some fantastic play and team work- huge thank you to all the parents for their support with transport and positive encouragement from the si…

Applying to Carysfort National School for 2026/27  Registration for all new students starting 2026/27 is now open as per our Final Annual Admissions Notice CNS 2026_2027 Please click on the link to our admission form below to apply. Click…

On Friday 21st March we celebrated our differences in support of Down Syndrome Ireland by wearing odd socks. It was great fun!

On Thursday 6th March we celebrated World Book Day in Carysfort. Many of the children dressed up as characters from their favourite books. Children from 6th Class enjoyed reading to Junior Infants. Second Class took part in book tasting. We…

During the last week in January, we celebrated Multicultural Week here in Carysfort. The aim of the week was to teach the children about different cultures and traditions that exist in different regions or settings. This included culture based…

This week (11th-15th November) we are celebrating Anti-Bullying Week here in Carysfort. At our assemblies the children were shown our new 'Cineáltas' flag which we now have displayed inside the main door of the school. This flag represents…

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Last week we had our annual Walkathon which was a huge success as usual. The children enjoyed walking along their routes and engaging in activities such as yoga, tug-of-war, photobooth, bubbles and obstacle courses. We ended the event with a…

Congratulations to the First Class students from CNS who won an award at the Fís Film Awards in the Helix. Ms Martin's class attended the awards ceremony on Wednesday 21st February where they accepted an award for their film 'Fixing Fairytales'…

This year, Walk to School Week runs from October 2nd to October 6th. This is a five-day celebration of walking, encouraging as many students as possible to get active and walk to school instead of being driven. Walking to school is one of…

Well done to Luke who acted as our Principal and Cian as Deputy Principal for the day today. They had a busy day overseeing sports day, making announcements and doing assemblies. Mrs. Linehan was delighted to have a day off.

Congratulations to the 7 Carysfort students who qualified for the National Bebras Challenge Finals which took place on the 6th of May. This is a wonderful achievement as out of the 8,000 who entered, only 180 qualified for the finals. The competition…

We had a fantastic week celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge from March 13th-16th. The children took part in a range of creative activities in their classrooms and year groups including songs, stories, céilí, tráth na gceist (quiz), and nuacht…

Senior Infants have been very busy the past few weeks making shadow puppets and using them to perform stories. They have been working with artist Caroline Byrne as part of the DLR Primary Arts Programme. They are really enjoying the process…

Photos of 6th Class students on their recent trip to W5 in Belfast as part of our Sustainability and STEM Week. p

We had a school-wide reading week last week to celebrate the arrival of some new books to every classroom. We read stories, shared books, discussed our favourites and enjoyed some DEAR Time (Drop Everything And Read). We also had a special visitor…

Kilmacud Crokes players Hugh, Fergal, Cian and Molly came to visit us here at Carysfort NS with their trophies. Hugh, Fergal and Cian were part of the Senior Hurling team who won the Dublin Hurling Final. Molly and her team won the Leinster…

First Class students had fun drawing their lovely self-portraits. We used bright, vibrant oil pastels to colour their drawings. We enjoyed looking at each other’s self-portraits outside our classrooms. …

Third class has been learning about Autumn.  We looked at animals and their habitats in Autumn and how they prepare for Winter.  We also looked at the four seasons and created trees to show the changes that take place.

We are learning about different feelings following the Welcome to Wellbeing programme. We have been practicing taming our big feelings. We created these feelings faces in our Art lessons based on the illustrations by Todd Parr in his stories…

Ms Scanlon and Ms Sweeney each had 10 eggs incubated in their rooms. They 'candled' the eggs to see which ones had chicks growing inside. The white part down the bottom of the egg is the air sac, this is where the chick pips the shell (makes…

As part of our ongoing commitment to School Self-Evaluation and as part of our overall literacy plan we are targeting Spelling this academic year. We encourage children to work through their spelling attempts, identifying and rectifying their…

Entrances All FOUR entrances to the school will be utilised to allow for social distancing. Please direct your child to enter the school grounds using the gate most suitable for them based on safety, their assigned entrance and the direction…

Mr. Z (Scott Ziglinski) our science and engineering expert has designed a special programme for Carysfort students, its called the: Carysfort Primary Engineering Project (C-PEP) You may remember back in January we had some fantastic…

This week is ‘Science and Music’ Week in Carysfort N.S. so we are looking forward to an exciting week ahead! Senior children will remember their STEM workshop with Scott Ziglinski, (Mr. Z!) last January. It proved so popular that we…

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Dear Parents/Guardians,   We are delighted to announce that we are rolling out the Aladdin ePayment system to parents/guardians of children in our school.   Our school uses the Aladdin software service for administrative…

Dear Parents, ‘Seachtain na Gaeilge’ will be celebrated in Carysfort from Monday 13th – Thursday, 16th March. 2nd - 6th class children designed posters ‘as gaeilge’ which will be displayed on the windows of the shops in…