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As part of an exciting cross-curricular project, the children in Sixth Class were challenged to plan, design, and create their dream bedrooms. This...

National Bike Week is an annual celebration that promotes cycling as a fun, healthy, and sustainable way to travel and stay active. As part of this...

Last week, NJS celebrated Active School Week, an annual national initiative that promotes physical activity and wellbeing among students. The week...

In alignment with the guiding principles of the New Primary Mathematics Curriculum, we designed a series of interactive stations to foster a...

Sixth class have really enjoyed learning Italian through the ‘Say Yes to Languages Programme’.  This programme is an initiative by the Department of...

For the past four weeks, under the guidance of Ms. Stapleton, the whole school have been participating in the ‘Skip Around Europe’ Challenge. ...

Jack made an excellent presentation in Collect about our Golden Rules.  It was clear to see that Jack had put a lot of work into the presentation...

Sixth class were delighted to welcome the transition year students from Waterpark Secondary school into our classroom.  We learned about the...

Fifth & sixth class participated in the Land PAWS Programme, which is an educational water safety initiative, developed by Irish Water Safety....