Fáilte go suíomh idirlíon Scoil Chroí Íosa, Blarney. Our website hopes to provide an insight into the everyday life of our school including the wonderful and unique opportunities that are afforded to the children of Scoil Chroí Íosa. The website also contains lots of valuable information for parents and those in the wider community.
Scoil Chroí Íosa is a provider of high quality education to students from Blarney and its surrounding area. As a professional body of teachers, the staff are committed to working in partnership with parents to ensure every child reaches their full potential in a happy and stimulating learning environment. The school aims to promote full and harmonious development of all aspects of the child. We foster a love of learning, working to the best of one’s ability and developing a sense of respect and responsibility amongst our pupils.
With the above in mind, I am always extremely grateful to the hard work and goodwill of our Parents, Pupils, Teachers, SNAs, Secretaries & Caretaker, as well as our Parents Association, Board of Management and the wider community of Blarney; all of whom help make Scoil Chroí Íosa the unique, warm and welcoming school that it is.
I hope that you will find this website useful and informative and the staff and I look forward to sharing your child’s educational journey with you.
Active, hands-on learning in 2nd class thanks to Ms. Carol and her chicks 🐣✨ We explored the life cycle of a chicken through engaging activities - combining hatchling art with explanation writing to deepen our understanding. Ms Burke’s class made learning fun by connecting creativity with real-life experiences 💛🐣
A huge thank you to Mr French and the team in Scoil Muire Gan Smál Blarney for creating a wonderful sensory board for our yard space. 4th class were lucky enough to have a tour of the technology rooms, library and outdoor spaces, as well as a nice treat for lunch time 🍫🧃We met Viva, the school dog on our travels which was a highlight 🤩🦮 title this shorten this for the stpry
Nuacht na Míosa, Márta 2026
Great craic in the junior yard at Scoil Chroí Íosa 🎶 The children made magic with our colourful recycled pipes, creating their own spontaneous rhythmic singing game, full of ceol, creativity and teamwork!
✨ 6th Class Retreat ✨
A lovely morning in Blarney Church preparing for Confirmation 🙏
Learning about the Fruits and Gifts of the Holy Spirit 💛
🌸🐣 Our Easter Raffle is here! 🐰🎟️
Get ready for some egg-citing fun with our Easter Raffle!
📅Tickets will be on sale again on Wednesday.
🎟️€2 per ticket.
Best of luck to all our students and thank you to our wonderful Parents Council for organising!
Some of our Senior Infant pupils got to visit the Post Office last week.
Thank you to Daniel and all of the staff for being so kind to the children.
They enjoyed selling stamps, using airmail stickers and of course handling the money!
There was great excitement in Ms Carroll’s class last week as four baby chicks hatched! The children have been taking wonderful care of them and are now busy trying to choose the perfect names.
Odd socks, bright smiles and a whole lot of fun! Celebrating World Down Syndrome Day in style! #oddsockday #worlddownsyndromeday #celebratingdifferences #beunique #sockstyle
Today in school students and staff proudly wore jerseys for We Stand 4 Féile Jersey Day. A heartfelt thank you to everyone for your kindness, generosity and support with donations. Your support means so much and is very much appreciated ❤️
Show your colours and wear your odd socks! ⚽🧦💙💛
Tomorrow we are celebrating Jersey Day in support of Stand 4 Féile and wearing colourful/mismatched socks for World Down Syndrome Day!
#JerseyDay #Stand4Feile #WorldDownSyndromeDay #ShowYourColours
🎉Frása na Seachtaine 🎉
“Tá cnag ar an doras!” 🚪🇮🇪💚
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It means:
There’s a knock at the door! 🚪👋
👉 Úsáidtear é nuair a chloiseann tú duine ag bualadh ar an doras... b’fhéidir go bhfuil cuairteoir tagtha! 😄🏡
Bainigí triail as! 🇮🇪💚
#FrásaNaSeachtaine #GaeilgeAbú #ScoilChroíÍosa #Gaelbhratach💜
Siamsa - Seo scoile sa halla an tseachtain seo caite! ☘️
Bhí léirithe iontacha ag na ranganna go léir. Bhí Kareoke againn agus chanamar “Killeagh” le chéile as Gaeilge. 🎶
Ceiliúradh álainn ar ár gcultúr lán le ceol, damhsa agus spraoi. 💚☘️🪕🎵
#gaelbhratach #gaeilge #scoil #coicísnagaeilge
Rang a hAon agus a Dó lit up our Siamsa ar Lá Glas ag canadh Téir Abhaile Riú by Clannad, accompanied by an bodhrán, an giotar, an tambourine agus an fhéadóg stáin. Bhí siad go hálainn ar fad! 🎶🍀
Our Junior Building students went on a bilingual singalong voyage last week in Blarney GAA Hall, ‘Turas Tara’. Many thanks to Blarney Library for organising the event.
Show Your Colours!
Join us on 20 March for Stand 4 Féile – Jersey Day. Wear a jersey!
All donations would be greatly appreciated.
Reading buddies and board game champions! 📚🏆 Ms Burke’s Rang a Dó joined Ms Walsh’s Rang a Cúig for a morning of shared reading agus cluichí!
#SharedReading #BuddyReading #BoardGameFun #LearningTogether #SchoolCommunity
A fantastic evening for Ms Walsh’s Rang a Cúig at the Cork Heritage Projects Competition awards ceremony!
After many weeks of hard work, research and creativity, the class was absolutely thrilled to be awarded 4th place. They proudly accepted their trophy and certificates, celebrating a wonderful achievement and a project they put so much effort into!
We are incredibly proud of the class for their enthusiasm, curiosity and dedication. It was wonderful to see their hard work recognised. 👏🏆
A special thank you to @cllrkieranmc for organising and running such a wonderful competition, giving pupils the opportunity to explore, appreciate and celebrate our local heritage.
Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine 💜💜💜 #CoicísNaGaeilge #Gaelbhratach ☘️☘️☘️
Celebrating our love of reading with some creative caterpillars!
Future engineers in action! Thank you to our wonderful guest speaker Cian O’Mahony who visited us for Engineers Week. 2nd Class learnt how maths, science and imagination can help shape our world in some hands on tasks👷♂️🚀📐
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