About Our School
- The school has an excellent range of audio - visual equipment, which includes interactive whiteboards in all classrooms, digital cameras, visualisers, CD players, DVD players, data projectors, overhead projectors, computers, keyboards, and science equipment.
- All classes have a spacious play area. We have 2 basketball/tennis courts, a grass area and access to the full sized pitch in the village. We are fortunate to have a sizeable school hall and a good range of sports equipment to enable us to provide experience of a wide variety of games, including hurling, football, soccer, basketball, uni-hoc, tag-rugby etc.
- We also have access to the local community hall.
- On the school grounds or adjacent to it, pupils may experience the delights of the millennium wood, the butterfly patch, the stream, habitat and wildlife.
- Pupils are brought on regular field trips to provide ‘hands on' learning experiences.
- Two Autism Classes are attached to the school catering for 12 children.
- All children have access to the school's Sensory Garden.
- The school has a Sensory Integration room and Snoozelan.
- Pupils are involved in table quizzes.
- 1st to 6th class attend swimming lessons.
- Tin whistle is taught from 3rd- 6th classes. A number of children have the opportunity to avail of music lessons in violin/recorder/cello: instruments are supplied by the school. We also have a school orchestra.
- 2nd class take part weekly in the ‘Let's Make Music' project learning to play the violin.
- Classes participate in Literacy Lift Off. We also avail of the mobile library.
Ardfinnan National School, Commons, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, E91 X6F9, Ireland Phone: 052 746 6397