Students from Cloonlyon attended this years FÍS Film festival awards ceremony in the Helix in Dublin. Cloonlyon triumphed at the awards, taking home the gong for ‘Best Storytelling’ for our film entry ‘The Béiceadán’ which you can watch below. RTE’s Sinead Kennedy was on hand to present the show.
The standard of film making from all the finalists was very high with some schools adding in wonderful animation, visual effects, brilliant music, amazing acting and  fantastic storytelling. 
Well done to all pupils, to Mr. Collins, Mr. Haran and a particular well done to Jack and Katie for stepping up to receive the award and accepting a brilliant new iPad on behalf of the school.​
​We would also like to thank all the parents and teachers who came with us to the Helix.  We enjoyed a wonderful welcome home from children and parents who waited at the school with banners and balloons to acknowledge our award winning students.

Our runners have reached an incredible 500 kilometres since we began our running club in September. As a reward for this fantastic achievement, every pupil received a night off homework on Tuesday. Our next target is 1000 kilometres and we hope to achieve this before the Christmas holidays and earn another homework free evening.

This year Cloonlyon is involved with the Blue Star Programme. This Programme aims to better students knowledge and understanding of the EU and how it affects Ireland. Students must carry out projects in relation to four key elements: the history, geography, culture and creativity, and Institutions of the EU.
A great amount of work has been put in and fourth and fifth class pupils have just completed the first element. They created projects based on Pope Francis and 1916 and are currently eagerly working away on the next element.

This week the students enjoyed learning all about the upcoming election and the six candidates. They took great enjoyment in casting their vote. We wonder if they will get it right.....