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Hello everyone!
Spring energy is contagious, making everyone start to buzz. Despite a full week of mid-term break, a lot has been packed into this short month, and much more planned for March.
Meitheal

Our incredible parent community came together at school for the Spring Clean Meitheal earlier this month, offering a much-needed helping hand to tackle various tasks. Krzysiek and Conall did a fantastic job coordinating all the volunteers, helping everyone stayed focused. The […]

So, we talk a lot about it, we agree it’s important, and there are many opinions on how best to do it – curriculum-led, project-based, self-directed, on-the-job, etc. but is there any clear understanding or consensus about how learning actually happens?

Sugata Mitra, best known for his “Hole in the Wall” experiment in New Delhi, India, has some interesting thoughts on the subject based on his understanding of theoretical physics, and his studies […]

As the year comes to a close, we take a moment to reflect on all that has happened over the past months. At the end of each term we encourage all of our staff and students to take the time to reflect on our experiences of community, freedom, and responsibility, celebrating our achievements, learning from challenges, and enjoying the memories. We savour this quiet moment of reflection before anticipating the excitement […]

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November has been a whirlwind of creativity, learning, and fun at Sligo Sudbury School! Our students have been keeping busy with an exciting variety of activities that encourage both personal growth and team collaboration. Here’s a look at some of the highlights:  Read the complete newsletter here ……

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Where to begin wrapping up this extraordinary year of adventures and memories. June is typically a tiny bit frenzied as we try to squeeze as much juice out of the year as we can, and some bigger projects suddenly find themselves with a deadline. No pressure! We take it all in our stride as always. School Meeting gave final approval to budgets and plans for next year, and the backlog of JC cases […]

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April has been a busy and beautiful month with plenty of sun shine and warm weather to keep our spirits high. The Drama club put on a fantastic performance of Appropriate Audience Behaviour, a play where the performers are the audience. The acting was mesmerising and hilarious and the “actual” audience were blown away by the talent. Many months of crochet work literally came together as students who had been working on individual patchwork squares […]

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What we’ve been doing.

Hello everyone and Happy Springtime!

The month of February began of course with Imbolc and Brigid’s Day, and the celebration of the arrival of spring. Weaving St. Brigid’s crosses quickly expanded into a number of new shapes as we played with the rushes and devised new patterns.

Pancake Day marked another important celebration in Irish culture. While “Carnival” is celebrated in other parts of the world with masks, costumes, […]