We are a very busy school! Each year as a treat, we all go to the cinema at Christmas. This is kindly paid for by the Board of Management and we have a fantastic day. Sometimes we hold a Carol Service or Christmas Play in St. Mary’s Church just before the Christmas holidays and then come back to the school for a party. All the parents are invited back for tea/coffee and to see our Christmas art and craft.
April has come and gone and the children in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class have been busy working in all subject areas! Today, on Tuesday, 26th April, we welcomed Philip and Richie, from the local Fire Brigade in to talk to the children about fire safety in the home. They presented each child with a…
This term has been jam-packed with lots of fun activities and the children have worked very hard! 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class were very lucky to have Ms. Kathy Ryan teaching them for 3 and a half weeks in February! Thank you Ms. Ryan for all your hard work with the children! In Art, the children…
February and March have been very busy months with lots of celebrations to prepare for as well as all our usual hard work in curricular areas! At the start of the month, the children decorated their own St. Brigid’s Day Cross in response to work covered in both Religion and History. In History, the children…
On March 16th we had a ceremony to raise the Irish flag outside our school. As part of the celebrations commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising every school in Ireland did this. We read our own school proclamation which we made in assembly. We also read the 4th paragraph of the 1916 Proclamation. The oldest boy…
Another month has come and gone and the pupils in the senior room have been busy! In art we made St Patrick’s Day shamrocks and painted them using different items to create various textures. We also made Easter chicks and rabbits from clay. For Mother’s Day we sewed the word ‘Mum’ and framed them for…
