This is where you will find all the latest news for the whole school. If you wish to find out about the latest news from any one class please click on the class links above the first blog post below.

Our School Blog

Tour 2023

This year we went to Baysports in Athlone. It was a beautiful sunny day 😎. We were paddle boarding, kayaking, on the water slides and...

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Jun 2, 20231 min read

In the shade

We enjoyed ice-cream in the shade. 😎 ⛱️

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Jun 1, 20231 min read

Interest Talks

This week everyone presented their topic of interest to them. There was a wonderful variety. The topics ranged from animals of different...

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May 31, 20231 min read

Pizza 🍕 Party

5th/6th class enjoyed a Pizza Party today, We were awarded this for our work with Sams Business Bus. Well done 👏

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May 25, 20231 min read

Hot air balloons 🎈🔥

We have a lovely summer display in our room. We used paper plates to create a 3-D effect.

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May 25, 20231 min read

Cumann na mBunscol Finalists 🏐

Congratulations to our boys and girls. Both teams have qualified for the finals. They received a great St. Michael's welcome when they...

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May 24, 20231 min read

Champions

Big congratulations to our boys and girls football teams who now proceed to the county finals on June 10th. Fantastic performances and...

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May 23, 20231 min read

First Holy Communion 2023

Congratulations to the 16 children who received their First Holy Communion on Saturday. Thank you to all who made it a very special day-...

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May 22, 20231 min read

First Communion Day

Congratulations to the boys and girls on this very special day. Thank you to your parents, teachers and Fr Vincent for helping you to...

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May 20, 20231 min read

Pizza Party 🎉

Congratulations to 5/6 class who have won the fantastic prize of a Pizza Party for the class. We were awarded this for our...

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May 17, 20231 min read

Amigos Skills Competition

Well done to the boys and girls who represented our school. Superb skills 😃

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May 17, 20231 min read

Australian Song 🎵

Today we sang a song about travelling around Australia. It names lots of Australian cities and there are movements to go with each location.

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May 8, 20231 min read

Garda Inez visits

Inez visited our classroom today. She showed us pepper spray, her baton and talked about her job. She also spoke with us about online...

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May 8, 20231 min read

Sams Business Bus

Following our zoom last week we created lists showing characteristics for successful entrepreneurs. Look at our work samples

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May 8, 20231 min read

GAA

We are so proud of our boys and girls football teams who played brilliantly yesterday. We now proceed to the semi finals 😃

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May 5, 20231 min read

May is the month of Mary

Today we visited our Church Garden to say a special prayer to Mary. We bowed our heads and said Hail Mary.

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May 4, 20231 min read

Sams Business Bus

5th/6th class joined this programme today. We are learning about entrepreneurs! We are working with other schools from Cork and Cavan. We...

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May 3, 20231 min read

Cumann na mbunscol

The jerseys are ready and the boys and girls are ready 😀good luck to our teams tomorrow as we play Achonry and Culfadda

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May 3, 20231 min read

Drawing in the sun

We took our art class outside today and drew some colourful pictures using chalk.

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May 3, 20231 min read

Comic Strips

Our novel Varjak Paw has very interesting illustrations. Some are black and white, others are grey. Today we created our own...

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Apr 28, 20231 min read

P.E. in the sun 🌞

We had PE in the sun with Mr Moylan today. In our warm-up we ran around and then he challenged us to get back to our cone in 8 seconds....

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Apr 21, 20231 min read

School Garden 🌿🥕

Shauna and the student council have been organising the planting of the various seedlings that have grown over the past few weeks. 🌱 The...

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Apr 20, 20231 min read

The school yard.

Today in science we learned about a conservation code and using quadrats. The conservation code reminded us to leave the area and...

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Apr 19, 20231 min read

Easter Raffle

Congratulations to all the hamper winners in the Easter egg raffle. Have a lovely, restful break.

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Mar 31, 20231 min read