After a very busy year, our school choir had a well deserved party at lunchtime today to thank them for their participation at various school events and concerts. Thank you to Mrs Lawless and Miss Reynolds for giving so much of your time in to coaching the choir. And thank you to the parents of the choir pupils for your support throughout the year.
This morning every pupil was given a Chalk Tube to play with and to take home. See the letter above from Louth Sports Partnership. Grateful thanks to LSP and all their sponsors for this wonderful initiative which has provided a chalk tube to EVERY primary school pupil in Co Louth. St Francis National School was delighted to have been asked to promote the initiative through the filming of pupils at.
Photo: Paula Kavanagh Photography On Saturday 25th May, twenty seven pupils from St Francis NS made their First Holy Communion at St Oliver Plunkett Church, Blackrock. The pupils had been prepared for the sacrament in school throughout the year by their class teachers, Sarah Harlin and Annie Sweeney, with the support of parents and Fr Padraig Keenan. There followed a reception in the school hall, organised by the Parent’s Association.
Congratulations to our Green Schools Committee, led by Mrs Lawless and Miss McCann, on another successful year at the Louth County Council GROW Awards. GROW stands for (GREEN, RENEWABLE, ORGANIC, WASTE MINIMISATION) and these Environmental Awards recognise schools, staff and pupils who help foster a love of the environment and understanding and appreciation of nature. We are delighted to have retained our 5 star status in 2019 and to be.
Congratulations to the pupils from St Francis NS who represented the school last Sunday at the Feis Mhuirtheimhne. Well done to you all! Junior Infants A: Catherine Utomi and Flynn Connolly Junior Infants B Marianne Ewbanks and Conall Varley Senior Infants Lidiya Stapleton-Timoney and Realtein Rogers 1st Class Dáithí Duggan and Clara O’Connell 2nd Class Daisy McLoughlin and Theo Hynes 3rd Class Klia Campbell and Emmet Kearney 4th Class Amelia.
A letter has been sent home with all pupils today – further copies can be downloaded here Louth Sports Partnership Filming Permission Louth Sports Partnership has invited St. Francis NS to help them launch their free “Game-Tube” by filming children using the game plans and chalk in the tube to demonstrate how to play some of the games. This will be professionally filmed by “Little Road Productions” in school.
Blackrock Village Annual Spring Clean takes place this Saturday morning, 13th April and we hope you’ll be able to join us. We meet in the lower car park of Centra at 10am and hope to finish soon after 11 with some refreshments. Bring along wellies (a lot of our clean-up will be on the foreshore), and we’ll supply the gloves, litter pickers and bags. Children under 18 must be accompanied.
Congratulations to the pupils of St Francis NS who participated in the Feis Dun Dealgan last weekend. Organised by Patricia Reynolds, our visiting Speech & Drama teacher, this speech & drama festival is a wonderful opportunity for children to participate on a competitive platform through a medium of fun, building their confidence and presentation skills. It is also the only Speech & Drama Festival held for competitors aged 4-18 years in County.
Many thanks to everybody for the overwhelming support for our Irish Cancer Society Daffodil Day in school this morning. To the pupils (and their hard working parents) who baked their hearts out with amazing cakes and buns, to the pupils and staff who brought in donations, to the parents who joined us for coffee and (dodgy!) tea, to Elaine Cosgrove for the beautiful flowers, to the parents and pupils who.