by Conor Norman On Wednesday the 11th February the two of St. Francis NS chess teams, Zane’s House and The Queen’s Gambit, went to a chess tournament in the Friary center. There were 6 games and many different schools taking part including St Francis NS, St Oliver Plunkett NS,, St. Malachys Boys and St. Malachys Girls. The 6 games spanned ...
by Sebastian Roland The Connet Credit Union quiz took place on the 11th of February and started at 10:30am at the Fairways hotel, Dundalk. There were teams submitted from lots of the local schools and we all sat on tables of 4 in the conference room. There were two teams from St Francis, an Under 11 team and an Under ...
by Jaylan Inman, 6th Class Phoenix Rising is a dance group run by Cassandra Pinto at the Family Redeemer Center. Phoenix Rising started two years ago and several of the children in the group are pupils of St Francis NS. Recently Phoenix Rising represented St Francis N.S, for the TLT School Stars Talent Show, where all students sign up ...
As part of Irish Catholic Schools Week we celebrated Grandparent's Day at St Francis in Wednesday 21st January. Due to our numbers and the shortage of space, we were unfortunately not able to extend an invitation to every grandparent to join us in school - much as we would have loved to have them celebrate with us in person. However, in ...
Introduction 6th class pupils recently went to the Dundalk museum to learn about a variety of historic artefacts and construct a small St. Brigids cross accessory that would later be put on to a large cross on display in the museum. Prior mentioned artefacts us students learned about were things like bronze age tools, ancient Egyptian artefacts, great inventors from ...
Pupils from 5th Class enjoyed their first lunchtime Scratch Coding Club yesterday with Mrs Cooney. For the next 10 weeks these lucky pupils will be practicing and progressing their digital skills in an effective and fun way. At the end of the course they hope to submit a project to the Scratch National Competition, supported by the Irish Computer Society (ICS) and Lero ...
Lily’s Special Night By Sophie Talbot and Fiadh McDonald THE LATE LATE TOY SHOW!!! The one night a year that kids can stay up late without an argument with their parents. For Lily O’Hare in 4th class B this was especially true. There was no way her family wasn’t going to be watching it because Lily was going to ...
By Vanessa Korri, 6th Class On Monday 8th December, the Junior end (Junior Infants, Senior Infants, 1st and 2nd Classes) held the dress rehearsals for their Christmas concerts, watched by the rest of the school. The performances to parents were on Tuesday 9th December. Both Junior Infants classes performed a play. Mrs O’Connell’s Class did ‘The Nativity’ and Miss ...
Sixth Class Awaits New Basketballs Basketball training has returned to St Francis NS in the last two years with the girls and boys teams winning the local basketball tournament that restarted last year. However, for the two years we’ve been training, the school has been receiving some poor quality basketballs. The school ordered 20 balls last year and 10 more ...
Together with the school choirs of St Oliver Plunkett NS and St Fursey's NS, the choir of St Francis will be singing at our parish "THE TWELVE CARROLS OF CHRISTMAS" on Sunday 14th December from 5-6pm at Blackrock Church. We hope you can join us :)