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 :)
Handy Hoodies Have Arrived by 6th Class Reporter, Luke Lonergan Handy hoodies have arrived in St Francis National School. A few weeks ago Brigitte ordered the hoodies on the 22nd of September. Unfortunately, there was a delay in delivery due to an increase in demand, so 6th class waited a bit longer than normal. Finally on the 7th of November, ...
Cool Chromes for Crazy Class by our 6th Class reporter, John O'Rourke 6th Class Get New Laptops! During the summer a company ( that a parent of a puoil works for) donated laptops to St Francis National School. The head of I.T. for Saint Francis National School, Ms McKevitt, helped to make it happen. After their arrival during the summer, ...
Secondary School Sadness Strikes Saddened Students By 6th Class reporter, Sophie Talbot You could sense the fear in the air as Sixth Class pupils anticipated their secondary school acceptance letters. The letters were waiting at home on Friday the 7th November. They arrived at 12pm while pupils were in school. Today could either be Christmas come early, or as bad ...
The Garden Club By 6th Class pupil, Vanessa Korri (Chair of Garden Club) In the middle of September or class teacher, Ms Carroll introduced us to a Biodiversity Project which will last from September to May. Clara, Catherine, Sasha, Jailia, Victoria, Jamelia, Abigail, Patrick and myself decided to make a committee based on Biodiversity. Our progress has been really ...
