Order forms are being sent home this week for the Educate.ie Christmas Annuals Priced at just €3.00 each they are excellent value for money and make great stocking fillers and gifts. All annuals are full colour, A4 size and packed with educational articles and activities including: Classic activities to keep you busy no matter your mood, from matching games and ...
Every year St Francis NS families generously support a Christmas Shoebox Appeal. For the past 3 years, the Student Council has decided to do the Shoebox Appeal with local Blackrock charity, Crosscause, run by Conor Hughes. Crosscause's Christmas Shoebox Appeal is a campaign that delivers gifts straight into the hands of orphans, children with disabilities and children fleeing the war ...
We are delighted to advise that the 4th Class Sleepout at the end of last month raised €5,416.56 for the Dundalk Simon Community. This will be formally presented to them by the pupils when they come to visit the school later this month. Many thanks to the parents of 4th class pupils for trusting us by allowing your children to ...
Save The Date The AGM of our Parents' Association will take place on Wednesday 22nd October at 7pm in the school. All parents of pupils enrolled at St Francis are automatically members of our PA. We appreciate it is not always easy to get to the monthly PA meetings, but we warmly welcome all parents to attend the AGM later ...
Following on from the success of last years "Communion Couture" event, the Parent's Associations of St Francis NS, St Fursey's NS and St Oliver Plunkett NS have decided to repeat the event this year. If you have a Communion outfit (boys or girls) or Communion accessories at home which you are willing to donate, please drop them in to the ...
Our Annual Flag Day is taking place on Friday 10th October 2025. We will have volunteers collecting at various locations in Blackrock and Dundalk, and pupils will be doing a gate collection at drop of and pick up time. Please remember to bring in a few coins for the buckets if possible. Alternatively you can click on / scan the ...
The PA of St Francis NS has organised a Junior Disco (JI, SI, 1st and 2nd Classes) on Saturday 25th October: 5.30-6.30pm and a Senior Disco (3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th Classes) on Monday 27th October from 6-7.30pm.
Many thanks to Barry Teather (brother of the famous Niall Teather Fitkids) for calling in to school yesterday with the Leinster Trophy. He came in at the end of assembly to raucous applause by all, with the Delaney cup (winners of the Leinster Senior Football Championship which we haven't won in 68 years since 1957) and the u20s cup. Thank ...
This morning we held our year end prizegiving assembly. Each class teacher had 2 two teacher awards for their class, and we presented the Annual attendance awards to pupils who missed no school, or only one day of school. We also acknowledged all the pupils who have contributed to school teams, clubs and committees throughout the school year. Class ...
