Pupils’ News

St. Francis N.S Visited By The Red Cross

In March of 2025 students from 6th class were visited by The Red Cross to learn a series of helpful and life saving manoeuvres for example CPR, choking  and How to use a Defibrillator on adults, children and even babies! After the experience, children left the room not just overjoyed, but with amazing life saving techniques in their minds which ...

2025-06-05T14:09:39+01:00Categories: Pupils' News|Tags: , , |

Engineers Ireland Quiz Winners!

4 students from St. Francis N.S participated in a quiz tournament on the 28th of February in Dundalk Library, after a gruesome quiz they came out victorious landing them into the finals which is taking place in DKIT on the 6th of March. The students selected were the best of the best when it comes to STEM. There were 8 ...

Two National Art Competition Winners From St. Francis!

Recently, St.Francis NS has had TWO national art competition winners. One of the winners Basheer Ahmed Avesh, in 6th class B, won the National Marine Spatial Planning Poster Competition Awards which gave €500 to the school for his absolutely amazing drawing of the future for our planet. The next winner, Charlotte Agnew, who used to come to St Francis N.S, ...

2025 Debate Competition Victory!

Jessica, Mero and Eamon, the 6th Class A Debate Team who won the Finals of the Dundalk Schools District Inaugural Debate for the Sharon Durnin Cup. On the 14th February 2025, school pupils Jessica Cooney, Mero Ahmadi and Eamon Kazai from 6th class A along with Sophie O'Brien, Mila Crawley and Rachel Pritchard from 6th class B particapated ...

Grandparents Day 2025

  On Wednesday 22nd February we will celebrate Grandparent's Day at St Francis NS. Grandparents will be remembered and celebrated in every class throughout the school.  Grandparents of pupils in Senior Infants and 2nd classes are invited to join their grandchild in the classroom for the morning!  

2025-01-21T14:18:38+00:00Categories: Pupils' News|Tags: |

6th Class CPR Training

On the 24th September, St. Francis 6th Classes had the invaluable opportunity to learn the life saving skill of CPR by the Blackrock and Haggardstown defibrillator group.  As we were learning compressions, we were having an educational experience performing with mannequins. In addition to that, we also learnt the procedure for when an adult, child, or pregnant person is ...

2024-09-26T12:16:23+01:00Categories: Pupils' News|

Ruby’s Gaelic Trophy

Victory! I won a trophy for player of the week because I was a good listener.  I was a team player and I scored 4 times.  It was Gaelic for the Joes and my coach is called Declan.  He's a good coach and I’m grateful for getting player of the week.  Thank you so much Decky! -Ruby, 3B ...

2024-05-13T09:25:06+01:00Categories: Pupils' News|