Last Friday, Sixth class A and B visited the County museum in Dundalk. We were split into 2 groups and toured around the museum. There were three different floors. The ground floor consisted of farms, factories and Louth’s Industrial legacy. Floor 1 consisted of Historic Louth AD500-Present. Floor 2 consisted of Ancient Louth 7500BC - AD500. There were also ...
10th May, 2023, On Wednesday, the 10th of May, two of Dundalk FCs footballers, Peter Cherry and Ryan O’Kane joined us to answer all of our questions in the hall!. There were many, many questions about Messi and Ronaldo, and who they thought the G.O.A.T was, and questions about matches. Their answers were very, very entertaining to listen to. ...
Today someone from a bike workshop came in to let pupils know the safety of bikes and why you should use helmets. Lots of pupils brought in bikes today. There was rows of bikes reaching the staff parking lot! Some students from different classes got to learn safety including myself. He basically talked about hand signals and the proper ...
This week is Marine Week and David McCann, a marine biologist from Donegal, came to give a talk about marine life to 3rd class. We got to learn about safety on the beach, sea animals, facts and seas/ oceans. We had so much fun learning about maritime life. Tune in on the 9th June when he takes us to ...
Alex in 1st Class wrote and illustrated a mini novel over the Easter holidays called "Killer Karrots from outer space- Alex Dullaghan". We loved it so much we thought we would share it with you to read yourself. Perhaps we will see Alex as a Pulitzer Prize or Man Booker Prize winner in years to come? !!! Congratulations Alex!
On the last day of term before the Easter Holidays we held a "Dress up in Blue" day bake sale in the school as we have been celebrating neuro-diversity throughout March and we wanted to mark Autism Awareness. The bake sale was organised by pupils from the Student Council. Lots of ...
On Friday 31st of March the student council hosted a bake sale. This wasn't an ordinary bake sale, it was for autism awareness. We raised one thousand five hundred euro for autism awareness. We thank everyone who made something or even just bought something. We hope we can do this every year. By Alex from third Class ...
March 30th, 2023. 6th Class A and B received a visit from Garda Damien yesterday. It was about fingerprints, how to identify them and how the Gardaí use them as clues. We really enjoyed it, especially when we got to take our own fingerprints using ink and a small pane of glass. The instruments used for lifting fingerprints ...
29th March, 2023. The 6th classes made their confirmation on the 29th of March. It was a 2 hour long mass with an afterparty at the Geraldines, organised by the PA from both St Francis NS and St Fursey’s NS. People started arriving at the church at 10:40 and the mass began at 11 o’clock. We were joined by ...
Report by Alex, 3rd Class B On Friday 24th March the Student Council arrived to school at half eight in the morning and sold daffodil pins to parents dropping off their children to school.. It was for a good cause, it was for cancer! Many people gave generous donations. It was probably because people they knew or they ...