Many thanks to everybody for the overwhelming support for our Irish Cancer Society Daffodil Day in school this morning. To the pupils (and their hard working parents) who baked their hearts out with amazing cakes and buns, to the pupils and staff who brought in donations, to the parents who joined us for coffee and (dodgy!) tea, to Elaine Cosgrove for the beautiful flowers, to the parents and pupils who.
Congratulations to the pupils who took part in the MS Readathon at the end of last year. Pupils from 3rd to 6th classes were all invited to participate. In particular, the pupils from Miss Gray’s 3rd class raised a phenomenal sum. Special mention to Cian Cassidy, Conor White and Erin Goss who each raised over €100 for Multiple Sclerosis. VERY WELL DONE!! Today they were awarded with their certificates and.
Don’t forget that World Book Day is on Thursday 7th March. Once again all pupils are asked to come to school dressed as their favourite book character. Various activities are planned in each class to mark the day, and we are delighted to welcome children’s author Olive Mooney who will be storytelling in school on Friday. Pupils can purchase signed copies of her books “Chronicles of Cadaver.
Just a reminder that we shall be celebrating Grandparents Day in school on Friday 1st February. Pupils have been given invitations to take home to grandparents. Please can you ensure the class teachers know who is coming so we have an idea of numbers. Thank you 🙂
Work is due to commence at the end of this week on the installation of a new mobile classroom in the school grounds. The site of the new classroom will be to the right of the pitch, behind the staff car park. The builder’s vehicles and equipment are going to need to have access to the site via the staff car park and staff will park their vehicles in the.
Pupils in Junior Infants A had great fun with their first BeeBot lessons today. Pupils in Junior Infants B and Senior Infants will get their introduction to BeeBots next week. Thank you very much to our Parent’s Association for financing the purchase of the BeeBots out of last years fundraising money. What are BeeBots? Bee-Bots are a wonderful tool to teach pupils the fundamentals of coding and computational thinking. The.
To mark Internet Safety Day on Tuesday 5th February we have once again invited James Neary, of Children Of The Digital Age, to come in to school and talk to each class about online safety. In the evening at 7pm we will have a 90 presentation for parents where James will feed back on his finding from the talk with pupils and offer advice and information to parents on how.
Well done to all 69 of the children pictured below who achieved 100% attendance for the Autumn Term 2018 – not an easy accolade to achieve given all of the flus and bugs around at this time of year!
Congratulations to the pupils pictured for getting a special commendation for their Christmas Tree decorations. We had a very difficult job we had choosing the most creative recycled Christmas tree decorations as there were loads of amazing creations. Thank you to EVEYONE who took part and brightened up our Christmas trees in school!