Student Adventures With Scientific Sue!
Mohamed making his iron coin! On the 3rd of March, Students from 6th class and on the 21st of march students from 3rd class had the privilege to experience a grand lecture from DKIT by a wonderful presenter known as Scientific Sue! Sue talked and explained to the ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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!
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 ...
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 ...
4B Work: Alma
Some work from 4B on the scary short film "Alma."
Ardee Chess Tournament
Special congratulations to Rordan and Nazar from 6th and Daniel from 5th for winning all six of their matches! Our Chess Tournament In the morning the three chess teams were waiting for the bus to arrive. The chess teams got on the bus and picked up St. Oliver’s students ...
Leinster Minor Schools Gala
Congratulations to our swimming champions! On Sunday Cian, Robert and Matthew woke up early to go to the Leinster Minor Schools gala. The first stroke was freestyle. Cian got 42.3 sec, Robert got 48.21 and Mathew got disqualified. Next was breaststroke. Cian got 56.12. Robert got 1 m ...
Swimming Gala
On sunday I woke up at 6am to go to the Leinster Minor Schools gala. The first event was freestyle. I got a time of 42.13 and I got 6th out of 30. Then breaststroke was next. I got 46.2 and I came 4th out of 30. After that ...
Chess Tournament
Chess Club Yesterday St Olivers’s chess team came to our school so both teams could practice for the tournament. Sadly St Olivers did not have enough players so I played against Liam, Conor and Cian. I did not win but I came close and had such a good ...
Some Work From 4B
Some work from 4th Class B on monsters.
Thoughts on Internet Safety
Thoughts after our internet safety talk "It made me feel scared to think that when you delete a photo it doesn’t really get deleted. It is still there." - Cushla from 3B "I realise now that if somebody texts or messages me and I don’t know them I need ...
Some Work From 4th Class
Below is some work from 4th Class including some facts about bees, Bradley's Diary and some work in Irish.
4th Class Sleepout 2023
Every year our 4th Class pupils participate in the Simon Community's Sleepout to raise money for and awareness about homelessness. Below are some of their reports about the Sleepout on September the 29th, 2023. ...
Callum Gold Medal Story
On Sunday October 15th, I took part in the Irish Open Karate Championships in Dublin. There were people there from London, Germany, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland. Amy Dennis helped me to train for the competition. The atmosphere was very quiet until I finished my Kata. I wasn’t nervous ...
Zip It Trip
This year 4th Class A and B went to Zip It Forest Adventures in Dublin for their school tour. On the bus, everyone was so excited to arrive at Zip It. The bus ride was an hour and 20 minutes long, so for entertainment we played charades. Further into ...
Bloom in a Tin
We recently went on a trip to Bloom. It's like a festival for plants. After the trip there was a project we had to do. We had to make a garden in a tin. It's a competition. 5 ...
3rd Class School Tour
Our School Tour On Wednesday we went on our school tour. We went to Ardgillan park. There was a big slide there and a huge climbing frame. We had great fun! We had our lunch at the park. We went on a big double decker bus. We also went ...
3rd B School Play!
We were practicing the play for a few weeks. On Wednesday it was the big day. We had to do the real play, but first we had to do our play to the whole school! Then we had to do the scary bit... The real play in front of ...
Agri Aware
On 1st of October to June 13th our class did an Agri Aware project called Incredible Edibles. Everybody grew a plant, there were pumpkins, cress, strawberries, potatoes and lettuce and many more. Most people’s plants thrived. We had to water them every day. Our teacher showed us how to ...
Public Speaking Report
In May the public speaking final took place. After succeeding in round one and two of the competition the finalists, representing 4th, 5th & 6th classes, were selected. The six were critiqued by Mrs. Lawless, Brigitte and our guest judge Patricia Reynolds. Although it was nerve wracking, every contestant ...