Rann Na Feirste Gaeltacht Contae Dún na nGall
Rann Na Feirste Gaeltacht Contae Dún na nGall On the 11th of May 2026 39 of the pupils of St Francis NS’ 6th class went up for a five day residential trip in Ranafast in County Donegal. The pupils departed from the school around half nine in the ...
Basketball friendly v St Fursey’s
The best basketball tournament of the year! (so far) The whole of Sixth Class was buzzing. Everyone was getting ready to play against St. Furseys N.S, our close rivals. Boys and girls erupting in excitement, chatting nervously with their friends until the final moments before they had to play. St ...
New Basketball Kits from the Re-Turn Fundraiser
This year the St. Francis Basketball Team decided to get new basketball kits from Spalding. On the 25th of march the new kits arrived. They had been paid for through the return bottle system that students had been donating to, by giving their bottles into a crate at the back ...
A Visit from The Easter Bunny
Today we had a very special visitor hopping in to St Francis NS - the Easter Bunny!!! There was great excitement, especially in the infant classes. He visited every classroom during his whilrwind visit and delivered treats to every child - he even gave a treat to our Principal, Mrs ...
Gareth Crosby Interview
Race on 29th Jumping 28th U13 Athletics Leinster Juvenile Championships 2nd place sprint and jump He got top 4 went nationals. Are you nervous? : no Where is your competition gonna be? : Athlone which is a 2 hour drive Shoe rules? : If you wear spikes, the spikes have ...
Visit to Irish Military Museum
by Zane Ali Last Friday the pupils from 6th class of our school were given the opportunity to go to the Irish Military War Museum for WWI and WWII at Starinagh, Collon, County Meath. The museum brought a variety of interesting facts, weapons and machinery for the students to learn ...
Confirmation for 6th Class Pupils
The Confirmation by Alex Mc Fadden and Conor Norman Photos courtesy of Paula Kavanagh Photography On March 5th 2026 the children of 6th class who are of the Roman Catholic faith went to St Fursey`s church to be confirmed by Christ into the catholic church. The mass started ...
Fifth Class Basketball Training
By Sophie Talbot, 6th Class Mr. McShane, who teaches Sixth class this year, took up teaching basketball to the fifth class last year when he was teaching them. Mr. Shepperd was the other basketball coach. This year they very generously agreed to teach Fifth again. They coached them over a ...
Chess Competition
by Conor Norman On Wednesday the 11th February the two of St. Francis NS chess teams, Zane’s House and The Queen’s Gambit, went to a chess tournament in the Friary center. There were 6 games and many different schools taking part including St Francis NS, St Oliver Plunkett NS,, St. ...
Connect Credit Union Quiz Report
by Sebastian Roland The Connet Credit Union quiz took place on the 11th of February and started at 10:30am at the Fairways hotel, Dundalk. There were teams submitted from lots of the local schools and we all sat on tables of 4 in the conference room. There were two teams ...
Phoenix Rising represents St Francis NS at Schoolstars Talent Show
by Jaylan Inman, 6th Class Phoenix Rising is a dance group run by Cassandra Pinto at the Family Redeemer Center. Phoenix Rising started two years ago and several of the children in the group are pupils of St Francis NS. Recently Phoenix Rising represented St Francis N.S, for the ...
Grandparent’s Day at St Francis
As part of Irish Catholic Schools Week we celebrated Grandparent's Day at St Francis in Wednesday 21st January. Due to our numbers and the shortage of space, we were unfortunately not able to extend an invitation to every grandparent to join us in school - much as we would have ...
6th Class Visit to Dundalk Museum
Introduction 6th class pupils recently went to the Dundalk museum to learn about a variety of historic artefacts and construct a small St. Brigids cross accessory that would later be put on to a large cross on display in the museum. Prior mentioned artefacts us students learned about were things ...
Lily’s Special Night
Lily’s Special Night By Sophie Talbot and Fiadh McDonald THE LATE LATE TOY SHOW!!! The one night a year that kids can stay up late without an argument with their parents. For Lily O’Hare in 4th class B this was especially true. There was no way her family wasn’t ...
Christmas Shows
By Vanessa Korri, 6th Class On Monday 8th December, the Junior end (Junior Infants, Senior Infants, 1st and 2nd Classes) held the dress rehearsals for their Christmas concerts, watched by the rest of the school. The performances to parents were on Tuesday 9th December. Both Junior Infants classes performed ...
Sixth Class Awaits New Basketballs
Sixth Class Awaits New Basketballs Basketball training has returned to St Francis NS in the last two years with the girls and boys teams winning the local basketball tournament that restarted last year. However, for the two years we’ve been training, the school has been receiving some poor quality basketballs. ...
6th Class Hoodies “Class of 2026”
Handy Hoodies Have Arrived by 6th Class Reporter, Luke Lonergan Handy hoodies have arrived in St Francis National School. A few weeks ago Brigitte ordered the hoodies on the 22nd of September. Unfortunately, there was a delay in delivery due to an increase in demand, so 6th class waited a ...
6th Class Get New Laptops!
Cool Chromes for Crazy Class by our 6th Class reporter, John O'Rourke 6th Class Get New Laptops! During the summer a company ( that a parent of a puoil works for) donated laptops to St Francis National School. The head of I.T. for Saint Francis National School, Ms McKevitt, helped ...
Secondary School Sadness
Secondary School Sadness Strikes Saddened Students By 6th Class reporter, Sophie Talbot You could sense the fear in the air as Sixth Class pupils anticipated their secondary school acceptance letters. The letters were waiting at home on Friday the 7th November. They arrived at 12pm while pupils were in school. ...
The Garden Club
The Garden Club By 6th Class pupil, Vanessa Korri (Chair of Garden Club) In the middle of September or class teacher, Ms Carroll introduced us to a Biodiversity Project which will last from September to May. Clara, Catherine, Sasha, Jailia, Victoria, Jamelia, Abigail, Patrick and myself decided to make ...
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, ...
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, ...