Primary School Survey Results: St Francis NS Blackrock
To all members of the St. Francis NS school community We are writing to update you on the Department of Education and Youth’s Primary School Survey. This survey was carried out to understand the types of schools that parents and guardians prefer. Over 200,000 parents and guardians took part nationwide. ...
Public Speaking Competition 2026
Today we held the finals of the St Francis NS Public Speaking Competition. Pupils from 4th, 5th and 6th Classes learned in class about structuring a short talk and they all prepared their own piece to perform in front of their class. Heats were held in their respective classes and ...
National Scratch Coding Champion
We are thrilled that 5th Class pupil, Leo, came first place in his age categoy at the The National Scratch Competition held in Limerick yesterday. The competition is open to students in primary and second level schools in Ireland, and to students attending after-school coding clubs such as Coderdojo. ...
Green Flag Award Ceremony for our 9th Flag
We are delighted to have had Patrick Black and Matthew Woods form 6th class represent the school at the Green Flag Award Ceremony today in the Fairways. It is is our 9th award , this one for Global Citizenshp - Travel, having previously worked on Litter & Wase, the Marine ...
Feis Mhuirtheimhne
Congratulations to the St Francis NS pupils who represented the school at the Feis Mhuirtheimhne at the Friary at the weekend. These pupils were selected by their class teachers for the Irish poetry competition. Special mention to Michael in 4th Class and Aoibhín in 5th class who won the gold ...
Spring Term 100% Attendance
Congratulations to all the pupils who had 100% attendance last term (January-March). Pictured below with their class teachers and Mrs Lawless.
Lunchtime Scratch Coding Club
Pupils from 5th Class enjoyed their first lunchtime Scratch Coding Club yesterday with Mrs Cooney. For the next 10 weeks these lucky pupils will be practicing and progressing their digital skills in an effective and fun way. At the end of the course they hope to submit a project to ...
The 12 Carols of Christmas
Together with the school choirs of St Oliver Plunkett NS and St Fursey's NS, the choir of St Francis will be singing at our parish "THE TWELVE CARROLS OF CHRISTMAS" on Sunday 14th December from 5-6pm at Blackrock Church. We hope you can join us 🙂
Mini Me Halloween Paint Party
Get ready for a night of creativity, fun, and family bonding at our "Mini and Me" Paint Party! Join us for an unforgettable evening where parents and children can share the joy of painting together. This is the perfect opportunity to make lasting memories with your little ones. Event ...
Christmas Annuals 2025
Order forms are being sent home this week for the Educate.ie Christmas Annuals Priced at just €3.00 each they are excellent value for money and make great stocking fillers and gifts. All annuals are full colour, A4 size and packed with educational articles and activities including: Classic activities to keep ...
CrossCause Christmas Shoebox Appeal 2025
Every year St Francis NS families generously support a Christmas Shoebox Appeal. For the past 3 years, the Student Council has decided to do the Shoebox Appeal with local Blackrock charity, Crosscause, run by Conor Hughes. Crosscause's Christmas Shoebox Appeal is a campaign that delivers gifts straight into the hands ...
Sleepout Thank You
We are delighted to advise that the 4th Class Sleepout at the end of last month raised €5,416.56 for the Dundalk Simon Community. This will be formally presented to them by the pupils when they come to visit the school later this month. Many thanks to the parents of 4th ...
AGM of Parent’ Association
Save The Date The AGM of our Parents' Association will take place on Wednesday 22nd October at 7pm in the school. All parents of pupils enrolled at St Francis are automatically members of our PA. We appreciate it is not always easy to get to the monthly PA meetings, but ...
Communion Couture
Following on from the success of last years "Communion Couture" event, the Parent's Associations of St Francis NS, St Fursey's NS and St Oliver Plunkett NS have decided to repeat the event this year. If you have a Communion outfit (boys or girls) or Communion accessories at home which you ...
Flag Day: 10th October 2025
Our Annual Flag Day is taking place on Friday 10th October 2025. We will have volunteers collecting at various locations in Blackrock and Dundalk, and pupils will be doing a gate collection at drop of and pick up time. Please remember to bring in a few coins for the buckets ...
Halloween Discos
The PA of St Francis NS has organised a Junior Disco (JI, SI, 1st and 2nd Classes) on Saturday 25th October: 5.30-6.30pm and a Senior Disco (3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th Classes) on Monday 27th October from 6-7.30pm.
Leinster Trophy visits St Francis!
Many thanks to Barry Teather (brother of the famous Niall Teather Fitkids) for calling in to school yesterday with the Leinster Trophy. He came in at the end of assembly to raucous applause by all, with the Delaney cup (winners of the Leinster Senior Football Championship which we haven't won ...
Year End Prizegiving
This morning we held our year end prizegiving assembly. Each class teacher had 2 two teacher awards for their class, and we presented the Annual attendance awards to pupils who missed no school, or only one day of school. We also acknowledged all the pupils who have contributed to school ...
Attendance Awards -Term 3
Today we gave out the term 3 attendance awards. These certificates are given to every pupil who has not missed a single day of school this term. The attendance was calculated up to and including Monday 23/06/2025. It was a record term with over one hundred pupils on 100% attendance ...
St Francis Double Up at Dundalk Primary Schools Basketball Blitz
The Dundalk Sports Centre was alive with energy and excitement on Friday, 23rd May, as seven local primary schools came together for the long-awaited return of the annual Primary Schools Basketball Blitz. Schools taking part included St. Francis, St. Fursey’s, St. Oliver Plunkett, CBS Dundalk, Scoil Naomh Pádraig, Scoil Mhuire na NGael, ...
Public Speaking Finals 2025
On Wednesday we held the finals of the St Francis NS Public Speaking Competition. Pupils from 4th, 5th and 6th Classes had held heats in their classes and the winning 12 entrants performed in the semi finals last week in front of all the senior classes, judged by Oreena and ...
Sports Days June 2025
In the last week we have held the Junior and Senior Sports Days. Many thanks to Coach Lundy for organising such fun days for both the Junior and for the Senior ends of the school. And also a big thank you to the PA of St Francis who rewarded all ...
Dundalk Credit Union Poster Winners
Congratulations to the four pupils from St Francis NS who were placed in the Dundalk Credit Union Poster Competition. The theme this year was "Saving for Something Special", and there were over 800 entries from schools in the Dundalk area. Prizes were awarded to: Age 4-6 category 3rd place: Sadabh ...
New Flags
This morning our Green Schools Committee had a short flag raising ceremony as we have just purchased a new Green School Flag for our flagpole, and some colourful triangular pennant flags to represent each of the Green School Flag "themes" we have accomplished at St Francis.