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 a committee based on Biodiversity. Our progress has been really ...
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 are willing to donate, please drop them in to the ...
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 teams, clubs and committees throughout the school year. Class ...
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.
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, Charlotte Agnew, who used to come to St Francis N.S, ...
We were delighted to be presented with our 7th Green Schools Renewal Award yesterday at a ceremony at the Fairways Hotel. This was in recognition of "outstanding achievement in improving the environmental quality of the school and community". Special thanks to the pupils of our Green Schools Committee (sadly not all of them could come to the ceremony), headed ...
