Golden Boot Award: Summer term

Well done to the children in 4th Class who win the Golden Boot this term. 83% of these children participated in our Walk on Wednesday programme from Easter to June. In second place was Senior Infants where 73% of children took part and in third place was 1st Class where 70% of children participated. The … Read more

Green Schools’ Global Citizenship Award Ceremony

Our sincere thanks to Órla, Callum, Caitlin and Ms. Hughes for travelling to The Helix on Tuesday to accept our 8th Green Flag. They were also presented with a beautiful trophy and pennant after our school was selected as the Global Citizenship Energy Award Winner for the Eastern Midlands region of Ireland! Well done to … Read more

JEP National Showcase Day 2019

5th Class children showcased their JEP project, “Marvellous Makes and Brilliant Bakes” at the JEP National Showcase Day in the RDS today and they were shortlisted for two national awards, “Financial Wizards” and “Star Submission.” They joined over 5,500 children from 220 schools (out of over 600 participating schools nationwide) for this event where they … Read more

Evening of Action

Our sincere thanks to all the volunteers, both adults and children, who worked tirelessly and enthusiastically in poor weather conditions during our Evening of Action last night to make our school grounds attractive, educational and child friendly. A special word of thanks to Brian Caulfield who made our beautiful new wooden vegetable plots and to … Read more

Pangea Maths Olympics

Well done to all the children in 5th Class who participated in the Pangea Maths Challenge in class last month. The Pangea Maths Olympics is an mathematics competition held annually in 21 European countries. Its purpose is to promote and encourage mathematics in students in primary and secondary schools worldwide. Three of the children in … Read more

Green Flag Eastern Midlands success!

Our school is delighted to announce that its application for an eighth Green Flag (Global Citizenship Energy) has been successful! An Taisce writes, “This current year we have added an extra dimension to the Global Citizenship theme that you have been working on, we have been going through all the applications and we have picked … Read more

Golden Boot Award

Congratulations to the children in First Class who win the Golden Boot this term. 79% of these children participated in our Walk on Wednesday programme from Christmas to Easter. The overall participation rate for the school this term is 69% – 5% of children in the whole school walked to school; 51% parked and strode; … Read more

JEP Showcase Day

Dear Parents, The children in 5th Class would like to thank everyone who attended the launch of Marvellous Makes & Brilliant Bakes and who supported them on Showcase Day, especially Cathal Walsh and Jane Deasy whose sponsorship from Freshpet and Trendy and Bendy helped to fund production costs. It was an exciting and fun-filled culmination … Read more

Invitation to Showcase Day on Wednesday, 20 March

The children in 5th Class would like to invite you to the showcase of Marvellous Makes & Brilliant Bakes, their Junior Entrepreneur Programme project, on Wednesday, 20 March. Marvellous Makes & Brilliant Bakes will be launched in the school hall at 9.30am with the children presenting the story of their business project. Their handmade products … Read more