Monthly Archives: April 2018

Many thanks to Graeme and Robyn’s dad Shane and his colleague Amy of Sprint College who gave of their time to do a healthy eating workshop with each class today! The children enjoyed a crunchy fresh apple whilst they learned about the food pyramid! The level of questioning was great from the children and Shane and Amy had put together a really interesting presentation for each level! We are so lucky to have such interested parents among us. Just another example of our wonderful relationship with parents. Thanks to Ms D’Arcy who coordinated this experience as part of our Active School work.

Congratulations to our boys’ Mini 7s hurlign team who have progressed to the semi final having won all three of their matches today. Well done boys! Thanks to the opposition for three great games. We are very grateful to Mr Breen, Michael and Carmel for all their coaching, support and encouragement. Our girls’ game had to be called off today due to weather conditions but we are hopeful that they will get to play next week!! Bring on the next round!

Today we finished working on our Moo – The Party Animal! 5th class had so much fun bringing this project to life! Our creation will be on display in Bridgewater Shopping Centre soon and we need your votes!!

What a week we have had! It started on Sunday, where Ms D’Arcy’s speech and drama students excelled in the duologue and monologue competitions. Sofia Church came first in her monologue competition. Louise Foley and Síofra Higgins were placed very highly commended. Well done to all! On Tuesday, Ms. Russell’s 5th class were awarded second place and 90 marks for their rendition of Macavity the Mystery Cat in the Choral Verse competition. On Wednesday, Mr. Breen’s class,supported by Ms. D’Arcy, won their Action Poem competition – they brought the house down with their entertaining performance. Ms. Byrne’s 6th class came second in their competition having put on an amazing performance … Continue reading →

Greenschool Award It is with great pride and excitement that we can announce that we have got our 5th Green flag!!!!  Yes we have our Biodiversity flag!!  Well done to all involved, especially the committee.  Our garden is flourishing and we have a lot of pictures to take of it during the coming months to prove ourselves to An Taisce.  We also have to keep sending in lots of evidence that we are doing all we have promised to do, so our trip to the beach will have to be documented well.  We will undertake this big adventure in June as the weather is not on our side. We will … Continue reading →