Monthly Archives: December 2018

Look who popped by! Our Mini 7s Champs plan to lift him again in a few years! Farewell to Jésus, our foreign exchange student – Feliz Navidad, Jésus! Thank you to all who have supported our lovely school. We wish you all a peaceful and happy Christmas!

We had Santa himself to present prizes to our Procedural Writing winners! Ms. Gilmartin Ryan and Ms. D’Arcy had the tough task of adjudicating. The task: Junior and Senior Infants drew a picture of Mrs. Claus following a mice pies recipe or Santa’s elves following instructions on how to make a toy. 1st-4th class wrote a set of reindeer rules to be followed on Christmas Eve 5th and 6th class wrote the procedure for the Perfect Christmas Day Overall winners: Emma O’Brien, Millie Ryan, Oisín White, Robyn Prendergast, Rosie Bea Howard, Conor Treacy, Kitt Kavanagh,Sam Proctor, EJ O’Toole, Jesus Reyes and Louise Foley. Well doneto all. Ms. Gilmartin Ryan commended … Continue reading →

We had so much fun at our Christmas concert last night! Thank you to all who performed and helped with the organisation. Many thanks to Alison’s mum, Fiona who captured the night in photos for us! Click on the link to view. Merry Christmas from all at Scoil Ghormáin Naofa!   chr1

Our corridors are awash with festive colour and decoration! There is an an array of creativity from our Christmas recycling competition. Teachers have been facilitating art lessons around the seasonal theme and we think the school looks just great!  

Congratulations to Shane Ivanoff who won 1st place in the Active School Motto competition and was awarded with the other prizewinners at assembly last Friday. His motto was: ‘Any shape, any size, everyone can exercise. Let’s get active!’. There was great humour and wit in the entries and Ms. D’Arcy and the Active Council found it tough to adjudicate! The prizes were all suitably active too! Well done Shane! It is great to see this motto in action in school as classes complete their walk around Europe!

We are excited about our upcoming visit from Mary Allen, Mum to Jennifer, John and Lily Mae, who will come to teach us about Coding! Mary works in Microsoft and will teach coding through the medium of Minecraft. We warmly welcome parental involvement here in Scoil Ghormáin Naofa. #STEM