Author Archives: Emer Russell

We had an amazing Skipathon on Valentines day! Our themes were ‘Healthy Hearts,’ and ‘Skip a Beat.’ We skipped to music, rhymes, solo, in groups with long ropes, in pairs, had races, knock out challenges. But most importantly we had fun exercising and raised much needed funds for P.E equipment. Huge thanks to the continuously, great support from parents and the students as well as our principal and staff. It was not only a one day challenge this month our students are also ‘Climbing the Heights!’ whereby each class chose different mountains around Europe to climb for example Mount Olympus in Greece is 2919 metres high and one skip = … Continue reading →

Great fun was had at the arena yesterday when our lunchtime league winners went on to represent Scoil Ghormáin Naofa. We were thrilled that they got to the final! Congratulations to Tara Hill NS who were victorious. Many thanks to Mr. Breen for organising.

Congratulations to Oisín, Niall and Conor who were first across the line in their respective categories at the St. Stephen’s Day run in Castletown! We love their active spirit! I’m sure they worked up a great appetite for the selection boxes! Ms. D’Arcy has begun the process of applying for the renewal of our Active Flag. She has some great ideas! Our Run Around Europe has been a huge success. Mr. Breen’s class has almost reached Rome! Stay tuned for further exciting Active Updates!

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

We are delighted to have been shortlisted to win the Robert Dunbar Memorial book bursary to the value of €2,500. Winners will be informed in the new year so we are keeping everything crossed! Oh what a treat it would be to inject such a vast stock of new books into our library! Call Out for The Robert Dunbar Memorial Libraries 2018