11th November 2025 - Foireann Fáiltithe

We are delighted to introduce our new Foireann Fáiltithe (Welcome Team) as part of our ongoing work towards achieving An Gaelbhratach.

Our first meeting with the team took place today, and the children showed wonderful enthusiasm and positivity for their new role. Beginning next Monday, 17th November, the Foireann Fáiltithe will help to promote the daily use of Irish throughout the school by greeting others and encouraging short, simple conversations as Gaeilge.

This initiative aims to make Irish a natural and enjoyable part of everyday school life. The children are excited to get started and to help everyone use a little more Irish each day — Beatha teanga í a labhairt!

Táimid fíorbhródúil as ár bhFoireann Fáiltithe nua. Go n-éirí go geal leo!

Ger Howard

11th - 17th October 2025 - Maths Week 2025

Well done to all our students for their fantastic participation in Maths Week 2025!

Throughout the week, classes took part in a range of fun and collaborative problem-solving activities and maths quizzes.

A big congratulations to our Guesstimation Station Winners, whose clever estimates were closest to the actual amounts of treats in each of their class jars:

Leo Goodall – 6th Class

Beth Howard – 5th Class

Karla Duff – 4th Class

Lily Potter – 3rd Class

Well done to everyone who entered our Maths Eyes Competition! We were so impressed by the creativity and originality of your entries. Congratulations to our winners, whose imaginative submissions earned their classes a Spike LEGO Workshop!

Finally, a special mention to our 5th and 6th Class students, who showcased their teamwork and problem-solving skills while working with the Izak 9 Cubes.

It was a wonderful week celebrating the fun and creativity of maths—well done, everyone!

8th October 2025 - Skip Around the World

All the classes are enjoying the lovely autumn weather and trying to win the Skip Around the World competition in the school this week as part of the Active Schools Skip Around the World week.

Each class has a poster on their classroom door where they record how many skips each child in the class did each day.

Mr Deering kindly took some photos of his class taking part for the website.

6th October 2025 - The Quiz Teams

In the first week of September, Sandra started the search for the junior and senior quiz teams. There were two weeks of try-outs in the hall where over 100 students battled for a place on the quiz squads. These 25-student squads then each had 5 Kahoot quizzes in the computer room to whittle the squads down to two 8-student quiz teams.

The Senior Quiz Teams are -

• Luke Cheevers
• Aditri Chanda
• Lydia Frost
• Grace Coady
• Bella McManus
• Aodhán Milne
• Katie Moynihan
• Jessica Fleming

The Junior Quiz Teams are -

• Dáire Moynihan
• Luke Milne
• Emmeline Duplaa Hopkins
• Greg Callibotte
• Lorelai Flinter
• Chloe O'Reilly
• Anna O'Shea
• Isla Shally

2nd October 2025 - National Tree Day

Lots of the classes marked National Tree Day today in the school.

Ms. Campion’s Sixth Class took a walk around our fabulous school garden and woodland walk. They identified as many native trees as they could by looking at the leaf’s shape and edges, and collected many leaves and conkers for their nature table. They created leaf rubbings and leaves were also used to create a print relief piece for art.

Mr Deering’s Sixth Class went around the woodland walk collecting leaves and twigs to make into

Ms. Donovan’s Fourth Class also took a tour of the school garden observing and learning about the Oak (Dair) and Ash (Fuinseog) trees. They did some leaf rubbings and leaf printing. They have used their new information to put some tree reports together. Along with lovely artwork, they created some interesting Autumn displays.

This year’s National Tree Day highlights the Scots Pine tree which, despite its name, is native to Ireland. We have received a Scots Pine sapling from the Tree Council of Ireland and will plant it very soon in our school garden!

12th September 2025 - The New Librarians

The teachers have chosen their class librarians who have all been trained in by Sandra and started working to keep our fabulous library organised and tidy and check in and out books for all the classes. The 3rd class librarians are Omar Mouelhi, Zara Fay, Aoife Munley, Liam Fitzgerald, Tadhg Maher and Amy Kenny Walsh. The 4th class librarians are Serah Rejoy, Cathal McGowan, Eva Malone, Emily Doran, Harry Hynes and Maia Kelly. The 5th class librarians are Méabh Maher, Hannah Conroy, Noah Whelan, Juliette Killian, Lydia Frost and Alex Kelly. The 6th class librarians are Aoife Mills, Tommy Kelly, Leo Goodall, Hannah Hickey Doherty, Ilariia Nolivayko, Lucy McCloskey, Kobe O’Donnell, Solape Adebiyi, Noah De La Vega, Faris Qu Yang, Alyssa Gibbs and Calvin Ducie.

9th September 2025 - The Autumn Garden

The school grounds are starting to look autumnal. The leaves are starting to change colour. The plums, pears and apples are ripe and our two foxes are enjoying the cold, bright days!