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Catholic schools week

25/1/2023

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5th Class opened Catholic Schools Week this week with a lovely prayer service to explain the theme of Catholic Schools week 2023 ‘Walking together in Faith and Love’
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Wednesday, walking together to celebrate Grandparents Day. Today our grandparents will visit our school. 3rd Class will host a prayer service followed by a visit to classrooms where our grandparents can see some of our lovely work and help us with some activities.
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HALLOWEEN CÉILÍ

6/11/2022

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On Friday 28th of October all the girls in the school had a brilliant day of Halloween dress up and our annual céilí in our costumes. We all had great fun learning our dances and performing them in front of the whole school. It was great to be back in the hall together again. Take a look at some of the fabulous costumes that the girls dressed up in. Thank you to all the parents who helped them all get ready!
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European school sports day 2022

29/9/2022

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Today we are celebrating ESSD, getting our school to #BeActive for at least 120 minutes. Run or walk the distance of the given year (e.g. 2022 meters in 2022). Running, hopping, skipping, dancing: any kind of physical activity counts. Take a look at what we've been up to. We also incorporated some mindfulness and art activities into our day!

World Book day 2022

World book day is Thursday 3rd March. We have started to get organised. The girls all took part in a World book day competition and their beautiful pieces are hanging in our hall for all classes to see.
Junior- 2nd- Designed a book cover for their favourite book.
3rd and 4th- Wrote a poem
5th and 6th- wrote a six word story.
The winner from each class will be announced after the midterm.

On World Book day(Thursday 3rd March) the children will all dress up as their favourite book character and we will have a parade in the yard to show off our designs.

We also have an author, our school librarian and 2 librarians from Coolock coming in to do some stories and activities with the girls. Plus the teachers will also be marking the day with some of their own nice ideas.


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Christmas Carols

17/12/2021

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Today the school are singing Christmas carols for the parents in the school yard. The class teachers will upload a video of the performance on Seesaw for any parent that misses it. The children all look so festive. We hope everyone enjoys the day
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Christmas 2021

1/12/2021

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The school is looking very christmassy at the moment and the children and staff are loving it. 
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hERITAGE iRELAND

22/10/2021

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 We had a wonderful visit from Francesca , who works with Heritage Ireland. She brought amazing artefacts that the girls were allowed explore and learn lots about. 3rd and 4th class worked on the Vikings. 
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Céilí na Samhna

22/10/2021

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The girls had a ball dressing up in their amazing costumes and we held our annual Céilí outside. 
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Halloween

12/10/2021

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We are really enjoying the run up to Halloween. The girls are busy learning Irish dances, Halloween songs and lots of festive art.
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Maths week

12/10/2021

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This week in Maths week in our school. Each class have lots of lovely maths activities to work on- Shape art, maths trails, Sudoka puzzles, PE linked with maths, etc. Everyday there is a variety of problems displayed in the hall for the girls to figure out. Keep your maths eyes open this week- look out for numbers on doors, car regs, bus stop timetables, shapes we can see in the environment.
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Back to school

8/9/2021

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All the children have settled back into school life and once again the corridors are starting to fill up with art. 
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our lovely lollipop lady

29/6/2021

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Sadly we are sayin goodbye to Anne the lollipop lady.  She will be sadly missed by the children, staff and parents.
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6th class graduation

28/6/2021

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The girls had a wonderful day remembering all the wonderful memories from their first day in Junior Infants to now. The graduation mass was lovely.
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jOG DAY 2021

11/6/2021

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Sports day Medals and certs

4/6/2021

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Sports day 2021

4/6/2021

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Sports day is always a big hit in our school. 
The Junior classes were playing parachute games, running races, jumping hurdles, penalty shoot out, dance party and musical statues.
The Senior classes were playing foot tennis, obstacle course, traditional sports day games and the limbo, football drills and penalty shoot out.
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Badminton

3/6/2021

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Ms. Shaughnessy and Ms. Sherwin had an action packed day teaching every class Badminton. The children had an amazing time.
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Teachers v 6th class rounders game

1/6/2021

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A great afternoon of fun and games. Ms O Riordan was busy decorating t-shirts for the teachers and 6th class  did a great job on their school t-shirts.  Great skill was displayed by both teams and it was a very close game.
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Active school week

1/6/2021

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What a fabulous week Ms. Shaughnessy and Ms. Sherwin have planned for the whole school. Hopefully the sun continues to shine.
Mon~ Rubgy for the Senior classes
          Traditional playground games for Junior classes
Tue~ Cricket for the Senior Classes
          Dance for the Junior classes
          Teachers vs 6th class game of rounders
Wed~ 1st-6th ~athletics
            Infants ~cooperative games
Thur~ badminton
Fri~ Sports Day
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School tour

27/5/2021

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What beautiful weather for our school tour and picnic! The excitement could be felt throughout the school today. Each class got to visit Wolly Wards travelling Farm, a special picnic and an ice cream from the ice cream van. The school staff also enjoyed the day.
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THANK YOU

25/5/2021

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The children and teachers of Junior and Senior Infants would like to say a huge 'Thank You' to Barry, Margaret and Daisy Hurley who donated a beautiful doll's house and furniture to the school which has been placed in the Aistear room. It will be enjoyed and appreciated by the children for many years to come. 
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Green Fingers

13/5/2021

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Art

6/5/2021

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A little glance at some of the gorgeous art around our school keeping our corridors colourful and bright.
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Inside out day

23/4/2021

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To end a fabulous week all the children dressed up for an Inside out day raising money for Pieta House. The children wore their clothes inside out representing our appearance may not always match how we feel on the inside. The whole school took part in the Cha Cha Slide. It is so lovely to celebrate occasions as a school.
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Well-being Week!

23/4/2021

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It is Well-Being Week in our school! We are having lots of fun doing mindfulness activities, meditations and yoga and on Friday we are having an Inside Out Day to raise money for Pieta House! We are wearing our clothes inside out to represent that someone might look ok on the outside but they might not be feeling ok on the inside! Thank you to the girls on the Amber Flag Committee for helping to organize the week!
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Mad Hatters competition

26/3/2021

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