Autism Awareness Day, April 2nd

A taste of how our school community celebrated World Autism Awareness Day on April 2nd with lots of superheroes flying high! Thank you to everyone who participated. In a world where you can be anything, be kind   #WorldAutismDay #AutismAwareness #Autism #AsIAm #flyforautism #LightItUpBlue

World Autism Awareness Day 2020

This week sees the start of April and on Thursday it is World Autism Awareness Day. We are inviting families in our school community to come together through a shared theme to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day. Our theme is ‘Superheroes’. We are very fortunate to have many friends with autism in our school community so we hope, … Read more

World Book Day in 2nd Class

  We had great fun celebrating World Book Day in our class.  We started the day with a Share Your Story circle, when we shared our favourite books with each other.   We looked at the books of Oliver Jeffers in Art, in particular The Incredible Book Eating Boy, and created our own versions of … Read more

World Book Day

  Today Orla’s class came to school looking a little out of character…or should we say a little in role! We celebrated World Book Day dressing up from stories we enjoy and brought our favorite books into school to share.

World Book Day 2020

Thursday March 5th 2020 is World Book Day and this year the focus is on sharing stories. Unfortunately reading for pleasure is on the decline. Did you know that  : only 29% of children (0-13) read for pleasure daily?  : only 56% of 3-4 year olds are read to by their guardians/parents daily or nearly daily? … Read more

Fifth Class visit to St Patrick’s Cathedral

On January 31st both Fifth Classes went into the city centre, as part of the Learn Together curriculum, to learn about St Patrick’s Cathedral. While there we got to look at the Gothic cathedral styles and we were also very impressed with the stain glass windows. Every student had an opportunity to recreate their own stain … Read more

ECA Spring Term

The Spring/Summer term of Extra-curricular Activities will be open for enrollment on Wednesday January 15th from 7-9pm in the school. For full details please check out the ECA tab on the school website.

Lámh in First Class

First Class have been practicing their wonderful Lámh signs throughout the month of December and we are so proud of them! We hope that you enjoy our video and perhaps you too can practice some Lámh signs at home, to celebrate the holidays 🙂 A special thank you to Tríona for teaching us so many lovely Lámh signs, we absolutely loved it and will continue practicing in the New Year.

Happy Holidays everyone and have a lovely Winter Break, from First Class 🙂

 

Lámh in First Class

Updated: Winter Fete Excitement

It’s almost that time of year again…. Our annual Winter Fete is just around the corner. Preparations are in full swing and the excitement is building as the amazing donations pour in. Thank you to everyone who has been working behind the scenes to get everything ready for our annual Winter Fete.  Parents have put … Read more