Author: Brian McDermott

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Mission Possible School Achievement Awards 2019

Huge congratulations to Ms.Munnelly and to all our students who this afternoon were presented with an award at the ‘Mission Possible School Achievement Awards’ at St.Patrick’s University Hospital in Dublin.

This award saw our school community shortlisted and recognised as having successfully promoted Positive Mental Health Initiatives, focusing on wellbeing, resilience and empowering our students with a tool kit for life. Weaving wellbeing, our garden of positivity, walk in my shoes, wellness boards are important and welcome additions to our school curriculum and initiatives.

Throughout the past number of years Ms.Munnelly has lead a number of transformational projects that have had a huge impact not alone on our students but on our staff members alike. Today was a fitting recognition for this great work. We sincerely appreciate her hard work and passion in ensuring that all our students are given the best chance to succeed in life.

Finally well done to the students who represented their school and colleagues back at base so well earlier.

We are very proud of all our students and their engagement in ensuring Positive Mental Health is at the forefront of all our minds. Maith sibh go léir!

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Ádh mór a chailíní!

Best of luck to all our ladies involved with the Charlestown U-10’s Girls who this morning travel to Croke Park as part of the Littlewoods Ireland GAA GoGames.

We hope all the girls, mentors, parents and supporters enjoy this very special day. Ádh mór a chailíní.

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Students of the Week Friday April 5th

We had a lovely assembly earlier presenting of our latest students of the week. We spoke as we enter the summer months of the importance of being active, having a health lifestyle and learning to enjoy different activities and sports. Most importantly, we focused on enjoyable participation and learning to work and play with others.

Our teachers this week praised students for their hard work and effort. Some expressed their delight at the maturity and level of common sense on display this week. It is always a pleasure to hear of children achieving with a task that they found difficult or succeeding in something new. It shows that their hard work will pay off, if they persevere. Children learn by example and the praise we heard today was a great example for all of our students. 

Congratulations to those awarded Student of the Week. Keep up this great work!

To conclude a huge congratulations to Second Class who made their First Confession last evening. It was a lovely ceremony. A special thank you to Mr.Clarke who prepared the children so well, Mrs McCafferty for all her help in preparation/decorating the church and finally as always to Fr Doherty and Fr Johnston for their continued interest and support.

This month is Autism awareness month and Ms Ruane has coordinated a lovely display which certainly rings true in our school. 

A busy week awaits and we conclude our second term. Reminder we close   for our Easter break on Friday April 12th and re-open on Monday 29th at the usual time. Have a lovely weekend.

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Assembly Friday March 22nd 2019

Todays assembly was a little different in that as a result of our short week we hadn’t our usual ‘Students of the Week’. However there was still lots to celebrate. In particular, congratulating Fifth Class who today completed their Weaving Well-Being programme ‘Positive Relationships’.

This has been a great success introducing the children to proven relatable strategies to strengthen positive relationships on a daily basis. The feedback from our students has been extremely positive, enjoying the transferrable skills into their daily lives.

The students gave a lovely presentation about their learning and the project followed by a beautiful rendition of ‘This is Me’ . All our students really enjoyed it. Well done to Ms.Munnelly for her vision and belief in this project and we thank her for all her hard work.

Assembly concluded with a special presentation to Síofra McGuinness of her ‘Aisteoir is Fearr’ award from the recent Féile Scoildramaíochta Chonnachta. This is a very special award to receive. We are so proud of Síofra and indeed all our students who took part in this years Féile Dramaíochta competition. Maith sibh go léir.

Another extremely busy weeks awaits our students next week, in particular for our senior students who represent us in the FAI 5’s on Thursday and Friday next.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend!

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Daltaí Na Seachtaine 15ú Márta

Um seachtain ar scoil chuir muid béim ar labhairt ghaeilge. De réir sin, bhí Gaeilgóir Na Seachtaine againne in aghaidh Dalta Na Seachtaine! Mar is gnáth, níor lig siad síos muid.

Bhí neart gaeilge líofa le chloisteál timpeall na háite, agus ba chóir go mbéadh. Fuair na páistí an-mholadh ón móltóir féile drámaíocht an seachtain seo chaite i nGaillimh, mar tá gaeilge álainn acu. Mar a deirtear, tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. Má tá gaeilge agat, labhair í.

This week in school we placed great emphasis on speaking Irish as part of our Seachtain na Gaeilge celebrations as a result we had Gaeilgóir na Seachtaine in place of Student of the Week. As always our students didn’t disappoint or let us down.

We heard lots of beautiful Irish throughout the school and why wouldnt we! The children standards have received great praise of late particularly from the judges this week at the Féile Dramaíochta. Maith sibh!

If you have gaeilge, use it!

We look forward to seeing you all at our St.Patrick’s Day Parade, bainigí taitneamh as an deireadh seachtaine!

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Féile Scoildramaíochta: Féile Chonnacht

News of the results of the Féile Scoldramaíochta Chonnachta has come through to us this evening in which Ranganna 1,3/4 and 5 participated in this week.

Unfortunately on this occasion none of three plays have progressed to the All Ireland Finals. However, a special well done to Ms.Delaney’s First Class, Ms.Henry’ s Third and Fourth Class and Ms.McDonagh’s Fifth Class. While they may not have progressed we are so proud of each of them and their performance on Tuesday last. Maith sibh!

Despite this disappointment, some good news reached us as we learned that Síofra McGuinness was awarded the overall Best Actress. “Aisteoir is Fearr (cailín)” ar Shíofra McGuinness as Scoil Naomh Athrachta, Baile Chathail a rinne páirt an Phíobaire sa dráma “Píobaire Hamelin.”

This is a fantastic achievement as there was over thirty plays on stage over the past week. Maith thú Síofra we are very proud of you.

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Engineering Week 2019

We had a lovely end to a very busy week with the return of Mayo Star and Engineering Ireland ambassador Tom Parsons to our school.

Tom gave a wonderful presentation about engineering and how it touches and make a difference to all aspects of our lives.

Tom is a wonderful role model and imparted great advice to all the children. Tom spoke of the importance of the key skills of problem solving, team work, appreciation of each others talents and hard work.

He enjoyed learning of the great work that is ongoing in our classrooms before participating in various engineering challenges with our students.

It was a pleasure to welcome Tom back to us again. As always he was very generous with his time,. We thank Tom sincerely for his visit and in particular his interest in meeting all our students. Míle buíochas Tom.

Finally, a very special word of thanks to all our students for all their hard work in preparation for todays event and in particular to Ms.Ruane and Mr Clarke who organised this special afternoon. It was as was mentioned a lovely way to conclude our week.

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Great leaps: Does the length of our legs determine the height of our jumps?

Congratulations to the students of 5th and 6th Class who earlier displayed their excellent project ‘Great leaps: Does the length of your legs determine how high you can jump?’ at the Science Blast in the RDS Dublin

The project explored biomechanics and the science behind it. It looked at jumping in particular, how we can classify jumps and measure them effectively. It involved collectively engaging in/with a variety of scientific skills before establishing very interesting findings.

This was a real team effort, all of the students played a huge part in the success of the project, not alone in preparation but also in the confident manner they presented their work today. The children received many compliments and impressed the judges from whom they received wonderful feedback. They were rewarded with a beautiful trophy for their efforts.

We are so proud of each and every one of these students and indeed all our students throughout the school. They have set a wonderful example for all our younger students and proved that with hard work, determination, enthusiasm and confidence in their own abilities anything is possible.

We look forward to what the rest of the school year brings ….!

To conclude a special word of thanks to Ms.McDonagh and Mr.Rushe for all their hard work with Rang a Cúig agus a Sé with this project. We sincerely appreciate their continued hard work, talent and interest.

Finally thank you also to Ms.Durkan and Ms.Fitzgibbon for their support today and in the lead up to today’s exhibition. 5th and 6th Class were delighted that you were with them in Dublin!

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Science Blast: Ádh mór ar phaistí Rang a Cúig agus a Sé

Best wishes to Ms McDonagh’s and Mr.Rushe’s Fifth and Sixth Class who tomorrow present their fantastic project ‘Does the length of your legs determine the height you can jump?’ at the Primary Science Blast in the RDS Dublin.

Our students have worked so hard preparing for this day. We are all so proud of their efforts and are certain they will enjoy their day.

A huge thank you to Ms.McDonagh and Mr.Rushe for all their interest and hard work with this project, we very much appreciate this.

Bainigí taitneamh as!