The  “Helena McDonagh Writing Competition” will be open to entries from Monday next. This annual event is very much a favourite in our students’ calendar.

Mrs. Helena McDonagh taught in St. Attracta’s  for many years before retiring in 2003. As a legacy to creative writing in the primary school and as a published author herself, Helena presented the school with a perpetual trophy to be used as we saw fit.

So the “Storybox” competition began. Every year the story box is placed in the corridor for a specific length of time. The children are encouraged to write stories and submit them. They can enter up to five stories and a winner is selected and awarded at the end of the school year.

Last year’s winner was Ailbhe O’Connor who is now in First Year in St. Attracta’s Community School Tubbercurry.

Helena recently visited our school to read her latest book “Pete and Tweet to the Rescue”  to our Junior and Senior Infants and First Class children. We hope she will return for World Book Week later this term. We greatly appreciate her continued interest in our school.