January 30 2025

Board of Management – Update

On behalf of our entire school community, we would like to sincerely thank Ms. Catherine Donagh for taking on the role of Interim Chairperson after the sudden passing of Mr. Justin Kilcullen. The patron has now approved the appointment of a new Chairperson, effective from the 7th of February, 2025. We thank Mr. Rory Farrelly for agreeing to take on this role and we wish him every success in this new role. We know he will be well supported by the existing 7 members of the Board. 

The members of the Board of Management from the 7th of February, 2025, are:

Mr. Rory Farrelly Chairperson & Patron’s Nominee 
Mr. John Fingleton Principal & BoM Secretary 
Fr. Michael O’Sullivan Patron’s Nominee 
Ms. Mairéad Maguire  Teachers’ Nominee & Minute Taker 
Ms. Louise Hanly  Parents’ Nominee & Treasurer 
Mr. Simon Shannon Parents’ Nominee & Health and Safety Officer
Ms. Gráinne Putney  Community Nominee
Mr. Pat Martin  Community Nominee 
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January 30 2025

Grandparents’ Day 

We just want to take a moment to say a heartfelt thank you for a wonderful Grandparents’ Day on Wednesday. The whole day was filled with joy, happiness and lots of emotions. All the Grandparents and special guests had a lovely time visiting the classrooms and spending time chatting over a cup of tea or coffee and cake in our School Hall. We also remembered all the Grandparents / guests who could not be here today through our dedicated Sacred Space. To our amazing staff, míle buíochas. Your dedication and hard work meant the day was both meaningful and memorable. An enormous thank you also to our prefects who enjoyed using their clipboards, as they escorted visitors around the school. To our wonderful PTA and parent volunteers, your support and enthusiasm added a special touch to the day. Thank you for looking after the grandparents and guests so well. Umpteen cups of tea and coffee were made!! Finally, to our incredible pupils, thank you for your super displays, classroom work and most importantly your lovely warm smiles which brightened the day for all the Grandparents and guests.

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December 20 2024

What a month of festivities!

December was filled with festive cheer – lots of concerts and plays! Well done to all the children and staff involved! It was a magical month in school!

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December 11 2024

News from 2nd Class

We have been learning about 3D shapes and length in Maths in Ms. Olson’s class. We made cubes, cuboids and pyramids with cocktail sticks and marshmallows and we measured different things in our school including the length and width of our classroom and corridor.
We also enjoyed our last session with Coach Ian from Bar Monkey. We worked on developing our gymnastics skills by doing frog stands, bridges and hanging from the bar.
We are very creative in Second Class. In November, we learnt about Space and made lovely sponge painted planets. We have also been doing lots of Christmas art. We made snowmen, advent wreaths and Christmas tree suncatchers. Our classroom has had a Christmas makeover and we have a special visitor, our class elf, Mistletoe.
Finally we performed ‘The Night Before Christmas’ for our parents at the beginning of December and did a fantastic job. Everyone was so proud of us!
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December 5 2024

Mansion House

6th Classes had a successful visit to the Mansion house on Wednesday. During the visit, the children learned about the History of the Mansion House and its role as the residence of Dublin’s Lord Mayors. The visit finished with a tour of the house and they learned about the historic meeting of Ireland’s first parliament in the Round Room in 1919.

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November 27 2024

4th Class: The Famine & European Countries

The children in Ms. Elmes’ class have been learning about The Great Famine this month, the causes of the Famine, during the famine and after the famine. They read a lot about it and wrote poems about it in pairs.

Mr. Higgins’ class have been working on projects about a country in Europe of their choice. They began their projects on the chromebooks and worked on them for a number of weeks before orally presenting them to the rest of the class.
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