♟️🥳♟️Congratulations to All Participants in Today’s Online Chess Tournament! ♟️🥳♟️

We are thrilled to celebrate the incredible effort and sportsmanship shown by all the children from 4th to 6th class who participated in today’s online chess tournament. Your dedication, strategic thinking, and enthusiasm for the game were truly inspiring!

Whether you scored big victories or learned valuable lessons, each of you displayed the true spirit of competition and teamwork. Chess is not just about winning—it's about honing critical thinking, patience, and resilience—and you all demonstrated these qualities beautifully.

A huge round of applause for stepping up to the challenge, representing yourselves with such confidence, and making this tournament a memorable event. Keep practicing, keep learning, and keep aiming high. The future is bright with talents like yours!

Well done, young chess masters! ♟️♟️ ... See MoreSee Less

🪴 4th Class have had great success growing plants using their Let's GROW kit. They grew cress, salad leaves, French beans, peas and sunflower. Their plants are now ready for repotting at hom#SuperValuLetsGROWsGROW ... See MoreSee Less

🚣‍♂️ Active Break Every Day Challenge 🥊
All classes started this challenge on November 18th as part of the Active School initiative. We will do an Olympic Movement Break every day through the Dare to Believe programme. Each movement break will be led by a member of Team Ireland. 4th Class had a taster session last week with Kellie Harrington, Daire Lynch and Philip Doyle putting them through their paces. The challenge lasts for 4 weeks. 🏃‍♂️ ... See MoreSee Less

🔬🧪🧑‍🔬Science week concludes...
All classes and children also spent the week exploring the world of STEM, Science Technology Engineering and Maths. There was a phenomenal amount of work put into this by teachers and parents who sent in experiments every day!!!! The children loved it and we are so grateful for your continued support! The week ended on a high with our annual Science Dress Up Day. The children, and parents, really went above and beyond with their creations. Science Week is all about sparking curiosity and interest in the everyday and thinking outside the box. The children most definitely succeeded in achieving this over the past two weeks. It’s safe to say, it was a resounding success. 🧬 🥼 🧪 ... See MoreSee Less

🧪🔬🦈Science week continues...
We also had a returning visit from Jane Sharpe from Sea Synergy. They were so impressed with our previous winning Ocean Explorers Project, that she wanted to come back and deliver a module on Fin-tastic Sharks. The children from 3rd to 6th learned all about different shark species, as well as the benefits of sharks to our ecosystem. There was some hands on exploring as well where they learned about Mermaids Purses and what we can find here on our own coastline. The children have been delving deep into the world of sharks since with Shark raps, murals and lots of poems and projects based on these fascinating vertebrates. ... See MoreSee Less

🧪 🔬 🧫 Science Week 2024 started a week early this year with the fantastic Mad Scientist, Professor Messer (madscientistireland@gmail.com)
Ray Whyte volunteered his time for an entire day where he presented his incredible ‘Where’s The Air?!’ Science Show. The children were introduced to the concept of air and pressure through fun informative activities. During the hands on show, the children got to understand the power of air through using giant wind bags, vortex generators and even a Hovercraft board!! As they say, a picture speaks a thousand words, and you can see the children were completely transfixed with the show. We are so grateful for Ray’s expertise and time. The children loved it! ... See MoreSee Less

🏃‍♀️ Active School Update 🏃‍♂️
Check out our active lines! Our Active School Committee have been keeping the children on their toes (literally!) with stretches at the end of break times. We have lots of activity planned for the next few weeks. Remember our slogan, 'Have a lovely day, go out and play!' 🤸🏻‍♀️ ... See MoreSee Less