Welcome to members of the Tipperary Team
We had a wonderful reception for the Tipperary team members today on September 29th. All the classesd were decked out in blue and gold and cheered wildly. Sean Carey [under 21 winners] and Brendan Cummins held the Liam McCarthy cup aloft. We were also thrilled to meet Diarmuid O Sullivan and The Tipperary Football manager.
WELL DONE KAYLEIGH
We are all so proud of Kayleigh Flannery, pictured below, who won 1st place in Gymnastics Under 8 in the Community Games, recently. Kayleigh is a member of 'On Your Toes' Gymnastics Class.
Well done also to runner, Callum Meagher who reached the finals in the 200m. Maith an fear, Callum!
Congratulations also to Liam McGrath who also won out to the finals in Athlone. Unfortunately due to a minor accident, Liam was unable to partake in the finals.
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Our New Crest
Jack Burke proudly wearing our school jacket which bears the crest that he designed.
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Our Energy Committee
Congratulations to the members of the Green School Committee 2009-2010 who has achieved our second green flag. This flag is for Energy saving in the school. The committee has put great work into achieving this great result.
The Committe members:
Mr Walsh and Ms Murphy [ Staff]
Cathal O'Donnell and Elle Power [ Rang 1]
Josh King and Róisín Gillessen [Rang 2]
John Mulcahy and Aisling Morrissey [ Rang 3]
Daniel Browne and Emma Wroblewski [ Rang 4]
Ciara Laste and Aidan Lyons [ Rang 5]
Aaron Lawrence and Amy Hogan [Rang 6]
More on our Green School 2009
Green-Schools is a themed programme. Our school initially had to focus on Litter & Waste.
The new committee are now focusing on the Energy theme. They are working very hard on projects and competitions to help create awareness of how we can conserve energy.
The new committee members are:
Mr Walsh
Miss Murphy
Valerie Condon
Róisín Gillessen and Josh King [1st Class]
Aisling Morrissey and John Mulcahy [2nd class]
Daniel Browne and Emma Wroblewski [3rd class]
Ciara Laste and Ben Wilson [4th class]
Jamie Cahill, Bethany Entwistle, Amy Hogan and Aaron Lawrence [5th class]
Rory Maher and Suane Joste [6th class]
Green Flag 2007 - 2008
We are very conscious of our carbon footprint in our school. Last year we were awarded the European Green Flag for our efforts. Everyday a huge effort is made by all the members of our school community to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Some of the things we do:
Compost - members of the Green Flag committee go around to each classroom after lunch and collect all our fruit waste. They bring this to our composter, we will be using the compost in our school garden in the spring.
Recycle - every class has two bins - one is for paper & plastic materials which can be recycled the other is for non recyclable waste (we try to keep this one as empty as possible)
New member of staff
Ms Noelle O'Reilly joined our staff today. She is our Resource teacher this year, shared with Grange N.S. and Newcastle N.S.
We welcome her and wish her many happy years with us!
The school were thrilled to give half the proceeds of Gillians show to Our Lady's ward in Crumlin hospital. Kieran O'Donnell and Gemma Anderson proudly handed over a cheque of €1200 to Margaret Waters who accepted on behalf of the hospital. Also present for the happy occasion were Gillian, our dance teacher and our principal, John Walsh.
A Short Play
We all enjoyed the short play on recycling our rubbish. It was lots of fun.
Science Excellence Award 2006
In 2006 our school earned an excellence award for Science! We all worked very hard for this award and 6th class organised a special science night. It was a brilliant event attended by lots of students and their parents. Visitors on the night were dazzled by dancing raisins!
We got it
Ms. Barrett's third class got their whiteboard installed today, September 23rd. They are so delighted and can't wait to work with it.
First Holy Communion
Second class received their first Holy Communion on Saturday, May 9th. at 11 o'clock. It was a beautiful ceremony. A big thank you to their teacher, Jane Barrett, for all her effort and dedication.
Waiting for Collection
Children excited at the prospect of some of their Christmas boxes being collected by Mrs. Earley.
Library competition
Well done to Evan Kiely, Jack Cronin and Orla O'Donnell for being prizewinners in the recent colouring competition, sponsored by Merck Sharpe and Dohme
Recycle of Old Mobile Phones
Now that Ms Barrett's class have their whiteboard installed, everyone is making the effort to collect old phones to help Ms Murphy's first class acquire one too! Click on Ms Murphy's class and read all about their efforts.
Interactive White board
Two 'Touch It' interactive whiteboards have been installed in our school, provided for us by our Parents Council. One is in Mrs Condon's room and the second one is in Mrs Moore's room. Both teachers are thrilled with their new addition!
Full Attendance for 2008-2009
Congratulations to the nine children in the school who will receive a certificate for having 100% attendance last year. They will receive their well deserved certs after mass on St Michael's day, September 29th.
Conor Clancy
Oisín Casey
Rian Casey
Suane Jooste
Daniel Fitzpatrick
Cathal Fogarty
Alan O’Donnell
Elle Power
Oisín Dempsey
Science Excellence Award 2009
Mrs Moore's class have worked towards achieving a Science Excellence award again this year. They held a science night in the school hall in early April and pupils and parents attended. Everyone was impressed by the work done by Mrs Moores class. We know they certainly deserve an award for excellence again this year.
Yes, they did it again !
Mrs Moore's class got the great news today that they have received the Award for Excellence in science again this year 2008-2009. They were all thrilled to hear the news. Well done to all.
Gillian's dance show was a great success. We are amazed how she manages to produce such a variety of dances every year. The costumes were so colourful - those lovely pink Spanish dresses from Lanzarote were a wow! Thank you, Gillian.
Everything went very smoothly. Mrs. Fleming was compere on both nights and did an excellent job. We would like to thank all the sponsors for our raffle. The parents and families of the children were so generous also in buying tickets.
The school is donating half the proceeds to Our Lady's Ward in Crumlin Hospital. It is such a worthy cause. We hope to present the cheque shortly.
Thank you, Miss Gillian
A very big thank you to our dancing teacher, Gillian Fitzgerald, for all her hard work in producing a wonderful show in our school. It was a great success and enjoyed by everyone.
