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Congratulations to our tennis team!
The school tennis team had a wonderful tournament today winning the Barber Cup for the 10th time in thirteen years. This is an extraordinary achievement by the girls and their coaches, Martin from Cork Parks Tennis and Sr de Lourdes. They topped their group in the tournament before beating Scoil Oilibheir in the semi-final and […]
Read more »May Devotions
The May Devotions to honour Our Lady were held in the school hall. Pupils and staff gatheres to sing hymns, listen to readings and say prayers. The highlight of the devotions was the crowning of Our Lady and that honour fell to sixth class girls.
Read more »Visit to Blackrock Castle
The girls from 3rd to 6th classes went on a visit to Blackrock Castle and Observatory. They went on a tour of the castle and the dungeon. They also had a chance to play “Comet Chaser” which is an interactive theatre and they had to help to save the earth. They had great fun in […]
Read more »Fun Sports Day.
The school sports field was where all the action was today. Each class had three novelty events with the emphasis on fun and participation rather than on winning. The parents had fun too with a penalty shootout for both the ladies and gents and an obstace course race for the ladies. The children had a […]
Read more »Green Flag Raising
Today Ellen Murphy from An Taisce was our guest to raise our second Green Flag. Ellen has been very supportive in our work towards gaining our flags and she explained the symbols on the flag to the children and parents who gathered for the occasion. There were lots of willing hands to help Ellen to […]
Read more »Congratulations!
Well done to all the runners who had a brilliant day at the Primary Schools Sports today. They won a total of eleven trophies including three firsts. Because of their great wins they also won the cup as overall winners in their group. All the girls had put in great effort in their training for […]
Read more »Activities Week
A great week of activities is in store. On Monday all classes will go to various places in The Glen eg the Glen Park and Playground. Wednesday is City Sports Day with swimming lessons going on as usual. Thursday there will be Station Activities with children involved in a variety of activities. Our second Green Flag […]
Read more »Green-Schools Presentation
We have been awarded our second green flag for Energy at a presentation ceremony in Silversprings Hotel. There were 150 flags presented in total to schools from Munster. It was a lovely ceremony with three members of the Green Schools Committee and the Co-ordinator representing the school. We will be raising our new flag next week. […]
Read more »One Million Trees
As part of the One Million Trees in One Day project each girl in Junior Infants got a tree to plant. They are all native trees and the aim of this project is to plant one million trees in a short space of time all over the country. Many of the children’s parents came along […]
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