Scoil Mhuire
Attendance Awards Term 2
Congratulations to all the children who have missed no days since January! Absolutely amazing children well done!
Senior Infants Ballet Performance
Yesterday Senior Infants performed their ballet in front of their parents. For 10 weeks Stephen from “Ballet Ireland” had been teaching the children ballet. Thank you Stephen the children had a ball.
No Technology Poster Competition
Well done to all the boys and girls who designed, drew, coloured, painted and created a poster promoting positive experiences that don’t involve the use of technology. A child from each class was chosen and given a little prize. But …
New Apple Trees
Thank you to Maria and Alan from the Blakestown Community Drive who came to our school and with the help of some of our Senior Infant children planted 4 apples trees on Thursday 4th April to celebrate National Tree Planting …
Our vegetable patch!
We harvested some KALE in our school garden!! Some of the children brought it home with them. We also have some potatoes, carrots, radishes, rhubarb and lots of herbs growing but they aren’t ready yet. Look at the photos to …
Music Workshop Fun!
All the classes had great fun getting the chance to play with a variety of different instruments this week in the hall. We learned about rhythm and beat while playing different types of drums, rhythm sticks and shakers. Take a …
World down syndrome day
We rocked our odd socks on Thursday the 21st of March for World Down Syndrome Day- a day to showcase the amazing ways people with Down Syndrome make the world a better place. We raised over €250 for this great …
Seachtain na Gaeilge 2019
Bhí Seachtain na Gaeilge ar siúl ón 11ú – 14ú Márta, an t-am chun ár gcultúr a cheiliúradh le ceol, damhsa, na healaíona agus lenár dteanga álainn uathúil. Seachtain na Gaeilge ran from the 11th of March – 14th of March, its the time …
World Book Day
We celebrated world book day on Thursday the 7th of March. Lots of children dressed up as different book characters. 2nd class did a book scavenger hunt which was a lot of fun! 1st class designed book covers. Senior infants …
Biodiversity Displays
On Thursday March 6th a special visitor came to our school to see all our hard work we have done on biodiversity. A massive THANK YOU to Ms Fitzpatrick and her Green Team who have done a massive amount of …
Pancake Tuesday!
Children in every class around Scoil Mhuire Junior really enjoyed getting to make and taste pancakes today as we celebrated ‘Pancake Tuesday’. There were delicious smells all around the school! We needed eggs, milk and flour to make the batter …
Walk to School Wednesday
WHAT A WOW DAY WE HAD On the 27th February 2019 WOW! We had some great dancers, walkers, scooters and bikers coming to school. Well Done Everyone! ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
More biodiversity!
We learned MORE about biodiversity in 2nd class!! A woman named Brenda came to speak to us about bees, seeds and flowers! Did you know that bees hibernate in the winter?Did you know that bees are not aggressive? We also …
Bake Sale
Our bake sale was a great success. Thanks so much to all who brought in, bakes, donated, helped at the sale and tidied up! Everyone’s help is much appreciated and it couldn’t be done without your support. All money raised …
We are learning about biodiversity!
We are learning about biodiversity for our next green flag. Here we are looking for birds and plants. Senior Infants went on a sound walk. How lucky are we that our school grounds are so green and full of birds, …
Mid-term Break
Attention Parents/Guardians, School will be closed Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd February. School will reopen on Monday 25th February as normal.
Second class are learning how to knit
The children in second class are learning how to knit with the help of some grandparents/ parents. Each class is taking it in turns for 4 weeks on a Monday. The children are really enjoying it. Thanks very much to …
Take a look at our fantastic Art work in Junior Infants
Junior Infants have been busy learning all about penguins. Look at the fabulous clay penguins which we designed and painted. We used our fingers to roll the clay into a cylinder shape. Then we pinched and smoothed the clay to …
2nd class January update!
Check out the 2nd class section to see what we have been up to in January!
Junior Infants Update January 2019
Don’t forget to have a look at all our good work over on our Junior Infant Class Page for January 2019!