3rd & 4th Class

Classroom News & Events!

Autism Awareness Day 2022

On Friday 1st April 2022 we celebrated Autism Awareness Day. Firstly, we recapped on what we had learned last year about autism. We then learned about living with autism from the perspective of Megan, a ten year old girl from Canada whose little brother Matt has autism. We learned a lot from watching Megan go […]

Food Dudes

Food Dudes is an award winning curriculum-linked evidence-based healthy eating programme, developed to encourage children to eat more fresh fruit and vegetables. It is based on repeated tastings of fresh fruit and vegetables, rewards and positive role models. The boys and girls were delighted to take part again this year, and enjoyed plenty of fresh […]

Visit from Santa 2021

We were very lucky on Monday 13th December to have a visit from the one-and-only Santa Claus. The children got to tell Santa what they want for Christmas, and received a beautiful photo and gift.  What a special start to the week! Thank you to our Parent’s Association for making it all possible!

Feed the Bees Poster Competition

Last May, Carrickmacross Tidy Towns ran a poster competition titled ‘Feed the Bees’. There were lots of amazing entries from our school but the winner with his tagline ‘Don’t be a Hater, Save the Pollinator’ was Joshua Hughes in 3rd Class. He received his prize today. Well done Joshua!

October in 3rd and 4th Class

Well, what a busy few weeks it has been in Mrs. Lennon’s Room. We have been exploring 2D shapes and using cubes to help us understand division in Maths.     Miss Connolly taught us all about space and we made our very own rockets to launch! The boys and girls were very lucky to […]

Halloween 2021

We had great day on 22nd October 2021 celebrating Halloween in St. Michael’s National School. The children dressed up and each class had a Halloween party. We took part in Trick-or-Treat for Temple Street and raised €170 for this very worthy cause, well done everyone! We also held a socially-distanced fancy dress parade and fancy […]

First Holy Communion 2021

On Saturday the 9th of October 2021, thirteen amazing children finally got to make their First Holy Communion. Our entire school community is incredibly proud of each and every one of them. They did our school proud with their prayerful and respectful participation in the mass. They sang their hearts out and we are certain […]

Read-A-Thon

St. Michael’s N.S. are taking part in a Read-A-Thon to raise much needed funds for our school library All children who return a completed sponsorship card before December 10th 2021 will be entered into a draw for a Smyths Voucher We thank you all for your continued support!

Autism Awareness Day 2021

There was a sea of blue in St. Michael’s N.S. on Friday 16th April as we celebrated our first annual Autism Awareness Day on Friday 16th April. The children in each class took part in various lessons throughout the day to raise awareness about autism. They learned what autism is, how to communicate with someone […]

School Holiday Arrangements 2021/2022

St. Michael’s NS School Holiday Arrangements 2021 / 2022 School re-opens on Thursday 26th August 2021 Halloween (Mid-term) break  From Monday 25th to Friday 29th October (5 days) Re-open on Monday 1st November. Christmas Holidays 12 noon (½ day) on Wednesday 22nd Dec to Wednesday 5th Jan 2022 (10 days) Re-open on Thursday 6th Jan […]