I’m a little prayer rock, and this is what I’ll do,
Just put me on your pillow, ‘til the day is through.
Then turn back the covers and turn into your bed,
And, whack! Your little prayer rock will bump you on the head.
Then you will remember, when the day is through,
To kneel and say your prayers, as you intended to.
Because your heavenly Father, cares and loves you so,
He wants you to remember, to talk to him, you know!
Can you spot yours?
As part of Maths Week, Mrs McGuirk’s room participated in various events associated with the theme ‘Keeping Active’. Children participated in active number rhymes with actions. We continued with our Malin to Mizen head walking challenge. We participated in number orienteering, passing a ball around a circle in a given time, action counting songs and using body parts and measuring implements to measure different distances! Well done all for your Active Participation!!
All Junior and Senior Infants playing happily together on the first day of school!
Well done to Jack (3rd Class) and Kellie (2nd Class) who successfully completed the Summer Reading Challenge in their local libraries. They both read eight books and were rewarded for their fantastic efforts with medals and certificates.
Well done to you both!
Congratulations to all of the sixth class children in the parish of Donaghmoyne on making their confirmation on the 29th of April 2018 in St. Patrick’s Church, Broomfield.
Well done to the ten students from St. Michael’s National School who put in a fantastic effort in preparing for this special day.
As part of our Active Flag Campaign and to celebrate Active Schools week, we had a spring themed Sports Day on Friday 27th April 2018. These events were supervised by the staff and members of the Active Schools Committee. All these events were fun and encouraged physical activity in a fun setting! Please have a peek at the wonderful things our children got up to on the day.
This initiative proved successful in our school. We began our running challenge in March 2019 and have been doing it everyday. Weather didn’t stop our efforts! We used our walking track for this initiative, running ten laps or 1 km each day per classroom. This equated to 3km a day and 15km per week! Our challenge was to complete 60km in total, within the space of 4 weeks. We tried to do our running after lunch and this kept us awake and alert to complete our afternoon’s work. Before and after our run our Active Leaders lead some warm-up and cool-down activities. The children really enjoyed this initiative and we still get the children out for a jog as part of our active breaks!
As a result of our recent lunch box survey (September 2019), we noticed that some children continue to take diluted drinks to school. Our Health Promotion Committee created a Drinks Sugar Display Board to show how much sugar are in the most popular drinks. See a picture of this below!
They also talked to classes about the importance of drinking water! Some of these advantages can also be seen below.
We would like to say a big thank you to the parents who offered to come in and make smoothies using lots of different fruits. This year (2018) the Health Promoting Schools Team surveyed children to find out the most popular drinks being taken to school. Diluted Juice was found to be very popular and the amount of water being consumed had reduced! They decided to look at popular drinks and focus on the sugar levels in them to highlight how much hidden sugar they actually contain!
Our staff, pupils and parents got active and took part in our powered pedal cinema event. Everyone worked hard to keep the film going and everybody enjoyed the show immensely. Our Health Promoting team were also on board to distribute healthy eating documentation and explain about portion size with the use of various food props.
A Great job all round!
