First Holy Communion 2023

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On Saturday the 6th of May 2023, our seven amazing boys and our six fantastic girls in Second Class celebrated their First Holy Communion.  This was a very special day for the children.

Our entire school community is incredibly proud of each and every one of them. They did our school, themselves and their families proud with their prayerful and respectful participation throughout the mass. The whole ceremony was enhanced by the beautiful singing from our school choir.

It was a privilege to help these wonderful children on their journey of faith, to the sacrament of First Holy Communion.

We would like to sincerely thank Fr. Daly for all his support as we prepared for this special day. He without doubt ensured that the day was  a truly memorable one for the children.

We hope that your weekend of celebrations was all you wished for. May God continue to guide our First Communicants in faith and protect them always with his love.

 

Autism Awareness Day 2023

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Spirits were high on Friday 28th April 2023 in St. Michael’s National School as we celebrated our third annual Autism Awareness Day. The children in each class took part in various lessons to raise awareness of autism. They learned what autism is, how to communicate with someone who has autism and how we can make school life easier for someone with autism. The teachers were so impressed with how children engaged with the lessons, and how much knowledge they had retained from last year.

We are so proud of our inclusive school!

Have an EGGcellent Easter from 1st & 2nd Class

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First and Second class were ‘Busy Bunnies’ this week! We completed lots of lovely activities around the theme of Easter. In Religion, we looked at the history of Easter and the Easter Story. In Gaeilge, we learned lots of Easter vocabulary and made a lovely Easter card.  In English, we listened to some Easter poems and created our own EASTER Cinquain poems.  We also listened to an Easter story entitled ‘Saving Easter’ and sequenced the different parts of the story. Our music lesson consisted of singing some Easter themed songs and adding in our own actions. The children got to perform the ‘Bunny Cokey’ Song for the whole school. For art, we made an Easter Bunny and an Easter Basket. We finished up for Easter by having an Easter party and we even had a visit from the Easter Bunny!

Accelerated Reader

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Congratulations to our star readers for the month of March – Isobel, Kyle and Luke.

Our class readers of the month were 3rd and 4th Class.

Well done everyone!

Easter Raffle / Food Bank Collection

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We are so incredibly proud of our amazing student council! They have worked tirelessly over the past few weeks organising our Easter Raffle and Food Collection for Carrickmacross Food Bank. We filled over 50 bags of groceries and treats for local families to enjoy over the Easter holidays. Thank you to all of the students and parents who have supported this cause, we are very lucky to have such a generous population in our small school!
Thank you to Kathleen from Carrickmacross Food Bank who came to collect the items. The work that they do for local people is absolutely outstanding – we are lucky to have such kind people amongst us.
Congratulations to our raffle winners – Teagan, Kelsie and Oisín.

Wonderful Water in 1st and 2nd Class

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This week we have been busy learning about water in Science. We learned what water is, what we use it for and where it comes from.  We listened to and joined in with the water-cycle song.  We also learned about erosion and carried out experiments using water and Smarties to show how erosion works!!

Lá Glás

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On Thursday 16th March we held a Lá Glás in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day! On the day we held a whole-school ceolchoirm which seen many of the children perform dances/songs for their peers. Well done everyone!

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day 2023 from 1st and 2nd Class

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This year we celebrated Saint Patrick’s Day by having a Saint Patrick’s themed week in our classroom, from Monday 13th – Thursday 16th March 2023. We learned about the life and legend of Saint Patrick in our religion and history lessons. We also learned about how Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated here and around the world. In ‘Gaeilge’,we learned lots of vocabulary linked to Saint Patrick’s Day, played some games to practice our vocabulary and made some lovely Saint Patrick’s Day headbands. For maths, we completed Saint Patrick’s themed maths challenges and Saint Patrick’s Day symmetry. We  made Saint Patrick’s Men for art. On Thursday, we all wore something green to school, to mark this very special occasion. 

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to Everyone!!!!