Best Class and Best Line Awards

On Friday 12th April we crowned our ‘Best Line’ and ‘Best Class’ champions for this term. The winners were presented with an Easter Egg as a reward for their fantastic behaviour in our school yard at break times!

Well done to our winners!

First Class were given the ‘Best Class’ award

 

Third Class were given the ‘Best Line’ award

Life in Australia

On Friday 12th April 2019, we were very lucky to have a guest from Australia visit our school. Tiernan (3rd Class) invited his family friend Peter to come in and speak to the children all about his life in Australia. The children learned about Australian foods, pastimes, geography and animals.

It was a brilliant learning experience and the children loved hearing the first-hand experiences of a true Australian!

A visit from an Olympian!

As part of our Active Flag Campaign we had a very special sports person visit our school on Wednesday the 7th March ‘18.  Brian Gregan, Olympic Athlete visited, as part of the Sports for Schools Initiative. All of the children got active in completing various circuits and they also learned lots about what’s involved in becoming a famous athlete. Our school also received money towards PE equipment, which we were delighted about. We have ordered some new supplies and we will definitely be putting them to good use outdoors! Please have a browse at our photos to see some of the fun activities the pupils got involved in.

Seachtain na Gaeilge 2019

Seachtain na Gaeilge is a national festival that celebrates the Irish language and culture. To promote the Irish language in our school, we held a ceolchoirm on Thursday 15th March as a school. Well done to all participants!

5K Fundraiser

On Sunday 10th March 2019, all roads led to Donaghmoyne as our annual 5K Walk/Run took place. We would like to say a huge thank you to our Parent’s Association for their efforts in organising the race – it was a huge success and raised some very much needed funds for our school!

Congratulations to all of the winners listed below!

 

Men’s Winners

1st PlaceHenry Campbell20 minutes 11 seconds
2nd PlaceRyan Duffy20 minutes 45 seconds
3rd PlaceDeclan Martin20 minutes 54 seconds

 

Women’s Winners

1st PlaceOrla Hamill23 minutes 18 seconds
2nd PlaceErin Smyth26 minutes 20 seconds
3rd PlaceDeirdre McMahon27 minutes 07 seconds

 

Children’s Winners
Boys – 1st PlaceOran Smyth
Girls – 1st PlaceÁine Smyth25 minutes 10 seconds

Pancake Tuesday in Ms. Atkinson’s Room

We would like to say a huge thank you to Amanda, Pauline and Joan, our parent volunteers, who gave up their time on Tuesday 5th March to come in and cook some beautiful pancakes for the children for Pancake Tuesday.

The children had a fantastic morning and we very much appreciate it!

Pancake Tuesday in Infants

There was huge excitement in the Infant classroom today at the thought of getting pancakes at school. As you can see they went down a treat. Thanks to our parent volunteers who were busy cooking all morning!

 

Pancake Tuesday in Mrs McGuirk’s Class

Today (Tuesday 5th March 2019), we had a Pancake themed day in our classroom.

1st, 2nd and 3rd class learned about the origins of Pancake Tuesday / Shrove Tuesday. We also learned how to sequence steps in making pancakes in our Irish lesson, and we completed maths challenge cards linked to the theme of pancakes. We also played a maths dice game with the theme of pancakes. We got active and sang ‘The Pancake Song’ and added in some cool actions. We composed our own acrostic PANCAKE poems. We learned about the way Pancake Tuesday is celebrated in other countries.

The children also got the chance to sample some delicious pancakes, courtesy of some of our parents who volunteered their time to come in and cook for them.

Isobel and Grace for Ireland’s Got Talent

Best of luck to students Isobel and Grace who will take part in auditions for Ireland’s Got Talent as part of the dance group Hiphopical this weekend. The show will air on Saturday 23rd of February at 7.30pm on Virgin Media One.

We are all very proud and we can’t wait to see you both perform on tv!

Quiz fever in St. Michael’s N.S.

Congratulations to the children from Ms. Atkinson’s room who were chosen to be part of our quiz teams this year. Two teams will take part in the Credit Union Quiz on Friday 1st February, and one team will take part in the Cumann na mBunscol quiz on Tuesday 5th February. We wish them every success on both nights!

 

Credit Union Quiz Team A

(Shane, Ella, Céola and Pádraic)

 

Credit Union Quiz Team B

(Ava, Leah, Caoilte and Seán Óg)

 

Cumann na mBunscol Quiz Team

(Cormac, Tiernan, Céola and Seán Óg)