We had great day on 28th October 2022 celebrating Halloween in St. Michael’s National School. The children dressed up and each class had a Halloween party. We also held a whole-school Halloween disco. We took part in ‘Trick or Treat for Sick Children’ and raised almost €300 for this very worthy cause, well done everyone!
We also held our monthly assembly, where numerous children were awarded with certificates for their hard work this term.
Wishing you all a happy and safe Halloween!
What an amazing first term we had together in 5th & 6th class. The pupils have worked so hard engaging in individual & group projects. We completed a study of our very own county of Monaghan, created outstanding family and county coat of arms for a competition, dramatized and illustrated the story of Setanta, researched and wrote reports on a famous artist, made periscopes, composed Halloween soundscapes for music, designed and made unique 3D buildings among many more creative activities. Choice time awards were having a fun pyjama and desk swap day.
Of course the highlight of all was supporting our boys as they reached the final of their Cumann na mBunscol School football league. Well done on your wonderful achievement boys!
We hope you all have a fun Halloween break and looking forward to the adventures that the next term brings!
It’s hard to believe, we are at the end of the first half of term already – we have been busy in 3rd and 4th class.
The boys and girls have worked extremely hard since September and should be very proud of their efforts.
In Maths – we have been exploring addition, subtraction and multiplication, all of which will set us up to tackle lots of other areas in Maths throughout the year.
In English, we have been busy with Recount and Report Writing. The children wrote some exceptional pieces, about fairies. We will be keeping a close eye out next time we are in the woods, to see if we can spot one! They also blew their teacher away, with some amazing reports on a country of their choice – super impressive!
In Irish, we have been exploring the Aimsir Chaite Briathra Rialta. The boys and girls have really grasped these over the past few weeks which is amazing! We have also been practicing forming our own sentences in Gaeilge through games which has been great fun! We looked at Mé Féin and Bia.
We have been learning about our bodies, inside and out as well as delving into the past, learning about The Stone Age.
To top it all off, we have been in full swing practicing for our big show and by golly is it going to be a good one, not to be missed!
We made some fantastic mosaic pumpkins and had a spooky colouring competition.
The children made a fantastic effort with their costumes for our Halloween Dress Up in aid of Trick or Treat for Temple Street so well done to everyone. We enjoyed our Halloween disco and assembly where we performed our Oíche Shamhna song for the whole school.
Well done to all the boys and girls in 3rd and 4th who have made a great start to the school year. We can’t wait to see what comes next. Have a very Happy and Safe Halloween!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM FIRST AND SECOND CLASS!
This week we have been busy learning about Halloween Safety, Halloween Traditions, singing Halloween songs in both Irish and English and reciting Halloween Poetry. We had great fun making our own SPOOKTACULAR SPIDERS and AMAZING MASKS too.
We all had FANGTASTIC FUN on Friday when we showed off our talents at our Whole School Assembly. We got to display our Halloween Costumes, as we danced, all in support of Temple Street Children’s Hospital.
We have been very busy this week as we celebrated Maths Week. The children took part in various maths-based activities, focusing particularly on using their ‘maths eyes’! Have a look at what we got up to…
We designed and created shape monsters.
We completed some ‘shape printing’ for art!
We played snakes and ladders in pairs.
And finally, we tried to focus more on the natural maths in our environment – maths is everywhere! The boys and girls took some time to use their maths and eyes at home, recorded these, and then presented these to the class. Well done to all of the boys and girls for taking part!
We celebrated Maths Week this week in 1st and 2nd class. We played lots of maths games, answered maths questions on story books and tested out our maths eyes by answering and posing maths questions based on photographs. Well done boys and girls for your active participation.
Admission Policy and Application Form:
A copy of the school’s Admission Policy and the Application Form for Admission for the 2023/2024 school year is available as follows: –
To download at: www.stmichaelsns.ie
On request: By emailing stmichaelsnsdonaghmoyne@gmail.com
Or on request: By writing to St Michael’s National School, Donaghmoyne, Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, A81EA37.
Part 1 – Admissions to the 2023/2024 school year
Application and Decision Dates for admission to 2023/2024
The following are the dates applicable for admission to Junior Infants:
| The school will commence accepting applications for admission on | Nov 7th 2022 |
| The school shall cease accepting applications for admission on | March 1st 2023 |
| The date by which applicants will be notified of the decision on their application is | March 12th 2022 |
| The period within which applicants must confirm acceptance of an offer of admission is | Two Weeks |
Failure to accept an offer within the prescribed period mentioned above may result in the offer being withdrawn.
Note: the school will consider and issue decisions on late applications in accordance with the school’s admission policy.
Number of places being made available in 2023/2024:
| The number of places being made available in junior infants | 20 |
There were fantastic celebrations among our brilliant footballers here in Saint Michael N.S. school this week as they progress to the final of the Cumann na mBunscol school league, which will take place on Saturday 22nd October in Castleblayney.
In first and second class, we have been learning about changes in autumn and all about trees, their life-cycles, their parts and the functions of these parts. We enjoyed using pointillism to create lovely autumnal trees.
We have been busy in 1st and 2nd Class in our History lessons. We have learned about different stages in the human life-cycle and engaged in various sequencing activities. We also learned some important facts about our own life-cycles to date and created our own booklets entitled ‘My Family – A Booklet All About Me’. We had great fun playing a game of ‘Guess the Baby’ by looking at and guessing who was in the baby photographs.
