Scoil Mhuire
Beautiful colourful birds
The blue tits have nested again in the courtyard beside the P.E hall and we are all enjoying keeping an eye on them and watching them grow on our ‘bird cam’! We also have these beautiful colourful toucan birds on …
Talented dancers!
A boy in senior infants won lots of trophies at the weekend for break dancing and a girl in second class won a trophy for dancing too. More talent in our school !
Active Week so far!
It is Active Week in Scoil Mhuire Junior and what a perfect week for it, the sun is shining down and the weather has been glorious! All of the classes from Early Start up to 2nd class are learning some …
Another talented artist!
A boy in 2nd class made this fantastic wrestling ring. He used cardboard, foam, empty kitchen roll and string to make it. He carefully looked at pictures of boxing rings to make sure it looked just right. Great attention to …
A talented artist in the making!
A very observant Senior Infant boy was busy looking and drawing what he could see around him when visiting Junior Infants. Look at the outstanding drawing he did, definitely a talented artist of the future! Junior Infants were so impressed …
Easter Raffle
We would like to say a big THANK YOU to all those who supported us by buying tickets or donating prizes. We are delighted to say that we raised a total of € 1,043.66 for our school. Here are the …
Attendance Awards Term 2
Congratulations to all the children who have missed no days since January! Absolutely amazing children well done!
Senior Infants Ballet Performance
Yesterday Senior Infants performed their ballet in front of their parents. For 10 weeks Stephen from “Ballet Ireland” had been teaching the children ballet. Thank you Stephen the children had a ball.
No Technology Poster Competition
Well done to all the boys and girls who designed, drew, coloured, painted and created a poster promoting positive experiences that don’t involve the use of technology. A child from each class was chosen and given a little prize. But …
New Apple Trees
Thank you to Maria and Alan from the Blakestown Community Drive who came to our school and with the help of some of our Senior Infant children planted 4 apples trees on Thursday 4th April to celebrate National Tree Planting …
Our vegetable patch!
We harvested some KALE in our school garden!! Some of the children brought it home with them. We also have some potatoes, carrots, radishes, rhubarb and lots of herbs growing but they aren’t ready yet. Look at the photos to …
Music Workshop Fun!
All the classes had great fun getting the chance to play with a variety of different instruments this week in the hall. We learned about rhythm and beat while playing different types of drums, rhythm sticks and shakers. Take a …
World down syndrome day
We rocked our odd socks on Thursday the 21st of March for World Down Syndrome Day- a day to showcase the amazing ways people with Down Syndrome make the world a better place. We raised over €250 for this great …
Seachtain na Gaeilge 2019
Bhí Seachtain na Gaeilge ar siúl ón 11ú – 14ú Márta, an t-am chun ár gcultúr a cheiliúradh le ceol, damhsa, na healaíona agus lenár dteanga álainn uathúil. Seachtain na Gaeilge ran from the 11th of March – 14th of March, its the time …
World Book Day
We celebrated world book day on Thursday the 7th of March. Lots of children dressed up as different book characters. 2nd class did a book scavenger hunt which was a lot of fun! 1st class designed book covers. Senior infants …
Biodiversity Displays
On Thursday March 6th a special visitor came to our school to see all our hard work we have done on biodiversity. A massive THANK YOU to Ms Fitzpatrick and her Green Team who have done a massive amount of …
Pancake Tuesday!
Children in every class around Scoil Mhuire Junior really enjoyed getting to make and taste pancakes today as we celebrated ‘Pancake Tuesday’. There were delicious smells all around the school! We needed eggs, milk and flour to make the batter …
Walk to School Wednesday
WHAT A WOW DAY WE HAD On the 27th February 2019 WOW! We had some great dancers, walkers, scooters and bikers coming to school. Well Done Everyone! ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
More biodiversity!
We learned MORE about biodiversity in 2nd class!! A woman named Brenda came to speak to us about bees, seeds and flowers! Did you know that bees hibernate in the winter?Did you know that bees are not aggressive? We also …
Bake Sale
Our bake sale was a great success. Thanks so much to all who brought in, bakes, donated, helped at the sale and tidied up! Everyone’s help is much appreciated and it couldn’t be done without your support. All money raised …