The school will be closed on the following days:

Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th March – St. Patrick’s Weekend

Monday 30th March to Friday 10th April – Easter Holidays

Over the last number of weeks, our infant classes have been learning about Tanzania. To finish off all their wonderful work, they headed on a special flight to Tanzania to see some of the places they had been learning about!

On Thursday 26th February, our Green School Committee welcomed Michele from An Taisce to the school. They presented their work from the last two years in the area of Travel and Global Citizenship.

Well done to all the pupils for their confident presentation and for all their efforts over the last two years. They did us all proud.

We hope to be awarded our 9th Green Flag later this year.

Well done to our senior quiz team who took part in the national final of the CUDA Quiz on Saturday 28th February. They performed very well and after 100 challenging questions, they finished in the top ten. Well done to them for reaching the final and for putting so much work into preparing for it.

Well done to our junior and senior quiz teams who took part in the annual Tullamore Credit Union Primary School Quiz on Wednesday 11th February. Over the last few weeks all ten pupils have worked very hard preparing for the competition.  Both teams performed very well on the night.  A special well done to our senior team who came 4th in their competition and now move on to the national final which takes place in Portlaoise on February 28th.

We were delighted to welcome back three past pupils to tell us about the sustainable grass paper project they were involved in, during their TY year in Tullamore College.

Their group won national and international awards and represented Ireland in SAGE, a worldwide competition for student entrepreneurs who have developed sustainable initiatives. They travelled to Georgia late last year where they won the overall 2nd prize.

It was Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 10th February. Classes learned again about the importance of online safety. Senior classes focused on becoming more aware of AI and being Safe, Smart and In-Control.

More information on online safety and Safe Internet Day can be found at Webwise.

In November, two inspectors from the Dept. of Education carried out an inspection of Music in our school. The inspection report has now been published and can be read here.

5th & 6th Class are working on building the Robotics arena and designing this year’s robot.