Amber Flag Initiative

This year, we are taking part in the Amber Flag Initiative, run by Pieta. The Amber Flag Initiative aims to encourage schools to promote, and actively bring about a culture change in positive mental health within the educational system and other organisations. The Amber Flag Initiative acknowledges and enhances the already good work that is being carried out, where mental health is concerned, by offering an award, the Amber Flag. To find out more information on this initiative, please click here.

A team of enthusiastic and committed students have been working diligently to develop and organise activities to support and promote positive mental wellbeing in Geashill N.S. .

Click on read the article below to see some of the activities we have been doing to promote wellbeing and positive mental health.

Ukraine Collection

Thanks to everyone who took part in the recent collection for Ukraine. Everything dropped into the school was collected last week.  Please see below a thank you message that we received.

I would like to thank the staff of Geashill National School for letting me organise a collection point of donations for Ukraine at the school. Thanks to everyone involved. 

King Regards, 
Kalina Misiak. 
The Geashill community has set up a Facebook page called Geashill Supporting Ukrainian Families.  Take a look to see what is being planned to help out any Ukrainian refugees who may come to our area.

ASD Class Admission Process

We are delighted to announce that we will be opening an ASD special class in September.  Our admission process opened on Tuesday 15th March and will close on Wednesday 6th April.

Our Admission Policy can be read here.

Our Admission Notice for the ASD class can be read here.

You can download an application form here.

Fully completed application forms can be posted to Scoil na Croise Naofa, Geashill, Co. Offaly, R35W253 to arrive no later than Wednesday 6th April.

Any queries please call 057 9343754 or email micheal.hyland@geashillns.ie.



 

Bee Bots in Junior & Senior Infants

Our Junior and Senior Infants had great fun using Bee Bots over the last few weeks.  A Bee Bot is a programmable bee robot that is designed to be used by children.  It can be programmed by using the arrows on its back to move forward, backwards or turn 90 degrees.  The basic idea is that young pupils program the Bee Bot to move along a grid or map in order to solve a problem.

Take a look at this short video of one Bee Bot in action after being programmed by a group of our infants.