Friday October 24th: The school will be closed as it is being used as a polling station for the presidential election.

Monday 27th – Friday 31st October: Mid term break.

Wednesday 5th November: Child safeguarding training for all school staff.

This week we submitted our planning application to Offaly County Council for our ASD classroom, central activity space and other associated rooms. You can see some plans below. Hopefully we will hear positive news before Christmas.

We celebrated our wonderful team of SNAs on Thursday 25th September as it was SNA Appreciation Day. Thanks to Mrs. Gorman, Mrs. Spollen, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Burns, Ms. Kelly, Ms. Boland, Mr. McDonald, Mrs. Hickey and Ms. O’Hanlon for everything they do to support the children in our school.

We said goodbye to 6th Class on Thursday 26th June. All the school gave them a well-deserved guard of honour.

We celebrated our wonderful 6th Class today in a graduation ceremony full of music and singing. Well done to our Class of 25 for preparing such a joyous event. We wish them well as they move on to secondary school.

4th & 5th Classes launched their book on Wednesday 25th June. They have been working very hard with their teacher Ms. Connolly creating wonderful stories featuring some of the most prominent landmarks of Geashill village.  Artist, Shannon Bergin, has been helping the class with all the illustrations.

This initiative has been supported by Geashill Tidy Towns, Offaly County Council and Creative Ireland.

All classes had great fun taking part in Sports Day in glorious sunshine.

We were delighted to receive the Curious Mind Gold Award for STEM activities throughout the school.  These activities include coding, robotics and construction as well participating in Maths and Science Week. Well done to everyone for this great achievement.

Junior Infants, Senior Infants and 1st Class went on their school tour to Glendeer Pet Farm on Tuesday 17th June. They had a very enjoyable day.

2nd to 6th Classes went to Croke Park and Jump Zone on their school tour.  They enjoyed getting to see behind the scenes in Croke Park  and all the activity in Jump Zone.

Our Student Council prepared this presentation for our latest Board of Management meeting. They wanted to show the board members some of the work they have done over the last year.