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.

We celebrated St. Brigid in school this week.

As part of our Green School work on Travel, Michele from An Taisce brought a speed gun to school. Some of our pupils got a chance to measure how fast vehicles were travelling past the school.

Our Green School Committee are working hard on the Global Citizenship -Travel theme and are hoping to be awarded our 9th Green Flag later this year.

Our Student Council presented representatives from our local Vincent de Paul charity with €400. This money was raised as part of the Christmas Jumper Week, orgainsed by our Student Council.

We held our Christmas Play in Raheen Church on Wednesday 17th December. Well done to everyone for all the wonderful performances.

On her last day working with us, we presented Lucy, our Music Generation tutor, with some flowers to say a big “Thank You” for all her great work since September 2024. We look forward to welcoming our new tutor, Zoe, to Geashill in the new year.

Thanks to everyone who donated to the Tullamore Lions Club Christmas Food Appeal. Six baskets of food were collected on Friday afternoon. A special word of thanks to our student council for publicising and promoting the appeal in the last number of weeks.

There’s some lovely winter and Christmas art work on display around the school.