6th Class continued their preparation for Confirmation by going on a retreat to Mount Saint Anne’s Retreat Centre in Killenard. They enjoyed the day and are now looking forward to their Confirmation on Saturday, 7th May.

Just before Easter 5th and 6th Classes took part in a STEM Primary School Outreach Program in association with Boston Scientific. They had a wonderful opportunity to gain an insight into the running of Boston Scientific, Galway. We owe a special thanks to past pupil Keith Quinn and Greg Delahunt who presented so much information to the children. They learned about:

 -The importance of Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths in the everyday world.

-Devices that are made by Boston Scientific.

-How these devices are inserted into the body.

-The importance of hygiene in a medical manufacturing company.

-How to keep our hearts healthy.

The children had many questions which were answered very clearly by both Keith and Greg. They all enjoyed the presentation very much and we are very grateful to have been given the opportunity to take part.

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.

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. 

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.

After weeks spent building our robots and practising this year’s game, we have selected our team to represent the school at the Offaly Robotics Championship which takes place in O’ Connor Park, Tullamore on May 6th.  Well done for making the team and best of luck in the competition.

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.

We celebrated World Book Day on Thursday 3rd March.  All classes enjoyed doing  a variety of fun activities and of course we all read lots of books.

We enjoyed making and eating pancakes on Tuesday. We did some writing describing how to make them as well.

A reminder that the school will close for the mid-term break on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th of February.  See the full school calendar below.

Updated School Calendar