25th October saw St. Patrick’s NS Football team hit the hallowed ground of Croke Park for the Cumann na mBunscol final against Donabate/Portrane NS. After weeks of matches, our team…
Aoine Bheo
Bhí lá iontach againn inniu. Tá muid ag tnúth go mór le Daidí na Nollag ag teacht. Léigh rang Mr. Coughlan scéal na Nollag and bhí rang Ms. O Brien…
Barnardos Christmas Boxes
A sincere thank you to everyone for their generous donations to Barnardos this year. This year St. Patrick’s NS school community provided 110 children’s gifts, 16 hampers and a variety…
Dundrum Carol Singing for Laura Lynn
On December 11th our 6th class were supposed to sing some Christmas carols at Dundrum shopping centre to raise money for Laura Lynn hospice. Unfortunately the snow prevented us getting…
Science Experiments with 4th and 5th Class
4th and 5th Class have been exploring the world of Science. The class made balloon rockets. They also designed, created and tested two parachutes - one from a small plastic bag…
Fighting Words – 3rd Class
On 15th of November we went to a writers’ workshop called ‘Fighting Words’. We were the authors and we created a book choosing characters, settings and dilemmas. We had illustrators…
Science Week – 3rd class experiments
Science week was great fun: We made snake spirals and hung them over the radiators. When the heat is on the snakes twirl as the warm air rises. We also…
3rd Class – Maths Games
We’ve had another busy but exciting month in third class. After Halloween we started co-operative maths games on Friday mornings with Ms. Quigley and Ms. Casey. Our Favourite so far…
3rd Class Study The Book of Kells
We had a very interesting time learning about the Monks and their lives in the monasteries long ago. Ms. Quigley was very excited and so pleased with all our creative…
Art with 3rd class – Klimt
We were inspired by Klimt’s work- ‘Birch Forest’ and we created our own and we used newspaper to create birch trunks. We also made pictures with our pressed leaves and…
Creating with Clay in Junior Infants
We have been very busy in the art room ..... we were using clay to make our very own Hungry Caterpillars. We left them to dry for a few days…
Junior Infants Practicing their GAA Skills
Junior Infants had great fun this week learning some GAA skills from 4th Class !!
Fun with Magnets – Junior Infants
Junior Infants had great fun exploring magnets is all shapes and sizes in science last week. We learned that the two ends of a magnet are called poles. Red is…
Science Week
Mr. Coughlan’s 5th /6th Class did an experiment to make a chemical reaction with different types of vinegars and baking sodas. The malt vinegar worked best so we used that…
Halloween 2017
Aoine Bheo- ‘Oíche Shamhna 2017’ Bhí an-chraic againn le Aoine Bheo. Bhíomar gléasta mar chreatlachaí, cailleachaí, fir grinn, taibhsí, zombaithe agus alán rudaí eile don seó faisean. Channamar ár n-amhráin…
Aidan – 3rd Class – DLR Social Inclusion Art Competition
Congratulations to Aidan Pekaar in 3rd class who won the DLR Social Inclusion Art Competition. Aidan went to the County Hall in Dun Laoghaire to collect his medal and certificate…
3rd Class Update 16 October
We’ve had a very busy fortnight in Third Class. Last week we had a coding workshop with Mary Jo Bell and we learned all about coding ‘Beebots’ and making them…
World Homeless Day of Action 2017 – RTE News2Day report live from Glencullen
RTE News2Day report live from Glencullen World Homeless Day took place on October 10th. Our school held a day of action where all the children got involved in increasing awareness…
Senior Infants
In Senior Infants we have been studying our different homes and the story Rainbow fish.