Happy Christmas

Merry Christmas to all pupils and parents of St. Patrick's National School. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year :)

Christmas Party

We had a fantastic time at our Christmas Party! A massive thank you to the Parent's Club who organised the whole thing. Have a look at the pictures of us playing bingo, eating pizza and Santa arriving! 

We also had to say goodbye to Ms Moriarty today :( we will miss her lots and a massive thank you for all of the hard work she has done in the school! Come back for a visit! 

Christmas Party

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's N.S. Christmas Party, organised by our Parent's Club! We are very excited to eat pizza and see Santa!!! The party begins at 1pm, so any parents who are available to assist the Parent's Club please come then too. Tomorrow is a non-uniform day. ALL pupils will be going home at 3pm tomorrow, including Juniors and Seniors. Tomorrow is also Ms. Moriarty's last day with us in St. Patrick's N.S., as Ms. Ibs is returning on Monday.

Knightsbridge Nursing Home

Today we went to Knightsbridge Nursing Home to visit some of the residents there and to help celebrate their Christmas Party with them. We sang some festive songs, performed our Nativity Play, read prayers and some children in the Senior Room read their Christmas poems. We had a great day and everyone at the Knightsbridge were very welcoming and friendly! 

Zumba

We have really enjoyed the past 6 weeks of Zumba with Edel, who can be contacted on 0861080913.  Have a look at some of our dance moves (the music might be a bit loud!). 

Green Schools News

The Green School Committee have been very hard at work already this year! We completed a waste review last year and repeated it this year to see if we had managed to meet our aim of reducing waste in St. Patrick's N.S. by 50%. Last year, in one week, we binned 8.5kg of waste. This year we only had 2.7kg of waste, meaning we reduced waste by 68%!

Well done to everyone in the school for remembering to recycle and compost! We have made St. Patrick's a greener school :)

For the new year we want a new poster to display our Green School Slogan, "Don't be Lazy, Go Green Crazy!", so we are having a poster competition which everyone is allowed to enter. Posters need to include our Green School Slogan, and the closing date is December 11th.

Irish Flag

Today our school was visited by a memeber of Óglaigh na hÉireann to be presented with our own Irish Flag. We also recieved a copy of the 1916 Proclamation, a poster of Amhrán na bhFiann and a information about how to care for the Flag.

 Elliot was nominated to read the fourth paragraph of the proclamation. He did a fantastic job.  

Oscar was presented the Flag on behalf of the whole school.  

Please see http://www.military.ie/en/info-centre/defence-forces-2016/flags-for-schools-initiative/ for more information about this initiative and about the Flag and Proclamation.

Halloween

Well done to everyone who dressed up today. There were lots of fantastic and creative costumes: 

Even the teachers dressed up...watch out for the big bad wolf...

Have a great week off everyone :)