Green Schools Energy Workshop

Next year (2018), St Patrick's NS will be working towards getting their second Green Schools Flag and as one of the steps towards obtaining that second flag, the whole school participated in a workshop run by Gavin Harte on Wednesday the 13th of December on the theme of energy. The workshop was fantastic and consisted of 3 stations where the children learned about different types of energy and generated Watts of energy by riding a stationary bicycle.  They even helped to make smoothies by pedalling a stationary bike to generate more energy and best of all, everyone got to taste the smoothie! We also learned how many watts of energy were used by common household objects and appliances such as electric showers and kettles.

Knightsbridge Nursing Home

Well done to all of the children who performed our Nativity Play for the some of the staff and residents of the Knightsbridge Nursing Home today. The show, prayers and songs were great successes, and the children did a fantastic job! 

See you on Sunday at 11.30am for the Christmas Family Service in the church! 

School Author Visit!

We were delighted to welcome author, Olive Mooney, to our school recently. She is the author of the 'Chronicles of Cadaver College' series.

She shared some great creative writing tips with the children in the senior room on the day.

Let's hope she has inspired some budding new authors!

Book Fair!

Our annual Book Fair was a great success!

The children bought a lot of fantastic new titles & we raised €370 in free books for our own library.

Look out for some brand new titles in our library soon!

Many thanks to our school's P.A for organising such a worthwhile event.

Christmas in the Past

Many thanks to Úna Kilrane who came in to talk to the Junior and Middle Rooms today about Christmas in the past! It was great to hear a first-hand account of life long ago and she also had photographs to show the children of Wren Boys, clothes worn and more! Well done to the boys and girls for asking such great questions too!

The children are also learning about toys in the past. Juniors and Seniors got to explore toys from the past today:

A Phone Timeline!

Baking

Many thanks to Bernie, our in-house chef, who has been doing baking with all of the children in the school since we got our new oven! The children love going up to the staff room with her and are having lots of fun learning there! Here are some pictures of the 2nd Class group: 

Nobel Prize Winner School Visit!

The children in 4th - 6th class were really honoured today to welcome world renowned biologist & parasitologist William C. Campbell to our school!

Mr. Campbell was the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine & is the great, great uncle of Harry & Anna Quinn.

Mr. Campbell has changed the lives of millions of people in the developing world when he discovered a therapy against river blindness. The children listened intently to what was a really fascinating insight from a truly remarkable man.

GAA Coaching

Many thanks to the girls from Scoil Mhuire who have been doing GAA skills with the children in the Junior and Middle classrooms! Please see notes about Trim GAA nursery in these children's homework folders today. 

Classroom Opening

We had a wonderful morning today for the new classroom's official opening! Many thanks to all who attended, especially Bishop Storey. The children did an amazing job with their singing and poems, and 6th Class read their prayers beautifully. All of the pupils should be very proud of the excellent behaviour shown for our special day. A big thank you to the Parent's Association for providing refreshments afterwards. 

Supervalu and Lidl provided the school with hot food and loads of fruit too! Yum!

Beauty and The Beast

Many thanks to Dundalk Grammar School for kindly inviting us to their production of Beauty and The Beast today. The children from 3rd to 6th class thoroughly enjoyed a wonderful production.

Congratulations Ella!

Well done to Ella Thompson on winning two boxing medals!

Ella won a medal in both Crumlin & Edenderry boxing clubs. Ella trains twice a week in South Meath Boxing Club. All her hard work is paying off!

Classroom Opening

The students and teachers are hard at work in St. Patrick's N.S. getting ready for our opening of the new classroom later on in the month! The Senior Room got this art project started yesterday for it and the Middle and Junior rooms finished it off today. This project involved a lot of collaborative work and we're excited to show you the finished result...

Autumn Leaves in Trim!

Juniors, Seniors and First Class went on a nature walk today in Trim to explore the colours of Autumn. The children were put into groups and each group was in charge of a colour. It was a fun, energetic and engaging way to observe the season of Autumn in the local environment! Have a look at how we got on...

THANK YOU!!!

Our new school mural is beautiful! Lisa and Gwyneth have done an unbelievable job on it! Thank you both so much, from everyone at St. Patrick's! 

New Mural

Our new school mural looks incredible! Many thanks to Gwyneth and Lisa for all of the hours of careful work they are putting into it! 

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to school everybody! We hope everyone had a great first day back. A special well done to the 7 new Junior Infants who had their first day of Primary School. Kyna, Elisha, Ruth, Anna, Aoibheann, Bláithín and Liam started in St. Patrick's N.S. today: