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: