At St. Patrick’s NS we are continuously reviewing and evaluating our educational practice. This year, we examined homework in our school and we welcomed the views of parents, staff and…
May 2017 Newsletter
We are now in our 3rd and Final term for the Academic School year 2016/2017. Can you believe it? As always the last term is busy one. Please read our May Newsletter…
April 2017 Newsletter
The months are rolling on and the Easter Holidays begin on Friday at 12.30, please remember to join us for our Annual Cake Sale. Read our April Newsletter as a taster of…
Tidy Schools 2017 By Nathan O’ Hanlon
We have been very busy getting ready for our tidy schools competition this year. We have done a big clean up on our garden with Denis and Ms. Skelly and…
Irish Aid Projects – Our Song: Global Goals By Kelli-Ann, Rachel, Ruby, Luisa and Erin
We came up with the idea to recreate this song so children can learn about the Global Goals and what Irish Aid does to help our partner countries. We did…
Irish Aid Projects – Comparing Life in Vietnam by Hannah Kennedy and Ava Cannon
We chose to take a further look into life in 1 of our 8 partner countries, Vietnam, to show people how different their life is to ours. We chose this…
Irish Aid Projects – Our Global Goals – By Jack Keane and James Roe
We did a Powerpoint presentation about the Global Goals and Ireland eight partners. In our powerpoint we explained what life was like in Ireland's partner countries and how Irish Aid…
Fishing experiments in First Class
The children in First Class have been making magnets. First of all the children made paper fish, they cut them out and coloured them in. A little paper clip was…
Making Rockets in First Class
First class have made some amazing rockets in Art from recycled materials.
First Class Project – My Favourite Animal
Ms O'Brien has been learning all about the children's favourite animals, from dogs to cheetahs to sheep! This is the children's first project, well done.
1st Class artists!
In First Class we have been working very closely together on our Art projects. 'Our Class Jigsaw'; each piece has been designed by each member of the class.
World Book Day 2017 & Write a Book Competition
All the classes had great fun celebrating 'World Book Day' all week culminating with a 'World Book Day' table quiz with 20 teams made up from members of 3rd, 4th,…
‘Engineers Week’ 4th class
We had great fun working as structural engineers today! Our challenge was to build as sturdy a bridge as possible using 8 blocks and a sheet of A4 paper. We…
March 2017 Newsletter
Our March 2017 Newsletter is now available. There is plenty happening this month, and important notes on the school carpark.
Cyberbullying – 4th class videos
4th class boys Orin and Harry have created Oscar worthy productions on the theme of Cyberbullying, well done boys! Cyber bullying Harry Owens How_to_stay_safe_online Orin Hurley
Irish Aid Awards – By Romy Featherstone 5th class
This year 5th class are taking part in the Irish Aid awards. This year‘s theme is ‘For People and Planet’. Our class has begun preparing by researching the theme and…
Green Schools – By Mark Grenham 4th class
This year we are working towards our seventh Green Flag ‘Global Energy’. Our green schools committee have been very busy organising events, completing spot checks and guiding the rest…
Lego Club
Lunchtime Lego club is back every Wednesday at lunchtime. This month our club is for 1st & 2nd class participants and as the months continue the older classers will get…
Catholic Schools Week
Catholic Schools Week 2016 took place from 29th January. The theme for this week was “Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service” and it gave everyone involved in Catholic…
Write a Book Project
A huge congratulations to the children in 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 6th class who took part in the Write a Book project this year. This project run by Blackrock Education…