Congratulations to our 5th class who have reached the National Finals of the Irish Aid Our World Awards!!! We are so proud of each of our pupils & the work…
Senior Infants – Learn about Africa
Well done to all the senior infants who did such outstanding projects on our Aistear theme of Africa! Sophie created a beautiful African box of facts and Emily, James and…
Senior Infants – Healthy Eating
This week senior infants were learning how to categorise their lunches into food groups. We learnt that eating healthy food helps us to grow. Finn told us that getting plenty…
Irish Aid Award Project: The Plastic Ocean
5thclass are partaking in this year’s Irish Aid awards and have decided to focus on Global Goal 14 ‘Life under Water’ and Global Goal 12 ‘Responsible Consumption’. Their project ‘The…
Easter Egg Hunt
There was great fun at the school Easter Egg Hunt.
School Newsletters
We are now in our third and last School Term for the Academic Year 2017/2018. You can keep up-to-date with what is happening throughout the school, from Junior Infants up…
Positivity Week in Senior Infants
This week we celebrated positivity week in senior infants with a teddy bears picnic, a happy disco and a sing along to Pharrell Williams!
Snow
As one of the highest schools in Ireland, we are always the lucky ones whenever a few white flutters come from the skies. This December we had a beautiful snowfall…
‘The Spirit Of Christmas’ Fair – Sunday 3rd December
A huge thank you to our PA and everyone involved in making our Christmas Fair a huge success. €6583 was raised for the school. Thank you to everyone who organised,…
Cumann na mBunscol Final, Croke Park
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…