As part of the strategy to improve children’s literacy and numeracy skills, the national Adult Literacy Agency developed the website www.helpmykidlearn.ie. This provides some suggestions for enjoyable activities in which parents and their children can engage. Enjoy!
(Written by Áine Murphy) On Saturday 28th of March, in the Under 12 girls South East basketball league, Berkley played Wildcats in the final. The semi-finals had been played earlier that day and now it was time to see who was the best! Berkley scored 39 points whilst Wildcats scored 8 making Berkley the winners of the championship and the league. The Berkley team
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[Show as slideshow] (Written by Darragh Skehan) On the 25th of March, St Mary’s N.S. took part in a badminton tournament in Dublin. Both the boys and the girls teams won it out. Peter McDonald, Luke Connellan, Lukas Fromman and Darragh Skehan played for the boys. Una Donnelly, Katie Tylicka, Laurie Moylan and Sarah Barcoe played for the girls. Both teams played well. The
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(Written by Guy Watts and David Holden) The Easter bunny made a surprise visit to our school this morning at 10:15am. The Easter bunny gave us all a cream egg. It was delicious! Some of the children grabbed his tail and lots of children shook his hand. Some people even hugged him and others got photos taken with him. Later that morning, when Fionn
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(Written by Nicole Cranley and Briona Rothwell) On Thursday, March 26th at 10:30am, Fionn Gardiner visited our school. We were all so excited. He performed three songs; ‘Thinking Out Loud’, ‘High Hopes’ and ‘Uptown Funk’. He sang all three really well. After his performance the Easter Bunny jumped up on stage and gave him an Easter egg because he was so impressed with Fionn!
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(Written by Chloe Scanlon) Last Thursday the 19th, the fire brigade came to our school. Two firemen came in their fire engine to give us fire safety training. They showed us things that we should be careful with like electrical cables, deep fat fryers and all electrical items that could start fires. The firemen gave us a fire safety selection pack. Each pack contained
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(Written by Sadhbh O’ Neill and Evana Rose Minogue) Our class got to dress up for World Book Day on the 6th of March. We got to dress up as any character from any kind of book. It was great fun looking for a costume. There were lots of children dressed up at school….lots of cool characters. They were from all genres of books.
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(Written by Kyle Jordan) Conor Holden and I won our all our handball games against Ulster, Munster and Connaught opposition in the Cumann na mBunscoil All-Ireland finals in Kingscourt, Co. Cavan. It was a great day and we got to meet all the top women and men pros and watch them play. We also got our photograph taken with four times world champion, Paul
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(Written by Cian Farrell and Éanna O’ Keeffe) I played a handball tournament on Friday in Windgap with my friend Éanna. We beat Windgap’s 2nd team in the quarter-final. We beat Kell’s 1st team in the semi-final. We then played in the final against Windgap. We lost the first game, won the second game but unfortunately lost our third game. We were disappointed but
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(written by David Holden) The U-10’s County Handball championships took place in Windgap on the 20th of February 2015. There were 12 worthy competitors in the tournament. I (David Holden) battled hard to get through to the final, which I won against Michael Brennan of Clogh. It was a great day for me.
Congratulations to all the members of St Mary’s N.S. choir who performed alongside the Three Tenors at the Watergate Theater on Saturday night. What an OUTSTANDING performance! Thank you to Mr Brennan and Ms Shaughnessy for their hard work in preparing for the show. It truly was a night to remember! [Show as slideshow]
Come along and enjoy ‘The Three Tenors’ perform this Saturday February 7th in the Watergate Theater at 8pm with very special guests….St Mary’s National School Choir! The choir will perform hits such as ‘My Way’, ‘New York’, ‘Hallelujah’, ‘Song for Ireland’ and ‘The Wild Rover’ along side The Three Tenors. Come and enjoy this musical extravaganza! You won’t be disappointed! Book now at 056
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(Written by Rory Connellan) It was on Sunday 11th of January in the Watershed that two Thomastown teams played in the under 12 county blitz. Twenty-three teams played. The girls were Sarah, Laurie, Isabelle and Anna who won the ‘A’ section. The boys were Luke Connellan, Luke Skehan, Rory and Evin who were runners up in the ‘A’ section. We had a great day!
