All Saints' National School

The children have had great fun the last few weeks with a trip to Avondale Tree Top Walk, a visit from some amazing birds, trying to make bubbles bounce, soccer blitz and much more!!! What a lovely summer term we are having!

Congratulations to all the candidates who made their confirmation last weekend and on reaching this significant milestone in their lives. Embrace this gift of confirmation with joy and let your faith shine brightly in all that you do.

The children joined Kilcommon National School for their school tour this year in Fort Lucan. We were blessed with the weather and the company. Would highly recommend taking a trip there over the holidays but remember to bring spare clothes. The water slides went down a treat! Thank you to Kilcommon for asking us to join them! Everyone had a fantastic day.

Thank you to Coláiste Bhríde for inviting us to join them in meeting author Helena Duggan. We were delighted to meet her again and look forward to reading her next book series “The Light Thieves”. We even got her to sign a book and picture!

It was great to learn so much about the Irish Guide Dogs and the huge training programme that they go through. They really are remarkable and well done to Colásite Bhríde on raising funds and awareness for this programme. Well done Paddy and we hope you enjoy your retirement.

Huge Congratulations to our Senior Infant pupil who won the overall prize in the Bishop’s Art Competition for her lovely stained glass window design. We are so very proud – what a huge achievement for our school! Well done to everyone who entered and made some lovely pieces of art!

When the sun comes out we try our best to make the most of it with educational activities such as Math’s Trails, Geography trails, Cleaning up our local playground and some well deserved fun!

Bhaineamar an taitneamh as an tseachtaine seo le go leor imeachtaí gaeilge – ag damhsa, ag canadh, ag scríobh, ag caint, ag tarraingt, lá glas agus ag éisteacht le grúpa ceol traidisiúnta ó Coláiste Bhríde! Bhí siad go hiontach! Féach ar ár bpictúirí:

We really enjoyed learning all about engineers. Look at the engineering we done in our school! The children showed great teamwork and co-operation skills. Well done engineers!

Many thanks to the TY pupils from Coláiste Bhríde for visiting us on World Book Day and creating a fabulous Table Quiz for our Senior Room. They had a great time and well done to our 4th Class winner!

The excitement of dressing up as our favourite characters truly made World Book unforgettable. Have a look at the meticulously crafted costumes and how the children and staff showed off the traits of some of their beloved literary figures. Thank you to everyone for taking part! Here’s to many more adventures to come!

We planned a great day for the kids to celebrate Leap Year 2024. We wanted it to be a day to be remembered as all the pupils in the Senior Room will have moved on when the next leap year comes. We wrote a letter to our future selves which will go into a time capsule that we will bury, we went for a visit to the playground and we watched a movie with our favourite teddies and treats. The older pupils have promised to return on 29th February 2028 to dig up our time capsule and have a reunion.