All Saints' National School

The children in All Saints’ have started hurling training! Hurling offers a wider range of benefits including: co-ordinations skills, motor skills, physical development, quick thinking, strength and fitness and above all fun! Just look!

On Monday 31st March we began our Skip Around Europe Challenge as part of our Active Schools initiative. This is a 4-week challenge that will take place for 2 weeks before the Easter break and 2 weeks after the Easter break. 1 Skip= 1 Kilometre. So far, we have travelled to France, Turkey, Ukraine, Bulgaria and we are now on our way to Croatia. We are all having lots of fun with the challenge and enjoying the lovely sunshine at the same time!!

We had some very creative and original costumes for World Book Day! The children looked amazing and enjoyed talking about the books they love to read! One student even wrote their own book and dressed up as Mrs Kenny! Have a look!!! Well done everyone!

The children in the Senior Room had a BLAST this year at the RDS showcasing their project “What can you see under the Microscope?” We had great fun looking at different objects and organisms under a magnified lens. The judges were very impressed with our display and we attracted a lot of attention from pupils who loved looking through our microscopes. Many thanks to Coláiste Bhríde for the use of their microscope and Ms. Rickerby for showing us how it works and allowing us to gather specimens from their school pond.

Many thanks to one of our families for bringing in baby lambs for the children! The children in the junior room are learning all about spring and new life! We wanted to keep them!

Thank you to the parents for their help with Pancake Tuesday. The pupils devoured the yummy pancakes (and maybe the teachers too)! The children learned all about Shrove Tuesday and discussed what they were giving up for Lent.

The children in the Senior Room have been working on procedures and instructions! They followed an omelette recipe and a ham and cheese recipe to perfection! They were yummy!

Huge Congratulations to one of our pupils in 6th Class who won the County Senior Category in the “Someone Like Me” Art Competition. We are super proud of this pupil and wish them a great day receiving the award at a ceremony in Dublin Castle on 24th January.

UPDATE: Well done to our 6th Class pupil who received his award!

Our Annual Open Day will be on Wednesday 15th January 2025 from 3-4pm. Please spread the word with families and friends. All Welcome! We will start to accept Applications for enrolment for 2025-26 Monday 13th January. Please contact the school for more information.

The children have been busy getting ready for our Craft Fair. They have been making and designing Christmas decorations and doing plenty of baking! Thank you to everyone who came and supported our fundraiser. It was a great success! Huge thanks to O’Tooles for the Fabulous Christmas trees and everyone who donated to the raffle.

We had a lovely time visiting the Nursing Home and the Community Care to do some Carol Singing. Wow!! Were they impressed with us! Well done everyone!!! We also raised money for The Children’s Health Foundation by running a Christmas Jumper Day!

Merry Christmas to all, from everyone in All Saints’ National School.