This year Maths Week took place from October 15th to October 23rd. All of the classes at St. Michael’s NS took part in a wide variety of activities including maths games and a QR code maths trail. Some of the participants of the QR code maths trail are pictured below. In pairs, pupils were tasked […]
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Christmas Shoebox Appeal 2021
A huge thank you for your continued support with the Christmas Shoebox Appeal this year. We collected a large number of shoe boxes each filled with lovely, thoughtful items. This wonderful, annual initiative is always well supported within our school community and highlights the generosity of our parents, pupils and staff. Well done and thank […]
EU Code Week 2021
Coding Week 2021 took place from October 9th to October 21st this year; with St. Michael’s NS actively participating in many coding activities. Our younger classes were gaining some great experience in sequencing and computational thinking through their work with the school’s beebots. Second/Third class really enjoyed using the programming, puzzle app ‘Lightbot’ to develop […]
World Book Day 2020
World Book Day this year was held on Thursday 5th March. All classes took part in dressing up as one of their favourite characters from their favourite books. Some magnificent costumes were on display on the day which included Matilda and Bruce Bogtrotter (Matilda), Thing One and Thing Two (The Cat in the Hat), Billionaire […]
Engineers Week 2020
Engineers Week promotes engineering and the importance of the profession to children in Ireland. The aim of the event is to positively showcase engineering as a rewarding and creative career choice to children in all communities. Engineers Week 2020 took place nationwide from 29th February to 6th March 2020. Each class was assigned a task to […]
Peace Proms 2020
On Sunday the 2nd of February, members of fifth and sixth class took part in the CBOI Peace Proms concert in the RDS, Dublin. This was a fantastic experience for the children, as they had the opportunity to sing a brilliant repertoire of songs together with over 2,500 other children from all over Ireland. The […]