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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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 […]
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 […]
Write-a-Book Competition
Every year the Monaghan Education Centre invites school in Monaghan and Cavan to partake in the Write-a-Book or Publish-a-Poem or P.S. Letter Writing competitions. Many classes in St. Michael’s take part every year, and we have been very lucky to receive prizes and Merit Awards many times. The winning poems and letters have each been […]
An Artist in the School
St. Michael’s has been very lucky to be able to avail of The Artist in School scheme over the past number of years. We have had an artist who painted murals with the pupils, one who worked with clay, a jeweller who did a beautiful Confirmation piece, and last year we had an artist who […]
Halloween Danceathon
The school’s Halloween Danceathon is run every year on the day of the Halloween holidays. Each class gets a period of time to spend in the hall dancing, and they get sponsorship from their parents and friends to raise funds for the school. Everybody dresses in their Halloween costume, and St. Michael’s becomes a very […]