Catholic Schools Week Family Day

Last Friday we held Family Day in our school as part of our Catholic Schools Week celebrations. Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who attended. The pupils led a prayer service and sang 'This is the Day' and 'Circle of Friends', accompanied by Ms. Reid on keyboard. A huge thank you to Ms. Carey who has been teaching the children the tin whistle and practising daily for this occasion. They played 'Killeagh', 'The Dawing of the Day', 'The Kerry Polka', 'Roddy McCorle

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The Great Christmas Mix-Up

Senior Room pupils playing 'Away in a Manger'. Thank you to Ms. Carey for teaching them the tin whistle. Percussion instruments accompanying our rendition of 'The Little Drummer Boy' The cast of our Christmas show Wwll done to the pupils who received excellent attendance awards for November / December. They each received a trophy!

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BLAST - Bringing Live Arts to Students and Teachers

Thank you so much to Athlone Education Centre for giving us the opportunity to participate in the wonderful BLAST programme. Our school was paired with Helen, who specialises in drama, dance and film. She worked with us for four days to introduce the pupils to the world of film making. The children learned all about the different shots that film directors use. In small groups, they prepared a story board of their film and then set about becoming actors, directors and camera

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