Monthly Archives: September 2016

On Tuesday 13th of September we celebrated ‘Roald Dahl Day’ on what would have been the author’s 100th birthday. To mark the occasion we all dressed up as our favourite Roald Dahl characters and held a birthday party in his honour. There were lots of different activities from reading excerpts from his numerous books, to colouring pictures, solving crossword puzzles and much more. We had a small prizegiving for the best costumes. To round off the day we gave every student an envelope and four lucky winners found golden tickets inside which they could trade for a much coveted homework pass! We had a ‘Gloriumptious’ time and everyone enjoyed letting their imagination run wild for the day.

We would like to wish Holly, Orla, Lexie, Aoibhe, Katie, Jamie, Owen G, Owen D and Seamus all the very best as they move on to secondary school. Hope you come back to visit us now and again.

Monday the 20th of June was a very busy day at Scoil Mhuire. It was a day of celebration as we raised our Green Flag for Travel and had the official opening of our new bicycle shelter. The honour of raising our newest Green Flag went to the students in 6th class as they had been involved in achieving each of our 4 Green Flags during their time in the school. We invited Jimmy Mc Veigh from An Taisce to open our new bike shelter, as he was instrumental in getting the shelter for us and also helped us enormously with our work on the Travel theme. Jimmy was ably assisted by the 4 students in Naoínain Bheaga. It was also the day that we had our school mass to mark the end of another successful year at Scoil Mhuire, after the mass Fr. Pat blessed the new climbing frame which was installed thanks to The Darren Mills Memorial Committee and our Parents Association. As always it was a lovely occasion and we were delighted to welcome many family and community members to help us celebrate.

What a fantastic day we had with Aengus, our heritage expert, at Mullaghdearg Beach back in June. We spent the day learning about the Flora and Fauna of the sandunes, rockpools and the beach itself. We even discovered a rare species of butterfly – the Small Blue.