Newsletter
5 06 2026
Heritage Council visited 4th class this week with lots of bogland creatures
Good afternoon, parents and guardians,
I hope you have all had a lovely week.
Today, we welcomed our 72 Junior Infants for the 2026–2027 school year. It was wonderful to meet so many new children and their parents as they joined our school community. Our current Junior Infants kindly vacated their classrooms and went on their school tour so that the incoming children could visit and see their new rooms for next year.
We are also very busy preparing for our Croke Park visit next Monday. What a community effort this has been! Parents from local GAA clubs have joined forces to help prepare our senior hurling team for what promises to be a tough final against NDNSP next Monday morning in Croke Park at 10am.
We plan to bring all children from 1st to 6th class to support the team. We will walk to Croke Park together. The entry fee is €5 per child, and we will set up an Aladdin link to facilitate payment. We have asked all the children to wear blue for the occasion. Thanks to Róisín’s 1st class for their 1st class bunting hanging at the front of our school. Take time to read the good luck wishes on the bunting.
School tours continued this week, with our Junior Infants visiting Newgrange Farm. Thanks to the farm for being so flexible allowing our children stay a little longer after their bus delay this morning. Our Junior Infants got the full experience. Heritage Council visited this week. This morning, 2nd Class enjoyed giving their parents a LEGO Spike demonstration, and all three 2nd Classes travelled together to St Stephen’s Green to float the boats they had designed and built. It was a lovely opportunity for the classes to come together and enjoy a shared activity.
A gentle reminder to those families who have not yet completed the preference form for next year’s 3rd and 6th Classes: the link will close this afternoon.
Woodlice
2 weeks ago Róisín and Christine’s class went to the Úlla Orchard in Grangegorman on a bug hunt. We found lots of interesting animals such as slugs, cinnabar moths, worms, beetles, ladybugs and worms. What interested us most were the woodlice. We made a woodlice from an old metal lunch box with stones, wood, old leaves and plants in it. Róisín had pre drilledv airholes so the woodlice could breathe (though we had to cover some of the airholes up with playdoh as they were big enough for the woodlice to crawl out of!).
We collected quite a few woodlice that day, including 2 females that were carrying their babies.
We kept the woodlice in our classroom and cared for them for the past 2 weeks. This involved keeping their habitat moist as woodlice have gills and so need water to get oxygen (though not too much or they will drown!). Some of the other classes came to visit our woodlice and they even went for a brief holiday to Anna and Carol’s Senior Infants last week.
Sarah’s Senior Infants made bug hotels this week as part of their learning about mini-beasts. We thought it would be nice to release our woodlice into the new bug hotels that had been made for them. The 2 classes met in the playscape yard last Friday and first class imparted some of their facts about Woodlice to Senior Infants:
Woodlice have gills.
They have 2 tails.
Their babies have soft shells or exoskeletons.
They carry their babies around.
Woodlice live for up to 5 years.
We then released our woodlice back into the wild. Goodbye woodlice. Thank you Senior Infants.
Screen Ireland
Enda’s 6th publishes their entry for the Fís Primary School Film Competition by Screen Ireland: ‘Fast Fashion: Attack of the Textiles’.
After a long period in post-production, Enda’s 6th have completed their entry for the Fís Film Competition: ‘Fast Fashion: Attack of the Textiles.’ The theme of the short film speaks for itself. The class had encountered the textile waste problem earlier in the year as part of the Concern Primary Debates and decided to produce a short film on the topic which would appeal to a younger audience. A lot of hard work went into these five minutes. The script was written, storyboards drawn up, costumes assembled, sets designed, special effects produced and more. Well done lads – they should be very proud of their hard work and the end result. Sequel? We’re waiting to see how this does at the Box Office.
5th class in Flynn Park on Tuesday.
5th class in Flynn Park on Tuesday.
Our 5th Class School Trip
We went to Flynn Park for our school tour. We went on the bus. I put on a wetsuit and a life vest. We went on big bouncy floats. It was hard to get on the floats, but Paula helped me. I played with Rachel and Lumen. It was great fun. I ate my lunch with Lumen and Rachel. We played tug of war. I lost. We got on the bus. I sat beside Lumen. Dad was waiting for me to go home.
By Bobby McCarthy
Have a lovely weekend everyone,
Fionnuala