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We love books here in St Patrick's BNS and to celebrate World Book Day, the boys dressed up as their favourite characters from Literature. We encouraged them to make their own costumes and the results were amazing. Special mention too for Mr Kelly and Ms Stack for getting into the spirit of things. Huge thanks are due to Ms Purcell for organising the day. Book tokens were given as prizes to the...

Last year, in conjunction with The Ark Theatre, boys from 5th and 6th class helped write a movie script with Sean, a playwright from Dublin. They also acted in the short film, along with some local elders. The movie, 'The First was a Boy', was screened at The Dublin International Film Festival where it received second prize in the Short-Film category. Three of the stars of the movie, Brandon,...

Mr Booth and Mr O'Rourke supervised a group of boys constructing and painting wooden boxes for birds to nest in. The group then went to Kilakee woods to put the boxes up in the trees there. They found bird-boxes some past-pupils had made around ten years ago and were delighted to see they were still being used by birds to nest in. The boys really enjoyed this project and huge thanks are due to...

We had our annual Christmas show in Ringsend church on Tuesday evening and it was a lovely occasion. All of the classes sang beautifully but the highlight of the show was the final song, sung by the top-floor boys with the help of some girls from The GNS. There wasn't a dry eye in the house.

On Friday, Junior Infants went to Ringsend College to visit Santa. Faces were painted, letters were written and festive pictures were coloured. A great morning was had by all and they even got a big bag of sweets on their way home.