Boys of the Month
The February boys of the month are Liam, Sam, Miguel, Nathan, Kuba and Maciej. Well done boys!
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Seachtain na Gaeilge
We had a concert to celebrate St Patrick's Day and each class performed a song. Mr O'Rourke played his pipes and some girls from GNS did some Irish dancing. Huge thanks to Ms Purcell for organising things. Mile buiochas!
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World Book Day
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...
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Movie Stars
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,...
Read More Pegasus Cup Result
St Patrick's BNS 9-0 Mother of Divine Grace, Ballygall. We kicked off our football season with a comprehensive win in the Pegasus Cup in Irishtown. The game was played in a good spirit and every squad member got plenty of playing time in the spring sunshine. Our two goalkeepers kept clean sheets. Josh didn't have much work to do but Calum saved a penalty and its follow-up and watched a second...
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Bird-Box Building
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...
Read More River Project: Water purity
Ms Stack's and Ms Purcell's classes took part in a very interesting hands-on lesson about water pollution with some scientists who visited the school recently. The boys were very interested in the experiments and learned a lot about water pollution.
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Mr Fahy's class participated in a hockey blitz at Railway Union Hockey Club and had a great time.
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3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes have been receiving coaching from Leinster Rugby. The boys have really enjoyed the sessions.
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Heritage Ireland Visit
First Class eager to contribute to Jonathan and Fionn's presentation. We were very lucky to have two special guests from Heritage Ireland visit our school. Jonathan and Fionn, a father and son dynamic duo of nature experts, came in to tell the boys all about the native animals in Ireland. Every class of species was covered on land and in the sea. Thanks to Jonathan and Fionn for an amazing and...
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