We were lucky enough to have past pupil Daina Moorehouse come and visit our school. She shared lots of information about her training routine and about attending the Olympics in Paris 2024. We showed off some of our boxing skills and presented her with an award from our school.
GAA Blitz
The boys and girls of Fifth and Sixth Class participated in the Boys and Girls Cumann Na mBunscol Wicklow Participation Blitz in Bray Emmets. The children played against a variety of schools such as St. Laurence’s, St. Cronan’s, Kilmac, Gaelscoil na gCloch Liath, St. Pat’s, Gaelscoil Chill Mhantáin, Gaelscoil Uí Chéadaigh, St. Kevin’s, Greystones Educate Together, Nun’s Cross, Holy Rosary, St. Fergal’s, Ashford, Newtown, St. Peter’s, Ravenswell, Greystones Community National School, Wicklow Educate Together, St. Brigid’s, and St. Coen’s. They played well and had a great time.
Children at Play
Now the weather is back, bright and sunny again, the children are delighted to be back playing on the grass, football, in the sandpit, and with the fun yard equipment. Hopefully we get lots more nice weather days like this in the run up to the summer holidays.
1st and 2nd class School Quiz
The children from first and second enjoyed a great morning answering questions at their school quiz.
ATTENDANCE CAMPAIGN ART COMPETITION
The entries for our Attendance Campaign Art Competition were excellent. We had a very difficult job deciding on the winners.
The overall winner in our school is Emma Burke.
Well done Emma.
The following children are class winners:
Liam Downey
Zara Byrne
Sophie Byrne
Jamie Doyle & Molly Doherty.
Easter Attendance Assembly 2024
Attendance Certificates were awarded to children who have shown excellent attendance in the Christmas - Easter term.
The senior children displayed their talents with their tin whistles at the assembly
Skyline Models by Ms Seery's class
The 4th class children from Ms Seery’s made skyline models from toilet rolls and egg boxes.
Easter Art by Ms Seery's class
The children in Ms Seery’s 4th class produced these lovely pieces of Easter Art.
Seachtain na Gaeilge 2024
Our school hosted our Seachtain na Gaeilge in the two weeks running up to St. Patrick’s Day. The children were encouraged to use their Gaeilge through out the day and every class was given a chance to speak on Radio Naomh Feargal and recite or sing a poem or song as Gaeilge. Claire hosted an Irish Cēilī for all the classes. Ms Forster brought two visitors to the classes to announce our frāsa an lae each day and we held a very special Lā glas assembly where children got to listen to traditional Irish music, play their tin whistles and perform Irish dancing.
2nd Class Curious Minds Show and Tell
On Tuesday 19th March the 2nd class children held a Show and Tell Display of Science and Stem activities as part of the Curious Minds Award.
Chess Tournament
On Tuesday, March 5th, St.Fergal's participated in the annual Féile Fichille chess tournament. This is a series of chess tournaments that take place in venues throughout the country during March. The overall aim of these tournaments is to promote the benefits of chess in primary schools. Four other schools were present in our venue on the day.
St.Fergal's entered a total of 24 pupils comprising two 'masters' (5th and 6th class) and one 'Buds' (4th class) team. Mr.Reilly and Ms.Gleeson chaperoned the teams on the day.
The format of the competition was 6 rounds across the whole day, each round consisting one timed 15-minute game.
As it was a non-competitive tournament no final scores were issued on the day, however our pupils played with great skill and enthusiasm, and racked up a few wins along the way. They also did a wonderful job demonstrating the principles of fair-play and sportsmanship which we discussed ahead of the tournament.
Overall, our pupils represented the school brilliantly and really enjoyed their day of chess!
Peace Proms
The fifth class children went to Peace Proms on Saturday 2nd of February. Peace Proms is comprised of a cross border orchestra of young students and 2000 strong primary school children's choir. The children learned 16 tracks and actions to perform on the big stage in the RDS. It was an amazing night for both the audience and the children!
Music Session at St. Killian's C.S.
5th class went to St. Killian’s as part of their Art and Culture week to have a music session with some of the 4th year students. They were learning various sea shanty songs. They were practicing rounds and harmonies. It was a lovely experience.
Christmas Plays and Christmas Concert 2023
The children wowed both parents and staff with their fantastic talent this Christmas. The Early start, Junior and Senior Infants performed plays in the school and the 1st class to 6th class children performed class pieces in St. Fergal’s church.
Crazy Hair Day and Art For All day
We had a really hectic day! We had the most exciting crazy hair day as a fundraiser for our parents association. We had some amazing styles, take a look at some of our great ideas from various classes. We also participated in Art for all day, where we created art throughout the day, with our class teacher and other teachers within the year group. It was lots of fun!
Young Whistler Referees
We sent two of our Sixth Class children off to learn how to be referees. They have come back to school and are beginning to practise refereeing small matches within the school. Well done!
Science Week
We celebrated Science Week last week. Classes participated in a variety of science experiments throughout the week. We also visited the science room to explore a set of specific experiments. It was lots of fun.
Christmas Raffle
Forensic Science
The fourth, fifth and sixth class were fortunate to have Gary into visit. Gary is a forensic scientist. He set up a scene of robbery and the children had to investigate who stole the diamond. Through this scene, they learned about DNA and how they find it, examining finger prints and how every persons are unique and each finger has a different code. They also looked at foot prints and how unique each of them are. The children were fascinated and so engaged!
Aveline and Barbara's retirement assembly
We are very sad to say good bye to Aveline and Barbara/ Ms. Bennett. Aveline, one of our school secretaries is retiring after 40 years in our school. Barbara or Ms. Bennett depending on how you knew her, was in our school for 30 years. We presented some lovely gifts and the children from Fifth and Sixth Class wrote a poem for each of the ladies. Thank you for everything you have done for our school, you will be greatly missed. Mr. Creamer and Ms. Gleeson played the tin whistle and the violin for all of the children and the children sang a couple of songs. We also showed off our amazing costumes.
