Our Fabulous New Buddy Bench

A massive THANK YOU to our local Connect BNYP Youth Group who have worked together over the last few months to hanmale this beautiful rainbow Buddy bench for our Junior Yard.

Buddy Bench are part of a new idea that is evidence based to help promote our school's positive children’s mental health program. They help to empower children to foster friendships and eliminate loneliness in the playground. 

If your child feels lonely in the yard they can sit at the Buddy Bench and find a friend. We will encourage our children to show friendship and kindness by inviting and including children who are sitting on the Buddy Bench into their games. 

Our school children testing out the Buddy Bench for the first time!

The presentation of the Buddy Bench to our school ❤

Mr Sargent expressing our thanks for the amazing gift of the Buddy Bench from our local Connect BYNP youth group

Junior Infants Library Visit

Our last library visit of this school year was marked with an extra special storytelling session with our local librarian Margarette. We were thrilled so many parents were able to accompany us, especially as the weather was just a little bit wet! 

School Garden

Lately, there has been a huge amount of work going on to make sure our school garden looks its best.

Children from 3rd class, along with Zoe’s help were busy painting these lovely toadstool tables in our newly established fairy garden. They look brilliant!

Future Cities in 5th class!

SPAR Soccer 5-a-side Tournament

St. Fergal's recently had a boys and girls team reach the finals of the Wicklow regional SPAR soccer 5-a-side tournament held in Arklow. Each team played very well in their respective groups.

 The boys team played against two teams from Greystones, a team from Blessington and a team from Arklow. They won 2 and lost two of their 4 matches in a really competitive group and they were unlucky to lose out on a place in the final on goal difference.

The girls team were in a really tough group playing against teams from Arklow, Baltinglass and Kilcoole. Most of their games were really close and they again played with great commitment and energy.

4th Class visit Dalkey Heritage Centre

4th class headed off on a day trip to Dalkey Heritage Centre. We got to see a small role play of people who actually lived in the castle. We got to meet the King & Queen who lived in the castle and we explored the castle. We met a scary craftsman who offered to cut one of girls hair and also examine another boys teeth.  

Then we got to make our own coins using a heavy hammer and a stamp. At the end of the day we got to keep the coins we made and we received a certificate from the King & Queen. We really liked the King & Queen as they managed to convince Ms Smyth that we could have a night off homework and she agreed!! Result...!!!​

Playing in the Wilderness

There was some fantastic construction play in the yard today. Two separate groups of children created their own camping grounds with ‘fires’.

The children from different classes were thrilled with their fire pit. They worked really well as a team gathering their materials and constructing the pit. 

The rain didn’t even deter them from their project. 

Another group of children worked together to make a traditional camp fire. 

The two groups loved sharing their creations and ideas with each other at the end. 

Another wonderful example at how creativity can be encouraged in our large yard and grass space

Science stations 2nd Class

Paper helicopters  

Fingerprints  

Dancing Raisins

Thanks Ms Murtagh our student teacher from DCU.  We loved our hands on investigations in science today! 

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Claire our Irish Dancing teacher came in on Wednesday, our Lá Glas, and held a ceilí for every class in our school. Here is a little video of Ms Brady's 2nd class dancing the 'Walls of Limerick'

Ms Brady's 2nd

Walls of Limerick

Ms Brady's 2nd class

Ms Brady's 2nd class

Ms Forster's Senior Infants in all their green for Lá Glas 

World Book Day

Book covers created by infants 

World Book Day

Our 3rd classes came and read to our senior infants Children today and shared their love of books. 

Pancake Tuesday

Junior Infants were bouncing with excitement when the pancakes arrived yesterday. 

Huge thank you to Emma and the Parents Association for organising such a delicious event!

Pancake Tuesday

A poem recited by Ms Thorp/Ms Stafford's class  

After School Club: Debating

Debate Club takes place every Tuesday after school. It is run by Ms. Connolly and Ms. Clarke and is only open to students in 6th Class.

Students in Debate Club learn how to write debates and speeches, and most of all, they learn to do so with confidence. A number of topics or ‘motions’ are covered every year. From ‘Aliens are Real’ to ‘Feminism has been a Success’, the students really enjoy picking are researching topics before presenting their debates to an audience.

This year has been particularly exciting for the Debate Club. Not only have they taken part in a number of in school debates, they have also researched and delivered speeches on the use of plastics in our school. They even presented to the staff at the staff meeting, as pictured below, and will soon be speaking at assemblies. Well done to all members of the Debate Team on their hard work, commitment and dedication!

Our School Community

Ms Smyth’s 4th class in collaboration with Ms Thorp’s 1st class created our school community notice board which is located just outside the principal’s office. We had great fun creating our funny staff portraits especially Ms Smyth’s…!!! We are very proud of all our hard work and we hope you like them too.

Cracking the Code in 5th class!

We were very lucky to have coders come in from Microsoft to teach us about coding. We really enjoyed working together to solve the problems and get to the end of the adventure! Well done to Jack and Evan who were the first to finish the coding adventure!