Author Archives: Saint Francis NS

On Friday 1st May 1st and 2nd class went on a walk to Celebrate May Day. We walked around our village on the Heritage Trail. It was a lovely, hot and sunny day. We saw lots of signs of spring and summer. We saw lots of plants like bluebells, daisies, wild garlic and dandelions. WeContinue reading “May Day Walk”

We are very lucky to have a brand new willow tunnel in the school thanks to the Creative Schools initiative and Wicklow Willow. Our willow tunnel is brand new and may look a little bare at the moment, but it is living willow and in the coming months and years it will grow. The childrenContinue reading “Willow Garden”

For the last couple of months 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class have been having chess lessons. We have been enjoying it very much. Stephen and Bernadette come in every Friday to teach us how to pay chess. We have learnt how to capture our opponents pieces, how to ‘castle’, how to ‘En Passant’, howContinue reading “Chess”

Every year 5th and 6th class organise our School’s Lenten bake sale. This year we chose to do a fundraiser for Milo’s Mission Rescue who are a local animal rescue charity. We held the bake sale on Friday 17th April and we raised over €700 for Milo’s Mission. 5th and 6th class had jobs throughoutContinue reading “Lenten Bake Sale 2026”

At the beginning of the year we started to make a school mosaic with local artist Christien van Bussel. We started by making tiles out of clay. We drew on the clay with pencils and printed different shapes like shells and pasta to create patterns. After we designed them, the clay tiles were fired inContinue reading “We Made a School Mosaic”

This month we are studying China as a whole school. We will be doing lots of activities and lessons on all things China. We made a Chinese Dragon for everybody to play with and use in drama lessons, golden time and other times throughout the month. The pictures below show all the steps the dragonContinue reading “Our Chinese Dragon”

On Wednesday this week lots of Saint Francis NS pupils, their families and some pets walked from the Castle Inn in the Village to the school. We got given high-vis jackets and we walked to the school grounds. This was called WOW (walk on Wednesday) and we did it because this week is wellness week.Continue reading “WOW for Wellness Week”

We are making a school mosaic mural with local artist Christien van Bussel. A couple of weeks ago we made our clay tiles and decorated them with lots of fun designs, including pasta shapes. On Monday she came back in to school with our hardened tiles, so we got to paint them. It was veryContinue reading “School Mosaic Mural”

Last week we made board games and we got to play them in school on Friday. It was so much fun to try each other’s games. We had 10 minutes to play a game, then we switched to another game. We hope we can do it again sometime. ~ 5th & 6th class

On Tuesday 23rd September 3rd – 6th class went to Avondale for the annual cross country races. There were schools from all over the county and hundreds of children competing. Well done to everyone who ran in a race!