Academic Calendar 2025-2026

SCHOOL STARTS

Thursday 28th August. School gates open at 08:25.

MID TERM BREAK

School closes on Friday 24th October 14:15.
School Reopens Monday 3rd November

PARENT TEACHER
MEETINGS

17th November-28th November. Teachers will be in touch nearer time to organise meetings.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

School closes at 12.00 noon Friday 19th December. School Re-opens Monday 5th January.

SAINT BRIGID'S DAY

Monday 2nd February. School Closed.

MID TERM BREAK

School closes Friday 13th February at 14:15.
School Reopens Monday 23rd February

ST PATRICK'S DAY

Monday & Tuesday 16th & 17th March. School Closed.

EASTER HOLIDAYS

School closes at 12.00 noon Friday 27th March
School Reopens Monday 13th April.

MAY BANK HOLIDAY

Monday 4th May. School Closed.

STANDARDISED TESTING

Tuesday 5th May-Thursday 28th May.

JUNE BANK HOLIDAY

School closed Monday 1st June

ACTIVE WEEK/
MULTICULTURAL DAY

Active Week will be from Monday June 15th-Friday June 19th.
Multicultural Day Friday 19th June 12:45-14:00. School Yard.

GRADUATION CEREMONY

Wednesday June 24th at 10:30.

SUMMER HOLIDAYS

School closes at 12.00 noon on Friday 26th June

 

Details regarding Staff Training Days, First Holy Communion, Confirmation, Sports Days & 6th Class Graduation will be shared once the dates are confirmed.

  Academic Calendar

Grotto Place, Booterstown, Co. Dublin A94 AC97
01-2886830
Sunday, October 26, 2025
01-2886830
8:35 - 14:15
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4th class have been very busy conjuring up their own potion spells this week. Read ahead, if you dare... 

 

Potion poem
Pumpkins cauldrons in a pot.
Teeth, bones and sticks- give it a mix!
Skulls and spiders for the perfect potion,
And make sure to stir it in the right motion.
Do it at midnight and cold for the ritual
And make sure to make it miserable!
by Aaron Ridene

THE HALLOWEEN NIGHT
In the ghost graveyard the shadowing
Secrets flying across the yard with the
Blood moon shining in the sky with a
Glimmering light the mysterious man
Walking with mysteriousness. The
Candles glowing the light shined
While the witch cackled with laughter
Sparkling sparklers crackling while
The beast is stomping with anger so say
“Bye Bye!”
by Agastya Kumar

A Spooky Spider
A spooky spider wears a web
It is big enough to catch a ghost
The night is a dark and scary wave.
Black bats and cats wearing pointy hats
Children trick or treating, having fun
Running and screeching
by Aidhan Anish

The Witch
It’s 9 o’clock
It’s late at night
The sky is dark
the moon is bright
The witch is in
The spooky swamp
‘Til her cat said ‘womp womp’
She’s over her cauldron
Mixing and stirring
Brewing and blowing
Her cat’s creepily purring
by Hugo Hastings

Halloween
Halloween is coming,
Everyone is running
Through the misty field.

Trick-or-treat has started,
Everyone got scrumptious sweets
Then we sat.

The witch is a nightmare,
The mummy is a jumpscarer
Ev’ryone shivered.

In November 1st,
Everyone was in thirst
Until they slept.

by Jarren Candol

Potion Poem
The halloween night is here,
The lions roar the demons arise
Knocking on your door
Coming through the window and chanting spells
The dogs get a fright,
The grim reapers comes holding their scythe
You better run….
by Johan Chris Mithun

Halloween Poem
It’s the 30th of October.
A wicked witch wants to be known
And minds will be blown.
She starts her brew
With a skeletons shoe.
A Spider’s eye
And a Goblins hat full of lies
Then she says a tale full of truth
Then her boot falls off…
by Kieran O’Kane

Halloween Hand
A flickering candle lights the room
A red cauldron bubbles. In goes a goes a goblin’s
3 candy corns then a purple pumpkin
And an old skull, the devil’s horns, a bland man's toe.
Yellow smoke emerges, blue bubbles pop,
all my troubles seem to stop. In goes a wolf's fang.
Then a double load of hands.
I won’t forget this plan.
By Luke Spring

THE HANTED POTION
The bubbling and crackling from this potion is
So majestic that it has made the night.
The sky has darkened, Gloomy and spooky,
The ingredients in this potion are haunted trouble
And smoke coming from it has put it on fire,
Wool of sheep, Ears of pigs Legs of spiders
Are so alive,The graves are rumbling
The dead are waking, I don`t think it`ll hold much more,
The streets filled with candy and sky
The motion of this potion
Has finally come alive!
by Matteo Esposito

99 Nights in a Forest
He comes out at night and gives you a fright.
He doesn't like the light so he comes out at and takes to give a FRIGHT.
The DEER is hungry tonight.
The deer is a bulletproof.
But hates light it is no delight.
99 nights in a forest
by Ross O’Halloran

HORRIFYING HALLOWEEN
The bonfire crackles The firework fires
The skeleton rises and BOO! The banshee sizes
The sweets are sweeping The monsters are mischievous
The crows are crawling The puca is poofing
The house is horrified The snails are snapping
The kids are apple bobbing and they are sobbing
THE END
by Will Moran

The Nuke
Once i saw Luke the Duke
He put a nuke in me
Which was mean of him. He wasn't a nice guy
But i like the way he fries
When I am not lookin’
I didn’t know he was cookin’
If you aren’t lookin well i ain’t cookin
by Bryan Eweka

Halloween Poem
Cobwebs in the cauldron
The tale of a whale
A bite of a sail
Shell of a snail
The skull of a bull
Skeleton bones
Poison apple
Bubble trubble
Stir it ones
Stir it twice
Sip it in night
Darkness
shall fall by dawn
by Jack Keegan