Academic Calendar 2024-2025

SCHOOL STARTS

Thursday 29th August.

GRANDPARENTS’ DAY

Friday 18th October

MID-TERM BREAK

School closes on Friday 25th October 14:15.

School Re-opens Monday 4th November

PARENT-TEACHER MEETINGS

25th November-29th November. Teachers will be in touch nearer the time to organise meetings.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

School closes at 12.00 noon Friday 20th December School Re-opens Monday 6th January

SAINT BRIGID'S DAY

Monday 3rd February. School Closed.

MID-TERM BREAK

School closes Friday 14th February at 14:15.

School Re-opens Monday 24th February

ST PATRICK’S DAY

Monday 17th March. School Closed.

EASTER HOLIDAYS & MATHS TRAINING DAY

School closes at 12.00 noon on Friday 11th April .School closed for Maths Training Day Monday 28th April. 

School Re-opens Tuesday 29th April

MAY BANK HOLIDAY

Monday 5th MAY. School Closed.

STANDARDISED TESTING

Thursday 1st May-Friday 23rd May.

JUNE BANK HOLIDAY

School closed Monday 2nd & Tuesday 3rd June 

School Re-opens Wednesday 4th June

ACTIVE WEEK/ MULTI-CULTURAL DAY

Active Week will be from Monday, June 16th-Friday June 20th.

Junior Sports Day Monday 16th Booterstown Park 8:50-09:40.

Senior Sports Day Tuesday 17th Booterstown Park 08:50-10:00

Multicultural Day Friday 21st June 12:45-14:00. School Yard.

GRADUATION CEREMONY

Wednesday, June 25th at 10:00.

SUMMER HOLIDAYS

School closes at 12.00 noon on Friday 27th June

Details regarding Staff Training Days, First Holy Communion, Confirmation & 6th Class Graduation will be shared when we have dates.

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Friday, February 07, 2025
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School & Class News

Education and Parenting news stories of interest on Classes & Newsletters

On the 2nd of February, 17 boys from 6th Class went to Peace Proms in the RDS. We all arrived by 4:30pm and met our teachers and SNA and then we were brought to our seats. Luckily we got front row seats and we got to sit right beside the orchestra. When every school arrived we got started on a practice before the parents arrived.

After we had finished doing the rehearsal we had our lunches and bathroom breaks. We brought in a disposable bag and Ms Phillips & Ms. Doyle brought water, because we could not bring our own metal water bottles. After everyone came back from bathroom breaks, we all sat down and the Cross Border Orchestra came out. The Conductor came onto the stage and introduced the orchestra and all the schools. When he finished the presentation we sang our first song which was ‘Moments We Live For’.

The atmosphere was amazing for all the songs. We sang the Dance Medley in the second half and the Dance Medley was probably the best because our class made up our own dance moves for it! The cameraman was in front of us filming us dancing for the whole thing. We were lucky we were in the front row and had lots of space!

Thank you to our parents for coming to watch us on the night and a big thank you to Ms. Doyle, Ms. Phillips, Mr. Garland and Lynne for planning, organising, practicing with us beforehand and accompanying us on the night. We all really enjoyed it.

Written by Robin, Daniel and James

On Wellbeing Wednesday, 18th December, we were delighted to host a Kahoot Quiz for our 6th class counterparts from Our Lady of Mercy school. The girls and their teachers trecked the 800m down to us first thing in the morning, and mixed teams competed to take the coveted podium spot. Thanks to our SNA Lynne for expertly catering snacks and to Ms Doyle for all the logistics preparation for seating and teams! We look forward to working together with all the 6th class children again in the New Year. 

The boys in 6th class (and their teachers, and especially SNA!) have been getting ready for Christmas.

We would like to wish all our families a very peaceful and happy Christmas together. 

11 candidates, 4 gardaí, 4 polling clerks, 1 returning officer and 1 presiding officer made up our election cast. Polling clerks manned the tables for voting by 5th and 6th class boys, checking their polling cards and IDs off against the register. The presiding officer oversaw everything in the polling room and Barry Ward even came in to talk about how the election and system of proportional representation work.

After the votes were checked, and one invalid paper excluded, there were 50 valid votes. The quota was worked out as 11 and all the candidates watched as votes were counted and checked. Congratulations to everyone involved and we hope the boys enjoy exercising their right to vote after they turn 18!

 

6th class got our hands (and plenty of other things!) dirty today with junk art. Take a look at some of our scary constructions ;)