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

School closes at 12.00 noon on Friday 11th April  

School Re-opens Monday 28th 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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School & Class News

Education and Parenting news stories of interest on Classes & Newsletters

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

 

6th class were delighted to be invited along to storytelling at the Lexicon library in Dún Laoghaire this morning. 

We listened to stories and learned about some Japanese traditions from Masako Carey.

As a child, Masako always loved reading and watching animated Japanese folktale stories on TV.  Her increasing repertoire of traditional Japanese tales includes both comical and serious tales, and she also tells tales from around the world.

We were treated to some engaging stories incorporating the characters of Yamamba and the little monk, and Princess Otto in the underwater world.

On Tuesday 8th Oct, 6th class went to visit the National Gallery in Dublin City. We walked from the school to the DART station and took the DART to Dublin City. When we got off the DART, we walked to the National Gallery and were greeted by our tour guides for the day, Rosary and Manuel. Ms Phillips also came and her two children and we were split into two groups. Manuel took one, and Rosary took the other one. Our first stop was the famous Carravagio painting The Taking of Christ. It had a beautiful uniqueness and was amazing to look at.The second stop was the famous Vermeer of Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid. Vermeer had a way of painting this piece. He did it by making a 3D room which he did in a lot of his paintings. Manuel’s group saw a painting called the Grief by J.B.Y. Jack Butler Yeats. It was about a war. Rosary’s group saw a still life painted by Picasso. It took a lot of imagination to figure out what was in the painting! It was a great day out at the National Gallery and we enjoyed seeing the real life paintings that we had been learning about in school.

Written by Alexander and Alex

 

6th class have got the year underway with plenty of activity.  

In science we explored how blood vessels of different sizes carry blood at different rates and the importance of a good diet and exercise for heart health.

We also did an experiment to see how the rate of sugar and starch absorption differs - lots of porridge for breakfast this year!

Before the good weather runs out, we are keeping active outdoors also. This is a photo of the class doing a running dictation in Irish - gach buachaill ag rith, ag léamh agus ag scríobh le chéile.