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Young Voices Shine at Wicklow Sings 🎶✨

Last Saturday, we had the pleasure of watching our school choir perform in Temple Carrig as part of the Wicklow Sings festival. Experiences like this are so valuable for our children, not only creatively, but in building confidence, supporting wellbeing, and strengthening a sense of community. It was wonderful to see them step forward and perform with such enthusiasm. Wicklow Sings is a fantastic community event celebrating the diversity of singing across the county, from school choirs to local groups. This year marked its 10th anniversary. Photo credit: Wayne Polley

Hands-On Learning with Some Woolly Visitors 🐑☀️

We were delighted to welcome Alex Dobbs and her lambs to school, giving each class a wonderful opportunity to interact with them. The children were extremely gentle and respectful throughout, and it was a lovely way to bring learning to life in the school environment. Thank you to Alex for taking the time to share this memorable experience with the children.

New Resources, Bigger Thinking in Maths! 🧠➕

At St. Patrick’s NS, we are committed to ensuring that all pupils have access to high-quality resources to support their learning. Therefore, our Maths cupboard has recently been restocked and now contains a wide variety of new concrete materials to support the implementation of the new Maths curriculum. These resources will help to deepen children’s understanding, build confidence, and encourage active, problem-solving approaches to learning Maths in an engaging and meaningful way! 🔍🎲

A School Full of Stories 📚✨

From witches and wizards to superheroes, animals and beloved characters, today St. Patrick’s was bursting with imagination for World Book Day! Children across the school celebrated their love of reading through costumes, quizzes, buddy reading, art activities and sharing their favourite stories together. A wonderful reminder that books can take us anywhere!    

Science Fun Across the School! 🔬✨

This week, 5th Class invited students from across the school to attend in preparation for their big Science Blast next Monday in the RDS! They’ve been working so hard on their projects, and everyone had a fantastic time exploring and learning. Feedback from our visiting classes: Senior Infants Willow were absolutely blown away by the experiments they saw, they felt truly inspired! 1st Class Chestnut loved visiting 5th Class and had a wonderful time learning new science facts. 3rd Class Ash enjoyed discovering creative experiments during Larch’s Science Presentation and asked lots of curious questions. 6th Class Cedar were very impressed by all the science projects on display. 6th Class Laurel loved learning about flight, photosynthesis, and more from 5th Class. A huge thank you to 5th Class for hosting such inspiring sessions, and good luck with the Science Blast next Monday — we can’t wait to see all your amazing projects in the RDS! 🌱🧪🌼🍃✈️🌿🌟🔬  

Irish Dancing Workshops 💚🕺

Children recently enjoyed fantastic Irish dancing workshops, they had great fun learning new steps, practising their rhythm and building their confidence through movement. There was plenty of energy, smiles and toe-tapping throughout the sessions! A huge thank you to Irish Dancing teacher Niamh O’Donnell, for sharing her talent, enthusiasm and love of Irish dance with us. We are so grateful for such an enjoyable experience!   Click on the photos above ⬆️ to see our fantastic dance steps in action! 💃🕺  

Happy 70th Birthday Anto 🎂

Celebrating a milestone! Happy 70th birthday to Anto – the smiles, songs and laughter made it an unforgettable day 🎉🎈🎁🍰✨

Road Safety Visit 🚸

Community Garda Maria visited our assembly today to speak about road safety. She reminded us of the importance of wearing helmets when cycling or scooting, using hi-vis on dark mornings, and crossing the road safely. A very informative and timely talk for everyone!

Sound the sirens! 🚨

Community Guard Maria popped in to give us the scoop on Emergency Services Day — keeping us safe and excited all at once!

School Mosaic: Every Piece Tells a Story!

We are proud to share our student/teacher designed mosaic – a beautiful collaboration of all our students, including those in the special classes. Special thanks to all the parents who donated to this project, to Ms. Dodd, Ms. Escribano, Ms. Pruzina and Ms. Fox for your commitment and dedication and to Gavin & Gary for bringing it to life on the wall. If you are passing the Sports Hall please take some time to appreciate this beautiful piece of art!

Ukrainian Culture Day 2025

On Friday 13th June our Ukrainian families here in St. Patrick’s kindly organised a festival of culture, music, food and fun. As there are no longer flights to Ukraine they decided that the theme of the day was to fly St. Patrick’s NS to Ukraine for 2.5 hours. The sports hall was turned into an airport leading to many cultural experiences around the school including dance performances, drama, games, food etc. It was a wonderful opportunity for all of our students to learn about and appreciate the rich traditions of Ukraine, while celebrating friendship, diversity and inclusion in our school community. It was especially meaningful for our displaced families to feel welcomed and embraced by our community. A huge thank you to our Ukrainian families for your incredible efforts in making this day truly unforgettable, we are so thankful for the opportunity to learn from and celebrate with you.

Waves of Joy and Laughter!

Both 6th classes soaked up the sun and had fun playing volleyball, football, paddling, burying each other in sand, making bracelets, a tasty BBQ and so much more! Special thanks to the amazing parents who arranged this day out and for going above and beyond to give both 6th classes a day to remember.

‘Ours to Protect’

As part of the 6 month initiative caretaker Anto placed a special recorder in the garden yesterday June 4th and we are excited to hear what the environment provides over the next few months as the season change. It will remain there for the course of the programmes and we will access it periodically to download audio. The recorder will capture the sounds of the environment including insects, birds, bees and environmental noise. This data will then be used to identify the species and their daily routines living in Wicklow. This is very important information that will then be offered to research students studying climate change and biodiversity in Ireland.  Ours to Protect is a unique and exciting audio project – a collaboration of independent radio stations across Ireland, including East Coast FM, who have come together to highlight climate change, champion climate action, and inform and educate audiences all over Ireland about how they can make a difference. This year the voices and opinions of younger people is paramount to the project. You can find out more at eastcoast.fm or ourstoprotect.ie

Beautiful Outdoor Learning Space!

Our outdoor classroom for the children without walls where curiosity is the curriculum and nature is the teacher, a place where children can connect with nature, explore their senses and discover the world around them in the most organic way!

Just over half way!

Huge thanks so far to: Platinum Sponsor Domino’s Pizza Greystones Silver Sponsors Lincoln Quantity Surveyors and Godsil Education. Thank you to all those who have made personal donations, your generosity is very much appreciated. Let’s keep going now until we reach the target of €25,000!

Future Authors!

We are super proud of these students! Emily, Sophie, Aimee, Gabby, Ava and Amélie won the highly commendable book awards. Winners were Kitty with her book “A Well Between Worlds” and Jane for her book “Colour of Mind’. Well done everyone.

Greystones Guide Article 13.06.25

Thank you to Paul Byrne for featuring our Ukrainian Culture Day Celebrations in the Greystones Guide! Huge thank you to all our Ukrainian Families for your enthusiasm and generosity in sharing your culture with us all. A joyful and educational day that brought our whole school community together. Please click on photo to read the full article

Official Opening of New Classrooms

Our new block of classrooms has been officially opened! Huge thank you An Tánaiste Simon Harris, Archbishop Michael Jackson, Canon David Mungavin, Board of Management, all of our staff, parents and the wider community for your incredible hard work and dedication to make this happen. Thank you to Alan Rowlette Media for the lovely photos and to Jamie Lyon for working with 5th class for their song and to Cllr. Louise Gaskin Fenelon for joining us. A very special day at St. Patrick’s NS celebrating all that we have achieved and very excited for what’s to come.

Wellbeing Tree

Our Wellbeing Tree grown full of Diversity and Inclusion by all the pupils of our lovely school. Well done to all the children!

International Women’s Day

Alongside special guests, local leaders in the community, alumni and student leaders Ms. Harper was delighted to attend a roundtable event at Temple Carrig School on Friday 7th March as they marked International Women’s Day. This event was so special and amazing to be part of. Thank you Temple Carrig.