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Month: April 2024

April 29, 2024

Junior & Senior Infant Assembly

Well done to all our prize winners at our assembly before Easter. Everyone really enjoyed learning about being kind and caring in our school. Mr. Murtagh also read the story 'Kind' by Alison Green, which was a very special treat for the children!
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April 29, 2024

Jersey Sponsorship

In the last 18 months we have added five new school teams and needed new jerseys to cater for this increase. When we put it to the school community looking for support we were overwhelmed with the response. We have been able to purchase six new sets of jerseys to cover our 8 GAA teams, […]
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April 26, 2024

Hurling and Camogie Update

Both of our senior teams maintained their 100% status this week. Our senior boys had a good win over St. Mary's Booterstown in rainy conditions on Thursday and our senior camogie team battled back from an early deficit once more to beat Scoil Lorcáin on Wednesday. Both teams have now set up top of the […]
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April 26, 2024

Junior Camogie

Our Junior Camogie team got their season underway with a spirited performance against a very strong Divine Word team. This was the debut for our new jerseys kindly sponsored by Smyth Recruitment. It's great to see so many of our fourth class participating in camogie and showing great signs for the future.
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April 25, 2024

New Storytelling Area

Before Easter we had a fantastic new addition to our Sensory Garden in our storytelling area. The benches and readers chair are made from recycled plastic and are a great environment for our classes to enjoy reading and storytelling time. Check out third class enjoying it below.
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April 22, 2024

Green Schools Competition

Our Green Schools Committee recently ran a "Design a Birdfeeder" competition. Well done to Isla B in Mr. Ruane's Class on winning!
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April 22, 2024

Camogie

Congratulations to our senior camogie team who secured an excellent win today with a hard fought victory in tough conditions. St. Olaf's overturned an 8 point deficit in the first half showing great character. The road to Croker begins here! Thanks to @realtimejobs_ for their sponsorship of our jerseys.
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April 19, 2024

4th Class Junior Achievement

As part of the Junior achievement programme, Ms Conlon’s 4th class visited Elavon in Cherrywood to present their business ideas to "The Dragons Den". The children had amazing business ideas and were brilliant in presenting them to the Dragons. Well done!
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April 18, 2024

Boys Hurling

Boys hurling made it's return on Tuesday afternoon against local rivals Divine Word N.S.. St. Olaf's emerged victorious after building a strong lead in the first half. This was our debut for our new jerseys sponsored by ID Pal. A big thank you also to Naomh Olaf for allowing us to use their grounds and […]
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April 17, 2024

Gymnastics Success

Congratulations to the 3 Hickey children for their recent international performances for Ireland in Gymnastics. Roisin Hickey (6th class) and Matthew Hickey (Class of 2022) represented Ireland last weekend in the Caledonian International Gymnastics Competition, in Scotland, an under 16 competition. They both contributed very strong scores in the team competitions with Roisin helping Team Ireland […]
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April 16, 2024

Lorcan in Croke Park

Well done to 6th class student Lorcan who donned the famous blue and navy of Dublin at half time of Dublin versus Meath on Sunday afternoon. Lorcan didn't let the pressure of playing in front of over 20000 get to him as he grabbed a score. Hopefully Lorcan and his St. Olaf's teammates will be […]
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April 15, 2024

3rd Class Hurling

Our three third classes entered a team into the annual Andy Gibbons hurling competition hosted by Naomh Olaf on the astro is Stepaside. All three teams performed excellently with Mr. Kearns and Ms. Murphy's classes going through to the finals event on Thursday. Good luck all!
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Back to School

What a super week First Class have had! Everyone has come back full of smiles, energy, and excitement. We’ve been busy making new friends, sharing stories from the summer, and diving into lots of fun activities. The classroom has been buzzing with laughter and learning, and we’re so proud of how brilliant everyone has been. What […]

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Cycle to Glenstal Abbey

5th and 6th class attended Balally Church to support cyclists from the parish cycling to Glenstal Abbey in Limerick to raise funds for a school in Cameroon and our local community.

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Strike Action

Hi All As you are aware from Mr Murtagh’s email, the school is very supportive of the current strike action. As you know, Karen our school secretary and Vinny our caretaker are an integral part of the school community. They are looking for pension parity in line with other public service workers. If you have […]

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New Astro

Over the summer, we were delighted to have astro turf installed at the rear of the school, funded through your generous voluntary contributions. We are so grateful to our parents and school community for making this possible. This fantastic new facility will be a huge asset to our school – enhancing PE lessons, yard time, […]

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