January 2025 - Stolafs

Month: January 2025

January 31, 2025

Lá Fhéile Bhríde

Lá Fhéile Bhríde sona daoibh. Brigid brings the Spring! Some of our beautiful artwork from Rang 1 and Junior Infants. Enjoy the bank holiday weekend.

January 31, 2025

2nd class have learned a lot about climate change and climate action this week. We made posters and took our climate action pledge. Thank you to our lovely Green school committee for all the tips and information!

January 30, 2025

Chinese New Year

2nd class had a very busy day learning all about the year of the snake. They talked about Chinese traditions and how people celebrate the new year. They also made these wonderful paper fan snakes!

January 30, 2025

St. Brigid's Day

Mr. Kearns' 5th Class have been busy making traditional St. Brigid's Crosses. This is a memory that most people still have from school and the children enjoyed the chance to keep this old tradition alive.

January 28, 2025

Green School News

We are busy working on our 7th Green Flag – Global Citizenship: Energy and this week is ‘Climate Action week’. So far we have celebrated receiving flags on the themes of 1. Litter & Waste 2. Energy 3. Water 4. Biodiversity 5. Travel 6. Global Citizenship: Litter and Waste For the past 2 years our […]

January 23, 2025

School Closure

As you will be aware Dublin along with much of the country is under a red-level weather warning on this coming Friday the 24th from 6am until 12 midday. Met Éireann says Storm Éowyn could bring life-threatening conditions and extremely destructive gusts in excess of 130km/h. Consequently, St. Olaf's N.S will be closed on Friday. Our […]

January 20, 2025

Electricity in 5th Class

Mr. Kearns 5th class have been looking at Electrical circuits in STEM this week. They created various circuits using batteries, light bulbs, fans and buzzers.

January 17, 2025

NEPS Emotion Coaching

A huge thank you to Emma and Heather from NEPS for giving such an insightful presentation to parents this morning. It was great to see so many parents in attendance and hope it was a valuable experience.

January 16, 2025

GAA Coaching Returns

Naomh Olaf's new GPO is in our school every Thursday doing coaching with the younger classes. Pictured below is Ms. O'Brien's first class getting to grips with basics of the game.

January 14, 2025

VR Revolutions

Mr. Kearns' 5th class have been learning about various revolutions such as the American, French and 1798 Irish Rebellion. They were able to use the VR headsets to explore major historic events such as Bastille Day, the signing of the American Declaration of Independence and the Boston Tea Party. A great resource to have.

January 10, 2025

Happy New Year!

We hope everyone had a lovely Christmas break. 2nd class have been talking about their New Year's resolutions and created these wonderful fireworks displays!

3rd Class Visit Dundrum Library to Meet Author Erika McGann

November 6, 2025

This Thursday, November 6th, the children in Mr. Kearns' 3rd Class took a special trip to Dundrum Library for an exciting author visit with Erika McGann. The class walked to the library, full of excitement and curiosity about meeting a real author in person. Erika McGann, known for her wonderful children’s books like The Clubhouse […]

No Smartphone Voluntary Code

November 4, 2025

Dear all, Please see attached the No Smartphone Voluntary Code which St Olaf’s Parents Association have introduced over the last few years. We are asking parents/guardians from Junior Infants up to and including 6th class to sign up to the code again this year. • this is a parent led initiative but has the full […]

Halloween Newsletter

October 23, 2025

Our Halloween Newsletter is now available to read here. Wishing all of our school community a safe and happy Halloween.

New Futsals

October 21, 2025

We were delighted to receive a set of 24 Futsal footballs from the FAI recently. This will enable us to have a ball for each child in a class during a PE lesson about football.