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!

Music

June 4, 2026

Congratulations to Michael and Patrick who participated in the Dublin Fleadh under 12s recently. They are both members of Craobh Naithí CCE. Michael from Ms Conlon’s 5th class came 1st in the Whistle and Patrick is from Ms Leavy’s 3rd class, they both won the Grúpa Cheoil. They go forward now to represent Dublin in the Leinster Finals at […]

Irish Dancing

May 28, 2026

A huge congratulations to First Class students Éanna, Liam, and Maia! They recently competed in the South Dublin Irish Dancing Championships and did an amazing job, bringing home lots of medals and trophies. We are so proud of all their hard work and great dancing. Well done everyone!

Golf

May 28, 2026

On Monday, two teams from St. Olaf’s took part in the annual Castle Schools Cup golf competition, accompanied by Ms Leavy, at Castle Golf Club. The girls’ team was made up of Mollaí Butler, Genevieve Doherty, Sophie Nolan and Isla Brownlee, while Zachary Sheerin, Michael Shorthall, Daniel Kennedy and Gavin Lewis represented the boys’ team. […]

Hurling

May 27, 2026

Our senior hurlers continued their fantastic run of form overcoming Holy Family N.S., Swords in a tight quarter final in Naomh Olaf. There was nothing separating the teams at half time and the lads performed brilliantly in the second half to emerge victorious on a score line of 3-6 to 2-4. Next up is a […]