Category: News

October 8, 2024

Coding

Ten of our 5th Class students have been chosen as Microsoft Dreamspace Ambassadors. They will be partaking in live coding sessions with Microsoft in Leopardstown and then teaching what they have learned to their peers in the school. This week they were looking at "Microbits". We're looking forward to seeing what classes can do with […]

October 4, 2024

STEM Bridges

Our fifth class were set a STEM task last week to design a bridge that could hold the most dice. Check out what they came up with below.

October 3, 2024

Football Update

Both of our senior teams have now progressed to the knockout stages of the Cumann na mBunscol. Our girls are away in Lucan next week while our boys will have a home fixture. Our junior teams will both have their final gaelic game of the season next week.

October 2, 2024

Ms Doherty's Class

Ms. Doherty's 3rd class were busy collecting data during Maths last week on everyone's favourite breakfast option. They represented this data on bar charts.

October 1, 2024

5th and 6th Assembly

On Tuesday we had our first assembly of the year for fifth and sixth class. The importance of safety if near bonfires or fireworks in the run up to Halloween was discussed. The Gaelbhratach committee were introduced by Mr. Barrett and presented with badges. Lastly our awards were presented to students by their respective teachers. […]

October 1, 2024

VR Headsets

Our fifth class have been learning about different types of housing in history recently. They used our VR headsets to explore the houses of ancient civilizations right up to present day. The first image below shows what is displayed in the headset, these are 3D worlds that the kids move through using a joystick.

September 30, 2024

#RelayTakeOver

Inspired by our European Champions and Olympic heroes classes took part in relays on Friday the 27th of September. This is part of the Active Flag initiative which the school is entering this year. Check out some of our classes taking part below! All photos available here on our Flickr

September 27, 2024

Fun in the Sun

2nd class made the most of the sunny weather and took their learning outside. They enjoyed exploring our wonderful sensory garden!

September 27, 2024

Busy at Maths!

2nd class students have been enjoying their hands-on maths activities and games in class recently. Well done boys and girls!

September 26, 2024

3rd Class Science

Ms. Leavy's 3rd class had an outdoor mini- beast science scavenger hunt recently. They found lots of weird and wonderful creatures all around the school grounds!

September 24, 2024

Senior Boys Football

Our boys team made it two from two last week against St. Michael's College. They now face Divine Word this Thursday to decide who will top the group. Best of luck lads.

September 23, 2024

Mini Beast Hunt 3rd Class

Ms. Conlon's 3rd Class had great fun learning outside in the good weather last week. They conducted a mini beast hunt on the school grounds and found lots of interesting bugs and insects.

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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 recieve 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.

St. Olaf’s Green Schools

October 20, 2025

St. Olaf’s is proud to announce the launch of our Green Schools Programme for 2025–2026 as we begin our journey to achieve our eighth Green School Flag, focusing on the theme of the Marine Environment. The Marine Environment theme encourages students to understand Ireland’s connection to the ocean and our responsibility to protect it. Although […]