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6/14/2019 0 Comments We are so proud to be one of the first schools in Ireland to receive a ‘Badge of Excellence’ from the Science Foundation Ireland for all of the excellent STEM teaching and learning that happens in our school. Well done to all boys and girls!5/20/2019 0 Comments 5th class had a brilliant day in the RDS today at the Junior Entrepreneur Showcase Day, we were nominated for two awards ‘Marketing Gurus’ and ‘Creative Pioneers’, we met lots of famous entrepreneurs and got to present our product at our own stan5/2/2019 0 Comments Feis Mhuirtheimhne QuizScoil Mhuire gan Smál had two teams taking part in this year's Feis Mhuirtheimhne quiz in St. Malachy's school hall today. Both teams performed exceptionally well with Team A finishing in joint 3rd place and Team B in 1st place. A fantastic achievement indeed. 4/11/2019 0 Comments Our school has been celebrating autism awareness month, and as a school we have made a pledge to respect everyone and all of our differences. 4/11/2019 0 Comments Real life maths in 5th class today, investigating the area and perimeter of different parts of our school!4/1/2019 0 Comments We are delighted to have received a ‘Highly Commended’ accolade in the 2019 Waltons Music for Schools Competition. This was our first time entering this competition! Well done boys and girls. You can check out our entry on our Music page.Our wonderful Quiz Team participated in the second round of the Credit Union Quiz recently in Castleblayney. Out of 20 teams, they came joint 3rd, which is a great achievement. Scoil Mhuire gan Smál is very proud of them. 3/8/2019 0 Comments Engineers Week in our school has been so much fun!! Check out our school twitter page for more! :-)2/26/2019 0 Comments Thanks to our brilliant caretaker Tommy for helping 5th class start their vegetable planting .... we got our onions in today :-)2/8/2019 0 Comments Well done to some of our 4th and 5th class students who have submitted Scratch entries to the National Scratch Competition run by the Irish Computer Society   2/6/2019 0 Comments 5th class got their periscopes designed, made and tested! Well done boys and girls .... lots of mathematical thinking involved in this task! :-)We have been busy carrying out some market research for our chosen product ‘Party in a Pot’. We carried out a number of surveys on children in our school and our families and friends outside of school also. We then used our school chrome books to create spreadsheets of all of our data. We then made bar charts and pie charts to depict our findings and we presented these to the class :-) Well done to the Kilkerley team members from 3rd and 4th class on their fantastic achievement in the Vex Robotics IQ Challenge Regional Final which took place in DKIT. There was a great team spirit in how they all supported and encouraged each other during the building, coding, driving and video editing parts of the programme. As one of the youngest teams in the competition, they proved they were up to the challenge and they did exceptionally well on the big day. Thanks also to their parents and mentors for their support in the past few months.
1/15/2019 0 Comments Business Visitor visits 5th class!A huge thank you to Carol Browne, a parent in our school, who came in to chat with 5th class. Carol is an interior architect and owns her own business. 5th class got some great tips for designing their Junior Entrepreneur product and tips for running their own business! |
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