St Patrick's G.N.S., Limerick.

Aonad na Gaeilge is an Irish promotion unit based in the University of Limerick. They offer a wide range Irish language courses. This September they are running an ‘Irish for Parents’ course. This course can help parents to help their children at school. It is aimed at all levels from little or no Irish to people with leaving cert Irish.  If you would like to receive more information about the course, contact details are below.

www.ul.ie/aonadnagaeilge    

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Phone 061 234754

Today, May 2nd, 2012, we held our Green Flag Raising Ceremony. In attendance were Deputy Mayor Kieran O’Hanlon, the Chairperson of our Board of Management Mrs Ann Noonan, members of the Board, our Parents Association, many of our parents and of course all our children and teachers. In her speech, Ann Noonan gave a brief history of our Green Schools Programme to date and praised the children and the Committee for all their hard work. Before raising the flag, Deputy O’Hanlon spoke of the importance of continuing our Green Schools work not just at school but at home and around our city. The flag was raised to tremendous applause and was followed by a reception in the school and a party for all the children. Sincere thanks to Paddy, Lorraine and Betty and the Parents Association for all their work preparing the refreshments for today.

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St Patrick’s G.N.S. had it’s first ever WOW day today. We ditched the cars and put on our runners and high-viz jackets and walked to school. Of our  220 pupils in school today, 172 walked (78%), 44 used Park and Stride (20%) and only 4 (2%) arrived by car. A huge success, well done to you all. Keep up the great work.

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Our pupils are very excited about our first WOW Day, Walk on Wednesday this week. Leave the family car at home and join us as we walk to school. Make a banner, carry some balloons and make it a fun trip to school. Families who live far from school are encouraged to Park and Stride, park a good distance away from school and walk the remainder of the journey. Let’s make the school a car free zone for the day!

Congratulations to our choir who performed so beautifully at the Limerick Choral Competition in the Redemptorists Church on March 2nd. We are all so proud of you girls. Well done to you all. Sincere thanks to Susan our Choir Director for all her hard work preparing the choir for the competition.

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Congratulations to Caitlin from 2nd class for achieving 1st place in the INTO/EBS handwriting competition. Here she is being presented with her prize at the awards ceremony held in the Pery Hotel on 6th March. Well done!

6th class drew some cave art pictures on sandpaper for Kenya Day

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Sincere thanks to all for another wonderful Kenya Day. We had a very busy day today learning about Kenya, the Masai people, Naiperere Primary School and also all about Elephants. Huge thanks to Kiara, Edel and Sorcha  for painting our nails, and to all who baked buns and cakes  for our cake sale. Thanks to the teachers for their cooperation and to the girls from 6th who ran the siopa. A special thanks to Natalie, Betty, Mr O’Gorman and or course Lorraine for all their hard work in making everything run so smoothly. Well done to all.

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Kenya Day will be celebrated on February 21st this year. A series of fun activities and educational presentations are being prepared and organised in advance of this years event. Last year, Kenya Day was a wonderful success, and raised much needed funds for our friends in Naiperere Primary School in Kijabe, Kenya with whom our school is twinned.  This year we hope will be even bigger and better! However it is not all about fundraising, we hope to raise awareness about the lives and school routines of our Masai friends through presentations prepared at a suitable age level for each class. We encourage all classes to decorate the hallway with their artwork and projects. One of the fun activities on the day will be professional nail painting for all our pupils by our visiting beauticians Kiara and Edel. Lorraine and Betty are planning to make popcorn and  candyfloss and we are also hoping to hold a cake sale.    Click here to visit the Become A Friend web-site.

A photo of pupils in Naiperere taken last year,  thanking their friends from St Patrick’s GNS.