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Today was a very memorable day for everybody in St. Nicholas’. We started the celebration by gathering in the Hall, together with parents and neighbours of our school in Waterside, and welcomed the arrival of the Honorary French Consulate to Ireland, Madame Catherine...

Bhí ann craic againn ag Tráth na gCeist 2016 sa halla ar maidin!    

Beckey-Finn from An Taisce gave an environmental talk in school today. The presentation was called Think Before You Flush. We discussed the different uses for water and the importance of disposing of our rubbish properly. We conducted an experiment to find out what...

Preparation for the Confirmation has now started on Thursdays at 3pm. The Confirmation will take place in St. Nicholas’ Collegiate Church at 11am on May 8th.

All orders have been sent in for the Paddy Mc Shamrocks! The fresh shamrock will be delivered to our school on Tuesday, March 15th. The shamrocks were hugely popular throughout the school this year! The money raised will be used to pay the Irish dancing teacher who...

The €240 that was raised on Pancake Day is being donated to Cope Galway. They will be presented with the cheque next week in our school. Well done again to everybody who took part!

Seachtain na Gaeilge is in full swing in our school at the moment! Everyone is making an extra special effort to speak lots of Irish! Bhí Seachtain na Gaeilge den scoth againn i 2015! - Bhaineamar an taitneamh as na himeachtaí éagsúla. Next week, we are really looking...

5th and 6th Class are really enjoying their Chinese Classes with Cathy. This week they were learning how to do calligraphy in Chinese!

This is us painting our Easter Egg Cups that we made from clay last week! (We only had the primary colours to paint our egg and egg cups with so we had great fun mixing them to make the secondary colours!)    

As 2016 marks the centenary commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising, we have all been learning lots about what happened around that time. March 15th has been designated Proclamation Day for all schools in Ireland. On this day, along with every other primary school in...

5th and 6th Class have been making coil pots with clay this week. Coiling is a method of creating pottery that has been used for thousands of years all over the world. We will be painting the pots next week. - Make sure you check back to see the photos! [foogallery...

All classes visited Dubray Books for World Book Day. 5th and 6th Class went to see the author Nicola Pierce who read her book “Behind the Walls”. The Infant Class listened to stories read by Mary in Dubray Books. She read “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak...

The annual gathering of parishioners of St. Nicholas’ Collegiate Church took place yesterday in St. Nicholas’ Parochial School. There was lots of food, fun, games and music! Many people were given a tour of the school and watched a presentation given by 5th and 6th...

On Friday we were working with clay. We had great fun! At the beginning of the lesson we had to squeeze the cold gooey clay. Then we had to pinch and pull the clay and then we had to roll the clay into a ball. Then our teacher gave us a (fake) egg and asked us to...

We used daffodils, primroses and our science table as inspiration for our art this week. Take a look at our beautiful works of art!    

Bhíomar sa siopa bréagán le Mamaí, Daidí, na páistí agus an siopadóir. Cheannaigh Daidí giotár agus drumaí do na phaistí. “Mo chluasa bochta” arsa Daidí!! Bhí ann craic againn ag déanamh an drama!  

World Book Day is on March 3rd. All classes will be visiting Dubray Bookshop with their teachers to celebrate the occasion. Check back for more details and photos.

Beckey-Finn of Clean Coasts - An Taisce Environmental Education Unit is coming in on March 8th to do a workshop with 4th – 6th Classes. These workshops will tie into some Green-Schools themes as well as other aspects of the school curriculum and will help students to...