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⭐ The end of another very busy week in St. Nicholas’!! We were so delighted to welcome Rev. Alistair to our school this morning! He got a very warm Galway welcome from all the children and staff! We look forward to seeing him a lot more in the year ahead....

🖌🎨🌻 Some wonderful artwork from around the school 🌻🎨🖌 #JuniorInfants #SeniorInfants #FirstClass #SecondClass #VisualArts #CrossCurricular #ActiveLearning #Sunflowers #AndyWarholInspiredArt ...

🖌🎨 Art is definitely a highlight of the week in the 5th and 6th classroom! Check out these beautiful creations from last week. #VisualArts #CrossCurricular #ActiveLearning #Waterside #Woodquay #GalwayCity

🤸‍♂️🏃‍♀️⚽ We had the best day again this year celebrating European Schools Sports Day! The playground and The Plots were a hive of activity!! #ESSD2021 #ActiveSchool #TheGreatOutdoors #HailRainOrSnow...

🙏 Thank you to Charlotte Farragher and the Galway Education Centre for the fantastic live chair yoga session yesterday. 3rd, 4th, 5th  and 6th classes really enjoyed it. #ActiveSchool #MovementBreaks #WellBeing  

🚲⚡ It was so lovely to see the cycle bus pass our door this morning! Maith sibh gach duine!! What a way to start to the day! #SafeRoutesToSchool #CycleBus

😎🏥 Bhí na páistí i Rang 1 agus 2 ‘san ospidéal’ an tseachtain seo! Bhí an craic againn!! (These children were in ‘the hospital’ this week! They had lots of laughs!!) #IsBreáLinnGaeilge #Rólimirt #RolePlay #ActiveLearning #CrossCurricular #Waterside...

🤸‍♂️🏃‍♀️⚽ European Schools Sports Day is fast approaching – September 25th!!! These children were busy making posters to put around the school!! #ESSD2021 #ActiveSchool #OnTheMove #TheGreatOutDoors...

📚⚡ What a way to start the week but with a live interview with author David Walliams as part of the ‘Inspiring Students, Inspiring Ireland’ series! Everyone was enthralled as we joined with lots of schools around Ireland to listen to David speak! #ESCI...

Junior Infants and Senior Infants have started the Six Bricks programme. Just 6 different coloured Lego bricks provide countless tasks, challenges and problems to solve! Here we made towers and matched the bricks to colours in the classroom! ...

🚲 Travelling home in style this sunny Friday afternoon! #BikeWeek2021 #BikeLife #SafeCycling #Waterside #Woodquay #GalwayCity

🤸‍♀️🤸‍♂️ Disco Friday was back today by very popular demand!!!! Hurray for Disco Friday!! #Waterside #Woodquay #HiddenGem #BesideTownHallTheatre #HeartOfGalwayCity  

🧡 A celebration of International Dot Day around the school! These amazing artists were inspired by the book called The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. #InternationalDotDay #EveryoneIsAnArtist

💙💛 A Big Big Thank You to Ollie & Mollie from Galway Bay FM who gave us the best shoutout this morning! They even phoned the school & had us live on air ….. and then they gave us a voucher for the new Coco To Go outlet on Williamsgate St.!!...

Another busy day today celebrating Roald Dahl Day! 5th and 6th class commemorated the day by reading about a young girl who set up a Roald Dahl theme park in Co. Meath and then the children worked in teams to design their own Roald Dahl theme parks. They also listened...

The end of the first week in the Infant Classroom! Lots and lots of action!!! #JuniorInfants #SeniorInfants #LearningThroughPlay  

⚡ ‘After School’ went to see A Handful of Dreams by Fidget Feet at the Boat Club next door to our school this afternoon! How lucky are they!!! ⚡ #Waterside #Woodquay #OnOurDoorStep #GalwayCity

💛 What a lovely way to start the school year than with Rev. Lynda reading the Parable of the Pencil to us all. You could have heard a pin drop. 💛 #ItsWhatsOnTheInsideThatCounts Click on the link below to read: The_Parable_of_the_Pencil