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Mrs. O’Connor’s Junior Infants had a blast on their very first school tour at Tearaways Pet Farm in Birr. The day was fun-packed with adventure and excitement where we played on the indoor jungle gyms, ball pits and slides. We visited the farm animals and even got to pet one or two pigs. We had great fun on the tractor barrel ride. We even went on the go-carts and on the sledge run 🏎🛷 . We will always remember our first school tour and it was a fun day had by all 🏃♀️🏃🏼🐷🐮🐴🛝
Junior Infants hit the road to 'Tearaways Pet Farm and Activity Centre' today on their school tour. What a day!!🤩😄👌🌞🚎🕶
We had an amazing time in the indoor activity centre, climbing, sliding, jumping, crawling, running and laughing!!🏃🏃♀️😁
We met lots of friendly animals on the farm including rabbits, pigs, goats, llama, emu, alpacas, sheep and cattle. 🐑🐖🦙🐄🐂🫏🐇
After lunch we played outdoors in the playground, got a spin in the barrel train, went on the go-carts and on the sledge run. 🛝🚜🏎🛷
We were exhausted but very happy children on the way home, we will sleep well tonight!! 😴😴😅😅
Both 5th classes had a very enjoyable trip to TUS Thurles yesterday. They learned all about Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how these goals are a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.
They incorporated these SDGs into computer coding which they all thoroughly enjoyed.
We also got a tour of the fantastic facilities available there.
Thanks to Pam O Brien and all her team.
#tusthurles
Ms. Majella's Junior Infants have been learning all about 'The Farm'.🐄🐖🐎🐑🐐🐃🐕🐈⬛🐓🦆🐥
We built our own farm, looked after the animals, drove some machinery and even worked in the 'Farm Shop'. We love farming! 👩🌾👨🌾🚜
Senior Infants on their school tour today!
Senior Infants had the best day ever on their school tour to Free Range Kids in Croom.
🤩We were bathed in sunshine as we set off from Nenagh on the bus. 🌞☀️🕶️
The sun shone all day as we tried out the obstacle course, the playground and the slides to begin with.
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We got to make cookies, see the rabbits, ducks, horses, sheep and calves and we even got to stroke some baby ducklings. 🍪🍪🐣🐥🐏🐑🐴🐴
After lunch we went on a treasure hunt, played some more before getting back on the bus to head home. 🏴☠️🚎🚍
It was such an enjoyable day.
We had great fun with our friends and we should certainly sleep tonight. 😴💤🛌
Well done everyone for being so good today. Your teachers are so proud of you all👌👏👏👏🤩🤩
Seven more sleeps before we travel to the Our World Irish Aid Award’s National Final at University College Dublin…… 🤩🌏✌🏻🕊️🏆🤞🤞
Ms O’ Toole’s Senior Infants were out again today practising their soccer skills. Today we practised some penalties!! ⚽️🙌🏻 We have some serious goalkeepers and strikers In St. Mary’s!! Well done girls! ☀️⚽️☀️⚽️
Sixth class pupils today worked with Community First Responder Kerry Ann Nolan to learn about the crucial lifesaving skills of performing CPR and how to use an AED.
We are most grateful to Kerry Anne for sharing her expertise, tools, knowledge and resources to teach both classes these essential, life saving skills. 👩🏫 ♥️ 🏥 📚
Thanks to the team at Defibs For Life Nenagh for organising the CPR and AED awareness training.
We are counting down the days to our bake sale on June 8th where all proceeds raised will go towards purchasing a debriliator for outside our school which will benefit our school and our local community. 🍰 🎂 🧁
Ní neart go cur le chéile. ❤️
Ms O Toole’s Senior Infants enjoying the sun today practising their soccer skills!! ⚽️😎☀️⛅️ #disneyplaymaker
4th classes really enjoyed attending a very important talk by the RNLI yesterday, which we learned all about water safety. Huge thanks to them and Nenagh Tourist Office 🌊🛟
Senior Infants hard at work studying earthworms in action. 🪱🪱Today we set up a wormery in our class so that we can observe their movements over the next few days. 🤩🤩They are such interesting creatures. Well done everyone!🪱👏👏🪱
Ms. Mairead's boys visited our friends today in An Garda Síochána Nenagh station where they met the very helpful and friendly staff. The boys enjoyed a full tour of the station, tried on uniforms, got their fingerprints taken and spoke to officers out on patrol over the radio but to name a few. A huge Thank You for such a warm welcome and a special mention to Garda Mary for her kindness. 🙏👏👏👏👏🚔🚔🚔🚔🚔🚔
First Class had a fantastic day on their school tour. 👏🥳 🚌
We all had great fun at Free Range Kids in Croom in Limerick.
There was so much to do between baking cookies, orienteering, looking at the farm animals, the obstacle course, and more!
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There was lots of singing on the bus on the way to Limerick! 🎶 🎵
It was different on the way home!!!! Some of us had a long snooze!! 😴😴
We made lots of fantastic memories and shared a memorable day with our friends. 💖🥰💙🥰❤️🥰
First Class had a fantastic day on their school tour. 👏🥳 🚌
We all had great fun at Free Range Kids in Croom in Limerick.
There was so much to do between baking cookies, orienteering, looking at the farm animals, the obstacle course, and more!
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There was lots of singing on the bus on the way to Limerick! 🎶 🎵
It was different on the way home!!!! Some of us had a long snooze!! 😴😴
We made lots of fantastic memories and shared a memorable day with our friends. 💖🥰💙🥰❤️🥰
5th class had a very interesting morning at the tourist office in Nenagh! Cillian and Trevor from the RNLI gave us a talk on water safety. Thanks to all involved for organising.
#nenaghtouristoffice
Ms Mairead and Ms Scanlan’s classes had a great time in Nenagh Arts Centre with Cillian from the RNLI. We learned lots about water safety. Thanks to everyone involved for organising this.
Congratulations to Kit, Amber, Zoe and Edel who are students in First Class who achieved these medals for their wonderful skills in soccer. We are very proud of you all!
Well done girls!
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#ActiveSchools
#disneyplaymaker
Third classes were delighted to attend a very important talk by the RNLI yesterday all about water safety. This is a voluntary organisation, who do absolutely fantastic work. Thank you Cillian for your time and water safety tips, we learned a lot. 🛟🌊 Thanks to arts centre Nenagh Arts Centre for the invitation.
Today our Student Council was delighted to welcome Mr. Tom Boland from Defibs for Life Nenagh to speak with them.
Defibs for Life Nenagh are working to secure more public access defibrillator locations in our town.
Our Student Council have decided to use the proceeds of their annual fundraising bake sale on June 8th to fund, with the support of Defibs for Life, a defibrillator to be located outside our school.
The students of St. Mary’s are honoured to support Defibs for Life to increase the chances of survival in our local community. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
#DefibsSaveLives #defibsforlifenenagh
#communityfirst #worldchangers
Ms O’ Toole is so proud of her students Sadie, Saoirse and Grace who proudly wore their soccer medals into school today that they won at the weekend! 🥇⚽️🙌🏻 Well done girls!!! #ActiveSchools #disneyplaymaker
Many thanks to Nenagh Tourist Office and the RNLI for hosting a most enjoyable and informative talk on water safety. The 6th class girls were delighted to get the opportunity to learn how to keep themselves and others safe this summer ☀️🏝🛟 RNLI Lough Derg RNLI Nenagh Tourist Office
Ms Comerford's 6th class enjoyed a very informative talk on Water Safety by Cillian from RNLI in Nenagh Arts Centre today. 🌊🙂
RNLI Lough Derg
Nenagh Tourist Office
Congratulations to Isabelle who achieved this medal for her skills in soccer. We are very proud of her. A name to watch for the future…..👏👏🏅🏅🏆Well done Isabelle!
#ActiveSchools
#disneyplaymaker
Inniu bhíomar ag imirt cluichí gramadaí. Ní raibh a fhios againn go bhféadfadh sé a bheith chomh taitneamhach!
Great to see the work of some of our sixth class girls featured on page 9 in the publication below.
We look forward to the National Finals in UCD, June 7th.
OWIAA 2023 - Global Goal Getters A4 Mag Issue 2
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OWIAA 2023 - Global Goal Getters A4 Mag Issue 2
🚴♀️☀️ 3rd class wrapped up National Bike Week today by heading outside and checking out the various parts and features of our bikes. We spent time discussing safety when cycling and the importance of wearing a helmet. Even our teacher brought in her bike and showed us the air pump, spare tyre tube and puncture kit! Unfortunately for one girl the chain came off her bike and it was tricky to get back on but Noel came to the rescue and fixed it! 👏👏
It was great to see so many children cycling and scooting to school this week. Hopefully they will continue this throughout the rest of the summer months ahead! 🌞 🕶 😎🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️
#NationalBikeWeek #cycletoschool #greentravel #GreenSchools
First Class enjoyed being extra creative and imaginative last week, when Joanna visited our classrooms and led us on an imaginative journey through story, where we met some very silly monkeys.... 🐒🐒!!!!! Later in the week, we drew and designed a variety of different hats 👒🎩🧢⛑️👑
#creativeschools
Big Congratulations to our 6th class pupil Nicole, who won an under 12 premier league soccer medal with Knigh United earlier this week! #ActiveSchools #sports ⚽️🥇
Well done to all of our “Green” pupils this morning!! 🚴♀️💪🚴♀️It was so nice to see so many of our pupils making a big effort to get to school sustainably this morning. A big thank you to all of the parents who supported us in this endeavour for National COW day - Cycle On Wednesday 🐄. Well done everyone. We are very proud of you all👏👏👏#greenschools
#NationalBiketoSchoolDay
#NationalBikeWeek
#BikeWeek
Ms Máiréad’s class finally got to harvest our lettuce crop which we have been cultivating since early Spring🥬🥬🥬. It was a proud day for everyone! 👏👏Well done to our young gardeners. 🪴🪴
#globalcitizenshipfoodandbiodiversity
#greenschools
💙💛 Congratulations to Nenagh Éire Óg & Tipperary Camogie star, Grace O'Brien, on becoming Munster champions at the weekend!! 💙💛
We were very fortunate to have Grace visit our 2nd and 3rd classes on Friday where she presented them with prizes for all their efforts that they have put into their camogie league over the last few weeks. 🏆
She answered some very interesting questions and gave some great advice to our future camogie stars. What a great role model to have in our parish! 🌟
#HonTipp
#camogie
🏆 Congratulations to past pupil Laura Nagle on her fantastic win with the U17 Tipperary Camogie Development Team at the weekend.
Laura is one of the TY students from St Mary's Secondary School who are currently leading our yard league with 2nd and 3rd class. 💙💛
#rolemodel
#welovecamogie
🕊️ A big day tomorrow for our 6th class girls as they make their Confirmation. 🕊️We wish you and your families a very happy & special day. ♥️ Go n-éirí an t-ádh libh ♥️
🌞'Fun in the Sun'🌞
Ms. Majella's Junior Infants had such an enjoyable time today blowing bubbles and drawing fabulous works of art with chalk.😃👏👏 #creativeschoolsweek2023
Ms Máiréad’s Senior Infants had so much fun today for Creative Schools Week. 🎊🎉We got to decorate the yard with our chalk masterpieces. We also enjoyed blowing and chasing bubbles. The rain arrived but it didn’t dampen our spirits. Well done to all of our budding artists🎨🖌️🎭🖼️
#creativeschoolsweek2023
Ms Mairead, Ms Scanlan and Ms O’Toole’s classes having great fun with bubbles and chalks today as part of #creativeschoolsweek #creative #greatfun before the rain hit!
First Class thoroughly enjoyed their dance workshop with Aoife from Éala Dance as part of Creative Schools Week! 🥳 🥳🥳
We loved all the songs we danced to and we enjoyed displaying all our wonderful moves!!
Thank you so much Aoife for a great dance workshop! 👏❤️👏❤️👏❤️
National Bike Week 2023
Bike Week is a celebration of active travel, sustainable transport and simply the joys of cycling a bike!
In partnership with the National Transport Authority, this year Green-Schools will celebrate Bike Week from Saturday May 13th until Sunday 21st. National COW Day (Cycle on Wednesdays/Weekdays) will be held on Wednesday May 17th.
Benefits of Cycling
There are multiple environmental and health benefits to cycling to school, but most importantly, cycling is one of the most efficient and rewarding ways to get to school. Cycling, as a mode of travel, is on the increase with more people choosing to cycle for shorter journeys.
National COW Day: Wednesday, May 17th
Cycle On Wednesday or COW Days are where everyone tries to cycle to school if they can.. We hope to take part in National Bike Week. We are asking you to make a special effort to cycle to school on Wednesday 17th May if possible. It would be wonderful to see our two bike shelters filled with bikes next week. As always thank you for your continued support.
Kind regards,
The Green Schools Team at St. Mary’s.
Congratulations to Aiveen, pictured below with her medal from the U12 Girls League and Cup double playing for Nenagh Warriors Basketball Club.
It was lovely to see so many past and present students from St. Mary’s in attendance at the club’s end of season presentation.
The link between the school and the club is well established and continues to flourish. Well done to all involved. 🏅 🏀 🏆 🎉
What a week Senior Infants are having so far! We had so much fun with Joanna Parkes yesterday dramatising a fun story about some crazy monkeys. Today the sun shone as we were inspired to use our imaginations to come up with some amazing dance moves with Aoife from Éala Dance. Thanks to both Joanna and Aoife for inspiring us.
#creativeschoolsweek2023
3rd class thoroughly enjoyed their dance workshop with Aoife from Éala Dance today! 🥳 We had mighty fun during the group dances but especially loved our small group performances where we could let our creative ideas and moves shine! 🤩🌟🤩🌟🤩
#creativeschoolsweek2023
Creative Schools Week In Senior Infants and Ms. Scanlan’s Special Class. 💗🙌🏻🫶🏼💛 We love Drama & Dance! Thanks to Joanne who visited our classroom yesterday and demonstrated lots of fun games and stories for us! We had a great day! ✨💃
Ms O’ Toole’s Senior Infant’s and Ms. Scanlan’s Special Class getting involved in Creative School’s Week! 💗💗💗
Ms. Majella's Junior Infants had a wonderful day today. As part of 'Creative School's Week', Joanna Parkes visited our classroom and we had great fun taking part in a story about some cheeky monkeys!!🐵🐒😃
We also had a dance workshop with Aoife from Éala Dance. We loved learning some new moves. 🕺💃
Huge thanks to both Joanna and Aoife 👏👏👏
#creativeschoolsweek
Creative School’s Week got off to a great start this week in St Mary’s. The 4th classes really enjoyed their dance workshops with Aoife from Eala Dance #creativeschoolsweek2023
🏀 Some of our 6th class were lucky enough to be selected to represent our school at a basketball blitz today. The girls proved to be strong competitors and showed off some impressive skills which they have been practicing over the past few months. Well done girls 🙌🏻
Thank you to Patsy Farrell for co-ordinating the event and to Cloughjordan No 1 NS for hosting the visiting teams. 😊
Ms O’ Toole’s and Ms Mairead’s Senior Infants went on a minibeast hunt today! 🐞🐜🕷️ This week we are learning all about minibeasts and their habitats. 🏡 💚We saw lots of spiders, ants, worms and much much more! 🪲🦗🦟🐞🦋
We are going on a bug hunt🐞🐛🦟🪲🐜🪳🕷️. Senior Infants out and about exploring the biodiversity on our school grounds. Watch out minibeasts…….🕷️🪳🐜🦟🦟🐛🐞👀👀
Ms Máiréad’s class went on a visit to St. Mary’s Church today. ⛪️We were watching out for things like the sanctuary lamp and the baptismal font. Everyone was so well behaved and mindful of people who were visiting the church today. 🙏Well done Senior Infants👏👏⛪️⛪️
Well done to Edel in First Class who won a medal in Basketball this weekend!
We are so proud of you Edel! 🏀🎊🏀🎆🏀🥳
A huge well done to these amazing girls who showed great skill, determination and effort on the pitch today. 👏 Our U11 panel has worked so hard this year and they have shown great improvement also. Thanks to Corville NS, Ballina Primary School and St Joseph's Primary Templemore for 3 very entertaining games today 😊
#cumannnamBunscol
#AllianzIreland
#tippcumannnambunscol
Well done to Abbie in 4th class who won 2 medals in Basketball this weekend!
Our Junior Infants are so excited to use their new hurleys! 👏 A huge thank you to Nenagh Éire Óg for sponsoring them and also for providing us with coaching throughout the year. There has been a great buzz around the school lately in relation to GAA! 😁
💙 Up Éire Óg! 💙
As part of our unit of work on Medieval Times Rang 4 took a visit to Nenagh Castle today. We got a fantastic background history of the castle and managed to climb the 101 steps to the top!
Well done to the pupils from Ms. Mairead's and Ms. Scanlan's classes for participating so well at their first day of swimming 🌊🌊🌊🌊⛅ it is safe to say they will sleep well tonight!! 🤗😴 Another successful and happy experience for our little stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Ms Fahy’s Second class really enjoyed camogie training on Friday 😊 A huge thank you to all involved for organising. We are looking forward to our next session already ☀️😊
Senior Infants enjoyed learning some soccer skills today using ’The Incredibles’ theme. Thanks to Ms Comerford and UEFA Disney Playmakers for the wonderful opportunity.
#disneyplaymakers
#ActiveSchools
Senior Infants hard at work doing some coin rubbings on our first day studying money. Well done everyone👏👏🪙💰💰🤑
🌍🌎🌏 Happy Earth Day 🌏🌍🌎
What is Earth Day? 🤔
Earth Day is an annual celebration that honours the achievements of the environmental movement and raises awareness of the need to protect Earth's natural resources for future generations. This year's theme asks us to 'Invest in our Planet'
What are we doing?🏫
Here in St Mary's we are extremely proud to have achieved 9 Green Flags and we are now working on our 10th. Through engaging with the themes of these flags, we have become responsible and conscious citizens of our Planet.
We recycle, we reduce waste, we reuse, we turn off lights, we save energy, we car pool, we cycle, we walk, we scoot, we plant trees, we grow food, we create habitats...... We care about our Planet! 🌏🐦🐝♻️🌱🌷🌳🚲🚶♀️🌍
What can you do? 🏠
>Use a reusable shopping bag.🛍️
In its lifetime, one reusable bag can prevent the use of 600 plastic bags.
>Recycle waste. ♻️
Recycling one can of coke will save enough energy to power a tv for three hours.
>Turn off electrical devices when not in use. 📴
Shutting down a computer when it's not in use cuts the energy consumption by 85 percent.
Will you invest in our Planet?
EarthDay.org
#earthday2023
#greenschool
#climatechange
#sustainabledevelopmentgoals
#sdgs
#InvestInOurPlanet
Cúl cúl cúl!! Mrs Kelly’s girls enjoying learning the skills of camogie today. A huge thanks to Ms. Comerford for organising and to Mr Mullarkey and. St Marys Secondary TY students for their excellent coaching. The girls loved their session today and can’t wait to get back on the pitch next week where the teams of Cork, Clare, Tipperary and Wexford will take on each other in a 2nd class blitz.
April showers bring May flowers was the theme of todays Art lesson in Ms. Máiréad’s room. We constructed our own cloud paper chains and gave our clouds some personality! 🌨️⛈️🌦️🌈🌈It was fun🤩🤩. Well done everyone👏👏👏
Our Parents’ Association held a hugely successful Easter Raffle recently. It’s was greatly supported and raised €6518! We are very grateful to our Parents’ Association Committee for all the work they put in to making this such a wonderful success! Your effort is much appreciated!
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Ms O’ Toole’s Senior Infants were busy bee’s today creating some cloud rainbows for Spring!💗🌸
Ms. Mairéad's & Ms. Scanlan's classes had a ball today at the Dr. Dolittle interactive play. There were laughs of delight all round and our pupils even braved the stage themselves with enthusiasm and confidence! We were so proud of them 👏👏👏Thank you to the talented actors for a high quality and entertaining show!! # Drama # Music # Nenagh Arts Centre
Our 6th classes had a very busy day between basketball, coding and tennis! 🏀👩💻🎾
It was fantastic to get out into the sunshine and enjoy playing some tennis with our coach Dermot who taught us a lot in a very short space of time. 😁☀️🎾
After today, there may be some new budding tennis players in our midst. 🌟
Thanks to Tennis Ireland for providing every pupil in our school with a tennis lesson over the last few weeks, it is fantastic to see so many of our pupils being active and enjoying the outdoors. 🙌
#nenaghlawntennisclub
#ActiveSchools
Second Class really enjoyed playing tennis today with Dermot Shields (Tennis Ireland)🎾 We learned lots of new skills and finished up by rallying with our partners. It was great fun! 😊☀️
Senior Infants busy at work in the sunshine repotting our lettuce seedlings. 🌞☀️Fingers crossed for a bumper crop🥬🥬🥬👏👏
Congratulations to Alina & Bella in 6th class who both won Free Yearly Membership to Nenagh Warriors Basketball Club for their fantastic talent and skill. Well done girls 🏀🏀🏀 ⚫🔴⚫🔴
#nenaghwarriors
#nenaghwarriorsbasketballclub
Ms. Máiréad’s Senior Infants were busy today conducting interviews with our classmates. 🎤We found out some new things we didn’t know about our friends🧐. It was fun! 📹🎥🤳🎤
Great day out at the Primary 5’s. ⚽️🥅☀️ The sun is shining! 💕⚽️🙌🏻 We reached the semi- finals and we are so proud of all of the girls today. 🥰⚽️🙌🏻🫶🏼♥️
Special Class 1 are getting ready to plant out our peas, salad and sunflowers that we've been growing in class. #SuperValuLetsGROW #greenschool #biodiversity #GIY
First Class enjoyed painting and decorating their own Easter eggs during art class. There was a wonderful display of colourful patterns and designs.🐣 😊 ❤️
First Class wish all of our school community a very happy and healthy Easter.🐰 😍 💕
Cáisc Shona Daoibh go léir. 🐣🐰