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Ms Máiréad’s Senior Infants made some clay hedgehogs today in art. We know lots about these spiky creatures. 🦔🦔💕💕
We are super proud of our young athletes from 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th who took part in the Tipperary Athletics Cross Country Competition this week. 🤩
Every girl put in a huge effort and fought off some stiff competition to bring home medals! 🥰🏅
Our 5th & 6th group came home with a silver team medal, with Maeve winning an individual bronze medal also! 😁🌟🏅
Our 3rd & 4th group placed 4th overall in the team event with Holly bringing home an individual gold medal! 🙌🌟🥇
Well done to everyone 👏
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Ms. Boland was delighted to welcome 18 new Junior Infant to her class this year! They have all settled in very well and are getting used to the long day in school. They are all enjoying playing together and making new friends and have adapted very quickly to the classroom routine 👯♂️👯🏫🎒
The Junior Infants have been busy bees with literacy activities, learning lots of new sounds, practising their nursery rhymes, using beanbags in P.E., matching, cutting✏️📕🏫🚸🖍️✂️🏀🏃♂️🎼
We are looking forward to a great year ahead ❤️💙📝👩🏫
Walk to School Week at St. Mary’s takes place next week October 2nd-6th. 🚶🏻♀️🚶🚶♂️Please make a special effort to walk some, or all of the way to school on Wow Day Wednesday 4th October or any day next week. Let’s smash our walking record from last year! 💚💚✅✅
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Ms Fahy’s Senior Infants thoroughly enjoyed their first training session with Pa today. They learned lots of new skills and had great fun in the process.
They are already looking forward to next week. Well done everyone!😊 ⭐️ 🏅
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Ms Máiréad’s Senior Infants began our GAA coaching today with some fundamental movement skills. A big thanks to Pa for a very enjoyable session today. We remembered some of our old skills and learned some new ones as well as having lots of fun. Well done everyone!👏👏👌👌🏅🏅🏐
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Listen to episode 23 of the HSE Talking Health and Wellbeing Podcast which focuses on Healthy Lunchboxes for Kids and much more.
School routines are starting again and parents are getting to grips with what foods to put into those lunchboxes and what to avoid. Marian McBride, Dietetic Lead, HSE Health and Wellbeing discusses the importance of a balanced diet to ensure children develop a healthy relationship with food, along with tips on how to introduce new healthier foods into children’s daily diets. Marian gives ideas on what to include and how to introduce children to a variety of different healthy food regularly.
Recognising parents are busy, she talks about different opportunities to introduce healthier options into children’s meals or snack times.
Listen through your favourite streaming service now:
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Ms O’ Toole’s ASD class had a super week this week! 💛👏🏻✨📚 We practised our fine motor skills and learned all about our colour of the week- yellow. 💛✨ We went on a nature walk and collected some leaves for our Autumn Art where we stuck on leaves for our squirrel’s tail. 🐿️🍁🍂🧡 We used forks to create spikes for our hedgehogs 🦔 and we learned all about our colours and created balloons for our clowns! 🌈🌈 We read our story of the week “A squash and a squeeze.”📖🤍
Senior Infants finished painting their self portraits today and they did a beautiful job 🎨 🖌️ They also coloured some lovely autumn pictures as they have been learning all about the signs of autumn, the hedgehog 🦔and the squirrel 🐿️ then they danced to ‘The Colour Dance Game.’ It was great fun! Well done everyone! ⭐️👏😊
Congratulations to our Senior Infant pupil Daria who recently won a medal for playing football ⚽️ 🥅 Well done Daria. We are very proud of you! ⭐️ 🏅 👏
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The boys in Ms. Mairead's Autism Class are on cloud nine with their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) projects this September. Through use of a digital app and /or visual instructions they have created finished pieces based on Space, vehicles and Mario, some of our favourite areas of interest at the moment. Well done boys 👏👏👏👏💙
First Class had a wonderful morning at Judo class with their instructor James🥋🤗!! They also enjoyed learning some Japanese words and counting to five in Japanese 5️⃣. First class are looking forward to their bus trip out to Ardcroney for Judo class next Tuesday already 🚌😀!!!
Supporting the wonderful Dromineer Literary Festival and keeping up our tradition of poetry writing…. sixth class entries ready for the competition…..
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Senior Infants have had a busy few weeks back at school. We have enjoyed revising our numbers & making sets. We played some games and took part in relays during PE and we enjoyed some Golden time also! Well done everyone! ☀️🥰
Ms O’ Toole’s ASD class have settled very well into their new school and class! 📚✏️📘 We have been very busy this September learning all about the colour red, working on our fine motor skills, making puzzles, learning our days of the week, practising our new sounds of the week, and enjoying our outside playground. 🛝💛 Well done to all the boys and girls! ✨✏️
Ms.Majella's Junior Infants have settled so well into our school routine.😀👏👏🏫👩🏫
We are really busy and learning lots, such as our sounds, rhymes, songs, colours, matching, cutting and how to hold our pencil correctly. ✏️🖍✂️🎵💿📚🔴🔵🟢🟡 We love listening to stories and really enjoy playing games and using beanbags in P.E.📚🏃🏃♀️
Big Congratulations to 2nd class pupil Ava for her recent achievements in Irish dancing. Well done Ava, keep up the great work 💃🥇🏆 #ActiveSchools
Today is International Dot Day, a day to encourage children to be creative and realise their potential! 🥰🌟
Ms. Comerford's class listened to the story "The Dot" by Peter H Reynolds and created their own masterpieces 🎨🖼️👩🎨🧑🎨
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Ms. Máiréad’s Senior Infants busy at work on their self portraits today. Nice work everyone🎨🖌️🖼️👏👏
Míle buíochas to all the staff in Nenagh Library for setting up 2nd class with their very own library cards! They are so excited to visit the library this year and avail of the wonderful selection of books that Nenagh library has to offer. 📖📚 #readingisfun
Bhain Rang 6 an-sult as an glár rothaíochta
'Cycle Right' inniu. Chuir na páisti go mór lena guid scileanna rothaíocht. Tá súil again go bhfeicfidh tú iad ag úsáid na scileanna sin go muiníneach agus iad ag rothaíocht thart timpeall na háite ar bhealach sábháilte! 🚴♀️ 🚲 🌞
2nd class throughly enjoyed their first judo lesson today, many thanks to James for facilitating! They practiced and developed lots of skills and even learned some Japanese! 🥋🇯🇵#ActiveSchools #judo
Ms Máiréad’s Senior Infants enjoying some well earned down time after a warm and busy week☀️🌞🌅🕶️. Well done everybody on completing your first full week in Senior Infants👏👏😎😎👌👌🤩🤩
📢 Nenagh Éire Óg Youth Academy are taking new members.... Contact details can be found on the image attached 😁
Congratulations to our 5th class pupil Dina who excelled at the recent John Dempsey Swim Gala held in UL! 🏊♀️🏅
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Junior Infants 2023 ✨👯♂️🚸📕✏️
We have begun our journey in St. Mary’s and we are having so much fun😊
We are making new friends and learning each others names 🦸♂️🦸♀️🦹
We read a story called ‘The Kissing Hand’ which we all really enjoyed!📚👩🏫
We have showed our teacher how good we are at colouring!
We are looking forward to a great year📚✏️🏫😊👏🪅
A huge welcome to all the girls and boys in Ms. Majella's Junior Infants. We hope you have a wonderful time here in St. Mary's Primary School.🥰💞
Ms. Forde & Mrs. O’Connor’s Second Class had an amazing time at the library today where we got set up for a busy year of reading! 📚
Nenagh Hockey Club training resumes this week!!
Wishing both of our wonderful graduating classes of 2023 the very best of luck over the next few days as they begin secondary school. Go n- eirí an t-ádh libh go léir.
A fantastic opportunity to attend a Family Well-being Workshop…..
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Nenagh Éire Óg Summer Camp is filling up!! ⏳⚾🥅
The 3 day camp runs in McDonagh Park from Tuesday 15th Aug to Thursday 17th August, 10am to 1pm. 📅😁
Every child registered in the camp is entered into a draw to win a signed Tipperary jersey!🙌 💙💛 🙌
Secure your child's place by clicking on the attached link.. 👇
We are very fortunate and grateful to have such a supportive club in our community. Nenagh Éire Óg have provided our school with coaching all year and they also sponsored our lovely Junior Infants with a new hurley to get them started on their GAA journey. 🙏💙👏🥰
Money raised from the Summer Camp will be put back into funding more support for all schools in the parish. 👏💙🙏
Hard luck to our mighty Tipperary Premier Junior camogie team today. A great display of camogie but unfortunately fell short at the final whistle.
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One huge moment to celebrate was for our 4th class pupil Ella Donelan Houlihan who was flag bearer today as the teams ran out to take their positions on the pitch!
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Ella loves playing camogie with her local Nenagh Éire Óg club and was a fantastic addition to our u11 team this year! Ella's dad JP is a selector on the Junior team.
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Hopefully we will see Ella in the blue and gold of Tipperary in the future and perhaps climb the steps of Croke Park one day.🏆 Well done Ella! 👏
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Best of luck to our past pupil Rachel and her Tipperary team mates in the All Ireland Junior Camogie Final tomorrow in Croke Park 💙💛
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#TipperaryCamogieNext up is Rachel Maher
Club: Nenagh Éire Óg
Playing position: Wing Back
Occupation: Social Care Worker
Camogie Player that inspired you: Grace O'Brien
Best thing about being on the Tipp Junior Panel: Having the craic with all the girls
Will you be there to support Rachel and the rest of the Junior Panel this Sunday 6th August?
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Best of luck to the Irish women’s soccer team today who play against Canada! ☘️☘️ We were so delighted we got the opportunity to meet Irish player Louise Quinn last year in the Aviva Stadium! She gave the girls amazing advice and she is a true inspiration! ⭐️ COYGIG ☘️☘️☘️
Well done Sophia, great to see all our students reading during their summer holidays. 📚 🌞 🕶️Sophia Prize Winner of "The Question of The Week" week 6 and her friend Leah, collect her prize in #Nenagh Library.
In 'the Little Princess', some of the characters visit what sort of library to discuss the missing girl, whom they have nicknamed the "un-fairy princess"?
Correct answer: A, The Indian Gentleman’s Library
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We had a great day out yesterday first we headed to Moneygall playground 🛝 ☀️ We stopped off in Barack Obama Plaza for some lunch and ice-cream 🍦 We then headed to Templemore Park for a lovely walk, we saw the ducks and swans 🦆 🦢 We had some lovely karaoke on the way home🎤🎶🤍
The boys and girls had a great day today where we got on the bus and headed off on an adventure! ☀️⛅️🕶️ We stopped off in Newtown and got some hot chocolate and treats and enjoyed the sun. ☀️☕️ We then headed towards Castlelough and played in their amazing playground and went on a forest walk. 🌳 The sun was shining so we decided to go to Garrykennedy where we got to go to the harbour and look at all the boats and spotted some animals too on our way back! 🐴🐐 We had an amazing day!! 💗🥰☀️⛅️😎🫶🏼
Thank you to Olive our amazing staff member who came into camp today and did some amazing face paint on the boys and girls! 🎨🖌️👩🎨 We loved it! 💗😎🙌🏻🫶🏼
The boys and girls had an amazing week here in St. Mary’s for our Summer Programme. ✨☀️ We visited the post office and looked for our addresses and posted some letters to our school. 💌📮We went to Jenny’s kitchen to enjoy some hot chocolate and buns on a wet miserable day. ☕️🌧️☔️ We enjoyed Zumba with Christine and learned some new dance moves! 🕺🪩💃 We took a trip to Tesco and bought our ingredients that we needed to make toasties! We had our shopping lists ready so we knew exactly what we needed! 🛒🛍️ We made some yummy toasties (which the teachers enjoyed!!) 🥪🍞We ended the week with a nice relaxing morning with Nora who came in to do some yoga! 🧘♀️🧘 Last but not least we went to jump n gyms for some Friday fun!!!! 🤩🙌🏻 We already can’t wait for next week!! 🙌🏻💗👏🏻
❤💙 Some of our fabulous pupils have been enjoying the first two weeks of our Summer Programme. They have enjoyed plenty of in class activities such as art, literacy, SPHE, water play, science, sequencing, typing, music, cooking, PE, construction, road safety to name a few!!
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❤💙 They have also enjoyed some outside trips to the playground, hot chocolate in Steeples, a visit to the pet shop, the library, shopping in Tesco, a minibeast hunt, hot chocolate in Jenny's Kitchen, the castle, the botanical garden and Jump n Gyms!
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❤💙 A big thank you to Christine Nevin who came to do Zumba💃🕺 and to Nora Shanahan who came to do yoga 🧘♂️🧘♀️ with the children!! Roll on the next 2 fun filled weeks! ❤💙
Our students in St. Mary's Primary receiving our first Gaelbhratach flag this year. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Well done to our boys who received an engraved medal and certificate yesterday for their end of year Graduation. We are beyond proud of them. 🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓🎉👏🙏Have a great summer from all in St. Mary's 🌞🏖️🌈
One last big job for Ms.Mary Ryan's 3rd class today was to harvest our strawberries and vegetables from the school polytunnel. 🌱🍓🧄🧅🌱
Throughout the year we have really enjoyed the process of sowing these seeds and bulbs and following the guidance of the GIY Grow It Yourself programme in growing these vegetables. The website www.giy.ie is absolutely jam packed with information and easy to follow instructions on how to grow your own fruits and vegetables at home no matter how big or small your space.🌱🧅🧄🍓🍅🥔🍄🥦🥬🥕🌱
Each girl took home vegetables of their choosing and look forward to adding it to their dinner!
Happy cooking!! 👩🏾🍳🥧😋
#giyireland #GreenSchools
Congratulations to Ava ⭐️, winner of St.Mary’s Primary School Sportsperson of the Year Award 2023. This accolade is very well deserved by this young lady who exemplifies true sportsmanship. A lovely conclusion to another year of wonderful sporting success for our school teams and individuals. 🏉 ⚽️ 🎾 🥅 🏑 🏀 🏊♀️
After all, it’s not every week you pick up an award and celebrate your birthday! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ms O’ Toole couldn’t be more prouder of her Senior Infants and all of their hard work over the last year. 📚✏️💗 Best of luck to all the girls going into 1st Class in September and that they have an amazing Summer! 😎☀️🌞 They are going home today with their medals and certificates along with amazing memories! 🌟🏅😊🙌🏻
Ms Scanlan's class would like to wish all the pupils, parents and staff of St. Mary's Primary School Nenagh a very happy and fun-filled summer!
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Information on the Primary Curriculum Framework including language and maths curriculumThank you to Hannah & Olivia from Hockey Ireland for giving Second Class their first ever hockey lesson yesterday. They really enjoyed it!! 😃 🏑 🥅
Pizza Party!!🍕🍕🍕🍕Senior Infants had a fantastic morning thanks to Supermacs and their wonderful staff. We all got to make our own pizzas and put on the toppings. 🫑🌶️🌽🌽🧅We then got to go behind the counter in Supermacs to put the pizzas in the oven. 👩🍳👩🍳Best of all, we got to eat our fantastic creations. 🍽️🍽️😋😋It was a wonderful day. 🥳🥳Thank you to Raphayella for winning us such a lovely prize. 👏👏It was certainly a day to remember. A massive thank you to everyone on the Supermacs team for making our time there so special. 👌👌😎
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First Class enjoyed an active start this morning and enjoyed a wonderful hockey lesson with Coach Hannah, from "Hockey Ireland"🏑 ,as part of #Active Schools Week⚽🏈🎾🏸🏏🥅⛳🏐🤩
Mrs. O’Connor’s Junior Infants had such an amazing time learning some hockey skills today as part of their Active Schools Week. Their instructors Olivia and Hannah were extremely helpful and created such a fun atmosphere. Thanks so much to Hockey Ireland who funded our Active Schools Hockey Day today for all classes in the school 🏑 🥅 🏒
Another first for Ms Scanlan's class today!Thanks #hockeyireland and especially Olivia and Hannah for our first ever hockey lesson. #ActiveSchools
Senior Infants had a wonderful opportunity to avail of some hockey coaching today from the fantastic coaches from Hockey Ireland Hannah and Olivia. 🏑🥅We might have some future hockey stars in our midst. 🤩⭐️💫Well done everyone and a big thank you to ‘Hockey Ireland’ for sharing their knowledge with us. We really enjoyed it! 👏👏
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Congratulations to Aibhlin for her fantastic dancing achievements. She earned no less than three medals at the weekend. 🏅🏅Well done Aibhlin. We are all very proud of you!👌💃🏽💃🏽👏💪💪
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Ms O Toole is so proud of her pupil Freys who won a medal at the weekend for her Irish dancing! 🏅🌟Well done Freya! 💃☘️
Ms O Toole’s Senior Infants enjoyed their first hockey lesson today! 🏑🥅 Thank you to Hannah who taught us some amazing hockey skills. We have some future players here in St. Mary’s! Well done girls! 🙌🏻🌟🏑 #hockeyireland
More fun was had today in our play area and also participating in an introduction to hockey with Hockey Ireland who took such great care of us!!
💥💫⭐️💫🌟💫First Class really enjoyed Fun Day!🥳🥳
A special word of thanks to St. Mary's Secondary School for the use of their wonderful hall. 👏
Thanks also to our wonderful Parents Association for contributing to this great day.🥳💙❤️💞💫💕💥💕⭐️💕🌟
Both 4th Classes had a “funtastic” day for our school’s fun day! A big thanks to our amazing parents association and to St Mary’s Secondary School for letting us use their facilities. A great day was had by all ♥️
"Oh what fun we had!" Ms Scanlan's class rocked all the activities today, from the inflatables to the Zumba. They also had ice cream which vanished before Ms Scanlan got the camera out!! Huge thanks to St Mary's Secondary Nenagh and our own Parents' Council for supporting this Fun Day. We'll sleep well tonight 💤💤
Ms. Majella & Mrs. O’Connor’s Junior Infants had an amazing day today on their ‘Fun Day’. We started off the day with a visit to St. Mary’s Secondary School where Adventure World Summer Camps had wonderful inflatable activities for us to take part in. The children thoroughly enjoyed the ‘Bucking Bronco’ and ‘Wipe-out’. When we arrived back to school the girls and boys took part in Zumba dance lessons with Christine Nevin 💃🏼🕺🏻. Our day was complete when we saw the ice-cream van coming to the school gates and every child was able to enjoy their cone outside.
Many thanks to St. Mary’s Secondary School for allowing us to use their facilities. A big thanks also to our Parents Association for supporting the activities we got to take part in today and for the ice-cream van which went down a treat 😋🍦
Ms Comerford's 6th class visited the library today to collect an activity book celebrating Ireland's Womens Soccer Team participating in the World Cup next month. ☘️⚽🇮🇪🌍🏆👭 Come on you girls in green! 💚
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🧡🪅 3rd class absolutely loved our Fun Day today! 🧡🪅
🌞🌞🌞🌞 Thanks to the Parents Association for our ice cream van treats! 🍦🍦🍦🍦
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FUN, FUN, FUN and more FUN! Ms O Toole’s Senior Infants had an amazing day today for their fun day! 🕺💃🛝 Thank you to the Heffernans and the secondary school for our inflatables, Christine for Zumba, and most importantly the ice cream van!! 🍦🍦 Thanks to our amazing parents association we had a fun filled day!! 👏🏻😊🙌🏻😎
⭐️What a fabulous day 3rd class had today! Fun…fun.. and more fun, topped off with a delicious ice cream. Thanks to the parents association for their support and to St Mary’s secondary school for the use of the hall. A great way to spend our last Tuesday in third class ⭐️
The boys and girls had a fantastic day today for our 'Fun Day' events. A huge Thank You🙏 to our Parents Association for supporting the activities🎉🏰 and ice-cream van🍦🍦🍦🍦 to create this memorable event for our students and to St. Mary's Secondary School for so kindly sharing their facilities with us. It is very much appreciated!!🍀Finally Thank You to Christine Nevin for such an enjoyable Zumba session 👏👏👏👏
Second Class had a brilliant time during fun day today! ⭐️ 🏃♀️ 💃🏼 A special thanks to the Parents Association for supporting this wonderful day and also to St. Mary’s Secondary School for the use of their school hall. We had so much fun!!
Fun, fun, fun….. 🏅🏅Senior Infants had the best day ever at our Fun Day today. 🥳🥳A huge thanks to St Marys Secondary School for the use of their fantastic facilities. 🥅🥅Thank you also to the Parents Association here at St Marys for their continuous support. The children really enjoyed their ice creams! 🍦🍦😎😎
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Junior Infants have loved learning the skills of hurling and camogie over the past two months. Huge thanks to Nenagh Éire Óg for sponsoring our lovely new hurleys. 👏👏 We were delighted to take them home and we will keep practising!!😀🤩
