Pupils from 1st to 6th class were very fortunate to meet an engineer from Intel today. He explained how Intel works and his job as an engineer in the plant. Children were very intrigued by the work in the plant and some of the children got to try on the hazard suit which people wear to work Intel. He had great activities for the classes to do after the presentation from making planes to quizzes. A sincere thank you to Philip for his inspiring visit. 

Maths for Fun concluded in the senior school last week. The Senior School enjoyed the 4 weeks of Maths for Fun where they got to play Maths games in groups with their classmates and a parent or teacher. This also gave them the opportunity to develop their mathematical skills. A huge thank you to all the parents who volunteered over the last few weeks, your support is much appreciated.  

Bhain gach duine sult agus spraoi as na himeachtaí go léir i rith Seachtain na Gaeilge. Bhí ceolchoirm, Ionsaí na hInse, cluichí agus Tráth na gCeist inniu. Maith sibh go léir!

This week the children had great fun learning all about engineering and the role of the profession in their lives. Children had the opportunity to learn about the various different types of engineering over the course of the week and participate in experiments in their classes. On Friday afternoon, the children had the opportunity to become engineers themselves and make moving robots, trucks, tanks, skeletons and scribble robots. It was a lovely afternoon and everyone really enjoyed it. We definitely have some budding engineers here in school after the fantastic questions,  great problem solving and creative solutions!  

Well done to all of the children who made a great effort in dressing up for World Book Day today! It was a wonderful day in school and the children had a fantastic time talking about their favourite books. Everyone looked fantastic (and the teachers too)! It was a busy day in school and the children got to partake in lots of book themed activities including; a World Book Day costume parade, 'Show and Tell', Buddy Reading. book reviews, designing a bookmark, designing a book cover! The teachers joined in the fun and got to read a story to another class!  The day concluded with a book quiz which was greatly enjoyed by all. 

Tag rugby lessons started today with Joe from the Munster Rugby Branch for 1st class to 6th class pupils. It is a fantastic opportunity for the children and they really enjoyed it!

Today marked the end of 'Maths for Fun' for this year in the Junior School. The Junior School have immensely enjoyed the 'Maths for Fun Hour' for the last 4 weeks. The children had great fun playing maths games with their friends and have developed their mathematical skills. They really enjoyed rotating stations and playing a range of maths games. A sincere thank you to all the parents who volunteered over the last few weeks. Your help and support is deeply appreciated. It was an overwhelmingly positive experience for all involved. 

We had a very enjoyable first Grandparents' Day in our school today! It started with mass, followed by refreshments for the grandparents in the school and finally the grandparents got to visit their grandchildren in their classrooms. We were delighted to welcome all the grandparents to the school and the children were thrilled to see them! Thank you to the Parents' Association for their help with the refreshments, to Fr. Lambe for a lovely mass, to Mrs. Hayes and Ms. Shanahan for organising the day and finally thank you to all the grandparents for visiting! 

Maths for Fun started this morning in the Junior School. The children had great fun playing Maths games with their friends and developing their numeracy skills. A special 'Thank You' to all the parents who volunteered to help out, we really appreciate your support. We are looking forward to next week already! 

6th Class have come to the end of their French classes. We celebrated with a French breakfast and enjoyed croissants, brioche, baguettes and hot chocolate as well as tasting French cheeses and paté.

We wanted to share what we have been learning, so we visited all the other classes in the school and taught them a few French words and phrases.
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Even though our classes have finished, we will try to keep using our French in the months ahead!

Congratulations to all the pupils of St. Patrick's J.N.S. who participated in our 'Reading Tree' Initiative. It was a great success and encouraged our pupils to read for pleasure at home and in school. Thank you to all the parents for their continued support and encouragement throughout the initiative. We hope everyone will continue to read for pleasure! 

Congratulations to all our Christmas raffle winners. Thank you all for supporting the raffle aid of the Parents' Association. 
We hope all our pupils and their families have a very happy Christmas and a healthy New Year. 

At our Christmas assembly today, 6th Class were presented with a cert and French book from Mrs. Hayes after completing the 'Say Yes to Languages' course. Thank you Mrs. Hayes for your work with 6th class. 

We also celebrated Christmas Jumper Day and there was lots of Christmas spirit in the air! 

Well done to our Christmas raffle winners and thank you all for supporting the raffle. 

We wish you all a very Happy Christmas and New Year. 

A great day was had by all at the pantomime 'Peter Pan' at the University Concert Hall in Limerick. We all really enjoyed performance. 

Thank you to all our pupils, their parents and the staff for their generous contributions to the 'Make A Change' Initiative. Your kindness and generosity is greatly appreciated and it will help bring joy to many families this Christmas. 

Senior Infants and 1st Class made rice krispie buns as part of procedural writing. Everyone really enjoyed making the buns. They tasted delicious! 

On Tuesday 13th December, children performed their nativity 'Prickly Hay' in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Drangan.  Well done to all the boys and girls on their heart warming performance. Everyone worked so hard in the rehearsals and performed so well.  A big thank you to Ms. Dunne for all her hard work too. 

​This term, our Sixth Class pupils have been participating in a series of language classes with Mrs Hayes. While our main focus has been to learn some basic French, we are also developing an appreciation of and curiosity about languages in general.
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So far in French we have been learning to use greetings, ask how someone is feeling, count and say our age and name colours and classroom objects. It’s great to see the children develop their language skills, be curious about other languages and enjoy their learning!

We had great fun for dress up day today. Congratulations to our winners of 'Guess the Sweets in the Jar'.  Happy Halloween from St. Patrick's NS! We hope you all have a lovely midterm break. 

Well done to the children who represented the school at the Primary Schools Cross Country Competition in Marlfield today. Thankfully the weather held up and everyone enjoyed the day. As well as a number of individual medals, we had a number of team medals; 3rd and 4th class girls - 2nd place, 3rd and 4th class boys - 1st place, 5th and 6th class girls - 2nd place and 5th and 6th class boys - 1st place. Congratulations and well done to all!  

We're getting in the Halloween spirit learning about the history of Halloween and pumpkin carving! 

Children in Senior Infants have been enjoying fine motor stations with Mrs. Hayes and Ms. Walsh every Tuesday morning. They have been busy developing their cutting skills, sorting pom poms and match sticks using giant tweezers, creating patterns on their pegboards, making jigsaws and letter formation on the iPads. 

A very warm welcome to all our new Junior Infant pupils who are settling in very well into their new school. We hope they will be very happy here with us in St. Patrick's Junior N.S. We wish them a happy, fun-filled and productive year/ 

A huge thank you to Friends of Tipperary Football for gifting the school two footballs. They will be put to great use in our school!