23rd June 2020
6th Class Photo Story!
Here is a special Photo Story for our Graduating 6th Class. Take a walk down memory lane from 2012 to 2020! Congratulations to all!
23rd June 2020
Congratulations 6th Class!
Congratulations to our wonderful and talented 6th Class who are officially graduating from Scoil Naomh Fiachra today. We are so proud of you and we wish you every success and good fortune in the future. Thank you for being such wonderful students in our school!
22nd June 2020
Outstanding Attendance!
We are very proud of all of our students in Scoil Naomh Fiachra, who have excellent attendance every year.
This year, we congratulate Evan from 6th Class, who has been presented with a very special award for his outstanding attendance record. From his first day in Junior Infants to his last day in 6th Class, Evan has never been absent for a single day of primary school. This is a super achievement. Well done to Evan and his family!
22nd June 2020
Message from Múinteoir John!!!
Many thanks to Múinteoir John from RTÉ Home School Hub, who has sent a very special message to our 6th Class Pupils!
Junior Room Art!
Wow! Children from the Junior Room have been working really hard at home. We are all so proud of you. Have a look at some examples of the terrific art work that is being done at home. Well done all!
19th May 2020 – Green Schools News
We are delighted to announce that Scoil Naomh Fiachra has been awarded it’s 4th Green Flag which is based on the theme of Travel. Congratulations to all of the participants on our Green School Committee and to all members of our school community for embracing our Green Schools initiatives. This is a fantastic achievement, well done all!
14th May 2020 – Sacrament of Confirmation
Today would have been a very special day in our school and our parish. Our 5th and 6th Class students were due to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation today. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of those students and their families. We hope that you still have a special day, that you enjoy some precious family time and even have some treats.
Important Message from Lisdowney Parish
As a result of restrictions which are being imposed on people due to the Coronavirus (Covid – 19), there will be no Masses in Lisdowney Parish this coming weekend or weekday until 29th March. There will be a review after that date. Our Parish Priest, Fr. Pat O’ Farrell, will keep the situation under review, in line with guidance from the HSE on religious and social gatherings.
Please note that Mass will be broadcast on both Local Radio Stations this Sunday as follows:
(a) Bishop Dermot Farrell will celebrate Mass at 9.30am to be broadcast on KCLR 96FM.
(b) Community Radio Kilkenny City will broadcast mass live at 10.00am from St. Canices Church.
Apologies for the inconvenience – but we, as a parish and community, must do all in our power to remove the threat of the Coronavirus (Covid 19) from our parish community, protecting especially the most vulnerable.
God’s Grace, Blessing and Protection Upon our Community.
Work You Can Do At Home! Have a Go!
At the following link you will find some activities that you can do at home during the school closure. Remember it is OK if you are not able to do all activities, just try your best! Thank you.
Please click here for more details.
Covid 19 (Coronavirus)
We would like to direct your attention to updated guidance issued, by the Department of Education, on talking to children and young people about Covid-19. Please click here for more details.
The Department of Education and Skills has received an updated letter for all schools from the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health, Dr Tony Holohan, addressing the recent school closure as a result of the confirmed Covid-19 case. Please click here for more details.
Open Night
Scoil Naomh Fiachra will hold an Open Evening for all current and prospective Parents and Students on Thursday 27th February 2020 from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Please pass on this information to anyone that may be interested. Please click here for more details. Thank you.
AED/Defibrillator
Well done to the Clontubrid Community Group who received a grant from the Kilkenny Local Development Committee to purchase a new Automated External Defibrillator. This is now installed on the external wall of Scoil Naomh Fiachra!
Tin Whistle
Thanks very much to Paula Dowling, who has completed 10 weeks of Tin Whistle Lessons with all students in the school. Well done to all students who worked very hard and have yet again made great progress. We give a special congratulations to the Junior Infant Class (pictured) who have only just started playing. Well done all!
Friendship Week
In Scoil Naomh Fiachra we value our school as a kind, caring and inclusive community of learning. With this in mind, our school celebrated Friendship Week in early November 2019. Throughout this week, students were actively engaged in lessons about the importance of Friendship. Activities included: Random Acts of Kindness, Making Friendship Bracelets, Compliment Boxes etc. The Senior Room students were given buddies from the Middle and Junior Rooms. We are very proud of how all students engaged in fun friendship activities with one another. Many thanks to our hard-working Parents’ Council who arranged an Anti-Bullying Talk for parents on the 27th November 2019.
Lisdowney Under 21 Hurling Success
Congratulations to the Lisdowney Under 21 Hurling Team who triumphed in the Kilkenny Under 21 Hurling Championship Roinn B Final on Sunday 15th December. Thanks to the team members who visited Scoil Naomh Fiachra with the Cup on Monday 16th December. We are very proud of all of our past pupils who are on the panel. Congratulations to all.
Christmas Plays
Our school was truly buzzing with Music and Drama on the 17th December 2019 as all students participated in their Christmas Plays. The Junior Room put on a truly entertaining and dazzling display with their production of It’s A Party. We met some familiar faces as students from the Middle Room took on the roles of the school’s teachers in their hilarious production of Tinsel and Tea Towels. Our Senior Room’s production of The Peace Child certainly impressed the audience. They transported those watching to the Mystical Land of Mambica where two tribes were at war until the birth of a very special child. Well done to all teachers and children for their hard work in preparing for the plays, practise really does make perfect! A special thanks to all parents for their help with costumes and learning lines at home, during what is already a very busy time of year.
Team Hope Christmas Shoe Box Appeal
Congratulations and thank you to all of the students and their families who generously created and filled Christmas Shoe-Boxes which were donated to the Team Hope Christmas Shoe Box Appeal. These boxes were collected by volunteers from Team Hope on Friday 15th November.
Math’s Week Quiz Winners
Math’s Week Quiz Runners Up
Math’s Week Quiz
Halloween Dress Up Day
I hope you enjoy the photostory 🙂
March
Before we had to abruptly leave school, the children were working very hard and having lots of fun at the same time. Children learned all about Ancient Egypt in History,. In geography they learned all about Egypt today and compared their lives to that of Egyptian children. They made Egyptian Pharaoh masks in Art . In STEM in groups they designed a pyramid using cocktail sticks and clay.
February
As part of Catholics Schools week we had Grandparents/V.I.P day. We had a lovely prayer service in the church and then grandparents and V.I.Ps came back to the school and the children interviewed them about what life was like when they were young. After that , they played some board games together.
Children did their first individual project on the People of the Tigris and Euphrates river or on Mesopotamia which means “land between two rivers”. The children did fantastic work and the projects were completed to a high standard. Well done everybody!
The children singing Bingo in a music lesson.
The children had a wonderful opportunity to see the annual hunt that takes place in Clontubrid. The children rubbed some of the friendly horses and saw the hounds and lots of their questions were answered by the local people going on the hunt.
December
Some pictures from this years Christmas Play ” Tinsel and Tea-Towels”. The children blew us all away with their fantastic acting skills. We definitely have a few television stars in the making!
This year we are doing Tea-Towels and Tinsels for our Christmas Play. Below are the songs we are learning for it. I hope you enjoy singing them!
Snowglobe activity “If I were stuck in a snowglobe”
In art , the children drew a snowy background scene and cut out a miniature picture of themselves and stuck it on a blue piece of card and glued a plastic bowl around their snowy scene. Then they wrote an imaginative story about what it was like to be stuck in a snowglobe. Some children wanted to stay there forever drinking hot chocolate in a cafe, others wanted to get home to their families and sit by the fire!
October
Maths week:
The children took pictures and we discussed them using our maths eyes. Our winner drew their very own picture with lots of opportunities to use maths language while discussing the picture.
Children thoroughly enjoyed maths stations. We had three different stations and each child spent 15 mins at each station.They played maths games using the interactive whiteboard, maths board games. and completed master your maths .
The children estimated how many sweets were in a jar and the winner with the closest estimation got to keep the jar of sweets. Lucky for everyone the winner was very generous and shared the sweets with the class before bringing the rest home to share with his family.
Stone Age cave art
Oíche Shamhna
Best Maths: Discussed objects that are symmetrical and the children made their own symmetrical artwork.Best dressed halloween costumes 2019! Well done to everyone, it was a frightful day !!
STEM CHALLAN GE: What group can make the sturdiest bridge? To test this we put marbles in a cup and placed it on the bridges. The children really took on this challenge well .Everyone persevered and used problem solving skills to overcome obstacles.
September
September has been a very busy month in our classroom and throughout the school. We would like to welcome our two new students Nathan and Logan to our classroom. We are delighted to have you both in Scoil Naomh Fiachra. They have felt very welcomed to the school and are settling in very well. Everyone has settled in well and are having fun while they are working hard!
The theme for September’ was ” Myself”, children learnt all about their own self- identity. Children did their very own selfie’s. They completed me féin as gaeilge. In art they drew and coloured half of their face.
STEM Challenge: Who can make the tallest tower using shoes?
Religion: The Children learned about the Blessed Trinity.They using three colours to make one friendship bracelet which symbolises the idea of 3 people in one. God the son, God the father and God the holy spirit. The children showed great leadership and team skills during this activity.
