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Senior Infants were very lucky to go to Ballywaltrim library to listen to a brilliant story by Icelandic storyteller Hjörleifur Stefánsson.
The Yarn Storytelling Festival has wonderful events on all over Bray from 9-17th November.
Special thanks to Ballywaltrim Library for getting us involved in this brilliant festival!
A big congratulations to all of the boys and girls who collected 215 shoeboxes for a very worthy cause. It was a great team effort by juniors and seniors alike. Well done Ms Hickson and Brigid for coordinating the project. This is nicely connected to our Amber Flag application. Remember our school motto everyone. “Caring for ourselves and looking out for others!”
We had great fun today playing bobbing apple ,hanging apple, drop the cherry and pin the head on the skeleton. Thank you Adam and Adrianne our parent helpers who joined us with Ms Murphy. We Really appreciate your help!
Congratulations to Galway who won our Final of the Mini ALL Ireland's.
They played very well and pipped Dublin in the end.
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This Tuesday was the last PEEP session for our Toddlers and they had an amazing time!
Time has flown once again and so many of these fabulous young children are now off to start their education in local preschools. We wish you all the best and hope to see you back here in two years time
Our Quarter Finals were played out this week with great fun by all children who opted in (from Snr Infants to 3rd class) during our yard breaks this Thursday and Friday.
Read moreMs Brady's 2nd class took time out from their classroom to do some outdoor art work in our award winning garden 😁🎨
Congratulations to all of our Wicklow Races Athletes who have had an amazing day performing in their races! We are very proud of all of you!!!
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We are delighted to announce that our school, St. Fergal's NS, have won 1st prize in the Bray School's Garden Competition.
It is such a great achievement and we want to say well done and thank you to everyone who have helped out with this, our school children, parents, staff and especially the fantastic group of volunteers from our Fergal's Green Fingers' group and Joe our Caretaker.
On Friday the 1st of March we had a lovely large group of volunteers from DELL Cherrywood come into our school and teach the business workshops of the Junior Achievement Ireland programme. The worked with 5 of our classes, Ms McDonald’s 2nd, Mr Creamer’s 3rd, Ms Kelly’s 3rd and both of our 5th classes.
Read moreA massive THANK YOU to our local Connect BNYP Youth Group who have worked together over the last few months to hanmale this beautiful rainbow Buddy bench for our Junior Yard.
Buddy Bench are part of a new idea that is evidence based to help promote our school's positive children’s mental health program. They help to empower children to foster friendships and eliminate loneliness in the playground.
If your child feels lonely in the yard they can sit at the Buddy Bench and find a friend. We will encourage our children to show friendship and kindness by inviting and including children who are sitting on the Buddy Bench into their games.
Our school children testing out the Buddy Bench for the first time!
The presentation of the Buddy Bench to our school ❤
Mr Sargent expressing our thanks for the amazing gift of the Buddy Bench from our local Connect BYNP youth group
Our last library visit of this school year was marked with an extra special storytelling session with our local librarian Margarette. We were thrilled so many parents were able to accompany us, especially as the weather was just a little bit wet!
Lately, there has been a huge amount of work going on to make sure our school garden looks its best.
Children from 3rd class, along with Zoe’s help were busy painting these lovely toadstool tables in our newly established fairy garden. They look brilliant!
St. Fergal's recently had a boys and girls team reach the finals of the Wicklow regional SPAR soccer 5-a-side tournament held in Arklow. Each team played very well in their respective groups.
The boys team played against two teams from Greystones, a team from Blessington and a team from Arklow. They won 2 and lost two of their 4 matches in a really competitive group and they were unlucky to lose out on a place in the final on goal difference.
The girls team were in a really tough group playing against teams from Arklow, Baltinglass and Kilcoole. Most of their games were really close and they again played with great commitment and energy.
Today we held a fabulous Pamper Me Morning for all our fantastic parents who have special need children in our school.
There was a great atmosphere here in the Parents Room with Jade doing bail appointment with Shellac or nail polish, Tanya transforming our hair with a dry cut, blow dry or curls and Shannon glamming us up with gorgeous make up.
The day started of with a very informative demonstration on how to curl hair correctly with a curling wand and was followed by a detailed explanation of how to build up make correctly and blend a Smokey eye look.
We are looking forward to our next Pamper Me Morning coming up soon where we hope to open the morning to any mother (or father) who wants a little pampering.
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4th class headed off on a day trip to Dalkey Heritage Centre. We got to see a small role play of people who actually lived in the castle. We got to meet the King & Queen who lived in the castle and we explored the castle. We met a scary craftsman who offered to cut one of girls hair and also examine another boys teeth.
Then we got to make our own coins using a heavy hammer and a stamp. At the end of the day we got to keep the coins we made and we received a certificate from the King & Queen. We really liked the King & Queen as they managed to convince Ms Smyth that we could have a night off homework and she agreed!! Result...!!!
There was some fantastic construction play in the yard today. Two separate groups of children created their own camping grounds with ‘fires’.
The children from different classes were thrilled with their fire pit. They worked really well as a team gathering their materials and constructing the pit.
The rain didn’t even deter them from their project.
Another group of children worked together to make a traditional camp fire.
The two groups loved sharing their creations and ideas with each other at the end.
Another wonderful example at how creativity can be encouraged in our large yard and grass space
Paper helicopters
Fingerprints
Dancing Raisins
Thanks Ms Murtagh our student teacher from DCU. We loved our hands on investigations in science today!
Claire our Irish Dancing teacher came in on Wednesday, our Lá Glas, and held a ceilí for every class in our school. Here is a little video of Ms Brady's 2nd class dancing the 'Walls of Limerick'
Ms Brady's 2nd
Walls of Limerick
Ms Brady's 2nd class
Ms Brady's 2nd class
Ms Forster's Senior Infants in all their green for Lá Glas