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Easter Raffle 🐣🥚11/4/25

We held our Easter Raffle today and pictured below are all the lucky winners! 🤩🥳

Many thanks to Mr. Kenny & The Students Council for all their hard work behind the scenes organising this raffel

Also a huge thank you to Mary Geraghty who knitted all the beautiful chicks and ducks for the children. We are so grateful to you Mary. On a side note it was very fitting that Mary's great grand-daughter Eabha Molloy won 1st prize in the 2nd class raffle! 🥰

Have a wonderful, fun-filled and restful Easter everyone! 🐣

Easter Egg Hunt 🐇🐣

The Junior Classes had great fun hunting for eggs today in the school grounds! 🐣

Thank you to the Students Council and Mr Kenny for co-ordinting this and to Aifric for the photos! 📸

Division 1 Semi-Final Victory!

Our girls were victorious in today's Division 1 semi final against a spirited St. Etchen's Kinnegad on a scoreline of 5-9 to 1-2.

Played under glorious sunshine and in perfect conditions on our home pitch, the atmosphere was electric from the first whistle. Every one of the 13 starters—and the subs who made an impact from the bench—played their hearts out and contributed to this fantastic team victory.

With this win, we've now booked our place in the Division 1 Final where we’ll face Holy Family in Cusack Park during the week of May 19th (date and time to be confirmed).

Thanks to all who helped to get the pitch ready and to all who came out to support the girls today. Let's make sure to get behind them now for their last and biggest test of the season.

Gainstown Abú!

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Scór na bPáistí 2025

We've had a busy few weeks in our school preparing for Scór na bPáistí! We were delighted to host the first round of the competition here on Friday, 21st March, welcoming 10 schools in total.

We are incredibly proud of all our competitors, who delivered fantastic performances on the day — well done to everyone involved!

Check out the photos below of our amazing groups and performers, all from 6th Class.

A special shoutout and best of luck to our Instrumental Group, who have made it through to the County Final! 🎉

📍 Date: Wednesday, 9th April
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM
📌 Venue: The Downs GAA Clubhouse

All support is greatly appreciated — hope to see you there! 🤩

Scór na bPáistí County Finalists 2025

Instrumental Group - April (fiddle), Penny (tin-whistle), Éilis (concertina), Cian (tin-whistle), Katie (banjo)

Clodagh - Solo Singing

Rían - Solo Singing

(Semi-Finalist)

George and his side-kick/ brother Tom - Recitation

Zoe and her side-kick/twin Alex

Sam, Katie & Lily -

Quiz Team 1

Cian, Kate & Aifric -

Quiz Team 2

April, Aoife, Clodagh, Kate and Éilis - Ballad Group

First Communion reception 2025.pdf

Good luck Ted! 🏊

Ted Collentine from 2nd Class will be representing our school at the All Ireland's Schools Swimming Competition this Sunday at the National Aquatic Centre. Ted will be competing in the 50m backstroke event.

To get to this stage Ted won his preliminary county round and also the Leinsters which took place in January so this really is an amazing achievement to have gotten this far.

We are all rooting for you here at the school Ted and wishing you the very best of luck on the day!

Go n-éirí go geal leat! 🍀

Girls 5-a-Side County Champions 2025! 🤩🥳

Massive congratulations to Clodagh, Éilis, Róisín, April, Emily, Penny & Kate who won the Primary 5s Westmeath Girls B Cup today in Mullingar Athletic. 🏆

They defeated Tubberclare, Kinnegad, Mount Temple and drew their last game against Drumraney which was enough to claim the title! 🥇

The next stage for this talented bunch will be the North Leinsters which will take place on Thursday 1st May.

We are all so proud of the girls and their achievements to date. Thanks also to all of 6th class for their tremendous support - it definitely helped give our girls the edge! 👏

Best of luck for the next round! 💪

Lá Glas &

Fleadh Cheoil!

Bhí an-craic agus an spraoi againn!

Our students council organised a school fleadh on the 13th of March to coincide with Lá Glas.

The Irish music filled the air and the talent on display was immense. From dancers, singers, musicians, recitations - we had it all!

Thanks to Mr. Kenny for organising it in conjunction with the Students Council.

Thanks also to our special guests Mick Foster and Moyra Fraser who gave up their time to come in and play tunes and chat with 6th class in the afternoon.

#GainstownAbú ! :)

The Jungle Book - 6th February 2025 - Mullingar Arts Centre

The 5th and 6th class students delivered a spectacular performance of "Braveheart of the Wild" at the Mullingar Arts Centre on February 6th.

It was an outstanding show, and we couldn't be prouder of our talented students!

A huge thank you to Sam and Sabrina for their dedication in preparing the students since September – their hard work truly shone through on the night.

We’re already excited for next year’s performance! :)

Tin Whistle 6th Class.MOV

Tin Whistle 6th Class Wed 22nd Jan.MOV

"Mursheen Durkin" 🎵

"Ar Éireann Ní Neosfainn Ce Hí" 🎵

22/1/25

6th Class and their tin whistle teacher Karen McCormack performing two beautiful tunes this morning. Wonderful to hear and see the progress all these students have made in such a short space of time. Well done to all 👏

Christmas Raffle

We had 27 winners in our Christmas raffle his year.

Congratulations to all winners and thanks to everyone who bought a ticket.

Have a lovely Christmas.

It's A Baby .mp4

It's a Baby!'

Our Junior and Senior Infant Classes put in a fabulous performance on the traditional Nativity Play from the disgruntled Innkeeper's perspective called 'It's a Baby!'. All children workded tremendously hard over the past two months and should be immensely proud!

Do You Hear What I Hear? .mp4

Lovely rendition of 'Do You Hear What I Hear' with beautiful main singers from 4th class.

Oh Come All Ye Faithful .mp4

'Oh Come All Ye Faithful' on the Tinwhistle by 5th and 6th Class.

Silent Night .mp4

Silent Night in St. Paul's Church with our wonderful 3rd Class acting the stable scene in Bethlehem.

We Wish You A Merry Christmas Sign Language .mp4

All at St. Colmcille's N.S would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.

Children from 3rd- 6th class getting ready for their Carol Service in St. Paul's Church, Mullingar Wednesday 18th December.

€550 was raised for St. Vincent de Paul in school today.

Thanks to all who wore a Christmas jumper today and donated to this very worthy charity.

Taiscéalaí 2024

5th and 6th classes spent the morning at the Park Hotel where they presented their 3D Printing projects. They were asked to design an object that solves an everyday problem using Tinkercad. Sustainability and teamwork were core elements along with creativity and problem solving.

Following the presentations we were given a tour of the IMR. It was a great day out. Big congratulations to the creators of "Paint Pal" for winning the prize in their category.

Chess Club

Chess club is on every Thursday after school.

Have a look at some photos of students from St. Colmcille's and CBS taking part in chess club.

Hocus Focus - a Spooky day in school raised vital funds for Focus Ireland

Cumann na mbunscol 2024/2025 Updates

23/10/24

Our boys and girls school teams have been busy playing their group matches over the past number of weeks.

Our Division 3 boys team recorded a fine win over St. Cremin's Multyfarnam in their last game.

They narrowly lost to Rathwire and also lost to St. Tola's Delvin. They will face Clonmellon NS in their last group match. Best of luck boys. We are all proud of your efforts to date. 💪🤩

Our Girls Division 1 school team have played all 3 of their group games to date.

They recorded comprehensive victories against St. Etchen's, Kinnegad and St. Kennys, Kilpatrick. They lost out to a very strong Holy Family side who they'll be meeting again in the spring time.

Well done on a great start to your campaign girls. 💪🤩

Horse riding success for these girls.

They came 3rd in the team event while representing our school at the weekend.

Well done!

First place success!!

Well done to these two girls.

They represented Westmeath in relay running at the weekend and won!

Stunning success in Schools x Country 2024 🥇

Carl, Penny, Clodagh, Katie, Lily, Kate & Penny

6th Class Medal Winners Cross Country

Róisín, Mel, Adam, Rafe & Róisín

3rd, 4th and 5th Class Medal Winners

Sophie, Zoe, Cara, Bébhinn & Ella

2nd Class Girls Medal Winners

Harry, Robert and Melodie

1st Class Medal Winners

Back Row: Connie, Clodagh, Aoife, Leah and Hollie

Front Row: Chloe, Lily, Katie, Penny and Georgia

mini 7s 2024

Congratulations to our Mini 7s girls team who were runners up in the finals of the Mini 7s competition for 2024.

The girls topped their group after the first round of competitions held on Tuesday in the Downs.

Today they faced the winners from the other qualifying rounds and played:

Mount Temple NS (lost)

St Kennys NS, Kilpatrick (won)

Tubberclair NS (won)

Having won 2 of their 3 games the girls placed 2nd overall and received these beautiful individual trophies as a keepsake as well as Allianz sponsored jerseys for everyone! They played some wonderful football and we are so proud of their efforts.

RAINBOWS EOI Form Autumn 2024.docx

New singlets for our school.

These stylish new singlets were kindly sponsored by Alo Gowran (Brian Gowran) and Joint-It (Garrett Hickey).

2024-25 School Yearly Calendar.pdf

Sports Day Fun in St. Colmcille's N.S.

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