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All ireland FÉile champions! 🤩
Huge congratulations goes to Mary Kate, Adam and Tito who won All Ireland Féile medals at the weekend. These medals were won in their respective U15 Boys and Girls All -Ireland Wallball competitions!
Also representing their team were past pupils: Conor Matthews, Darragh Hannon and Enrico Patrizi.
We are all so proud of you here in Gainstown. Well done to all 👏
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Olympic Handball Champions! 🤩
On Friday 9th February, 11 of the 6th class girls headed out to Clonkill GAA Club to compete in the county final of the Westmeath Olympic Handball tournament. For their first match the girls played St Tolas 6th class team and beat them by a solid 8-0. For their second match they played St Tolas 5th class team and again beat them 9-0. They played their last group match against St Colmans, and won 5-1! After a long wait and a bit of food they played the final against Ardnagrath. They were very evenly matched! At full time the score was 2-2 but luckily after extra time our girls ended up on top! The final score was 6-2. It was a very enjoyable day for all and we wish the best of luck to Orla, Emily, Claire, Isabelle, Isabelle, Kayla, Ava, Anna, Mary Kate, Ellen and Muireann in the next stages of the competition in Gormanstown for the Leinsters!
Written by Orla Nohilly - 6th Class
Congratulations to all the lucky winners in our Christmas raffle.
€860 was raised. All of this money will go back to our students by helping to pay for the buses for the school tours later in the year.
Happy Christmas everyone.
Copy of AEB7904A-D495-43AD-A974-254C5DC7B178.MOVA Little taster of the Junior and Senior Infant's Christmas Show: Santa's Hat!
A super performance!
Taiscéalaí - 3D Printing for Primary Schools
Taiscéalaí, the Irish word for explorer, seeks to achieve equality of learning and access to 3D printing education at the primary school level. Today, there was a celebration of the fantastic project work completed by the students involved in the programme in the IRM building. We enjoyed the presentations of other projects and a fantastic tour of the labs. We had two winning groups - one for innovation in STEAM and one for most enthusiastic participants. Congratulations to everyone in 3rd and 6th classes who took part!
Christmas Jumpers
Children and staff wore Christmas jumpers to school today and made a donation to our collection for SVP. A massive €705 was raised for this worthy charity. Thanks for your generous donations.
Halloween in St. Colmcille's
Cross Country Success
The weather may have been miserable but these children were not deterred from participating in the cross country running event in Belvedere yesterday. There were lots of medals for St. Colmcille's and we are very proud of everyone who took part. Well done.
GOAL Jersey Day raised a massive €616 today (13/10/23)
Thanks to everyone for your generous donations.
Our Cumann na mBunscol girls Division 1 side played St. Colmans today in their first competitive match.
Our girls were strong all over the pitch and had an easy win on the day. Well done girls!
We play St. Kenny's, Shandonagh next - Time & Date TBC.
Congratulations to the 5th Class soccer Swans who won the league.
We are so excited to announce that our school now has a 3D printer!!! This is thanks to generous sponsorship from Decotek. Ms. McCormack, Mr. Kenny and Ms. Browne undertook 3D printing training in Dublin last June. The project we are delighted to be associated with is Taiscéalaí - 3D Printing for Primary Schools co-funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the Department of Education. The project aims to link 3D printing to the Irish Primary Curriculum. Students in our school will work on project-based learning challenges using our new 3D printer.
