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sports day 11/6/25

We were so grateful to get to host our annual sports day on Wednesday - weather conditions couldn't have been better! 😎

There were all sorts of fun races, obstacle courses, bouncy castles and most importantly... Ice-Cream!! 🍦

A fun-filled day was had by all! 🥳

See below for some snaps from the day! 📸

Grandparents' Day

We celebrated Grandparents' Day today. The children from 1st, 2nd and 6th classes invited their grandparents to school for a prayer service, some singing, music, hugs and a lovely cup of tea. We would like to thank Fr. Barry for leading our lovely prayer service and the children from 3rd and 4th classes who participated in the choir.

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Medal presentation to girls division 1 champions

9/6/25

Our victorious Cumann na mBunscol Division 1 Champions were awarded with their medals today in our GP Hall.

The girls were delighted to receive their medals from Milltown and Westmeath Ladies Star footballer Sarah Dillon. Thanks to Sarah for giving up her time to come to our school today and for her great words of encouragement and advice.

The girls also had some words of wisdom from our very own coach/teacher and Westmeath captain Ms. Fiona Coyle. How lucky are we as a school to have her here?!

And the last person to address the girls was the evergreen Terry O'Dowd. Terry spoke fondly of his time coaching the girls and noted how they always did everything that was asked of them. He also acknowledged how the school and teachers always facilitated their schedules around their training times. He wished them the best of luck as half of them move on from here and encouraged them to keep up sport in whatever form that my be.

Thanks also to the parents and grandparents who came to witness the girls receiving their medals today as it made the occasion extra special for them.

St.Colmcilles School Talent Show 2025

Written by Aifric MacDonagh Cave - 6th Class Students Council Representative

This idea to host a School Talent Show first started in 2023, as a suggestion from students, George Stephens and Emily McDonald; the fourth class representatives of that year. The idea was a huge success and has been an annual event ever since.

This year's talent show was as successful as any other, showcasing our school pupils’ talents all the way from Junior Infants to Sixth Class. The talents ranged from singing to magic and a lot more in between!

The talents on display were superb and enjoyable for not only the participants but the judges, teachers and the audience!

Well done to all the students who auditioned - you made our job as judges very difficult!

Cian Gorman - Overall Winner of the senior end Talent Show

Penny, Zoe, George & Clodagh - 2nd Place

Róisín and April

- 3rd Place

Bébhinn (3rd place),

Sara (2nd place)

Darragh (1st place)

- Winners of the Junior End

Essie, James and Róisín

5th Class Participants

6th Class Participants

Joe, Fiadh and Darragh -

1st Class Participants

Anna, Matilda and Sadbh - Junior Infants Participants

Laura, Freya, Róisín, Méabh, Olivia, Cáit, Ava and Jessica

3rd Class Participants

Fiachra, Fiadh, Blaithín,

Gabriella & Caoilainn

Senior Infant Participants

Neansaí, Bébhinn and Sara

2nd Class Participants

Cumann na mBunscol Champions 2025! 🤩

Girls Division 1 Cumann na mBunscol Back-to-Back Winners! 🤩

Our girls school team were crowned Division 1 Champions yesterday evening in Cusack Park against a very strong Holy Family side!

The match couldn't have been closer and the girls claimed a two point victory after extra time! The girls resilience, determination and never say die attitude contributed to this fabulous team peformance and win.

Having suffered defeat earlier in the year in the group stages against this Holy Family side, the girls knew that they would need everything in their armour to get over the line. And this they did.

We literally could not be prouder of the girls.

Thank you to Terry, Ms. Coyle and Ms. Hickey for coaching the girls throughout the year.

Thank you also to the parents, teachers and supporters who came in huge numbers to support the girls. It was so heartwarming to see. The buzz around the school and Cusack Park yesterday was just electric!

Gainstown Abú !! 🥳🏆🌟

Handball Medal Winners 2025 🙌

Huge congratulations to Patrick (Boys U11 Singles R'up) Tito (Boys U13 Singles Winner) and Ziva (Girls U11 Singles R'up & Girls Fair Play Award recepient). 👏

These children were awarded with their medals after the girls Division 1 final in Cusack Park. A fantastic achievement for them and their mentor Natasha. They are truly a credit to the school and their families.

Congratulations! 🤩

Carl Keane wins Rotary Young Writers Competition 2025 ✍️

A huge congratulations to Carl, whose poem "Walks and Waves" won first place in the Intermediate level of the Young Writers Competition 2025! Carl’s poem will now progress to the National Stage of the competition and we wish him every success in the next round. What a fantastic achievement!

We also celebrate Fionn Carr from 5th Class, who received the "Best in School" certificate for his poem. Well done Fionn!

Both students were recently presented with their certificates and prizes at Mullingar County Library by Mr. Donal Lawlor, chairperson of the Rotary Club. The event was attended by proud parents and teachers, who joined in the celebration of the boys' success.

Congratulations Ms. Coyle! 🏆🤩🥳

The whole school gathered in our GP Hall today to celebrate our talented teacher Fiona Coyle who captained the Westmeath Ladies to win the Leinster Intermediate Cup on Sunday last in Cusack Park (18/5/25).

They defeated Laois on a scoreline of 1-12 to 9 points. They were led from the back by captain Fiona and they built up a great lead by half time. They continued to dominate in the second half and ran out convincing winners.

We are so proud of Fiona and all the Westmeath team. What an inspiration she is for our girls Division 1 team as they too try to win silverware on Thursday in Cusack Park at 5pm against Holy Family on Thursday.

Please make sure to get yourselves to Cusack Park to give the girls the support they deserve!

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St. Colmcille's Girl's Football Team pictured with their new half zips ahead of the Cumann na mBunscoil Final which will take place Thursday 22nd May in Cusack Park @5pm.

All support for these fantastic girls would be greatly appreciated!

Leinster FAI 5-a-Side Girls Soccer Finals

14/5/25

Our talented girls soccer team were in action yesterday competing in the Leinster Finals of the FAI 5-a-Side Girls competition in Dublin. See below for a breakdown of the games and the results.

1st opponents - Gaelscoil Chnoc Liamhna ( Dublin ) Finish 3 - 3

Emily got the 1st - Kate got the 2nd.

Went 2 up - brought back to 2 2 with an unfortunate deflection and a great finish by the Dublin champs.

Emily thought she'd won it with a nice finish in the final minute only for Dublin to score with effectively the last kick of the game - heartbreak.

2nd opponents - Marshalstown NS ( Wexford ) Finish 3 - 0

A well drilled and extremely physical team.

Questionable officiating - we felt we had a stone wall penalty - not given. And they were awarded a questionable free that they scored from

The better team won on the day however the result could have been closer. Eventual champions - worthy winners. Played hard and fair.

3rd game - Murklagh National School ( Offaly ) Finish 2 - 1

We went one down to Mucklagh National School before Emily pulled one back.

They went ahead again and held that lead - desperately disappointing as we dominated the game - even striking the crossbar. Their keeper was outstanding - such a talent.

She kept everything we threw at her out.

All 8 players played their hearts out on the day. We finished 3rd on the day.

Thanks to Laura and Michelle for their help and support and our mascots Toby and Harry.

"Ours to Protect"

with Traic Ó Braonáin & Classic Hits Radio! 🎤

A selection of students from 4th - 6th class were delighted to get the chance to work alongside Classic Hits Radio Presenter Traic (Niall) Ó'Braonáin today.

The "Ours to Protect" feature will be broadcast from May-October 2025, and it aims to raise awareness of climate issues and foster a positive attitude among the general public towards a more sustainable and greener future.

There is a website www.ourstoprotect.ie that features all the information on the project, and the segments that were broadcast in the first series last year. The upcoming monthly features will also be added to this site throughout the summer, along with the Classic Hits website. .

In this new series, there will be a monthly theme, e.g. Biodiversity, Fast Fashion, Energy, Travel, Household Waste, etc. They will be getting experts on to inform the public on how we can all help to deal with these problems. As part of the series this year, they’ll also be recording childrens’ answers to some associated questions, e.g. What is Climate Change? What is Fast Fashion? etc.

The children above from 4th - 6th Class answered climate related questions in a vox pop survey format. Traic was delighted with how the recordings went and has told the children that it will most likely be the most natural sounding answers that will feature more than accurate answers alone!

We can't wait to hear what our students had to say on all these important topics. Thank you to the students who volunteered to participate and their class teachers for facilitating it. A big thank you also to Traic for enabling and coordinating the whole thing.

Ellie in 3rd Class raised a huge €1120 for LauraLynn - Ireland's Children's Hospice. She showed what a big heart she has by bravely cutting her beautiful hair to donate and raise funds for this wonderful charity. Well done, Ellie. We are all very proud of you.

Before

After

North-Leinster FAI 5-A-Side Champions 2025! 🥇🎉

Huge congratulations goes to our talented girls soccer team who contested the North Leinster Finals on Thursday last (May 1st) and won!

We are so proud of the girls who fought hard in their first game to earn a draw (1-1) and went on to win their next two games comfortably (5-1) and (4-1) which meant they topped the group and won the title!

Next stop for the girls and their coach Mr. Glynn is the FAI Leinster Finals which will be held in Dublin on May 14th.

We are all behind you girls and know you can go all the way! 🤩

Back Row - Éilis, Róisín, Clodagh & April

Front Row - Kate, Katie, Emily & Penny

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 raffle.

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

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.

2024-25 School Yearly Calendar.pdf

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

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