Monthly Archives: March 2021

We remember Fr John whose first anniversary is today. RIP Sad that he is gone and glad that we were timely in organising a fitting celebration to mark his Golden Jubilee connecting with communities he served In Liberia and the Philippines. We were able to witness the strong appreciation of his pastoral and local development work there that left its […]

Mr. Shevlin’s sixth class were busy making ice cream as part of a science experiment on Friday. The pupils all had their own equipment – 2 ziplock bags, measuring jugs, cups and spoons. They followed a procedure of mixing milk, cream, sugar and vanilla extract in the smaller ziploc bag. An Ice and salt mixture was placed in the larger […]

We were delighted to welcome back the senior end of our school pupils and staff today. The positivity that we experienced last week continued this week with the senior pupils. Two pupils in Rang 6 Abigail and Sarah- Jane participated a radio interview with Teresa o Malley on Midwest Radio  1 o’clock news today. They gave a great account of […]

Tá áthas orainn an tseirbhís nua seo a sheoladh in ár scoil.  We have recieved great feedback from parents using this service and we look forward to it serving the needs of families in our school. What do they say from Little Acorns grow great trees..!   All located on our school grounds with use of play ground and Astra Turf […]

Our BOM is delighted to share the good news or our latest Parents as Partners Project developement. We have upgraded facilities in th Community Centre for Tracy’s little VIP’s and for the new Breakfast Club, Infant Happy Hour and Afterschool care until 6pm. This facilitiy is fully registered with Túsla and is being run by Eileen Mc Neelat/a Acorns Academy. […]

The Department of Education has confirmed that Rang 3 go Rang 6 will return next Monday 15th March. •All returning pupils must return a Return to School Declaration Form before Monday 15th and when returning to school after any other absence. •We ask parents to be extra vigilant with any new illness and not to send their child to school […]

There was great vision , design, planning , estimating , scaling , measuring , stress testing of structures , collaboration, team work , material assessment and construction going on in Ms Feeney’s class today. All pupils were given an engineering challenge to construct with marshmallows and skewers . After much planning and collaboration all the young engineers embraced the challenge […]

We have reopened this week and so far all is going good with the reopening and enhanced procedures and caution aiming to do our best to make our school setting as safe as possible for all in our school community. Our staggered starts, class segregation , staff measures and  mask wearing by all parents at school gate with good social […]

We reopened all classes from Junior Infants to 2nd class today. It was great to see the delight and excitement on pupils faces. All parents submitted the Return to School Declaration who’s gives us all some reassurance. Both Rang 1 rooms were freshly painted and look great.