At Rathmore NS, we love exploring, discovering, and creating. As proud participants in the SFI Curious Minds Award, our students enjoy a wide range of STEAM activities throughout the year. One of the criteria required to achieve the Silver Award is to take part in a Show and Tell activity. Ms. Malone’s class embraced the opportunity, carefully selecting experiments to investigate and present to the rest of the school.

What followed were weeks of preparation where the students explored ideas, tested theories, learned from experiments that didn’t go to plan, and worked together to improve and refine their projects.

Here’s what some of the children in 5th Class had to say about their Show and Tell journey and the big day itself…Louis loved seeing the other children interact with his group’s project, Emilia enjoyed teaching them something they didn’t know before and Éabha liked working as a team with her friends. Kate said seeing her other classmates’ projects was interesting and exciting and Oliver admitted it was tough to keep the younger children focused on one thing! Isabel explained that although their project was messy, everyone found it lots of fun! Stay tuned to hear if we qualify for the Curious Minds Silver Award for a second year in a row.

Sixteen boys and fifteen girls from 4th, 5th and 6th Class proudly represented Rathmore NS at the Cumann na mBunscol Cross Country Championships held in Rathcoffey on March 26th. The pupils had been training hard  in the weeks leading up to the event under the guidance of their mentor, Ms. Malone, and their hard work and commitment truly paid off on the day. The Boys’ Team A delivered an outstanding performance, securing 1st place and bringing the trophy back to Rathmore for the second year in a row. The Girls’ Team A also achieved great success, finishing in 3rd place — a fantastic accomplishment in a very competitive field. There were impressive individual performances as well, with Senan (6th Class) winning a silver medal in 2nd place, Joe (6^th) taking bronze in 3rd place in the boys’ race, and Zoe (4th Class) finishing an excellent 5th overall. It was a wonderful achievement for all involved and a proud day for Rathmore NS.

World Book Day was celebrated in style in our school on Friday the 27th of March, with a fantastic display of creativity and enthusiasm from all involved. We would like to extend a sincere thank you to all the parents and children for the effort and commitment shown in preparing for the day — the costumes were truly amazing!

The children thoroughly enjoyed dressing up as their favourite characters and had great fun sharing their costumes and stories with their classmates. It was wonderful to see such excitement around reading and storytelling.

There were plenty of activities taking place throughout the week. Mr. Collier’s 5th and 6th class organised a fun Easter egg hunt for the Junior and Senior Infants, which was enjoyed by all. Meanwhile, Ms. Murray’s 4th class and Ms. Broe’s Senior Infants spent time together in the hall, reading and sharing books, creating a lovely atmosphere of collaboration and learning.

Overall, it was a memorable and engaging week that truly celebrated the joy of books and reading across the whole school.

Well done to the pupils in our two 6^th  Classes who took part in the Ceremony of Light celebrated by Fr. Comer in Kilteel Church on Thursday 5th March .We thank the assistance of parents and other parish volunteers who helped with the teas/coffees for parents/guardians in Kilteel Hall after the ceremony, which was appreciated by all in attendance.

Congratulations to the children in both Sixth Classes who were confirmed Friday the13th of March at 11am in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Eadestown by Bishop Paul Dempsey along with Fr. Comer. Thank you to class teachers Mr. Bolton and Mr. Collier for their hard work in school preparing the children, to Ms. Larkin  for the music and Choir during the ceremony, to Martina our school Secretary, to Paul our school Caretaker and SNA Nora Lawlor for their hard work in putting together the ceremony booklets and church displays. County Photos will be here in the school on Thursday 21^st May to take photos of the children who have received the Sacraments of First Holy Communion and Confirmation.

Hi everyone! It is Sofia, Sam and Lucy from Ms Shaw’s 3^rd and 4^th class and we want to let you know who our winner of the Green school’s slogan competition is!

Every class took part in our competition, and our class had the job of picking one winner from each class and selecting it for the final. This was really hard because there were so many amazing posters to pick from. Once we had our 13 finalists the green schools committee had the important job of voting for the over all winner! We all got one vote each and had to pick our favourite slogan.

Drumroll please…… and the winner is……. CIARA  from Mr Colliers 5^th and 6^th class. Ciara won by just 2 votes, but she is a very deserving winner.

Our new slogan is ‘Instead of using fuel, walk to school’

We have shared a picture of her brilliant slogan below! Everyone agreed that Ciara’s poster just stood out, I am sure you all agree. Thanks everyone for taking part, that’s it for now see you next month

The Green Schools Committee voting on the winning entries.