On Thursday 25th September, our whole school completed a relay marathon for our Parents’ Association fundraising event.
Together the pupils of St. Mary’s ran 42.2km in a great time of 2 hours and 48 minutes, narrowly missing out on our record time of 2 hours 46 minutes last year.
However, there was no doubt, all children had a great time running and cheering on their classmates as they ran a great time.
Our 6th class pupil, Oisín Lynch, graced Croke Park on All-Ireland Final day on Sunday 27th July.
Oisín had been selected as Cavan Cumann na mBunscol’s reperesentative, after impressing the selectors at trials held at Kingspan Breffni Park earlier in the year.
Oisín laced up his boots and donned the Donegal colours for the day, putting on a great exhibition of football during the half-time games on the day. He lined out with other children from all over the country and it was a terrific experience for Oisín and his family.
Well done to Oisín and hopefully he, or other St. Mary’s pupils, will grace Croke Park again in the not to distant future.
During our last week of school, children from across the school were presented with certificates to recognise their terrific attendance records for this academic year.
We regularly host attendance recognition assemblies throughout the year, as part of our HERO attendance initiative. But the end of year recognition is particulalry special.
Well done to all thos who received certificates and are pictured below.
6th Class held their annual persuasive debates last week.
All children in Room 15 were split into 6 teams and 3 debates took place on very current and hot topics. These included Social Media Use for Under-18s, Veganism and Youth Participation in Organised Sport.
The 6 teams were given a topic and side weeks in advance. They worked tirelessly using the persuasive techniques they had learned in class – particularly the AFOREST method – in writing their arguments. They learned the structure of an organised debate and also how to respectfully rebuttal.
It was a great day where chidlren even took the opportunity to formally dress, while having lots of fun with arguing in a constructive and positive way. Well done 6th Class!
3rd class learned all about Ancient Egypt this month. We researched lots of interesting facts about Ancient Egypt and made some wonderful projects which were presented so well in class.
To finish off the topic we made Egyptian pyramids in groups from spaghetti and marshmallows. We had great fun making them and we are very proud of our finished pyramids.
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Admission-notice-2025.26The boys and girls from First Classes Room 7 and Room 8A visited Viriginia Town Library to attend a wonderful talk from author Shane Hegarty. They listened to the author read his wonderful book ‘Dexter Lost His Boo-Woo’ and then together created their own monster character! The boys and girls got a chance to ask the author lots of interesting questions about writing, coming up with ideas and how to write a book. We have many aspired authors after this fantastic day out!
Well done to the boys and girls who represented St. Mary’s N.S in the annual Cavan Primary Schools Athletics across Country Championships.
All the boys and girls had trained hard for the event. A big well done to all the boys and girls for their great effort.
A great day for St. Mary’s N.S. with the Junior Boys, Intermediate Boys and Senior Boys teams coming home with 2nd place medals.
Amazing individual performances from Tadgh Finn (Junior Boys/600m) in 12th place, Oisín Mc Manus (Intermediate Boys/800m) in 6th place, and Dylan O’Reilly (Senior Boys/1000m) in 1st place.
It was a fantastic day out for all, with everyone trying their best having fun and making memories. Well done everyone!
During our second week back at school, Mr. McCabe’s 2nd Class in Room 10 enjoyed a PE lesson with a difference – Archery!
We used indoor Archery Sets and took turns aiming for the Bullseye – which is the centre of the target! If we were happy with our shot, we took a step back to make it harder.
It was a great fun start to the new school year!
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