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If you see a photo of your child you would like; please email us and we'll email the photo back to you.
Our school calendar is available HERE.
Start of Year Mass
Huge thanks to Canon McGinn who celebrated a really beautiful mass with our pupils and their families on Friday 30th September.
Canon McGinn and the school had decided to have 'Community' as the theme for the mass and this was certainly well demonstrated in the large number of parents and grandparents who turned out to pray with us. Thank you especially to Mrs. Donnelly who, in addition to playing at the mass, had come to the school to help prepare our singers. The children sang and read beautifully and were a credit to their families and their school.
Community was also evident in the celebration afterwards in the Community Centre. The children and adults enjoyed a feast provided by the parents and grandparents who had been baking scones and buns.
Following the mass one of our grandparents presented the school with a large donation which she had raised at her birthday. Marie Curley, pictured with three of her grandchildren and Mr. Grundy, had asked for a donation to the school in lieu of gifts for herself. Marie's generosity is a great example to the young people in our school and will help provide treats and fun activities for the children.
Huge thanks to Canon McGinn who celebrated a really beautiful mass with our pupils and their families on Friday 30th September.
Canon McGinn and the school had decided to have 'Community' as the theme for the mass and this was certainly well demonstrated in the large number of parents and grandparents who turned out to pray with us. Thank you especially to Mrs. Donnelly who, in addition to playing at the mass, had come to the school to help prepare our singers. The children sang and read beautifully and were a credit to their families and their school.
Community was also evident in the celebration afterwards in the Community Centre. The children and adults enjoyed a feast provided by the parents and grandparents who had been baking scones and buns.
Following the mass one of our grandparents presented the school with a large donation which she had raised at her birthday. Marie Curley, pictured with three of her grandchildren and Mr. Grundy, had asked for a donation to the school in lieu of gifts for herself. Marie's generosity is a great example to the young people in our school and will help provide treats and fun activities for the children.
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Ardaghey Community Centre The community centre is a busy place and really is the Centre of the Community. Here are some of the activities in our local centre. If you would like more information about any activities you can contact us in school and we'll put you in touch with the right people. |
Speedy Fifth Class Boy
Well done to one of our fifth class who WON the 'TJ McElmeel' Cross Country race in Armagh this weekend.
We're all very proud of you.
Monaghan Library Summer Stars Reading Challenge.
Well done to our pupils who received their awards on Wednesday . We like to promote reading in our school and these children love reading too. We can see from the big smiles that these children really enjoy reading. Well done. |
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Texas Stand Off
Each week the pupils in the Senior Room compete in the World's Most Difficult Tables Challenge. The Texas Stand Off. The winner receives a trophy. If one person wins the trophy three weeks in a row the trophy is named after them. It was called the Self Trophy until today. Here is a photo of the first ever winner of the Greenan Cup. Well done to all the participants. |
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Mé Féin
The children in the junior room know how much Miss King loves Irish. This month's theme is 'Mé Féin'. Every child from junior infants to first class can now name several body parts in Irish. If you ask the children how they learned this, they'll say 'by playing games'. They aren't wrong!! Have a look at the craic we all had during our Gaeilge lesson. |
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Maths Fun
Senior Infants had great fun jumping up and down the number line today. They were learning how to add/subtract numbers and solve Miss King's word problems. |
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Music Generation Here is a link to the video of the children's performance in Ardaghey Community Centre on Monday 30th May 2022. We are delighted to announce that Rachael is back! She was here on Thursday September 15th with her friend Mikey and we had a great time singing. |
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The Library Lounge Miss King's library corner is back in full swing. The children in the junior room love finishing their work and spending time curled up on a beanbag with a good book. Have a look at the new infants making use of the space. |
Maths stations The children love to see Mrs Ferguson coming in on a Friday morning to do Maths stations. Last Friday, the new junior infants had their first lesson with Mrs Ferguson and as you can see... thoroughly enjoyed it!! They were learning all about sorting by colour, size and the type of objects. Following the theme of colour and after their lesson, the children got creative with their artwork. Evidently, we have some aspiring artists in the junior room! |
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Stone Age Builders in 3rd and 4th.
When the pupils in 3rd and 4th heard that the Stone Age builders who built Newgrange used 'corballing' to make the tomb they wanted to try this building technique themselves. They borrowed some of the Ardaghey Community Childcare's blocks and got to work. You can see the results of their efforts in the slideshow. Well done to them all. ( but I wouldn't want to be depending on any of these buildings to keep the rain out!) |
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Science in the Senior Room What do you get if you add an alkaline to an acid? If you're not sure ask anyone in the Senior Room. They added an alkaline bath bomb to an acid vitamin C tablet in a test tube and watched as the test tubes shot into the air because of the carbon dioxide that was produced. Well done to our young scientists. Here is a link to our experiment: SCIENCE |
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Calf Leading.
Huge congratulations to one of our Sixth Class pupils, Zoe, on her success in the Tullamore Show and the National Calf Show over the summer . Zoe came 1st in both competitions and is going on to the National Dairy Show in October. We wish her all the very best in the competition. |
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Our Foróige Friends
Many thanks to our friends from Foróige who generously donated a whole evening of work to paint our sheds, benches and planters. They look so bright and cheerful. Thank you. Thanks to Martin McNally from Grahams who sponsored the paint. |
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Our Window Boxes
Thank you to the families who have been watering the window boxes over the holidays. They look great and really brighten up our school. Thank you to Val Mohan in Greenfingers for his generosity to our school as we were getting the plants. |
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Photos on our website.
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Remember if you would like a copy of any photo of your child that featured on our website simply contact the office.
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Our Wildflower Meadow.
Many many months ago SuperValu sent us some wildflower seeds. We had just had our Wastewater Treatment System installed so we planted a wildflower meadow on the area around the unit. We hoped it would be a success but didn't believe it would be as great as it is. Thank you to all the pupils who stamped around the clay for 30 minutes wondering if they were being pranked. |
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Our Gardening Heroes.
We have converted to totally organic gardening in St. Michael's. This means that we don't use pesticides or chemicals in our garden or yard. This also means a lot of weeding. On Tuesday the 3rd and 4th challenged the 5th class to see who could pick the most weeds by hand. Unbelievably, both teams filled 3 and a half bags of weeds. So it was a draw. ( check the photos if you don't believe us) |
Admissions Policy.
Our school's Admissions Policy and Annual Admissions Notice are available in our School Information above.
( or if you click the highlighted words they will bring you to the documents.
Our school's Admissions Policy and Annual Admissions Notice are available in our School Information above.
( or if you click the highlighted words they will bring you to the documents.
