On the 29th of April 2012, the sixth class pupils from Saint Josephs N.S. were confirmed by Bishop Michael Smith alongside Father Gerry, our parish priest, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. The Confirmation Mass started at 3 o’clock and lasted an hour and half, till half past four. The children’s choir sang at the Mass and they sounded beautiful. In total 44 pupils from our school received the sacrament of Confirmation. Everybody had a sponsor there. All the pupils picked their own Confirmation name and many of the children from our school took the pledge. After the Mass we took a class photo and we took photos with the Bishop, our family and friends. Everybody left the Mass to have a meal with their loved ones and those who had travelled. We really enjoyed our Confirmation Day. We would like to thank everyone, especially our teachers Ms. Foley-Gargan, Ms. Mc Geough, our principal Ms. Corbally , our vice principal Ms. Cunningham, Ms. Tinnelly who has helped to prepare all the reader throughout the year, and to everybody who has helped us prepare for this day. Thank You from all in 6th Class x

Congratulations to Aaron who came 1st in the East Cavan Mental Health essay competition with his wonderful composition “Friends are Cool”. Aaron received his prize in the Bailie Hotel on Friday. His teacher Ms. Murtagh and his parents and his brother Lee were all present at the presentation.

Fourth class have spent the last number of weeks writing our personal autobiographies. Our teacher Mrs Mc Loughlin advised us on some of the chapters that might be included in our finished projects, such as my family, my earliest memory, a favourite holiday and so on .We really enjoyed writing our own personal account  of important life experiences . Have a look at some of the examples of our completed autobiographies.

19/04/12
Hello this is the first update of the 3rd term. We hope you all had a good easter holidays! and we have a new Student Council doing it . On our new Student Council we have Niamh Lockwood and Amy Cunningham which stayed on to mentor the new Student Council: Katelyn Mc Daniel, Shannon Mc McCarthy, Clare Kelly, Ciara Crowe, Rebecca Mc Grory, Conor Owens, Liam Browne, David Larkin and Aisha Anderson. In May we are getting an extension down the side on the school, in the extension there will be three new class rooms, five store rooms, three toilets, three wet areas and two ramps.This term we will be starting a more soccer skills with 1st,2nd,3rd and 4th classes. For 5th and 6th classes will be getting an anti-bulling workshop on friday the 11th of May each child is asked to bring in 1 euro. The Confirmation will take place on April 29th @ 3pm.

By.Katelyn & Niamh xx 

 Our lettuce and scallions have really grown over Easter. We will water them well. Soon we will be able to take them home and eat them on our sandwiches.Stay tuned for more news on our vegetables.   :- By Caoileann and Clodagh 4th Class

We were all very excited to have Joey Burns a wood sculptor come to our school. He brought two of his wood carvings of frogs with him. He made a beautiful carving of oaks leaves and acorns on a piece of wood while we watched him work. We will have the sculptor hanging in our school. The wooden sculptors of the frogs, pine martin and otter wil be on display soon in Dun a Rí Forest Park.

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