6th Class Trip to Carlingford 6th Class had a wonderful overnight trip to Carlingford last week! We headed off on the bus extremely early on Thursday morning (we found it hard to get up!) and got to Carlingford at about 9.30am. We dropped our bags off and were then ready for our first activity of …
Dun Laoighre Trip In 5th Class, we have been lucky enough to do JEP. After JEP, we went to Dun Laoghaire as a reward for completing JEP . We all voted to walk in the pier, go to People’s Park and then walk to Scrumdiddlys. On the day, we were very excited because we …
Ocova Manor Once a year every class in St. Matthews N.S goes on their annual school trip. School trips are greatly welcomed by students as they get to get away from schoolwork for a day and have fun with their classmates. Fifth class (my class) this year took the bus to an adventure centre in …
Visitors from the Farm in Senior Infants This term Farmer Billy visited us and said we could look after 5 chicken eggs from his farm. Senior Infants were very excited by this. Within a couple of days, we noticed holes emerging in the eggs as the chicks began to hatch from their eggs. The were …
A busy term in Senior Infants What a busy third term it has been in Senior Infants! We had a lot of fun at our ‘Go Kids Go’ school tour. We went on the bus and travelled to the centre where we had the chance to take part in so many fun activities. There were …
Sport’s Day Sports Day was filled with lots of fun and laughter! Junior Infants had a great time taking part in all the different activities around the school. We did races, obstacle courses, relays, throwing and we even made marshmallow towers! To end the day we had some very tasty ice-cream!! It was a great …
School Trip in 2nd Class 1st and 2ndClass were very excited to go on their first school trip since the Pandemic. We headed off on a bus (which the children were very excited about) to Go Kids Go. The children were full of excitement, singing and laughing on the bus the whole way here. When …
Active Week – A Visit from Leo Cullen Leo Cullen came to visit St. Matthew’s. 2nd Class along with the whole school had the opportunity to listen to Leo talk about sports, motivation and what helped him to get to where he is today! All of the children were able to ask questions. After the talk, …
1st Class School Tour 1st Class had a wonderful day at Go Kids Go for their school tour this year. We were so excited to get there that morning! When we arrived, we took our shoes off, placed our bags in our room and off we went! There was so much to do at Go …
Active Week We had a very busy week during active week with a lot of activities and sports. The week startedwith an active talent show and there was so much talent from 1st Class – Roller skating, dancing, penalty shoot outs and so much more! Leo Cullen came to the school to visit us on …
