This year’s theme for Science Week is Climate Action.  Thanks to the effort of Ms. Hamill and Ms. Mc Nulty for putting together a wonderful selection of experiments for all classes.  Our children are excited and looking forward to the week of fun experiments.

We will have representatives from 6th classes pupils informing the school of amazing scientific facts over the intercom each day.

A special thanks to Ms Hamill and her class for assisting 3rd and 4th class with their science experiments this week. 

Click on the links below to see different experiments we’ve been doing during the week. 

Rising Sea Level Experiment 6th Class

Anemometers 6th Class

Carbon Dioxide Experiments 6th Class

Amazing Science Facts

8th of October 2019

The pupils of St. Malachy’s have elected the new student council this school term.  The student council is an important forum for the children to raise awareness and bring forward any new ideas or suggestions on how we can make improvements to our school and the community.  The pupils are as follows:

5th/6th Class Room 1        6th Class Room 2                  5th Class Room 3    

Ruby Mc Grath                   Lacey Murphy                        Millie Hayes

Leon Mc Laren                   Clayton Concannon               Rhys Boyd

4th Class Room 12            4th Class Room 11                 3rd Class Room 13        3rd Class Room 14

Mia Doyle                           Freya Kearns                         Kian Franzoni                Ryan Eva

Alex Kearns                       Bobby Morrisey                    Ella Groves                     Brooke Shannon

 

4th of October 2019

We are extremely proud to have received our second green flag for water conservation.  Thanks to all the children and teachers  for participating in this very important project and a special thanks to Ms. Carmichael and the green school committee for spreading the message throughout the school about the importance of water conversation.  

We welcomed three special guests to our school to join in our celebration of raising our 2nd green flag, The Lord Mayor of Dublin – Mr. Paul Auliffe, a local Finglas man, Green Councellor – Caroline Conroy and Orla from Crann Ireland.

With the help of Orla and Mr. Mc Auliffe, we planted an oak tree to mark this special occasion.  We named the tree “Deirdre” after a valued and local long serving member of our staff.

A special thanks to Niall from Glanmore for providing our hydro flasks – a sturdy long lasting water bottle which has replaced plastic bottles in our school.

Welcome back to all our children in St. Malachy’s we hope you had a wonderful summer.  We are delighted to welcome four new staff members to our staff:

Ms Gunnigan is teaching 3rd class

Mr Bolger is teaching 4th class

Ms Mc Nulty is teaching 5th/6th class

Ms Mc Donnell is part of our Special Education Team.

As this school year comes to an end, sadly we say goodbye to Ms O’ Malley who has decided to retire.  Ms O’ Malley has worked in the school for 39 years.  She joined the school in September 1980 when Mr Mc Carthy was the Principal of the school.  She became Deputy Principal of St Malachys under Mr Hamill and is now retiring with Mr Dolan as Principal. 

Ms O’ Malley’s commitment to the school, the teachers and the community will be forever etched into the hearts of those who were lucky to have known her.  Her love and care for the children was always at the fore front of everything she did.  She will be greatly missed by the children, the parents and the staff.  We wish Siobhán every happiness as she enters the next stage of her life.

The annual schools athletics took place this week in Morton Stadium, Santry. The Field Events were held on Monday and Track Event on Wednesday. The children had a superb day, there were smiles all round on their return to school. They represented the school, their parents, the community but most importantly themselves with impeccable behaviour and a positive mind set.

Congratulations to Cian Hanlon from 6th class, who won Gold for the under 14 high jump and Crystal Walsh, who won Gold for the under 11 high jump. Congratulations to everyone who participated in the events this week.

A special thanks to Ms Mc Grath, Ms Reape and Carol Murphy for their hard work and dedication in preparing the children for Santry this year.

We are thrilled to welcome Roisín, the yoga instructor to the school to teach the pupils yoga – as gaeilge! Roisin will be teaching yoga for six weeks. The children are really enjoying learning new yoga poses, from sun salutations to the cobra! We all particularly enjoy the meditation exercise with the singing bowl at the end of the class. Namaste!

Ms Mc Cormack and Ms Hamill’s 6th class made their confirmation 6th of April. The service was celebrated by our parish priest Fr Paddy.

A special thanks to Ms Mc Cormack, Ms Hamill, Yolande and Susan, Cissy, Sr Eileen, Ms O Malley, Ms Burke,the school choir and we cannot forget the hard work the children put into their confirmation preparation which made the day very special for everybody.

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Ms Eustace’s 5th class were very lucky to be invited to a writing workshop called Fighting words.  The class attended a workshop where they brainstormed a story together.  They had a wonderful time coming up with the different characters for the story, as well the hilarious situations the characters found themselves in.  They were presented with their own story book, along with fantastic illustrations from Rory the illustrator.  When they returned to school, they finished their stories in class. 

You can find their story on

 https://www.fightingwords.ie/stories/john-joe%E2%80%99s-danger-dealz

We were very busy in St Malachys this week for literacy week. Every class took 15 minutes every day to ” drop everything and read” ( D.E.A.R time) – including the teachers.

As well as this, two children from every class recited a poem or short story, as gaeilge or in English, over the intercom each day of literacy week.

We also had a junior and senior spelling bee competition, congratulations to Kyle Henderson from 4th class for winning the junior spelling bee and Alex Zgardan from 6th class for coming 1st place in the senior competition.

Each class took part in a handwriting competition, it was a very close competition as the standard of excellent handwriting in the school is very high. Congratulations to Michael Galka in 5th class for winning the senior competition and to Alan Nolan in 3rd class for winning the junior competition.

We were also honoured to welcome a local poet and grandfather to two of the pupils in the school, Liam Johnson to the school. He recited two of his poems and short story, as well as listening to some of room 12’s short stories. Liam and his grandchildren, Louise Shannon and Robert Sharkey recited Liam’s poem “Clickety Clack” over the intercom to the rest of the school.