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Learning Orienteering Skills

On the 29th of September St Matthias 5th and 6th class children took part in the autumn orienteering event for West Cork primary schools. The event took place in the community grounds of Schull, using the new orienteering map of the area. This was a great introduction to the adventure sport of Orienteering. The course length was approx.

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Our newest pupils

We were delighted to welcome our new Junior Infants class in September and hope that their time with us will be very happy. We hope they will reach their highest potential whilst at the same time building memories and forming friendships that will last a lifetime.  

Fond Farewells

Message from Principal for students transitioning to Secondary School Mr Ian Haseldine, Principal had the following message for our four graduates this year: “We would like to wish our 6th class boys Fergus Crockett, Isaac Solomon, Curtis McMurray and Samuel Richards the very best in their transition to secondary school. St. Matthias is proud to

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CONGRATULATIONS TO SENIOR CLASS

Congratulations to the Senior Class at St Matthias NS who took the Bebras Challenge. The Bebras challenge is a worldwide, computer based maths problem solving test for children. The contests are composed of a set of short questions called Bebras tasks. These tasks can be answered without prior knowledge about Informatics, but are clearly related

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NEW YEAR, NEW PUPILS, NEW FUTURE

St. Matthias welcomes the new 2014 – 2015 academic year with enthusiasm and optimism. Thanks to the tremendous work done by members of the board, teachers, parents, parishioners and a host of supporters, the outlook has seldom been brighter. Over Summer, we were pleased to record a significant increase in applications with the result that

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ST. MATTHIAS SCIRS ADVENTURE

Giving pupils the chance to expand their knowledge of everyday life beyond the classroom is one of the things dear to the heart of St. Matthias. Pictured, accompanied by their teachers, is a group of pupils getting to know what life is like on a Schull Community Inshore Rescue Service (SCIRS) inshore rescue boat under the watchful

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