The BFG, Hermione, Chase from Paw Patrol, a pirate, a crocodile, a unicorn, a princess and a skeleton all took part in World Book day at St. Matthias this year. The older classes read to the Junior classes and we had great fun playing musical reading chairs, making book marks and of course, reading our
Just before our Christmas break, we embarked on our annual Christmas walk around Ballydehob village. We walked over the 12 Arch bridge and had some fun in the playground. Of course we were all wearing our RSA safety gear. Unfortunately we didn’t reach the end of the rainbow, so we cannot say if the pot
Data Protection Policy for ST Matthias National School Introductory Statement The school’s Data Protection Policy applies to the personal data held by the school’s Board of Management (BoM), which is protected by the Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The policy applies to all school
The Senior room led our assembly at St. Matthias Church. The olive tree, a gift from the Bishop of Cork and our art projects, symbolising peace not war were also brought up to the church as our way to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice ending WW1
School Calendar 2018-2019 Thursday August 30th Return to school Junior Room only Friday August 31st Return to school for Senior Room Friday 26th October
The St Patricks Day Parade theme this year was The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. The School won first prize, many thanks to the Parents Association who came to the school and painted the cards with the children in early March. The Board of Management is very grateful to them and congratulates all on the wonderful
On Monday the 12th of March the children in Mr. Hazeldine’s class attended the West Cork Orienteering event at Glengarriff Woods and had a wonderful day.
Our pupils brought in shoeboxes, which we covered with festive paper and filled with all sorts of good things. They will go to enable less fortunate children in Eastern Europe and Africa to have something to open and some surprises to enjoy on Christmas Day. We hope that this gesture will spread some of the
Thanks to the work carried out at St. Matthias’ school during the summer, we now have a comfortable working area for our school secretary, Hilary. This means that parents can now come there if they need to see a teacher or drop in something for their child and it affords a measure of privacy which
Introducing our new Junior Infants who have settled into life at St. Matthias very well. All have siblings in the school already.
