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.
We have started doing the Aistear programme in the Junior room every morning.. The children really enjoy engaging in all the fun oral language activities at all the different stations. Our themes so far have included The Crèche, Buildings and Halloween. The students loved studying the builder’s plans used for our new extension and coming
Our School is Transformed This summer we were granted funds by the Department of Education and Skills to carry out much-needed improvements to our school. From the time we got the “go-ahead” there was very little time to carry out all that had to be done. We are indebted to our builders who worked really
Message from the Principal St. Mathias National School is a community of friends. Our school has provided us with a very special, shared experience that is truly unique. I hope that you will all carry this experience with you wherever you go, and that you will use your memories of your time here to inspire
SUMMER IMPROVEMENT WORK PLANNED AT BALLYDEHOB NS Saint Matthias COI National School in Ballydehob is to undergo a Summer Works Scheme approved by the Department of Education and Skills. The work will involve improvements to the office space and toilet facilities within the school building and is set for completion ahead of its reopening next
The dreary weather didn’t dampen the spirits of our pupils during our annual sports day. There were 5 stations including egg and spoon races, a tricky obstacle course, penalty shoot outs, welly throwing and water races. As usual the parents and siblings running race was fiercely contested! The day was rounded off with a delicious
Clonakilty was the first destination for our recent school tour. The Junior room had a private screening of “Boss Baby” followed by an hour in the soft play area. The senior room spent 2 hours in the Clonakilty adventure park doing daring stunts like the tower jump, zip lining and rock climbing. After lunch we
We recently visited the Clon adventure park, where the pupils of the senior room displayed their physical skills – not to say tremendous courage – on the climbing structures. The Junior Room pupils were in the indoor jungle gym. We stopped at Pirates Cove on the way home and went through their new Maze. As
