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What a wonderful day!

Once again our high vis jackets were put to good use as we enjoyed a sunny Spring day in our community. First we went for a lovely walk over the 12 Arch bridge and down to the community green where we filled in our Spring checklist. Then we went to our local Working Artist Studios

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Becoming safe cyclists

At the start of the New Year, all students at St. Matthias NS benefitted from a super 5 week bike skills and safety course on our school yard. Ruth the instructor was so patient and knowledgeable. It was super to see how much more confident everyone was at the end of their 5 week course.

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Baby goats at Ferguson’s Farm

In March we walked to the Ferguson family farm to see their new baby goats. They were not at all shy. We fed them and they absolutely loved all the new cuddles. We then went on to the local playground where we enjoyed our lunch and had great fun playing together with all our friends

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Christmas Activities 2020

We did a variety of art projects in the run up to the festive season at St. Matthias. The children created lovely Christmas tree decorations and honed their gift wrapping skills. The junior rooms  wrote letters to Santa and gave them to our postman Kieran. The whole school came together as one and performed a

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Spooky Hallowe’en fun 2021

What a final week we had at St. Matthias NS before the midterm. We were so busy making poisonous potions, mixing and creating all sorts of spooky creations. We were defrosting hands with our droppers, dipping our hands into slippery spaghetti and slimy spider jelly! We played an outdoor scavenger hunt, musical statues, paraded our amazing 

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2nd and 3rd Class explore our world

These are just some of the general things we were doing in class last year: solar system; a virtual assembly; figuring out the capacity of different containers; talking about things we like and don’t like the touch and feel of in the Stay Safe Programme; weather vocabulary in Irish and designing our own chocolate bar wrapper.

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Songwriting Workshop June 2021

Here are some pictures of our song workshop that we did with Clare Sands, who partnered with Levis’ Corner House in Ballydehob to help the children write an original song. She did some fun games with rhythm and sang some well-known songs with the children in our school tent. Then she asked 2nd and 3rd

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School tour to Bantry 2021

We had an action packed day in Bantry for our school tour. After playing beach games first, we all got to go kayaking with Bantry boat hire which was such fun. After lunch on the beach the Junior & Middle room went swimming or beach combing while the Senior room went for a boat trip.

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