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.
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
