At St. Matthias’ School we provide an environment in which each child is expected and enabled to achieve his/her potential. Team work and collaboration are encouraged so that pupils learn to work together and to help each other.
This Church of Ireland School is a community where all pupils are equally valued and respected, irrespective of gender, social background, family circumstances, educational achievement, physical characteristics or intellectual ability.
The Board of Management is one that brings a wealth of experience to the governance of St. Matthias. Since coming to office, the Board has shown a collective determination to improve all aspects of school life and ensure its growth.
All the students played a role in baking, decorating and selling delicious shortbread biscuits at the Ballydehob craft and art fair 2019. Special thanks must go to our SNA Kate who helped make the dough with the students. The Junior room cut all the different festive biscuit shapes and the Senior room decorated them wonderfully.
The pupils of the Junior room were fortunate enough to visit Sharon’s studio in Ballydehob recently. She showed us around her light filled studio where we examined all her sea scapes and other pieces of really cool art. We all experimented with various objects casting shadows on her art work. Sharon explained all the different features
We’ve had another busy week at St. Matthias. Our endeavour to be as sustainable as possible in this school year started this week with us making our own stock , brown bread and pumpkin soup. We used any left over vegetables from Food dudes to make stock for our soup. The seeds we scooped out
Following a week of discussing climate change and its frightening implications, our students took to the school yard on Friday to mark Climate change Day in their own way. All the students had the opportunity to look at and discuss their peer’s posters, drink some plant based smoothies and listen to the Senior students read
St. Matthias NS marked the new school term by visiting our local alpacas. There were 2 mothers and their young, which were born during the summer. They were very curious to see all the school children and nibbled food from the children’s hands. They were really cuddly and cute and the children loved seeing them
Some of the pupils collected some lovely prizes for their recent artistic endeavours. They had entered their amazing artwork for the 9th Fastnet & Maritime folk Festival in Ballydehob. The theme was “ The Sea” and they all produced very different representations. Well done girls – we are so proud of you!
Our very own Mr. H is a volunteer with the local Coast guards. Along with 2 of his fellow volunteers they told us all about the invaluable work they do. They showed us their equipment and explained what to do in various difficult situations. They also gave us lovely workbooks, wristbands with their emergency number
It’s all go at St. Matthias NS these days. We just finished 6 weeks of swimming lessons. Just in time before we do our splash n’ dash event in Tragumna! We all travelled to The Mardyke arena in Cork for our school tour last Tuesday. We left school at 8am and returned at 5! A
Some pictures of the senior room on a recent trip to the Tombolo outdoor art exhibition on Brow Head. This special event is organised by the Lay Of The Land organisation where artists respond to the unique landscape of the area. The children also took part in an art workshop where they used some of
What a day we had! The sun shone all day at Tragumna beach. We had a very busy day with the Senior room cycling a 5km road distance. The Junior room learnt new bike safety skills in the beach car park. All the running races and various games took place What a day we had! The
