Our report from the recent Whole School evaluation has now been posted on the Department Of Education website.
Please click on the link below to read the full report.
WSE Report on St. Finian’s N.S.
Again well done to everyone. I am sure you will agree that this is a very good report!
On Tuesday we set off for Barmeath Castle for a walk in the woods and walled garden. It was the perfect day for our visit. We saw the old church, the monks old house in the woods, The Summer House with the lovely art work of scenes from Venice. We saw a pheasant with four young chicks ! After we all gathered on the front lawn to rest , Bru came and told us some of the history of the house. After that we had our picnic lunch sitting in the shade of the trees. Then it was time for play and we had brilliant fun playing catch and rolling on the lawns and grass tennis court. The whole school had a great game of Red Rover. We got to meet the horses on the way home ! Here are some photos ….
This week is national “bike week”. To celebrate this, members from the Cú Chulainn Cycling Club visited our school to take a number of pupils( 3rd-6th) for a session on using a bike in a safe and sensible way. The instructors from the club were fantastic and the pupils really enjoyed it. They learned all about bike care, rules of the road, traffic signals and safety measures.
LMFM also gave us a surprise visit and ran a piece for the radio, interviewing some of the pupils, instructors and teachers.
The instructors were very pleased to see so many pupils cycling to school. It is a great feature of our Active School’s programme. Also this Friday, as part of National Bike Week, the pupils of 5th and 6th class will cycle to St. Colmcille’s Tullydonnell, for a Basketball tournament.
Sunday’s fun day to celebrate 60 years of St Finian’s NS was a resounding success. Whoever ordered the weather for the day did a great job, all of the children seemed to have a great time and past pupils had a chance to reminisce about their time at the school in the classroom which had been specially set up with old desks, blackboards, books and roll books.
The school and the Parents’ Association would like to thank everybody who helped out with all of the various tasks involved in making the day happen – planning in the weeks prior to the event, setting up (early!) on Sunday morning, running the various events on the day, contributing to the school fund and helping with the cleanup afterwards. Parents from St Finian’s and St Colmcille’s (Tullydonnell) worked together to clear up at the end of the day, after a competitive football match earlier on! This was especially appreciated by those who had been around for the early set up and were starting to flag as the evening wore on!
We would also like to say a huge thank you to O’Neill’s Bakery, Durnin’s Butchers and Coca Cola for providinggreat cake, hot dogs, burgers and drinks. And the kind parents who lent us barbeques, extension leads etc without which we would have had great difficulties! Your help was much appreciated.
So thank you for everything that you did and looking forward to doing it all again next year!