Congratulations to our pupils in 6th Class who celebrated their Confirmation on Saturday.
Active School Week 2022
We are all having a wonderful time taking part in this year’s Active School Week.
On Tuesday we started the week with a great variety of activities. We had Fun & Run with Offaly Sports Partnership, badminton with Judy, soccer league matches at lunchtime, rounders and a Cumann na mBunscol football match. A very busy day!
On Wednesday we did a lot more activities. Our soccer league continued, Peter (one of our parents) visited to do Ju Jutsu, we relaxed doing yoga and had lots of frisbee fun as well. Mr. Galvin really enjoyed his Ju Jutsu experience!
On Thursday James from our local GAA club, Na Fianna, came to do hurling training with all the classes. Powercutz Fitness put us all through our paces in the afternoon. There were lots more goals scored in our lunchtime soccer league as well!
We finished Active School Week on Friday with plenty more activity. John from Tullamore Rugby Club did tag rugby with Junior Infants to 2nd Classes while the rest of the school went swimming to Portarlington Leisure Centre.
In the afternoon all classes got the chance to sample some karate thanks to Katie and her dad Ollie, both past pupils.
Thanks to Ms. Leonard, Mrs. Burns and Mrs. Gorman for putting such effort into organising all the wonderful activities this week and well done to all the girls and boys for taking part so enthusiastically.
National Spring Clean 2022!
Our Green School Committee organised a litter pick-up all around the village on Friday to mark National Spring Clean 2022. The senior classes donned their gloves and high vis jackets and set about their task very enthusiastically. Well done to everyone for their good work.
School Garden
We have extended our school garden recently and all our classes will be planting some vegetables in the next couple of weeks. Thanks to Pat and all in Geashill Tidy Towns for their hard work over the Easter holidays.
6th Class Retreat
6th Class continued their preparation for Confirmation by going on a retreat to Mount Saint Anne’s Retreat Centre in Killenard. They enjoyed the day and are now looking forward to their Confirmation on Saturday, 7th May.
Boston Scientific STEM Primary Outreach Program
Just before Easter 5th and 6th Classes took part in a STEM Primary School Outreach Program in association with Boston Scientific. They had a wonderful opportunity to gain an insight into the running of Boston Scientific, Galway. We owe a special thanks to past pupil Keith Quinn and Greg Delahunt who presented so much information to the children. They learned about:
-The importance of Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths in the everyday world.
-Devices that are made by Boston Scientific.
-How these devices are inserted into the body.
-The importance of hygiene in a medical manufacturing company.
-How to keep our hearts healthy.
The children had many questions which were answered very clearly by both Keith and Greg. They all enjoyed the presentation very much and we are very grateful to have been given the opportunity to take part.
Amber Flag Initiative
This year, we are taking part in the Amber Flag Initiative, run by Pieta. The Amber Flag Initiative aims to encourage schools to promote, and actively bring about a culture change in positive mental health within the educational system and other organisations. The Amber Flag Initiative acknowledges and enhances the already good work that is being carried out, where mental health is concerned, by offering an award, the Amber Flag. To find out more information on this initiative, please click here.
A team of enthusiastic and committed students have been working diligently to develop and organise activities to support and promote positive mental wellbeing in Geashill N.S. .
Click on read the article below to see some of the activities we have been doing to promote wellbeing and positive mental health.
Ukraine Collection
Thanks to everyone who took part in the recent collection for Ukraine. Everything dropped into the school was collected last week. Please see below a thank you message that we received.
I would like to thank the staff of Geashill National School for letting me organise a collection point of donations for Ukraine at the school. Thanks to everyone involved.
King Regards,
Kalina Misiak.
The Geashill community has set up a Facebook page called Geashill Supporting Ukrainian Families. Take a look to see what is being planned to help out any Ukrainian refugees who may come to our area.
ASD Class Admission Process
We are delighted to announce that we will be opening an ASD special class in September. Our admission process opened on Tuesday 15th March and will close on Wednesday 6th April.
Our Admission Policy can be read here.
Our Admission Notice for the ASD class can be read here.
You can download an application form here.
Fully completed application forms can be posted to Scoil na Croise Naofa, Geashill, Co. Offaly, R35W253 to arrive no later than Wednesday 6th April.
Any queries please call 057 9343754 or email micheal.hyland@geashillns.ie.
Vex Robotics Team
After weeks spent building our robots and practising this year’s game, we have selected our team to represent the school at the Offaly Robotics Championship which takes place in O’ Connor Park, Tullamore on May 6th. Well done for making the team and best of luck in the competition.
