Our Christmas Play is taking place this year on Wednesday 18th December in St Mary’s Church, Raheen, at 7pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

We held a school assembly on Thursday 21st November where we celebrated some of the amazing work going on in all our classes. A mixture of nursery rhymes, songs, English, Science, Gaeilge, ISL and History was on display. Well done to all our classes for the great work they are doing.

2nd & 3rd Classes recently took part in the Fast Feet Athletics competition, organised by Offaly Sports Partnership. This followed a six week training programme delivered to all classes in the school by coach Seán Sweeney. Well done to all the pupils who took part and thanks to Seán and Offaly sports Partnership for their ongoing support.

There has been a lot of Science fun going on around the school this week as it’s Science Week.

We have been doing lots of activities to promote Anti-Bullying Week. On Tuesday we took part in Odd Sock Day which was an opportunity to express ourselves and to celebrate our individuality.

We are delighted to be working with Lucy from Music Generation Offaly this year. Our junior classes are being taught the Kodaly Early Years Programme while our senior classes are learning to play the violin.

GAA coaching continues and over the next few weeks the focus switches from football to hurling.

All primary schools are implementing a new Maths curriculum this year. There are lots of interesting and engaging Maths lessons taking place in all classrooms. More information on the new Maths curriculum can be found here.

There was a spooky feeling all around the school on Friday October 25th as we all got into the Hallowe’en spirit.

Our Student Council organised a Hallowe’en Wellness Walk around the village in the morning. Take a look at some of the photos from the day.

Our boys’ football team won the final of their Cumann na mBunscol competition on Tuesday 22nd October in O’ Connor Park, Tullamore.

The boys played really well and beat St. Mary’s Edenderry 5-12 to 2-3. The game was played in a great spirit, so well done to both teams for this.

To add to the excitement, our joint captains were presented with the cup by GAA president, Jarlath Burns.

Thanks to everyone in Offaly Cumann na mBunscol for organising the competitions and for making the final such a memorable occasion.