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Pupils win CBS Scholarships

Congratulations to five of our pupils on the honour of winning scholarships to James St CBS – Janice Comerford, Shauna O’Neill, Josh Kenny, Emma Durojaiye and Zoe McGougan. They had the pleasure of meeting RTE presenter Miriam O’Callaghan at the award ceremony held in the CBS.

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Funday Friday in St James’s Primary School

Our pupils had a lovely treat today with the arrival of an ice cream van to the school. Every pupil was treated to a ’99’ ice cream cone to enjoy in the fabulous sunshine…even the teachers got to indulge.

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The sound of the van’s jingle even made some of the boys and girls dance as they waited!!

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MISSION POSSIBLE

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Last Friday, the school and Early Focus project were delighted to accept the Mission Possible: School Achievement first place award for the promotion and support of positive mental health. Ms Flynn, Ms Hogan and Ms Curran, along with some of our pupils had the pleasure of accepting the award at a ceremony in St Patrick’s Hospital.

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School Play 2017

267752The school play extravaganza will be taking place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th of April. Tickets for the play are €5 and will be available on a first come first served basis.

 


Flower Arranging

Flower Arranging continues to be a big success in the Haven with a number of parents taking part. The last session for this term takes place next Friday, 7th April at 9.15 and all are welcome.

Thank you Paul for this beautiful arrangement for our school’s front desk.

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Children’s Laureate launches DEAR in James St CBS

Some of our 5th class pupils were lucky enough to be invited to the launch of the DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) Initiative in the CBS Library. We met PJ Lynch, author and illustrator of The Boy Who Fell Off The Mayflower and he also illustrated Ryan Tubridy’s book, Patrick and the President. He spoke to us about the stories and illustrations in his books and told how he used his daughter as a model in his books. PJ used charcoal to complete some drawings of our pupils, which we will display in the school. Many thanks to the CBS and Siobhan, the librarian, for the invitation.

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First Communion in St James’s Primary School

We are all very proud of our 2nd Class pupils who made their First Communion today. They all looked fantastic and the ceremony was beautiful. Many thanks to all the parents for their support. We have to say a special thank you to Ms O’Neill, Ms Berkery and Chrissie for all their hard work in preparing their classes for the sacrament, and also HUGE THANKS to Helen for her superb art work in the Church. Our choir preformed brilliantly, thanks to Mr Cronin and Ms Dodrill. Thank you also to Fr John and the parish team.1490973955031 (1)


Using our senses in the school garden.

Using our senses in our school garden. Smelling lavender, tasting herbs, looking at cloud shapes in the sky and listening to birds in the trees. 

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Sensory and Physical Skills at St. James’s

Early Focus have been working alongside Occupational Therapist Brenda Cassidy from Zoom Boom Kids to develop Sensory skills and Physical skills programmes for our classes. As a school we understand the need and value of investing time into the fitness and well being of our students. IMG_0238 IMG_0239 IMG_0237 IMG_0236 IMG_0244 IMG_0240 IMG_0242


Amazing work done on the school garden!!

On Friday the 10th of March volunteers from Amdocs Software Systems came in to our school to revamp our school garden.

They cleared weeds, cleaned out the pond, varnished the benches and planted lovely new flowers for us to enjoy. They did absolutely trojan work!!

This was all organised by Volunteer Ireland and we are extremely grateful for their support.

Take a look for yourself…

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