Month: May 2023

 After a month’s reading, the 1st years finished their Readathon in the last week of term. The Readathon was organised by the Wellread Steering Committee – a committee set up this year to promote reading within the school community. Prizes were awarded to the Best Readers in each form class. The prizes were sponsored by…

Eight 5th year students accompanied by Ms Mahon and Ms Whelan attended the first ever Ryanair Role Models Roadshow in the Ryanair Engineering building in Dublin on Friday last. The Roadshow is being rolled out across Europe and aims to encourage more women to pursue careers in the aviation industry. There were a number of…

Comhghairdeas to our 5th year Irish Committee, Coiste na Gaeilge, who were awarded the coveted Gaelbhratach in DCU.  The Gaelbhratach flag is awarded to schools who promote spoken Irish among their students outside of the Irish classroom. This is a student-led scheme in which all activities and initiatives are organised by the senior student committee,…

We had a fantastic Healthy Eating week in the school last week, it was organised by a team of teachers and a small group of TY students. We would like to thank our sponsors Aldi, Lidl and Avonmore for all the fresh fruit and milk which was shared to all students during the week. We…

  On Thursday, May 4th, the TY Development Education class welcomed Dr Caroline Munyi and her colleague Kelly to the school. Dr Munyi works as Migrant Women’s Health Co-ordinator with AkiDwA – an organisation whose mission is to promote equality for all migrant women living in Ireland. ‘AkiDwA’ is the Swahili word for sisterhood. Development…

On May 3rd a group of 16 students and 2 teachers headed off to Corsica in France for a French exchange. Corsica is an island off the south of France.  For 9 girls this will be a 3 week immersion in the French language. These 9 students already had an exchange partner over in October 2022…

Scoil Mhuire hosted the French singer Caroline Moreau on Monday 8th May. She travels around Ireland doing French singing workshops and it was the first time she has come to Scoil Mhuire. The songs were practised in advance by the 3 teachers Ms E Doherty, Ms Breheny and Ms Kane with 1st to 5th yrs and the soloists…

Well done to 12 of our 4th and 5th year students who helped as volunteers at this year’s Darkness Into Light Trim. With over 2000 participants in DIL Trim, these students played a team role in keeping everyone safe and coordinating the morning’s events. They showed real traits of being reliable, responsible, friendly and encouraging.…

Well done to our Senior Soccer team who won their regional final this year. They proceeded to the Leinster final where they unfortunately lost 0-1. Particular congratulations to our 6th year students N Mahon, E O’Toole and N Nahedh who have been dedicated to soccer throughout their time here in Scoil Mhuire

On Wednesday 26th of May, Scoil Mhuire Student Council held a charity shop fundraiser for St. Vincent de Paul, raising €170.70 and compiling several bags of donations for this year’s chosen local charity.   We gathered donations from students, receiving items like clothes, accessories, books and other forms of bric-a-brac. We took these donations, along…