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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…

In the run up to Easter, our 3rd Year RE classes participated in a special Easter Week Reflection Workshop in our School Oratory. The workshop was designed by our TY and 5th year students who are completing the Pope John Paul II Award in our school this year. The JP2 students wanted to give our…

Well done to A. Diamond, a 5th year Home Economics student, who recently represented Scoil Mhuire as a finalist in the “All Island Final of the Healthy Home Chef Cookery Competition”. She worked hard to prepare her favourite healthy home cooked nutritious and affordable meal (main course dish only) for two people. The competition is…

3rd year students M. Burns and Z. Kulpa attended the CEIST Annual Student Leadership Conference in DCU on April 18th. They were representing Scoil Mhuire as members of the student council. During the day, they met with student representatives from other voluntary secondary school. Z. Kulpa had this to say about her experience… “The CEIST…