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Outdoor Classroom Day

We had the most amazing Outdoor Classsroom Day today! The weather was wonderful and we had so much fun. We started with PE and Paudge and Dave, our trainers, called out especially to do some games and football drills with us. After this we got into groups made up of pupils from Junior Infants to 6th and we designed and made kites! We looked at shape and space and design. We built and tested and...
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Digital School of Distinction

Absolutely wonderful news to share with you all. We have just had a visit from the Digital Schools validator and we have been designated as a Digital School of Distinction! We are one of only 15 schools in County Wexford with the award and received high praise for our use of ICT to enrich teaching and learning in our school. Have a look at the 'Pupil Activities' menu above at our Science...
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Visit to the Children’s Ombudsman

We were out and about in Dublin today! Empowering our pupils to speak and have their voice heard and respected is incredibly important to us. Over the parp few weeks we have been learning about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. To enhance all that work we went to the Office of the Children's Ombudsman @OCOIreland and did a workshop with Cliodhna. We learned more about the Rights of the...
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Debating

We are delighted to tell you all that our Community Games debating team are through to the National Finals later this month! It was a tough debate against the Crossabeg/Castlebridge team and a very close decision for the adjudicators. Michael, Gavin, Shane and David were the winning team in the end opposing the motion that vending machines should be banned from schools. We wish them continued s...
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Rackard League Camogie

Congratulations to our Davidstown/Courtnacuddy Rackard League team who are through to the county semi-final! It was a tough match but they beat St.Senans on Thursday to match through to the next round. Well done everyone!
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Award of Science and Math Excellence

Please click here to have a look at the incredible work our pupils have taken part in over the past year. This page is a log of work which is our application to receive an award of excellence in Science and Math. You'll notice that we truly believe in hands on, active methodologies for our pupils. Wish us luck and hopefully we will have some more good news to share following the recent award...
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Tech Week 22nd -28th April

Tech Week will of course be taking place in Scoil Mhuire, Davidstown! We will be posting some of our activities and work on the website so that you can see what we have been up to! In the meantime have a go at this quiz https://www.techweek.ie/quiz/ where there are prizes up for grabs. http://www.techweek.ie
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Green Schools News!

We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have been awarded our Green Flag for water! It is an incredible achievement for Ms Crean and our excellent Green School Committee. With their leadership we not only raised awareness around water conservation but also identified and either fixed or reduced water leaks throughout the school. They did all this while maintaining our school's commitmen...
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Tag Rugby

Tag Rugby will be starting on Monday for 3rd to 6th. Ross will be talking the class for training and we hope to arrange a Tag Rugby blitz before the end of the year.
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