6th class were very lucky to have renowned Irish artist Aideen Barry into our classroom to facilitate an animation workshop. Here is a video montage of some of our work from the day! Click here for Vimeo link
Read MoreDear Parents,
Hope you are all enjoying the mid-term break.
Just a couple of notices:
We will be holding auditions for our “St Catherine’s Got Talent” show during the week of the 20th-24th March. So anyone who wants to try out can start practising now. As usual, a song, comedy sketch, musical item, dance or any other entertaining act is welcome.
Read MoreDear Parents
Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://schools.scholastic.ie/st-catherines-west-n to browse the latest books and order online. For every €1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20¢ in Scholastic Rewards.
Please place your order online by March 1st, 2017.
Read MoreDear Parents,
First of all, thanks to the many people who emailed, called or dropped in to say kind things to me arising out of my last letter. I have really appreciated the good wishes and compliments. St Catherine’s is a great school and will continue to be so – I will miss it very much, but hope to stay in touch and involved through chess and perhaps in other ways.
Read MoreAbove you can see that the children created a mall world in autumn. And here you can see these children preferred winter!
Read MoreThis is a forest constructed from coloured bricks. Can you guess the season? The yellow, red and orange leaves on the ground might give you a clue!!! Above you can see people and creatures enjoying a walk through the forest.
Read MoreIn literacy during November the were many posters and books written and designed. The children put a lot of thought into creating books where their characters were living in different seasons. We wrote a lot about our favourite seasons.
Read MoreIn Messy Play we had a lot of fun using paint, water, and and of course playdough.
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