Best wishes to Mr. Ciarán Conlon whom retired from teaching today after 37 years service. Ciarán has spent these past seven years teaching in St Malachy’s BNS and we thank him sincerely for his hard work, dedication and expertise throughout his time. Ciarán is a highly qualified athletic coach and has coach many school relay…
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It’s that time of the year again when the boys efforts on sports day is rewarded with certificates and medals. As per the last few years, the boys competed at their age levels and so we had finalists and winners of sprints, sack, egg & spoon, long jump, long run and relay races from U-8’s…
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Every class took to the Friary field to watch the much anticipated Lunchtime League Finals of 2019 and it certainly did not disappoint. The junior final between 3rd and 4th class was a very tight affair with the ‘Black & White’ team winning in almost the last kick of the game. The senior final was…
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Ms Halpenny’s 2nd class took to the kitchen to bake beautiful buns for themselves and the staff. Ms Halpenny took the class through the ingrediants and steps to create the tasty buns. Here’s hoping they can treat those at home to more buns over the summer. Check out our photos.
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Today marked the launch of St Malachy’s BNS ‘Cycle On Wednesday‘ or ‘Cycle Once a Week‘. In launching COW we had hoped to fill the bike shelter and as you can see from our photo we have been successful in achieving this goal. Thank you to the boys who cycled, they have been rewarded with…
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On Friday last, Saoirse from Green Schools paid a visit to St Malachy’s BNS to teach us one of the most important lessons to know when cycling. In conjunction with the launch of our ‘Cycle On Wednesday or Cycle Once a Week’ programme, we learned how to repair a punctured bicycle tyre. This was a…
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On arrival the boys got to meet Dessie, one of the station’s inspectors. Train driver, Andy, brought them on to the train to see the inside of his cab- some even got to pull the horn. Stationmaster Anthony gave the boys a guided tour of the station’s museum. A few boys got to try on his hat as…
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The rain held off and the friary field was awash with colour….The story of the Friary sports Day 2019!! Having cancelled the Sports Day previously we finally got the races underway on Wednesday last. The children started with the heats in the 100m sprint, sack race and egg and spoon before moving onto the long…
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Our 5th and 6th class boys took off on what was a tour of a lifetime on Monday last. The boys travelled by bus to the National Aquatic Centre and the National Indoor Arena. The boys started in Aquazone where they enjoyed all the thrills and spills with slides a plenty as well as a…
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This month St Malachy’s BNS will be launching our Cycle On Wednesday or Cycle Once a Week initiative. This initiative will be in place to incentivise more of our boys to Cycle to School and the official launch will take place from June 17th – 21st. Thanks to Ms Ronan and the hard working Green…
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Our second class boys went on an amazing school tour just yesterday. They set off from St Malachy’s BNS at 9am sharp and had a fun filled day right up until their return at close to 4pm. The tour consisted of a long bus journey the whole way to Dublin Zoo in the Pheonix Park. The…
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