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Our Friary World Cup kicked off in December and will run into the New Year. This is a competition broken into senior and junior tournaments which allows the boys to play with and against people from other classes. The initial section of the competition is mad eup of 5 round robin games to give teams…

Well done to Ms McElroy’s 4th class who won the Golden Boot for November. This is an award given to the class with the most sustainable methods of transport used over the month. Keep up the great work guys. Who will win the Golden Boot for December? Be sure to check back!!

Well done to our handwriting winners for the month of November. These awards of given for both excellence and improvements in handwriting and presentation. The boys received a St Malachy’s BNS pen or pencil and a certificatefor all their great work.

To mark the end of ‘Friendship Week’ we encouraged everyone to wear odd socks to school. This initiative is to celebrate our individuality and differences while still feeling part of our school community. Our staff also got involved with Mr Farrelly going as far as placing odd numbers on his socks. Well done to all…

This week in St Malachy’s BNS we are celebrating ‘Anti-Bullying & Friendship’ Week. All week, the student council have been working very hard on activities for all the classes. On Monday, our friendship tree was decorated with leaves designed by the boys with notes about how to be a good friend and an anonymous complement…

Tonight our 6th class quiz team, led by Ms Halpenny, won the Cumann na mBunscol quiz held in St Joseph’s NS, Dundalk. As a result the team will progress to the Quiz Finals next week in Knockbridge School. Well done to our boys and Ms Halpenny. The very best of luck in the County finals!!

This week we celebrate SCIENCE WEEK 2023!! As can be seen from the photos so far, our 2nd and 3rd classes have been working on Lava Lamps while our 5th class visited Dundalk Library for some interesting science activities. With many more experiments and activities taking place throughout the week be sure to visit the…

Ms. Mc Dermott’s and Mr. Farrelly’s 2nd and 3rd class students have been very busy this week learning all about 3-D shapes. On Wednesday, students were tasked with using spaghetti and marshmallows to create a variety of polyhedra. They used these wonderful creations to determine and discuss the properties of cubes, cuboids, pyramids and tetrahedra,…

Just before the mid-term break, our green schools committee took to he garden to planbt some daffodils. In Ireland, daffodils are often the first sign of Spring and as we enter the winter montsh we look foward to seeing our daffodils ‘Spring’ out of the ground to mark the start of brighter days and better…

Congratulations to Ms McDermott’s 3rd Class on the winning of the Golden Boot for October 2023.

Well done to our handwriting winners for October 2023. Keep up the good work.

It was a day full of colour and fantastic costumes as we marked the mid-term break with a ‘Monster Mash’ Halloween disco. Well done to our winners of fancy dress and our handwriting winners for October. We hope evryone enjoys the mid-term and look forward to seeing you all return safely on Monday November 6th.

Scenes of pure joy filled Darver Centre of Excellence this evening as our U’13’s boys lifted the Corn Mhic Ardail Cup for the first time since 2014!! The Friary boys got off to the dream start, finding the net early in the game thanks to some fantastic interplay from the goalkeepers kick out, right until…

In the run up to our Final tomorrow evening, we wanted to allow everyone to meet our team. Check out the video below: