5th Class had great fun creating their own bracelets today, using simple cardboard looms and colourful yarn. They carefully set up their disks, choosing vibrant colour combinations before weaving the threads in a repeating pattern. This hands-on activity helped develop fine motor skills, patience, and creativity. Each finished bracelet was unique, and many children decided to take them home and gift them to family and friends.
Ms. Fitzpatrick’s Class have had lots of fun reading from our story sacks. We listened to Winnie Wagtail and made a fabulous art board to celebrate World Book Day. This week, we read Itchy Bear and enjoyed naming all the animals in the story!
Today, the pupils across the school from Junior Infants to 6th Class made their voices heard in St Gabriel’s NS Referendum Day. They gave their opinions on how they felt about school, spelling, maths and moving to secondary school. Their valuable feedback will help us as a school plan for the future.
Thank you & well done to all the pupils who took part!
Today marked the second day that our horticulture expert Joan Power joined us in school to work with the children in our garden. It has been fantastic to see the students learning through hands-on experience in nature.
So far, the children have explored the edible plants growing in our school garden and learned how to care for them through activities such as transplanting and deadheading. They also discovered how these simple gardening practices help plants grow strong while supporting local biodiversity.
Another exciting milestone this week has been the start of our potato and onion planting. The children carefully planted them and are already looking forward to watching them grow and harvesting them later this year.
We’re excited to see our garden continue to develop while the students build their knowledge of nature, food, and sustainability.
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We love books in St Gabriel’s NS so everyone is always very excited when World Book Day comes around every year! This year the children had a great time dressing up as literary characters and bringing their favourite books to school to share with friends. The junior, autism and moderate classes enjoyed some interactive story telling in the library and Bernie even used the book theme for our dance classes. Some classes designed book covers and bookmarks while others took part in quizzes. We can’t wait for next year.
St Gabriel’s has a visiting horticulturist from Heritage Ireland coming to help us with our school garden. Today 5th class were learning about the different plants growing in our garden and how to maintain them. 5th class enjoyed “growing” their understanding of all the wonders in our garden.
St Gabriel’s National School is pleased to be participating in a pilot initiative led by the Department of Education and Youth, providing additional wellbeing supports in selected primary schools.
As part of this pilot, an Education Wellbeing Practitioner, working under the direction and supervision of a psychologist from the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS), is supporting our school community. The practitioner has completed the Wellbeing Ambassadors Programme, which is being implemented with our 6th Class pupils.
All 6th Class pupils will act as Wellbeing Ambassadors, promoting kindness, inclusion, and positive wellbeing during yard time.
Their role includes:
Posters displayed during yard time highlight the Buddy Bench and Games Corner.
A Wellbeing Ambassador display is located at the front entrance of the school, and ambassadors wear lanyards during yard time so they are easily identifiable and approachable.
This initiative helps develop leadership, empathy, and resilience while fostering a caring and inclusive school environment.
