On February 25th last St Colman’s NS travelled to Lisgoold for the annual East Cork Primary Schools Quiz. We entered three teams from St. Colman’s, two teams from 6th class and one team from 5th this was their first time taking part in a table quiz! This is a very hotly contested quiz with over 50 teams from East Cork. We are delighted that one of our 6th class teams took 1st place while the other came away with 3rd place. This is a fantastic achievement for the children involved and a proud day for our school. Thank you to everyone involved in Lisgoold Community Council for organising the event and to the parents who drove the children. A big thank you to Donna Dempsey for preparing the teams.

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A huge congratulations to Ms. Marie Kearney our 2nd Class Teacher who won Macra na Feirme Cork County Miss Macra representing Macra Na Feirme Midleton and Imokilly Macra at the weekend! Kearney will compete in the All Ireland final of Miss Macra later this year!

Pupils will finish at 12 noon Wednesday FEBRUARY 19TH for mandatory staff training in the New Language Curriculum.

Recently we received a donation of 5 laptops for pupils to use. A big thank you to Brian O’ Regan a parent in our school who works at PepsiCo Cork for arranging this! We are truly grateful!

We had a fantastic Action Day for our Biodiversity Flag on the 7th of February. The children had a fun-filled, educational and energetic day from start to finished. It began with a WOW walk to school. We had three walking buses with a large number of children and parents in each. Thank you to everyone who participated especially Catherina Blackmore, Carol Carroll and Maria O’Brien for leading the buses.

2nd class to 6th class did an orienteering style Treasure Hunt around the school grounds where they found labelled trees and habitats created as part of the Green Schools committee’s work. The children were very enthusiastic and really enjoyed finding and learning about the new additions to our school grounds. We hope we have sparked a new interest in many of our students: to be aware of and helpful to our biodiversity.

Every class made pledges about how they will help our environment and support local biodiversity. This was followed by an inspirational video by Greta Thunberg, who we hope the children will have connected with by seeing the difference young people can make in the world.

Finally, and arguably the highlight of many people’s day, we had an assembly. We enjoyed 5th class reciting a biodiversity poem, written by their classmate, Fionn Wenham, which was fun and informative. This was followed by a performance of our biodiversity rap song by students from 6th class. The performance was full of personality, fun and charisma and was enjoyed by all, including the performers!

It was a hugely enjoyable day and really show cased the hard work that has been done over the last two years by the Green Schools, while also being an inclusive day for the whole school in the flag. This was our final step in our application for the Biodiversity flag so we are hopeful that we will be successful during our renewal day when a coordinator will decide if we deserve the award. We would like to give a huge thank you to all the children, staff and wider school community who were involved in today!

Substance Abuse talk will take place on February 12th @ 7 p.m. in the school. This talk will be given by Detective Sergeant Seán Leahy and is relevant for all parents.

Thank you to all our wonderful Grandparents and Godparents for celebrating Grandparent’s Day with us today and to St. Colman’s NS Parents’ Association for catering!  Click here to see the choir performance and photos!