White m Christmas trip to town!
White m headed to town last Thursday on our Christmas trip, We brought presents for our loved ones and went on the Ferris Wheel. It is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas in the White M See Photos
The Gold M and Gold S Polar Express!
Today, to celebrate it being the 1st of December, Gold M and Gold S decided to take the train to Cobh! This is in conjunction with our Christmas Show (hope I didn’t ruin the suprise!). While on board, we all enjoyed hot chocolate, tea or coffee with some homemade treats provided by Margaret (Clause!) O…
White M Mini Enterprise.
We are very busy in the white class, working on our mini enterprise. The children are working very hard making their beautiful gifts to sell. Please see photos here
Rathduff School Links
We were very lucky to welcome Rathduff Primary School to St.Paul’s today. We had a great time playing hockey and doing some cookery with them. We enjoyed singing some Christmas songs that we have being doing in lámh choir for them and of course they were great to join in with us. We are very…
Special Olympics Cashel
Saturday 11Th of November Today our Motor Activity Athletes and their coaches travelled to Cashel to meet up with our head coach Ger, and our other team mates from across Munster. It was lovely to meet everyone, and we had a very enjoyable day. Now that we have our two events finalised we will be…
St Paul’s Special Olympics
Dear Parents, We are lucky to be chosen as one of the TESCOS BLUE TOKEN charities, to help with our necessary fundraising for our Special Olympics Club. We are currently working to raise 8000 euro to fund the 13 athletes who qualified for National games. If anyone is shopping in TESCO MAHON POINT. Please pick…
School closure
Update 16/10/17 @ 16.10 – Following further advice from the dept of Education & skill we will remain closed tomorrow Tuesday 17/10/17 On advice from the Dept of Education & skills we will remain closed tomorrow Monday 16th of October due to the severe weather alert. We will reopen as normal on Tuesday 17th! htfor…
Yellow Class Drama
Today both of the Yellow classes performed Dear Zoo for Drama and had great fun
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Ball in aid of St. Paul’s School
The night is going to be spectacular!!! Kick off is at 7pm with a Drinks reception upstairs in the recently refurbished convention centre at The Clayton Silver Springs Hotel Tivoli. Mingle in the lobby with the other guests or maybe pose for a moment in front of photographer Erich Stack…you never know you could make…
Naval Base Fundraiser
St. Paul’s School were delighted to be the beneficiaries of the fantastic efforts of the Bransfield Recruits from Cork Naval Base. They kindly donated €2000 which will directly benefit the pupils of St. Paul’s. I would like to thank them sincerely for thinking of us and hope they will come to visit the school to…
Planting fun
The Yellown M and Red M classes have taken a big job on of planting and caring for the planters in the playground for Geography, last week they cleared them out and this week the dug them up and pulled out the large stones and rubbish. Next week we will be planting so watch this…
Schools Out for Summer
30/06/17 Dear Parents, Guardians & Friends of St. Paul’s On the last day of term I would like to thank each and every one of you for your support of St. Paul’s school community. It is hugely appreciated by pupils and staff alike. As you see from the website, we have had a very…
Brand New Sensory Studio
This year saw the opening of a new sensory studio. The studio will help all our children meet their sensory needs. As they say photographs speak a thousand words. Lets go view our children having fun in the studio Our beautiful new studio is the result of many people giving generously of their time and skills.…
My Canine Companions Visit
My canine companions came to visit the gold M and white M classes as part of their junior project , ‘taking care of an animal’. There was great excitement when 2 puppies arrived in a buggy and also a 7 month old dog named Orla . We all took turns giving cuddles and walking them…
PurpleM visit Fota
Today Monday 19th June we got taken to see all the amazing animals in Fota by our very good friend Noel Higgins. Thanks Noel we had a great day.
A visit from Cork City Fc Captain
Johnny Dunleavy from Cork City FC called to school today. He is an amazing ambassador for Cork City.
He did a coaching session and played football ⚽ with our senior boys and girls. He presented us with a signed jersey.
Port of Cork Trip
Today Tuesday 13th June the PurpleM class, WhiteM class & PurpleS class went to the Titanic experience in Cobh as a prize for taking part in the Port of Cork competition. A great day was had by all.
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Family Fun Day 2017
Today we had our annual family fun day. We were lucky the held off and we got to hold it outside.
Kids Day Out 2017
Today June 7th, some of our pupils headed off on the annual Rotary Club kids day out.
Summer Smoothies in YellowM
This morning we were all healthy in YellowM. We went for a nice walk around the grounds for P.e and then we came back and made lovely summer smoothies from pinapple, pears, nectarines, and some summer mixed berries with lemon and blueberry yoghurt, they were yummy.
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St. Paul’s Circus Day
Our Theme for the Summer term has been The Circus, today the whole school came together in two sessions to do our very own St. Paul’s Circus. We had everything from Magic Tricks, to trapeze artists, lovely ribbon display & not forgetting the circus animals. We also had alot of stations from the sweet &…
WhiteM & GoldM in Spike Island
On Thursday 1st June the WhiteM & GoldM classes headed off to Spike Island on their Summer Trip. It was a dull and misty morning when they set off but they still managed to have a great day.
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Special Olympics Swimming Gala
On Saturday 27th May 4 of our pupils headed off to the UL arena for the Special Olympics Munster Regional Swimming Gala. They all worked really hard on their training and represented St. Paul’s brilliantly on the day. Colm Healy brought home Gold in the 10M assisted swim, Destiny Russell brought home Gold in the…
Tasty Sandwiches
Check out the PurpleM class making some lovely Cheese and Ham Sandwiches for themselves
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Playground Fun
Today pupils from YellowM & OrangeS were getting some fresh air in the playground after a busy morning of work.
Not so sunny day at the Beach with Red S.
Noel Higgins very generously volunteered the bring the Red S class to Garryvoe on Wednesday. With the hope of spending a scorcher of a day at the beach, we packed up the picnic, suncream and buckets and shovels. Unfortunately, the sun didn’t shine but we still had great fun TRYING to fly our kite in…
Special Olympics Training
This afternoon YellowM, RedM & OrangeM got together for there weekly training session! Some of the pupils are taking part in the Athletics event in June so they were practicing their running & soft ball throw!
FUNDRAISING
A huge thank you to everyone who supported our school by buying tickets for the raffle of the Munster jersey. The draw took place on May 13th in the Blackrock inn. and was won by one of their customers, who we hear is a big Munster fan. The Raffle raised 1350 Euro . Our special thanks…
Purple class Birthday Party
Purple class had a party for Ellen today for her 14th birthday! Happy Birthday Ellen
The Garden of Tranquility
In 2015, some staff members had an idea !! An idea to create a beautiful and peaceful garden in a small overgrown corner of our school. They wanted the garden to be a tranquil place for reflection and relaxation, and with the very generous help of Kenneally Steel Fabrication Ltd., the determination of staff and…
YellowM Class Trip
Today Thursday 18/5/17 we headed off to Go Safari, our original plan for Fota had to be postponed as the forecast wasn’t looking good. We still managed to have great fun and finished it off with a lovely lunch in the Elm Tree.
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GoldM & WhiteM School integration Trip
Today gold m and white m went to visit the transition year students of colaiste mhuire crosshaven. After travelling down on the bus, we needed to wake ourselves up, and what better opportunity than a game of hockey or soccer. After the very competitive hockey and soccer session, we were treated to a fantastic music…
GoldM Yoga
GoldM enjoying a bit of Yoga and deep breathing, learning how to de-stress from all the hard work they are doing for the Junior Cert Programme.
Class Trip to Leahy’s Farm
Our OrangeM Class along with RedM went to visit Leahy’s Farm on May 4th. DJ was our guide and he showed us around the farm. We saw lots of animals but Houdini the snake and Humphrey the Camel were our favourite. We fed milk to the Lambs, some bread to the ducks and some nuts…
WhiteM Food Shopping
White M out and about getting our cooking ingredients in Tescos and then we went for a bite to eat in Scoozis.
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Senior Class Trip
15 students from WhiteM and GoldM went to the CSPCA in Mahon as part of their junior cert project , ‘taking care of an animal ‘. We got to see dogs , cats , chickens , birds , turtles , spiders and even 2 snakes . There was one puppy who stole all our hearts…
Rugby Skills
One of our SNA’s Maria Foley entered a rugby development competition with ALDI & to our great surprise we were one of the winners & so today as a result Eugene Mcarthy the Munster Rugby development officer came to the school to do some rugby skills. The pupils had great fun playing some tag &…
Sunny day flowers
Robert, James & Daniel from GreenM were out watering the flowers today out the front, this was well needed with all the lovely sunshine we’ve been having.
PE integration
Afternoon PE session for YellowS & RedS. They are very lucky to have the help of Stephen who has been training to become a PE teacher in UCC & we are grateful he’s coming to help us out over the next few weeks! Here they are doing some bowling, with Rose leading the way showing…
YellowM at the playground
YellowM decided to take advantage of the sunshine this morning so we lashed on the sun cream & headed off to the Playground in mayfield! We definitely got our daily workout with the walk over but refreshed ourselves by having a snack first before hitting the swings & slides! It was great fun & lovely…
Summer’s Here
Dear Parents, The Summer Term is here and the sun has finally come out for us. Over the next two months there will be trips out, trips to the playground and lots of lovely nature walks etc with this in mind it would be great if on sunny days you could put some sun…
Class Trip to Leahy’s Farm
Our OrangeM Class along with RedM went to visit Leahy’s Farm on May 4th. DJ was our guide and he showed us around the farm. We saw lots of animals but Houdini the snake and Humphrey the Camel were our favourite. We fed milk to the Lambs, some bread to the ducks and some nuts…
Easter Visit from GSK
Last Wednesday the 5th of April 2017 we were very lucky to have a very special Easter visit from some of the wonderful staff of GSK. We all gathered in the P.E. hall where Vincent and Niamh got us all in the mood with some great music and an old sing song.. A very special…