We celebrated our annual Grandparents Day on Wednesday February 3rd. Grandparents, parents and friends of our children in 2nd and 6th class gathered in the church for a special service led by Fr. O’Connor. Each read out their beautiful and heartfelt messages to their grandparents. Grandparents play a special role in a child’s life so we love having the opportunity to honour them on occasions such as this.

Thank you to Dr. Bennett and the children from 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th classes for providing the wonderful music in the church. Thanks to Fr. O’Connor for leading the service and to the amazing Parents’ Association for providing the refreshments in the school after the service.

The annual Oldcastle Credit Union Quiz was held in Gilson NS on Friday January 29th. Once again our students represented St. Fiach’s with great distinction. We achieved 2nd and 3rd place in the U11 section and 2nd place in the U13 section. All children from 3rd to 6th classes took part in the quiz and a great night was had. Thanks to Gilson NS for facilitating us and a special thanks must go to Finbar the Quizmaster

Our students are back practising their rolling, tucking and balancing skills every Monday in the community hall.  Gymnastics is an important strand on the PE curriculum and it’s great to have Craig back to share his expertise with us for term 2.

It was a great pleasure to welcome the ever popular ecologist Dale Treadwell to St. Fiach’s recently. Dale shared some wonderful stories with the children and helped them to appreciate the beauty of our natural environment. The children had the opportunity to examine some creepy crawlies and there were some myths about bats put right!

Dale kindly prepared an area of our school grounds suitable for a wild garden for bees and insects to have a natural habitat. We are really looking forward to watching the garden grow and develop throughout the spring and into the summer months. Dale also gave our infant classes a hands-on lesson in gardening. Thanks to Dale for his time and we look forward to seeing him again soon.

St. Fiach’s National School’s annual Christmas concert took place on December 18th 2015 in Ballinacree Community Centre. Our junior classes (Junior infants – 2nd class) presented their performance of Hey Ewe! while our senior classes (3rd-6th) performed their version of Straw and Order!

After weeks of practice and preparation, the children sang and acted their hearts out! We are very proud of them. We hope that everyone enjoyed the night. Please enjoy the gallery: