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St Fiacc’s will remain closed tomorrow due to Status Red Wind Warning extending across the country. We will reopen Tuesday. Kind regards, Mr John Brennan.

We attended Carlow’s Tidy Towns Annual Prize Giving Night on Wednesday. We were delighted to receive Highly Commended in the Carlow School’s category again this year. Congratulations everyone!

This Sunday at 4pm Fr Dunphy will have a special blessing for all our students’ pets outside the Parish Centre to mark the Feast of St Francis. Hope to see you all there (with your pets!)

Well done to our fantastic Students of the Week and Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine this week!

Second class had lots of fun exploring place value with different materials. Our favourite station was making bundles of ten and different numbers with lollipop sticks.

The boys team lost narrowly to Portlaoise on Tuesday .We are hoping for a better outcome on Wednesday at 12.30 when we take on Killeshin in the club grounds. We are training again on Monday. Best of luck boys!

First Class had great fun learning about minibeasts this week. We learned about animal habitats and we wanted to find out what minibeasts live in our school grounds. On our hunt we found lots of different minibeasts.   We brought more »

We awarded certs to the Students of the Week and Paisti na Seachtaine and we witnessed a Rubrix cube completion in 42 secs!! Also special mention to two brothers who won certs.

We are learning the commutative properties of addition this week. We are learning that when two numbers are added together it does not matter which number comes first.  Today we worked in pairs and used a die to help us write more »

The staff, Board and pupils of St. Fiacc’s would like to wish Miss Moore all the best on her appointment at Ballyroan NS and thank her for her wonderful contribution to the lives of the pupils at St. Fiacc’s.

Here’s a photo of progress to date of our new classroom build. Completion is set at early December.

One change this year is that we have received funding to provide every child in the school with a snack before the 11 o’ clock break. This will consist of a bottle of water and a piece of fruit alternating more »