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  A huge thanks to Ms Minnock and the Students Council who bought and organised all our new books for the new classroom libraries. We have a fantastic variety of books available to all children to read from Junior Infants more »

Well done to our fantastic darts players who gave exhibition matches last Friday for Assembly. Jamie even shot a 180 live on assembly which was incredible but there are no surprises as he is number 10 in the world in more »

Fourth class room 13 enjoyed a 2 – D shape hunt around the school. We found lots of interesting regular and irregular shapes. We took pictures of them with the iPads and uploaded our pictures to Seesaw. Some children decided more »

Our Girls Soccer team finished in 2nd position in the FAI Carlow Schools competition last Friday having played really well in all their matches and narrowly missing out on the top spot. The boys team played great also and finished more »

Well done to our two Table Quiz Teams who represented St Fiacc’s N.S in thefinal of the St Abban’s Table Quiz series last Thursday. Both teams did really well finishing 10th and 11th out of 50 teams overall. Well done more »

5th and 6th class students are busy this week starting their Maths lessons using Minecraft Education as part of our Digital Learning Framework and numeracy plan. Today we were learning about Area and Volume by using the Minecraft Education platform. 

Fourth class  room 13 have been exploring 2 – D shapes. We have used the Pro – Bots to draw 2 – D shapes, lines and angles. We have used tangrams to make pictures with our 2 – D shapes more »

Fourth class room 13 were learning about weight and measurement. We decided to put what we had learned into practice and make pancakes! They were delicious! We had lots of fun measuing the ingredients and even more fun tasting them!

  Fourth class have been learning about length. We were using metre sticks to draw different lengths on the yard. It was lots of fun!

  Fourth class room 13 had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day. Some children dressed up as their favourite charachter and the they read an extract from their favourite books! It was a fun day!

    On the 4th of March, our school choir set off to Waterford to perform in the Peace Proms concert. The children learned all their songs and dances and worked really hard in order to prepare for this day! more »

4th class have been learning about 2 – D shapes. We have been learning about lines and angles and regular and irregular 2 – D shapes. We have explored 2 – D shapes using lollipop sticks!

During Seachtain na Gaeilge, the children in 4th class room 13 were learning some folk dancing! It was lots of fun!! Maith thú rang 4!

Thank you to the all the families and children from St. Fiacc’s that participated in the Graiguecullen St. Patrick’s day parade! The children had a great time singing and playing tunes on the tinwhistle. Despite the weather, we had a more »

We had an awesome day today in Ballon (Burrin Celtic FC) at the FAI Carlow soccer First Round. Our Girls and Boys Teams both topped their group and now qualify for the County Finals on Friday. Our other Boys and more »

This week in 3rd class we designed and made catapults!

Mr Groarke’s class were busy this week planting potatoes in our school garden! They also checked out our herb garden where we smelt and ate some herbs ! It was great fun and we learned lots about how to plant more »

We had over 40 boys and 40 girls try out for our FAI 5 a side soccer Blitz which takes place in Ballon on March 23rd. It was a great afternoon last Thursday and all teams played 4 games with more »

  Our 5th and 6th classes visited the Dunbrody Famine Ship recently as part of their History curriculum where they learned all about the history of the ship. It was a fantastic experience and everyone had a great time while more »