Santa Visit & Breakfast Morning
Today, for our final full school day and to finish off the festivities before our school holidays, we had our annual visit from Santa. Our pupils got to visit Santa, have a chat with him and all received a lovely personalised treat. It was a gorgeous morning and we also had some special visitors from Redcross Montessori to visit and see Santa too. Our amazing parent reps provided hot refreshments and treats for our parents and also a hot breakfast for all our pupils to enjoy.
Treats were also a must have today too!! Thank you to all of our parents reps for organising and hosting the refreshments for everyone, it is very much appreciated. Our pupils are extremely lucky to get this visit each year and we would like to thank Santa for calling to see us. All that's left to do now is enjoy the final day of school tomorrow! We hope that all the children enjoyed their visit today and that it was a memorable experience for them. Happy Christmas to all!
Senior room Festive Art..
Ms Greene and our senior room pupils have been busy designing and decorating their Christmas baubles and windows and they all turned out amazing. The school is now fully decorated for Christmas and we are well and truly in festive mode for the celebrations ahead.
Well done everyone!!
Christmas Art in the Junior Room
Ms Nuzum and our Junior room have been working hard on their Christmas Art and our classrooms and hallways are all decorated beautifully waiting on Mr S to arrive for a visit tomorrow
Say yes to languages in the senior room
Our pupils in the senior room finished their final week of French lessons as part of the say yes to languages program. They have all thoroughly enjoyed these classes with tutor Sophie each week.
For the final week they all got to taste different foods that are popular in France and do some Christmas activities in French.
Well done everyone and thank you to tutor Sophie for such a fantastic 10 weeks.
A huge thank you!
Thank you to all the local businesses who gave so generously to our Christmas raffle. A list of all sponsors are included in this post. We would not be in a position to hold our Christmas raffle each year without their generosity so a huge thank you to all who donated.
Congratulations to all our winners on the night, there were some beautiful prizes.
Wishing all our sponsors and staff a very Merry Christmas from all at Scoil San Eoin!
Scoil San Eoin (Christmas Performance 2025)
Our annual Christmas Performance to end out 2025 was held in Trinity Hall on Thursday 11th December.
Pupils from our junior room kick started the night with their adaptation of the Donkeys Christmas. All of our pupils worked so hard learning their lines and practising so hard for this performance. For some of our pupils, this was their first stage debut and we think they all done brilliantly. Everyone done so well on the night and our audience really enjoyed it. After their performance our pupils performed 2 more Christmas songs with Leslie Dowdall from music generation and again these were both sang so well. We could see on the night how much our weekly music classes are benefiting the children in all classes throughout the school. Well done to each and everyone of our pupils from the Junior room on a brilliant performance and a great opening to the night.
After this was our interval where our parents got to enjoy some hot drinks and festive treats while mingling and getting ready for performance number 2 of the night.
Next up was our pupils from the senior room with Big Bad Ben. Again these group have worked very hard and learned so many lines for their parts in this play. Members of the audience on the night might have gotton a small shower when Ben made his way around the hall. There was lots of laughter at the jokes throughout the performance on the night. After their Big Bad Ben performance, next up was some more music with Leslie and pupils performed both songs beautifully. Everyone done an excellent job on the night and it was a great end to the show. Well done to everyone, we are very proud of you all.
To close out the night, we had our final fundraising raffle of the year and there were so many beautiful hampers on the night up for grabs. There were lots of winners and we hope that you are all happy with your prizes.
Each year we are extremely lucky that local businesses continue to support us with donating prizes to our raffle. Thank you to all of these businesses, without you all we would not be able to hold our fundraising raffle each year. A full list of businesses who have so generously given prizes will be published in the coming days.
Thats our Christmas Performance 2025 finished and we hope that everyone present on the night enjoyed it.
Well done to all our pupils and teachers on 2 fantastic shows.
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
Senior room - Festive Art
Our senior room pupils have been getting in the festive spirit. Our halls are decorated with all of the beautiful Christmas art that our pupils have completed over the past few weeks. Well done everyone!
A huge thank you to Tess!
A huge thank you to Tess Kenny (Bodhi’s Grandmother for once again being so thoughtful. Tess designed and created handmade mini Christmas trees that light up for each and every pupil to bring home on Friday to use in their own house.
The children are so lucky to have received these keepsakes and they were all thrilled to bring them home.
Thank you again to Tess. We all really appreciate it. Some photos of all the happy smiles going home on Friday.
A selection of some of the amazing prizes on offer for our Annual Christmas Raffle on 11th Dec
Some of the fantastic hampers available to win for our Christmas raffle being held at our Annual Christmas Performance on Thursday 11th Dec at Trinity Hall. A huge thank you to all the local businesses who sponsored prizes and to some our parents who also donated prizes, we would not be in a position to have some many great prizes without these donations!! A full list of sponsors will be available on the night and afterwards.
Primary Stitch Project - First & Second Class Pupils
Re-Imagining Textiles Initiative - The Primary Stitch
The boys and girls in First and Second Class in Scoil San Eoin were extremely lucky to take part in a workshop called The Primary Stitch. This re-imagining textiles Initiative was funded by Sarah Rubalcava, our Environmental Awareness Officer from the Wicklow County Council.
The pupils thoroughly enjoyed 5 workshops of two hours each. Tamara who is the lead textile artist for The Primary Stitch and her colleague Susie exposed the pupils to a hands-on experience that nurtured them environmentally and made them aware as individuals to make informed, ethical, and sustainable choices about the clothing they wear and the resources they use eg: buy more from Charity Shops, pass or exchange clothes between friends and neighbours etc. During the workshops, the pupils learnt how to thread a needle, knot it and sew. At the end of the workshops, all pupils made a bunting with their own individual creative stitched triangle. The last workshop was a fun one where the pupils got to stitch and create Christmas decorations. It is lovely to see all the pupils now have a lifelong skill to stitch!
Well done everyone
You all done an amazing job!!
Science week in our Senior room!
The theme of science week this year for our senior room pupils was 'Then - Today - Now' .
We looked at Irish scientist from the past and the changes/discoveries they made. Pupils researched a chosen scientist in pairs and presented their findings. Using the theme of Air we investigated through experiments.
Does air have force? Does air have weight and does temperature affect air and how? Pupils were asked to look at an invention through the lens of the past, present and future.
Finally pupils were given a STEM challenge of creating their own parachute using a choice of materials and style, again using all their knowledge of air and aerodynamics.
They all done a fantastic job and had lots of dun deigning and creating their parachutes.
Well done everyone
STEM Week - Windmills from our Junior Room
Some more brilliant work from our Junior room pupils. For stem week they constructed and designed windmills for stem week. Lots of work into decorating these and they turned out beautiful! Well done everyone
Science Week - Junior room experiment
Some of the wonderful work from our Junior room for Science week. Our pupils chose 10 places they thought might have the most germs and they are tracking the progress how things develop over time.. Well done everyone
Applications for admissions for Term 26/27 now open!
Dear Parents,
Please note that our school admissions for new Junior Infant pupils is now open and we can start accepting applications.
Our admissions notice has now been placed on our website detailing dates for admission of new Junior Infants for Term 2026/2027
Our enrolment form is available to download on the school website or via the school office.
If you have any queries or need any assistance with the enrolment process, please contact the school office on schoolofficeredcross@gmail.com.
New Junior Book Club launching at Arklow Library
Dear Parents,
Please see below information on a Junior Book CLub opening at Arklow Library. This will be wonderful for pupils to engage in.
Arklow Library is delighted to announce that we’ll soon be launching a Junior Book Club for children aged 9-11 years.
The club will be a fun and relaxed way for young readers to discover new books, share their thoughts, and make new friends who love reading as much as they do. We’re currently finalizing details and would love to hear from anyone interested in joining the club -or from adults who might like to help facilitate the sessions.
If you could share this information with your students and staff, we’d greatly appreciate it.
Anyone interested can contact us at arklowlibrary@wicklowcoco.ie/0402 39977 or drop into Arklow Library for more details.
Applications for admissions for Term 26/27 now open!
Dear Parents,
Please note that our school admissions for new Junior Infant pupils is now open and we can start accepting applications.
Our admissions notice has now been placed on our website detailing dates for admission of new Junior Infants for Term 2026/2027
Our enrolment form is available to download on the school website or via the school office.
If you have any queries or need any assistance with the enrolment process, please contact the school office on schoolofficeredcross@gmail.com.
Scoil San Eoin - Halloween Cycle/Walk 2025
Our annual school Halloween Sponsored Cycle/Walk took place on Wednesday 22nd Oct. The weather gods blessed us again as they have most years and we were so fortunate with the beautiful weather which made it a nicer day to cycle & walk!!
We had 2 options again this year for the pupils to choose from:
A 7k cycle around Ballykane- As with last year we were delighted to have lots of our Junior room pupils choosing to do the cycle and they managed it amazingly. Our pupils from both rooms and parents had spent lots of time practicing and cycling since our last cycle last year and it was so apparent as we completed the cycle in an hour which is an amazing time for all our pupils. We are all so proud of you and the children have well and truly proved that we are a very active school.
Our other option was a walk to from and around Cullen Park. Pupils who chose this option done lots of steps while there and even had time to listen to nature sounds and collect some leaves for an art activity that we were completing in school
After both the cycle and walks were complete we all had some much-needed refreshments and Halloween treats back at school.
The day was a fantastic success achieved only by the help and volunteering of our parents who were road marshals, who cycled alongside our pupils and who walked and helped supervise the pupils in Cullen Park. Thank you to everyone who helped out on the day, we couldn’t of done it without you.
Thank you also to our parent reps who helped in organizing the refreshments for afterwards.
Our pupils will have their sponsor cards until after the Halloween Break and we are hoping that friends and families will sponsor them for completing their task so well.
A huge well done to all our pupils and teachers for taking part in the event.
Check out all our fantastic photos and videos that were captured on the day.
