Project Pictures in the Junior room
Our junior room pupils worked really hard on their project pictures last week. They were taught how Jesus had to create the world from nothing and they were tasked a project where they had to create something too but with some materials!
All the pupils worked in teams and made a huge effort. Well done everyone!
Pupils enjoying Shared Reading/Paired Reading
Our Junior and Senior room pupils took a break from their weekly assessments on Friday mornings to spend the morning reading together in the Senior room. Our junior room pupils really enjoyed visiting the senior room classroom and getting to read with the older pupils. They all had great fun together!
Well done!
GAA coaching sessions with Wicklow GAA
Our GAA sessions with Darren & Cian from Wicklow GAA finished today and our final day was filled with sunshine!! Our pupils have thoroughly enjoyed getting out each week to do their GAA sessions while also getting lots of exercise and fresh air. We have been blessed with the weather most weeks and pupils from all our classes from Junior Infants up to 6th class took part in the weekly coaching sessions.
They learned lots about turn- taking, skills and tactics and the basics of GAA. We are looking forward to seeing some of this practice on the yard during break times in the future!
Well done everyone!!
First Aid/Defib Training - Junior room pupils
Our Junior room pupils completed training today with Polly on basic first aid and defib training.
They learned all about the number 999 or 112 to call in an emergency and the importance of knowing our Eircode.
Pupils were given a demonstration on how to correctly position our hands before putting them down on a person who needs CPR and then the pupils themselves got to practice individually CPR on dummies in the class room.
Our pupils then got to explore what steps to do if someone was choking, Polly brought a special device where pupils got to practice the Heimlich maneuver.
Towards the end of the sessions pupils got to practice putting bandages on each other.
Everyone received a First Aid badge and a little First aid themed gift.
This was an extremely important workshop for the children to participate in. Please ask the children some questions later today about the workshop and also let them learn their house eircode.
Well done to everyone and a huge thank you to ‘Polly’ Pauline Nolan for coming in to see and giving up her free time to teach the children.
A busy month for our classrooms!
Our Junior room pupils have been very busy learning about all things Space and our senior room pupils have completed some beautiful artwork for our hallways recently too. Well done everyone!
First Prize for Aifric in Seanfhocail Competition
We received wonderful news on Thursday 16th April that one of our pupils won a competition being ran for Seachtain na Gaeilge by Wicklow County Library Services. The competition was a Seanfhocail Competition where pupils had to design an A4 sized poster to illustrate a Seanfhocail that they liked, and use the poster to illustrate it’s meaning to them.
Our Junior Infant pupil Aifric won first prize in her category and received a lovey Art & Hobby gift card.
Comhghairdeas, a Aifric agus maith thú!
We are all very proud of you!!
A wonderful way to end Term 2 and hop into Easter!
After a wonderful term 2 at Scoil San Eoin on Friday 27th March, our pupils completed Easter art activities in the classrooms & then had a fun festive Easter egg hunt.. Our staff & student teachers even joined in with all the fun Pupils received a lovely gift from out student teachers on the their last day at SSE and again were spoiled with a beautiful decorative Easter gift from Tess (Bodhis Nan). A huge thank you to Tess for such a thoughtful gift. The children all had a great day and it was a lovely way to start the Easter holidays. We hope you all had a safe and fun break and a wonderful Easter.
La Glás/World Book Day Dress Up
To finish off celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge and our Scholastic Book fair our pupils dressed up in green or as their favourite book character on Friday 20th March. Our pupils made a fantastic effort and there were lots of colourful outfits for World Book Day and the traditional green for La Glás!!
Our student teachers Ms Mullett and Ms Kenny have been very busy practising and learning Amhrán na bhFiann with our pupils and also the Walls of Limerick dance. On Friday our pupils performed their song and dance together as a whole school. Everyone done such a great job and the enthusiasm was fantastic.
A copy of the performance has been sent to parents via aladdin connect!
Maith Thú!!!
‘‘Spring has sprung’‘ in our Junior Room!
Our Junior room pupils recently completed an Art & craft activity themed " Spring has sprung" with Ms Kenny. The children all gathered their supplies to decorate from outside around the school grounds using pieces of trees, plants and leaves found. They then all each decorated an individual piece. We all think they look wonderful! Well done everyone, they all look fantastic!
Scholastic Book Fair (18th/19th March 2026) @ Scoil San Eoin
Dear Parents,
We are delighted to let you know that our school will be running a Scholastic Book Fair on Weds 18th & Thursday 19th March at the school. The book fair will feature lots of lovely books for the children to buy and also accessories .
The book fair will also be open to the whole community and children will also get to visit the fair in school - Further info regarding times etc will be issued nearer the time for any parents wishing to visit the fair or community members)
For the moment this is to make parents aware of the event happening and to spread the word. For any parent wishing to take a look at books on offer/pricing before the fair, there is further information for parents on the website link https://bookfairs.scholastic.ie/parents.
Note: If you’re unable to visit the Book Fair, your child can be sent home with a Wish List and you can pay for their chosen books using our online payment system. Please make sure the Wish List is returned to your child’s class teacher. (WISH LISTS WILL BE ISSUED WEDS 11TH MARCH TO ALL PUPILS)
The more books purchased the more rewards the school will receive which will give us the opportunity to purchase some beautiful new books for the school library,
Thank You for your support and we look forward to seeing you all at our book fair 2026
Celebrating Pancake Tuesday!
Our pupils were treated to pancakes for Pancake Tuesday yesterday and they were all thrilled with the yummy toppings A huge thank you to our wonderful parents reps for coming in and organising the pancakes for our pupils. It was a lovely morning!
Surprise gifts for our pupils to celebrate Valentines Day
Our pupils were all once again spoilt by Tess (Bodhis nan) with a beautiful hand crafted gift to celebrate Valentines Day!! These gifts were absolutely beautiful and once again it was so thoughtful of Tess. The children were thrilled getting a surprise on Friday and loved them. Thank you so much to Tess from all our pupils, staff and parents.
Active Movement Break Week
Last week our school took part in the 'Croke Park movement breaks' as part of the Active Breaks Challenge for 2026. These challenges have been supported by the GAA who, working with the Active School Flag team, have created a set of English and Irish movement break videos to support this initiative, each of which is filmed at a different location around Croke Park.
Our Classes got behind-the-scenes look at where the team buses arrive, inside the players’ dressing rooms and the warm up areas where legends get game ready. They also got to learn interesting facts about Croke Park.
Pupils from all our classes took part in these movement breaks last week and really enjoyed it.
Well done everyone!! Great Job!
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
Active week for our Junior room pupils!!
Our Junior room pupils finished our final week of school by doing an active week. They done lots of activities and games in Cullen park. We are very lucky to have access to this wonderful local amenity.
Well done everyone on a very active week at Scoil San Eoin!!
Sports Day 2025
This year we held our annual Sports Day on Tuesday 24th June
Again the weather gods were with us and it was a lovely warm dry day. All the pupils were divided into teams of mixed classes and the theme for the day is that each pupil was to do their best, encourage their teammates and have fun!!!
It was a fantastic day and all our pupils were great teamplayers and had great fun. As always our senior pupils minded and took care of our smaller ones and showed them how everything was done.
We ended the day of sports with a tug of war and so many parents took part. It was great fun and very competitive!!.
Each pupil got a lovely medal for participation and we had also were treated to gorgeas snacks on the day with ice creams.
We also presented our 6th class with their traditional going away gift which included a gorgeas personalized hoody, a framed class photo, a personalized candle and a personalized keyring as a memento for their time spent at Scoil San Eoin.
Huge thanks to the Parents Reps and all the parents who helped out on the day,
Well done to all our pupils on a brilliant day!
Full School painting project!
Our Junior & Senior Room pupils were busy today giving our tyres a paint & uplift for the summer. It was bitterly cold but everyone made a great effort and got lots done. We all agree though they done a great job and the area now looks lovely & colourful.
Well done everyone!
SQUEEZE IN A READ!! This week at Scoil San Eoin
SQUEEZE IN A READ!!
Irish libraries, Children’s Books Ireland, NALA, booksellers and others are partnering once again to get the whole country reading this month in the lead up to Ireland Reads Day on Saturday, 25th of February.
We are asking everyone to pledge to ‘squeeze in a read’ – whether that’s reading a book, a newspaper, a comic – whatever works grabs your interest!
We have made a pledge as a school that all pupils from 1st – 6th class will read for 15 minutes per day, each afternoon between 2pm and 3pm, commencing from Tuesday 21st to Fri 24th Feb and will encourage all parents and pupils to also read for at least 15 minutes on Sat 25th as well as part of the initiative above.
Please take some pictures over the next few days of your child and family reading and send them to us on our email @ schoolofficeredcross@gmail.com before Monday 27th Feb to allow us to send these on and share them on our website
Some information on access to books below:
Library members can borrow from 12 million items or download from thousands of eBooks, audiobooks, magazines and newspapers online. Simply visit www.librariesireland.ie to join.
You can browse and borrow in your local library or browse and reserve online. They also have thousands of ebooks, audiobooks and online newspapers and magazines available to download straight to your device.
Please also consider supporting your local bookshop.
We are asking all parents and pupils/family members to take part in the above initiative and share it with us.
Thank You
Linda Greene
Grandparents Day
What a special day we had for Grandparents Day! We had lots of VIPs turn up to interact with the pupils today, tell them about their time in school and mingle with some old friends. Today also gave the pupils an opportunity to show the Grandparents how they learn now, and how we use all of the ‘mod cons’ in our teaching and learning in the classroom. Grandparents also got a nice cup of tea and some artwork to bring home with them as a memento. Many thanks to all that helped out, sent in photos, baked and came in to help on the day. We are already looking forward to the next one!