St. Kevin's National School

Just a short note to welcome back each and every scholar of St. Kevin’s! We are looking forward to another very successful year, a year of the very best teaching and learning, where each pupil will dare to know, and dare to know more! We would also like to welcome the newest scholars of St. Kevin’s, from our new Junior Infants to our new additions in our other classes, you are all very welcome!! We have created a short video to introduce you to the newest scholars of St. Kevin’s and of course we have included our present scholars, who are typically super, scintillating, sincere, smart, sophisticated, stylish and sweet. You may well recognise a few familiar faces and funny poses but we hope you enjoy it. We look forward to our new arrivals and new infants becoming the next legacy of legendary St. Kevin’s stars! Just click on the link below to see everyone!!

The Newest Scholars and Classy Classes of St. Kevin’s!

Once again our Spookathon was a ‘spooktacular’ success this year. Our sincere thanks to our parents and guardians, your support this year was absolutely fantastic. It gets better with each year, we appreciate your support so much. Our thanks too, to our terrifyingly talented teachers, screamingly super special needs assistants and spookastically superb secretary, who all engaged with the Spookathon spirit. And to the awesomely attired scholars of St. Kevin’s, we had Mrs. Brown,  Batmen and Barbies, Draculas and Dorothys, corpse brides,  clowns, pirates, princesses and ‘new pupils’ and scary skeletons, what a brilliant bunch you were this year! If scaring is caring, we’re an immensely fortunate school! Our thanks to you and all super scholars for a truly great Spookathon! Click on the link to see all the action from our 2016 Spookathon and keep an eye out for the scarily spooky Second Class!!

St. Kevin’s Spookathon 2016!

On Friday, our Parents’ Association hosted their annual cake sale in the Parents’ Room. All our parents and guardians were invited to bring or bake a cake – and we must say a tasty thanks to all our parents and guardians who baked and brought cakes of all types and sizes – we had very cool chocolate cakes, fantastic fairy buns, super Swiss rolls and any number of brilliantly bakes goods and terrifically tasty treats. Our thanks as always for your support on the day. It was a great success and we certainly had a bunch of happy, cake-filled pupils!!! Click on the link below to see a selection of the delicious cakes and smiley St. Kevin’s scholars from the cake sale!

Cake Sale 2016!

Bhí Seachtain na Gaeilge againn i Scoil Naomh Chaoimhín. Bhí orainn go leor imeachtaí. Bhí feis ceoil agus ceolchoirm leis an córscoil againn, bhí lá glas againn agus bhí tráth na gceist againn. Bhí sé spraoi iontach. Bhí againn paráid iontach – it really was something special. It was a great week, and an especially great day on Wednesday. Click on the link to see some of the action!

Seachtain na Gaeilge 2017!

Parade Footage from Seachtain na Gaeilge 2017!

Each year in St. Kevin’s, we are amazed by the incredible science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) work undertaken by both our terrific teachers and super scholars. This year, as part of our evaluation, we promised to continue to raise the profile of science in the school and see if our superb scholars could shine brightly as super scientists too! We are glad to say, that through a whole school collaboration, we seem to have managed our task, and the last few months has seen dancing raisins, rubber rockets, bursting balloon rockets, voluble volcanoes, dazzling dentistry, mad maths trails, brilliant bridge design, lovely lava lamps and a few incredible visitors – from snakes to the fun and games of our SEAI presenter. We have also visited Airfield, Sea Life and Bull Island. It has been brilliant, and my thanks to every class, who have been class in every way!! Check out all the action by clicking on the link! Well done Second Class!

Our Scholars Get ‘Scientastic’ Science Video!

We are delighted to say that the Time to Read programme was undertaken in St. Kevin’s once again this year. This programme provides children in second class with reading support from a business volunteer. In our case, we are very fortunate to be linked with a great group from Zurich in Blackrock, led by Caroline and Mary. This reading programme aims to increase our pupils’ fluency, enjoyment and confidence in reading – and gives pupils individual time and attention each week thanks to the dedicated volunteers. It was a great success again this year – and our class library, school library and local library are busier than ever thanks to the efforts of all involved – and there are even unconfirmed reports of pupils reading under the duvet after lights out! Click on the link for a flavour of this remarkable programme. Our biggest thanks to Caroline, Mary and all our volunteers, we hope to see you again next year!

Time to Read at St. Kevin’s!