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 fantastically fierce Fifth 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!

A huge congratulations to our Fifth Class Table Quiz team, who participated in the Irish League of Credit Unions National Schools Table Quiz on Friday evening. The competition was contested closely by all teams and the questions were far from easy which made the achievements of all teams more impressive. Our Fifth Class performed wonderfully well. Check out our commendably cerebral competitors below, who were a true credit to the collective scholars of St. Kevin’s and will return next year we hope!!

It was with heavy hearts that we bid our Korean classmates a goodbye. Andy, Harrison and Thomas have spent the last five weeks with us in class (and introduced us to manga comics in class too – don’t tell teacher!), and we have learned so much about school and life in Korea – we would especially like to try kimchi now, and enjoy seaweed and dried squid as a classroom snack!! We’ll miss you guys!!

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!

Yesterday our school choir, led by the irrepressible Úna and Paul, visited the Dalkey Lodge Nursing Home, where, in the company of the local residents, engaged in performing a number of classic Irish songs. Our short video is but one highlight of a wonderful morning! One and all were in fine voice. Thank you so much for inviting us everyone and we look forward to seeing you all again soon! Click on the link to see a short performance!

Our School Choir Visit Dalkey Lodge!

Our huge congratulations to our fantastic footballers who participated in the Cuala Blitz recently! Unfortunately not all our games went our way but our team was lead masterfully by El Capitano Clarkey, who rallied the troops wonderfully and never allowed heads to drop. Well done to each member of our team, all from our Fifth Class. Legends, one and all.

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 Fifth Class!

Our Scholars Get ‘Scientastic’ Science Video!