Monthly Archives: October 2016


The Green Commitee


Low Energy Green Day On Friday 21st October 2016 St. Pius X GNS had a Low Energy Day. We weren’t allowed to use any electricity during the entire day. We turned off the lights, our interactive whiteboards, our computers and our CD players. The teachers weren’t allowed to use the phones or the photocopiers. We […]

read more

Tree Week October 2016


On a beautiful, sunny, October morning during Tree Week 2016,  the girls in 4th and 5th classes headed off to Bushy Park to meet with Tom from the Dublin City Parks.  They were divided into groups and each one brought a clipboard,  an information pack and magnifying glasses.  Every student had a paper bag to […]

read more

Space Week 2016


Space Week is Ireland`s newest national STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) week in parallel with World Space Week, and took place this year from  3rd– 8th October. The theme was  “ Our Planet, Our Space, Our Time”. To mark the week, the girls in the two 5th classes displayed their amazing creative talents and […]

read more

Maths Week 2016


Maths week got off to  a fantastic start on Monday morning with the annual Maths Quiz. 3rd to 6th classes broke into teams of 4 and 5. It was a close competition right up to the end.  Well done to all our winners.

read more

Thank you to our Parents Association


I would like to take this opportunity to thank our fantastic Parents Association for once again donating such a generous sum to the school.  The P.A. work tirelessly throughout the year organising after school classes and fundraising to provide the school with much needed funds. Without their support we would not have been in a […]

read more

Road Safety Awareness


On Monday the 3rd of October, Senior infants to 2nd class went on a walk to promote Road Safety Awareness. We all wore our new high-vis jackets and we were accompanied by 3 local Gardai. Garda Ben, Garda Philip and Garda Brendan then told us about all the different types of road safety, whether we […]

read more