Category Archives: Sport


Heather Cup 2017


Congratulations to Hannah Mills’ green team who won the final of the Heather Cup against Bishop Galvins. The team members were Hannah, Grace, Joy, Ali, Amelia, Ingrid, Hannah, Lana and Ciara. Fantastic work from our goalie Ali who kept Bishop Gavlins scoreless. Well done to Ciara Quinn for scoring the winning goal. Pius Abu !!

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Faughs Community Schools Night 2017


Well done to all the girls who created projects for the Faughs  “An Interview with my Sporting Hero” Competition.  Congratulations to Lola, Dea, Louisa and Laura whose project won a prize. The girls were fantastic and Anthony Daly was very impressed with all their hard work. Thank you to Paul Dixon, Mary Waters and all […]

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St Pius X GNS Running Club win 2nd Place!


The Running Club certainly finished the South County Cross Country Races  Competition on a high, achieving an AMAZING 2nd place overall out of 68 schools competing! The scores were carefully calculated on each schools performance over all the previous races (and including the final). The final was held in Corkagh Park, Clondalkin yesterday, 11th May. Tensions were running high as […]

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St. Pius X GNS Running Club


Well done to the Running Club for their outstanding performance at the second of the South County Cross Country races in Butler Park, Tallaght on 15th March. The girls continue to train so hard and really proved themselves on the day. We took 2 first places, 2 second places, 2 third places and 4 fourth places!! The school are […]

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1st Class Gaelic Coaching


First class does Gaelic football every Wednesday with Kevin from Templeogue Synge Street  G.A.A. Club. We play games, learn skills such as kicking, dribbling and hand passing and play matches. Some of us also play on Saturday mornings. We really enjoy Gaelic football and look forward to it every week.

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Badminton Competition


On Monday 1st March Cassie,​​ Sarah, Aoife and Rachel represented our school in a Badminton  Primary Schools competition in Baldoyle. This was the first time our school had a badminton team. The girls put on a fantastic performance and were delighted to be crowned runners up on the day. Pius Abú!!

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Camogie with Mr Walshe’s 2nd Class


On Friday’s Tommy comes into our school and teaches us camogie. Tommy coaches senior infants, first class and second class. We are taught the basic skills in camogie and it is so much fun. Over the weeks we have learned how to grip the hurley correctly, to dribble the ball, to bounce the ball, to […]

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Cross Country Race February 2017


The Running Club (3rd + 4th) competed in the South County Cross Country races on Wed 15th Feb in Butler Park, Tallaght.

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Our School Quiz Team


Congratulations to the Junior and Senior Teams in the Credit Union Schools Quiz! In late November the selection process began for the St Pius X Girls School Quiz Team. After many rounds of trials 4 fourth class and 4 sixth class girls were chosen to represent their schools in the Schools Quiz organised by the […]

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Marathon Kids


This year we did a marathon (a full one!) with Marathon Kids. Michelle was our instructor. We started on the 19th of September. We ran 600m at the start and then went up to a whopping 1800m. In the space of just eight weeks we ran over a whole marathon! Me (Cassie) and Niamh did […]

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