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The Enrolment Closing date for 2020/2021 academic year is at 3.00p.m on Friday 13th March 2020.

    In the Junior ASD class, we have been enjoying using our new interactive whiteboard. We use it as part of our OT program to improve fine motor control. We are learning how to follow a line and use a pen on the board. We also use it to improve our handwriting and for […]

          Ms Fingleton’s class concentrated on healthy food this term. They made a wide range of dishes in Cookery class including a healthy breakfast, BLT’s, chicken curry, pasta carbonara, homemade pizza’s, homemade beef burgers and chicken and noodle stir fry. We finished up the term by baking a traditional Christmas log […]

All around the school students and staff have been busy decorating their classes, display boards and the corridors in preparation for Christmas. Some very Mischievous Elves have been getting up to no good each night for the last three weeks. Students have been very excited to come to school to see what our little elves […]

  This term we held a Christmas Art Competition organised by Ms.Byrne which was open to all students in St Francis School. Students worked very hard on their pieces and the standard was very high. Winners of the competition were presented with some great prizes by Ms.Mullally and Ms.Byrne on Tuesday after our annual Christmas […]

Our Music teacher Ros O’Meara from Music Generation Laois has been working with the students of St Francis School since September. This term students from Ms. Rafferty’s, Ms. Fogarty’s, Mr. Johnston’s, Ms. Dempsey’s, Mr. Crofton and Mr. Lewis’s class have been working with Ros every Monday and Tuesday afternoon. We also have some vocal groups […]

              In Mr. Crofton class this term the students have been learning ‘All about me’. All the students in class have been working on describing their family, their favourite food, favourite sports, hobbies and pets. The students did work each day in class and also completed a project at […]

There was great excitement around the school in the lead up to Christmas. There was a special visit from Santa Claus to the school.  We all know that Santa Claus has a busy work load in December so it was a great surprise when he took time out to visit the junior students in our […]

          On Tuesday December 17th we had our annual Christmas Dinner here in school. This tradition has been a part of our school culture for over twenty years. Mrs. Bergin and her fantastic school helpers as always cooked a wonderful Christmas lunch for all the students. We had a great time […]

            Miss Rafferty’s class have been very busy doing lots of beautiful art work for Christmas. Tyler, Kuba, Andy, Candice, Jack and Jim learned all about Winter changes to our environment, Arctic animals, and how they survive in their cold and snowy climate. They painted a lovely scene of some […]