UPDATE due to school closures!!!!!Junior Infant Enrolment 2021 will get under way on January 6th 2021. All details and forms are available on this website under the parents tab for policies. Forms and required attachments can now be e mailed to secretary@loughshinnyns.ie or posted to St Brendan’s N.S., Loughshinny, Skerries, Co. Dublin from January 6th, …
Science Week this year was great fun. As we couldn’t have our usual interactive Science Week display in the hall, we had to adapt. We had lots of interactive science shows and experiments to get everyone excited about science. The children and teachers had great fun investigating together, experimenting and discovering all sorts of sciencitific …
Our outdoor Halloween Parade was super fun this year. We were blessed with the weather and this allowed us to get everyone outside to see all the fantastic costumes and creativity , while remaining safe. As always the costumes were amazing and the music provided by DJ Keary kept the Halloween Catwalk atmosphere going. Super …
Maths Day 2018 This year after a lot of research we launched our “Maths Day” at St Brendan’s N.S. Following on from the great success of our Science Days in the hall we decided that it time to show how Maths could be as much fun. Mr Keary set up Maths stations in the hall …
Rockshinny 2018 Our reformed 2018 Rockshinny Rock Stars had an amazing October. They successfully got into the final auditions for the Late Late Christmas Toyshow, just to be pipped by one other rock band on the day. The whole experience was just fantastic and their rendition of the Cranberries hit “Zombie” went down really well …
Dubs Visit The Dubs were back again this year with the Sam Maguire trophy. There was great excitement as Even Comerford brought the trophy to our special “Up The Dubs” assembly. Evan spoke brilliantly and insightfully to all the children about his experience with the Dublin squad. Many excited and interested underage footballers got to …
All Care All care pharmacy in Rush presented our school with much needed first aid kit and medical supplies. They also kindly donated an array of sports bibs that will be invaluable to us for sports, trips and walks throughout the year. We would like to thank them sincerely for the donation, it is hugely …
We went to Ardgillan picking blackberries and we also made blackberry jam. Our group of the week get to bake as a treat and we used the jam in the recipe. We planted some bulbs that we hope will flower in the spring. We learned about our locality with a focus on local history. We …
This term we did a lot of Aistear. We did ‘Home’ and ‘School’ as play topics. We love playing!! We made pancakes as part of the topic and constructed lots of schools including ‘haunted schools’ for Halloween. Our mini school in role play was very popular. We love singing songs and dancing. In particular we …
Welcome everyone to our Second class blog. We have had such a great first two months at school. We are all very busy working hard on lots of different projects and activities. Everybody has settled in excellently. It has been great to welcome Joe Lundy back and to also welcome a new member to our …