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Our Christmas Madness - 18/12

What great #Fun we had this morning when our school was invaded by Christmas Elves & Visitors. We danced to Christmas Music before school.

Check out all our Christmas Photos HERE.

Our local #Garda came to investigate this morning’s #Christmas Madness!

Glad to report … that nobody was arrested!

#Christmas Movie and hot chocolate in 1st class.

Popcorn #Christmas Party in Senior Infants.

#Christmas Treats in Ms Sheahan’s Room.

Christmas Meet & Greet - 18/12

Our Student Council organised a #Christmas Meet & Greet between Classes today. Classes came together to chat & play games with each other.

Check out all our Christmas Meet & Greet Photos HERE.

3rd & 6th - Buddy Winter Walk & Talk.

Winter Art Projects - 4th & 5th - Dec 2025

Loving the #Winter #Art Projects from Mrs Thomson’s 4th & 5th.

50 years of the Late Late Toy Show - Dec 2025

6th Class were celebrating 50 years of the Late Late Toy Show through their Project work. 🎅🏻🎄

Christmas Eve Children's Mass

Lots of practice being done for the Children’s #Christmas Eve Mass. Well done to all!

The Christmas Eve Children's Mass will be on at 4pm on Christmas Eve in Kanturk Church.

Day 4 of Christmas Countdown... Hot Chocolate - 16/12

Day 4 of their #Christmas Countdown…3rd class were spoilt today with Hot Chocolate ☕️ & treats! 🍰🧁

Yumm!

Carol Singing - 16/12

Our 4th and 5th class children had great fun carol singing in town today 🎄🎶👏🏻

#Christmas

Green Schools Work - 16/12

Our Green Schools Committee were busy at work the last few days planting native Irish hedging on our school grounds.

Well done to all👏

Proud to be a Green School. 💚🌿

1st Class Nativity - 15/12

We were very proud of our 1st Class acting out the Nativity during our #Christmas Mass.

The Crib - 15/12

Junior Infants were learning about the crib today.

#Christmas

Winner In the Credit Union Competition - Chapter Level

We are delighted to hear that S in 6th is a winner in the Chapter Level of the Credit Union Art Competition in the 11 - 13 Years Category 🥇

This is a really brilliant achievement and we are super proud of her🤲

Christmas Countdown in 3rd - Dec 2025

🎄 Ms. Boyce’s 3rd Class is spreading #Christmas cheer with our 10-day countdown!

Each day brings a new surprise:

✨ Festive window designs

💌 Cards for our local nursing home

🎨 Mega Christmas Doodle

👟 Slippers Day

…and so much more to come!

The excitement is building!

Football - 11/12

4th & 5th Class really enjoyed their last day of #Football with Cathal.

Re-Turn Bottles - 11/12

Mrs Boyce with some of our Green Schools Committee recycling our Re-Turn bottles. Míle Buíochas to all who donated their bottles to us. 🙏

Christmas Maths Quiz - 11/12

Mrs Boyce’s 4th Class Maths Group really enjoyed the Christmas Quiz this morning.

French in 4th, 5th & 6th

Some of 4th, 5th & 6th Class with their certificates which they received from Susan on her last day of teaching #French. 🇫🇷

Merci Beaucoup Susan!

Christmas Buddy Mini Games - 9/12

The Senior Classes buddied up with the Junior Classes during the #Christmas Buddy Mini Games.

Great fun was had! Check out all the photos HERE.

Advent 2025

Week 2 of #Advent: 6th Class - Praying for Peace🙏

AR in 3rd - Dec 8th

Great reading is being done in 3rd Class.

Well done on reaching your Reading Targets

👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉

Fighting Words - Creative Writing Workshop - Dec 2025

6th Class were delighted with their Creative Writing Workshop with #FightingWordsIE

Thanks to Fiona our Creative Associate for organising this for us as part of our #CreativeSchools Initiative.

Read Mr Murphy’s 6th Class Story here. The Two Holics

Paddy and Jim were working in the cheese factory. They are best friends for life. They were the only people that weren’t children working in the factory. They went to the pub every night.

Paddy and Jim were no ordinary people. Jim used to be an ordinary mouse, but one day he got stuck in a cheese machine. When he emerged from the cheese machine, he was half mouse, half mozzarella stick. Soon after, he became a cheese-a-holic and Paddy his friend, was an alcoholic who couldn't stop drinking.

Ever since Jim was little, he has been working hard, all day everyday, to become CEO of the cheese factory. One day they got sick of working and Paddy started eating all the children and Jim started stealing and eating the cheese. ‘Pig on the loose!!!’ shouted John Beef who was the CEO of the factory.

‘I can’t do this anymore’ said John Beef. Eventually all the cheese ran out. Jim started disintegrating. Jim died and Paddy revived him with an extra large cheese stick. Jim was shivering in his boots. When he was pushing the mozzarella stick on Jim it was bit wonky because he was drunk. Then John Beef shouted ‘I quit!’ and ran out the door.

Paddy and Jim decided to make the cheese factory their new home. They had to find a way to get unlimited cheese, but how? Paddy had an idea, what if they captured a load of mice and put them into the cheese machine. Paddy was trying to get some cheese and he fell into the hot cheese machine. Memories floated back to Jim…

Read Mrs O’ Sullivan’s 6th Class Story: The Stolen Brain Rot here.

Hello, My name is Pipi Kiwi, the strawberry coloured elephant. This is the story about how Lebron, my childhood friend- a fire-breathing, flying ant became the greatest.

There is a rat called Chicken Leigh that Lebron is afraid of. First, we need to show you how they became enemies. Chicken Leigh took Lebron’s place on the basketball team, so he got dropped. Then,Chicken Leigh joined Lebron’s private server and stole his brain rot!!!!

Lebron grew very angry and threw his iPad on the floor, and then his mom kicked him out. His mom also wouldn’t give him any dinner.

He heard on the moon that there is free dinners. After being kicked out of the house, he made a journey to meet me. We stole a jet pack from the space station, by a gas station.

When we started going to the moon, other spaceships started chasing us, because they identified our jet packs going the wrong way.

When we were about half way to the moon, Chicken Leigh launched a dragon cannelloni that breathed fire, and our jet packs exploded, and we started to fall…

Cork Penny Dinners - Dec 5th

We were overwhelmed with the generosity of our school community to the Cork Penny Dinners Collection.

Míle Buíochas gach duine🙏

Pictured here are the members of our Student Council with some members of the Kanturk Community Council.

Hot Chocolate in 2nd - Dec 5th

Mr. Kelleher’s 2nd class enjoying hot chocolate in preparation for the #ToyShow

Panto : Aladdin - Dec 4th

1st & 2nd had a great time at the #Panto today.

They loved #Aladdin 💕

November 2025 in Scoil Naomh Pádraig.

Word Millionaires - AR

Congrats to our latest Word Millionaires!

Well done girls! #AR

In November we REMEMBER...

Thank you to Fr. Toby for visiting our school & blessing our Remembrance Tree.

We prayerfully remember all those close to our hearts this November, including the loved ones from our school community whose names are written on its leaves.

❤️#InNovemberWeRemember

Biodiversity - 6th - Nov 2025

6th Class enjoyed a webinar on The Importance of Trees on Tuesday morning.

#Biodiversity

AR in 3rd - Nov 2025

Lots of children reaching their AR Reading Targets in 3rd Class. Well done👏👏 #AR

Water Safety Nov 27th

Junior Infants were learning about #WaterSafety this week.

AR in 6th - Nov 2025

Homework Passes for 6th Class Pupils for their amazing Reading prowess.

We are delighted in Scoil Naomh Pádraig with all the reading that is being done throughout the school with lots of children reaching their 1st Target.

Well done everybody!

Dance with Deirdre

Ms Sheahan’s Class loving #Dance this week.

#ActiveSchool

Little Chefs in the Making - Nov 21st

Mrs Linehan's class were baking yesterday as it was their last day with our Student teacher, Miss O' Regan. They were baking rice krispie buns & had a fun Friday!

Art in Ms Sheahan's Room

Ms Sheahan’s class created a masterpiece using milk, food colouring & washing up liquid.

Wow!

Assembley - Nov 19/11

Well done to Ms Walsh’s girls who sang “Killeagh” at our school Assembly yesterday👏👏

They were wonderful. We all joined in & loved it!

3rd Class enjoying Week 2 of Camogie with Esther.

6th Class modelling their new Class of 2026 hoodies.

Picker Pals - Nov 2025

3rd Class are taking part in Picker Pals this year. This is in keeping with our Green Schools Theme : Waste Management. Well done Rang a Trí👏

First of all, they went out on a preliminary survey of the school grounds today checking for litter ✅

World Diabetes Awareness Day - Nov 13th

6th Class wearing blue to promote awareness on #WorldDiabetes Day.

Mrs Linehan's Junior Infants celebrating #DiabetesAwareness Day and they were treated to special buns decorated with Diabetes Awareness logos! Look at the November Gallery for more photos.

Credit Union Winners - Nov 2025

Congratulations to all our Credit Union Winners. Well done to all. Check out their photos in the November Gallery.

13th Of Nov - World Kindness Day

Happy World Kindness Day💕

Mrs O’ Sullivan’s 6th Class shared their #Friendship Recipes for #WorldKindness Day with us.

Worth Reading 👏

Ms Mannix’s Room made Positive affirmation bracelets for

World Kindness Day 💖

Mr Bourke’s 1st Class spoke all about World Kindness Day. Then different Kindness tasks were given to each child to be completed by the end of the day eg Pay someone a compliment, help someone, hold open a door etc. 💕

Well done Rang a haon! 👏

Happy World Kindness Day!

10th of Nov - Transition to Secondary School Workshop

Marie from #CorkMentalHealth spoke to our 6th Classes about coping with stress, understanding their feelings and preparing for the transition to secondary school.

It was very informative and helpful.

#Wellness

Science Week in Scoil Naomh Pádraig

We were busy in Scoil Naomh Pádraig for Science Week. Great FUN was had. Check out all the photos HERE. Well done everybody.

Science Week in Mrs O' Sullivan's 6th Class

It was all about SPACE this week in 6th!

Science Week in Ms Sheahan's Class

Ms Sheahan’s class had great excitement during their science experiment to create an erupting volcano .

Science Week in Mr Murphy's 6th Class

Lots of Science Experiments done in Mr Murphy's 6th Class this week for Science Week.

Soap repels the black pepper (ie germs, ) showing the importance of washing our hands . 🙌
Growing & shrinking gummy bears through the process of ‘Osmosis’.
Dancing Rice (Creating bubbles/Carbon dioxide)
Disappearing drawings demonstrating ‘Refraction’.

Science Week in Mrs Walsh's 2nd Class

Lots of Science Experiments done in Mrs Walsh’s 2nd Class this week for Science Week,

Dancing Raisins, Floating & Sinking and Colour Mixing.

Science Week in Mrs Courtney's 1st Class

Patterns and dissolving sugars for Science Week

Balloon races🎈🎈

Melting Marshmallows

Chemical Reactions in Ms Murphy's Class - Nov 13th

Some children from Ms Murphy’s class enjoying Science Week 🧪👨‍🔬🧫

They explored how washing-up liquid breaks down the fat in milk, using food colouring to show the reaction.

Well done! 👏🏻

Nov 10th - Pop Goes Science Week in Ms Boyce’s 3rd!

Day 1 : 🎈💥 POP goes Science Week in Ms Boyce’s 3rd!

Every day they pop a balloon to reveal the day's science experiment… today it was SLIME time! 🧪✨

The 3rd Class scientists explored polymers, mixed up some gooey magic, and learned that slime is BOTH a solid AND a liquid! 🤯

#ScienceWeek #STEMeducation #SlimeScience #PrimarySchool #HandsOnLearning #Polymers

Day 2 :

🧪 SCIENCE WEEK FUN! 🧪 in Ms Boyce’s Room.

Is it a liquid?

Is it a solid?

It’s OOBLECK! 🌟

🎈 POP!

Day 3 of Science Week revealed! 🎈

FINGERPRINT DETECTIVES! 🔍👆

Ms Boyce's 3rd Class turned into real-life investigators and discovered that EVERY single fingerprint is different - even twins!

How cool is that?! 🤯

Day 4 of Science Week in Ms Boyce’s Class:

The Pringle Ring Challenge!🎈

Students learned about balance, gravity & structural stability by carefully stacking Pringles to make a ring shape 🤯

Best part?

Getting to eat their experiments afterward! 😋

Nov 7th - Farm Safety - 2nd

Mr Kelleher’s 2nd class enjoyed the AgriKids webinar about #FarmSafety

Really enjoyed learning about being safe on the farm.

Nov 7th - Sewing in 3rd Class

Ms Boyce’s 3rd Class were sewing with visiting Artist Sarah.

I think some of them found hidden talents!

Well done to all👏👏

Nov 5th - Fun at the Playground

Ms Sheahan’s class love their trips to the playground.

October 2025 in Scoil Naomh Pádraig!

23rd Oct - Quiz time in 3rd Class

23rd Oct - Halloween Art in Ms Fehan's 4th Class

23rd Oct - Halloween Art in Ms Hannon's Senior Infants

23rd Oct - Hallowe'en Science in Mrs Linehan's Junior Infants

Junior Infants were busy doing a Hallowe'en Science Experiment during the week called "Dancing Ghosts" with balloons & tissues.

23rd Oct - The Hallowe'en Parade

We had a wonderful Hallowe'en Parade in the halla today followed by yet another Disco!

Thank you to the Student Council for organising it!

Check out all the fabulous costumes HERE.

22nd Oct - Hallowe'en Disco

We had a SPOOKtacular time at our Hallowe'en Disco!

Check out all the photos HERE.

3rd Class Art

Mummy #Art in 3rd Class 🧟💀

Getting ready for #Halloween 🎃

20th Oct - STEM Project

W did a great job of his #STEM Project.

Building a bridge

Hallowe'en Art

Loving Ms Daly’s 4th & 5th Classes #TimBurton inspired #Portraits

#Halloween2025

AR - Accelerated Reading

We are delighted in Scoil Naomh Pádraig with all the reading that is being done throughout the school, In September alone we read over 4 million words! WOW!

Some children have even reached their 1st Reading Target.

Well done to everybody.

17th Oct - Maths Week in 4th Class

4th Class loved doing their Smartie Box survey.

They counted, sorted & tallied the smarties & then drew a bar graph of their findings!

And the pièce de résistance… they got to eat the smarties afterwards!

#MathsWeek2025

Ist Class doing Puzzles

1st class loved doing Puzzles today as part of Maths Week.

Visit to Pumpkin Farm

Ms Mannix’s Class had a great time at the Pumpkin Farm today.

#Halloween2025

Sharing some photos of Ms Murphy's Class at the Pumpkin Farm.

Check out all the photos HERE.

3rd Class working with artist Sarah Buckley

Ms Boyce's 3rd Class had another successful session with Artist Sarah Buckley today. 👩‍🎨

This week's focus was on mark making and taking a line for a walk.

🚶🏻‍♀️ 〰️🥳

Oct 17th - 6th Class trip to the Kerry Museum.

6th Class visited the Kerry Museum today in Tralee.

They learnt all about the #History of Ireland through the ages.

Check out all the photos taken HERE.

Maths Week in 1st.

Great #FUN was had in Mrs Courtney’s 1st Class for Maths Week.

Maths Week in 4th / 5th

Lots of Maths Games being done in Ms Daly’s 4th & 5th for Maths Week 2025.

Oct 14th - New Student Council

Introducing the newly elected members of the

Scoil Naomh Pádraig

Student Council

2025/2026.

Hurling & Camogie Teams

Today our Hurling & Camogie Teams were out in force. A great day of #Sport was had.

Well done to all!

10th Oct - Creative School's Meeting

Our #CreativeSchools Committee were busy picking out the winners of our “Design a Mural” competition for our #NurtureRoom .

We are excited to start this project.

Credit Union Art

J & D Proudly displaying their Credit Union Art Work.

4th & 5th met Judi Curtin

4th & 5th Classes were delighted to meet Judi Curtin this week in #Kanturk Library as part of the Children’s Book Festival.

She shared her stories & her love of reading and writing with us.

3rd Class working with an Artist

What an amazing first session for 3rd Class with artist Sarah Buckley

The students explored map making, created their own artist notebooks, and took part in their first Walking Gallery to appreciate each other’s work.

So proud of their creativity!

🌟🎨 Junior Infant Art 🎨🌟

The Junior Infants have been busy creating their very own Pumpkin Patch! 🧡🎃✨

So proud of their creativity and smiles lighting up the board! 🌈

#JuniorInfants #ArtDisplay #PumpkinPatch

Oct 9th - Yes to Languages

5th & 6th are really loving their #French Lessons with Mrs Hartnett from Scoil Mhuire

#YesToLanguages

Merci Beaucoup!

2nd Class Hurling Blitz

2nd Class had a great time at the #Hurling Blitz this morning.

Student Council - Polling Day

All systems go ahead of our #StudentCouncil election tomorrow.

Boxes and ballot papers have been delivered to the classrooms.

Best of luck to all.

Oct 7th - Skip Around The World 25

Mr. Kelleher’s 2nd class staying fit and active by participating in the Active School Skipping Challenge.

They are looking forward to more skipping.

#SkipAroundTheWorld25

The SNP Football Team

Well done to the Scoil Naomh Pádraig Boys Football Team in Banteer at the #Duhallow Rural Schools Grading Blitz.

A Rainy Day

The children in Ms Sheahan’s room really enjoyed playing hockey in the halla, as the rain poured outside.

Every cloud has a silver lining!

Oct 6th - Skip Around The World 25 - Active Schools Challenge

Our skipping challenge is off to a great start.

3rd class have reached the North Pole already, and 1st are not far behind!

#SkipAroundTheWorld25

Oct 4th - Sporty Staff!

2 of our teachers were involved in #Football matches yesterday.

Congrats to Ms Murphy & the Banteer LGFA's Team on winning the Semi-Final of the county.

A special Congrats to Ms Daly who captained the winning Knocknagree LGFA's Team in the county final!

#ProudSchool

#LGFA

Oct 3rd - Junior Infants

Junior Infants finger painting #Autumn Trees.

They examined the paintings of "Kandinsky" and his use of circles while painting!

Oct 1st - Climbing Claragh Mt

Our 6th Classes climbed Claragh Mt today.

It is part of the Derrynasaggart Mountain range which spreads across the Cork-Kerry border.

It is 452m high.

Well done everybody👏👏👏👏

Check out all the PHOTOS here.

A busy September in Scoil Naomh Pádraig!

Check out our September 2025 Gallery

Sept 30th

Our Lady footballers were out in force at the Rural Schools Blitz in Banteer.

They did us proud as always!

Sept 26th

Ms Sheahan’s class used Autumn leaves to make beautiful, seasonal artwork.

#Autumn

SNA Appreciation Day 2025 - Sept 25th

A special thank you to all our SNAs for all you do👏💕

#SNAAppreciationDay

💕

With kindness and care, you’re always there,

Helping hands and hearts you gladly share.

For children and teachers, you brighten each day—

Our school shines brighter in every way! 💖

Sept 25th

2nd Class had a wonderful day out at the Rebel Óg Football Blitz. The future of Football in Kanturk is looking bright! More photos in the September Gallery.