Salesian Primary Blog

Message from the Principal: Spring is finally in the air. The days are stretching, nature is coming alive again and happily the weather is beginning to warm up. It is the perfect time for us all to dust ourselves off and begin everything from a fresh...

There was great fun today throughout the school, as our creative girls and boys, dressed up as their favourite characters and enjoyed lots of book-related activities. High credit due to the children and all who helped prepare them for today! Imaginat...

How lucky are we to have Westfields on our doorstep? Check out some of our Senior Infant students out and about spotting signs of Spring. We saw lots of buds on the trees and beautiful daffodils, we fed the ducks, heard the birds chirping and ev...

Today, 6th class were thrilled to welcome, Emma O’Kelly, RTÉ Education Correspondent and Salesian Primary School past pupil, to our class to chat about her life. The girls were riveted by Emma’s stories and gained a vivid insight into her j...

Message from the Principal ​ A Thuismitheoirí agus a Chairde, Ba mhaith le múinteoirí agus foireann uillig i mBunscoil na Salíseach ár mbuíochas a ghabháil díbh ar fad as ucht an cabhair agus an tacaíocht a fuaireamar uaibh ó thús na scoil bliana go ...

A very special visitor came to the Salesians today!! 🎅🎅🎅 Santa came around to all the classes to visit the boys and girls. He checked his list twice and knew everyone's name! He even knew the teacher's names. We sang lovely Christmas songs for Santa ...

1st class students have had a very busy month learning all about Space. Today they had a visit from the Planetarium, a mobile exploration dome where they learned so much about stars and planets. They even got to see astronauts in Space 🧑‍🚀👩🏼‍🚀  ...

Look who's back!! This week we had a visit from the 'Nutty Professor' aka Ms. Burke. Ms Burke and Ms. Connors 4th class pupils participated in a fun hands on workshop extracting DNA from a banana!! How cool is that? They are a real 'bunch' of Ju...

Junior Infants, Senior Infants and 1st Classes had a visit from Albert Nolan today, or as some were calling him 'Bat Man' 🦇  He gave an excellent presentation and the children learned so much about bats. Did you know that Bats that liv...

Ms. O' Reilly's 5th Class had some hair-raising fun with Electricity. They were busy building circuits, adding switches, testing insulators and conductors and learning about all the Energy and Forces that contribute to it. Magnetism was explored...

Ms. Connors 4th Class also did the Chemistry Kids Workshop this week, learning all about Acids, Bases and pH scales. Check out their happy faces as they used stinky red cabbage juice and litmus paper as an indicator to determine the pH of everyday th...

Suspect everyone!!! 6th class has great fun as Forensic Scientists today in the Science Workshop. The class had to investigate a murder in groups. There was a crime scene and each group had a list of suspects.  They had to examine the evide...

Ms. Burke's 4th Class had a great time today learning about Acids, Bases and the pH scales in an interactive workshop mobile Science Workshop . They explored materials and how they change, heating and cooling and chemical uses in everyday life. They ...

We learned all about space in second class. We tracked the position of the planets and drew our own maps. We observed how the different planets orbit the sun. We finished with a rocket launch experiment using balloons, a straw, sellotape and a piece ...

 The first classes had an amazing science week. They explored static electricity and constructed their own parachutes and rockets. Great fun was had! 

​Last chance to order. Check out this amazing poster designed by 5th Class Student Council Pupil Alice 👏👏Amazing 🤩

​4th Class took on the Salesian Rocket STEM Challenge this week and had great fun blasting their rockets in the yard today. Nasa may even have reported some sightings 🌙🌌🚀 Check out their cool creations in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.......🚀🚀

1st Class are having great fun learning all about Space and the planets. Ms. Glennon's class showed their astronaut pictures at Cruinniu today and recited a brilliant poem about the planets. They are really looking forward to a visit from the Planeta...

​Ms. Hogan's 2nd Class have had a busy Science We ek. They had a visit from Wildlife expert Albert Nolan who taught them all about Bats!  Check out some super photos of their Rocket STEM Challenge and fun with construction and BeeBots in our Sci...

This week 6th class enjoyed science week, learning about materials in their different states. Our trip to Westfields was a highlight of our week also. We followed our trip by group projects on all our local trees.