Dromagh N.S. celebrating love and friendship this February

St. Bridget’s Crosses

Our month of February started with the commencement of St. Bridget’s Day and understanding who was St. Bridget? The making of the traditional St. Bridget’s Crosses proceeded. The children enjoyed walking the surrounding hinterland of the school gathering rushes so they could proceed with the making of the crosses. They explored and experimented with the rushes to make different types of St. Bridget crosses and enjoyed the fun and banter of this. The physical, social and imaginative characteristics of this activity brought great joy to the classroom. All children made their own St. Bridget’s crosses and took them home for their families and relatives.

Shrove Tuesday

The smells and aromas were drifting out to the front door of the school from 9.20am in the morning. Pancakes were made in the kitchen with the children and various toppings were added. Many a pancake was eaten at small break and lunch time break. The making and flipping of the pancake was a test of the culinary skills and the wrist movement but the greatest skills of all was the tasting skill. A skill that was perfected within the day!

Student Council at Dromagh NS holds Bake Sale for their charity fundraiser on St. Valentines Day.

It was a pleasure to see so many parents, grandparents and past pupils visit the school on St. Valentine’s Day for the Autism Assistance Dogs Ireland (AADI) charity fundraiser, organized by the student council. All the boys and girls worked hard in the weeks before, preparing posters, artwork and practicing their culinary skills for the event. The children showcase their baking skills and of course during the day they tasted the baked goods too! All invited guests were encouraged to take home a selection of their favorite bakes in take home boxes for their St. Valentine’s evening tea.

The student council found this event to be extremely rewarding and an important event in their school calendar as they raised much needed funds to support the various initiatives that AADI organise. They look forward to AADI visiting the school in March for the presentation of their raised monies.

“Be Our Guest”

On the 1st of February all children travelled to the Edel Quinn Hall in Kanturk by bus for Coláiste Treasa’s Production of “Be Our Guest”. The play was a great success and enjoyed immensely by all our children. A huge thank you to Coláiste Treasa for their kind invitation to attend the production. Well done to the TY students on their superb drama skills and their production of such a wonderful play.

Open Night

We cordially invited all new parents with their children to the school on Friday 23rd February.

Parents were encouraged to take a guided tour of the rooms in the school and explore the school and see the fantastic facilities that we have to offer The students presently attending the school were present to show, play and tell the young children what to do and answer any questions that the new parents would need to have answered too.

The evening finished off with having a chat to our friendly and dedicated staff and parents over a cup of tea/coffee and some light refreshments. We wish to thank all who attended and we look forward to September 2024 with our new families.