Author Archives: Mr Bolton

  We were recently awarded 100 children’s books as Gaeilge as part of the #GiveLeabharGaeilge initiative by Kids Books Ireland and Foras na Gaeilge. Thanks to Ms Minnock for successfully applying for this great initiative agus beidh ár páisití fíor more »

  We’ve been very busy the last number of weeks in St Fiacc’s preparing for our FAI 5 a side soccer tornaments. There was a massive interest in the girls and boys competitions and we will be picking final panels more »

It has been a sensational week here in St Fiacc’s as we were crowned the overall  ‘Film of the Year’ at the FÍS awards. It was a huge occasion for all members of our school community and there was great more »

  Our 5th classes have been busy working on Lego Spike Coding this week as part of Engineers Week and also our STEM and Digital Learning Framework in the school. There were some fantastic projects made !

Maith sibh !! Well done to our brilliant Students of the week this week!

Well done to our Quiz Teams who represented the school in the St Abban’s Quiz on Wednesday night ! Allteams did really well with four qualifying for the finals next week but it was great fun all round! Thanks to more »

Well done to our Students of the Week last Friday!

I was so lucky to visit Ms O’Briens Junior Infants today. Not only did they win the best attendance award and get to bring their Teddies to school but the chicks also hatched from their eggs during the week. The more »

A huge thanks to our Hot Meals Provider ‘Fresh Today’ for sponsoring us a new set of GAA jerseys. We were delighted when Anne Kelly arrived in today with the new jerseys which will be used by our Girls and more »

Well done to our amazing students who won Student of the Week today!

Well done to our two fabulous Quiz Teams that performed so well in the Carlow Credit Union Quiz last Sunday. In very stiff competiton our Senior Team finished third scoring 53 marks from 72 which was exceptional. Our Junior Team more »

We had a very special day in St Fiacc’s N.S on Wednesday with Grandparents Day as part of our Catholic School’s Week. We really appreciate all of our wonderful grandparents taking to time to visit and we had an awesome more »

St Fiacc’s N.S had a phonomenal day in the Carlow Cross Country Championships in the Carlow Town Hurling Club on Wednesday this week. 36 athletes took part and brought home a total of 18 medals which was our most successful more »

  I was delighted to be asked to join Ms Kavanagh and Ms O’Toole’s classes in the afternoons for an 8 week block of hands on Maths. This week we worked on Fractions using Numicon and Peg Boards and there more »

Ms Canavan’s class had a great day in Carlow Visual Centre last week where they had a day of engaging in an Art and Drama- It was so well run and as you can see from the pictures they all more »

Well done to our fantastic Students of the Week!

Thanks to all our amazing readers and servers for the beautiful mass on Tuesday to finish off a lovely Christmas period. There was even a special appearance from Buddy ! Many thanks to Fr Dunphy for facilitating and to Ms more »

Mr Brennan and the school management would like to wish all teachers, SNA’s, Ancillary staff, students, parents/guardians and all members of the St Fiacc’s School community a very happy Christmas. We hope that it is a time of peace, love more »

We had an awesome visit from Santa and his elf yesterday which caused a great stir of excitment in the school. All pupils in Junior classes received a chocolate treat and some magic reindeer food to keep the reindeer going more »

  We had two epic Christmas concerts on Friday in St Fiacc’s Hall. All class groups were fantastic and it really was very uplifting for all present. Thanks to all classes and our Banna Ceoil and Choir for fantastic performances. more »