Blue Star 2024
VIP Visitor
We were very grateful to welcome Michael Fitzmaurice, our local T.D., to our school last Friday 19th April as our VIP visitor for the Blue Star programme. We put up our EU flag and displayed the children’s beautiful artwork. The children also discussed what questions they might like to ask him. He spoke to the children about what his job is like as a T.D., and how the government works. He emphasised the importance of using your vote and he answered lots of questions from the children. His speech was excellent and informative for students and teachers alike. Thank you to Michael for his continuing support for our school and the local community.
Mona Lisa
The children in Ms. Morgan’s room were very creative creating their very own pictures of the ‘Mona Lisa’.
Henri Matisse
We have started our work for the Blue Star programme this year by looking at the French artist Henri Matisse. Junior and senior infants created pictures inspired by his still life paintings. First, Second, Third and Fourth class created artwork inspired by his cut out collages.
Fifth and sixth class created artwork inspired by his painting ‘The Open Window’.
2023
A visit from MEP Maria Walsh
Blue Star projects 2023
Presenting Blue Star projects
Blue Star Projects created on Book Creator
May 2020
We took part in the Blue Star Programme again this year. We are thrilled to announce that this year we have been awarded with the 5 Year Achievement Award along with 11 other schools in the country.
The Minister for European Affairs, Helen McEntee, has recorded a video, congratulating the pupils and teachers at our school on our award.
June 2019
We achieved the Blue Star Award for all our hard work on the Blue Star Programme in 2018-2019. We celebrated Europe Day with a food fair and showcased all the work we completed pertaining to the EU this year.
We took part in the Blue Star Programme again this year. We are thrilled to announce that this year we have been awarded with the 5 Year Achievement Award along with 11 other schools in the country.
The Minister for European Affairs, Helen McEntee, has recorded a video, congratulating the pupils and teachers at our school on our award.
To access the video, all you have to do go onto the Blue
Star Programme website, go to the page entitled, 'FAO: Five Year Achievement
Schools 2020' and enter the password: 5Year2020!
June 2019
We achieved the Blue Star Award for all our hard work on the Blue Star Programme in 2018-2019. We celebrated Europe Day with a food fair and showcased all the work we completed pertaining to the EU this year.
We applied to be included in The Blue Star EU Programme in September 2016. Here are some aspects of it that we covered during the year.
June 9 2017.
Our hard work has paid off and we were awarded our E U flag.
May 12 2017.
Painting the Mona Lisa.
We drew The E U flags.
May 9 Europe Day. 2017.
Good news Katrina from the Latvian Embassy was able to call to us the following day May 9 for Europe day celebrations.
Katrina from the Latvian embassy called to talk to us and to tell us about her country. She was very nice.
A replica of a castle made to go with one child's project. Excellent!
Some of our fantastic projects.
We painted like Picasso.
Christopher Columbus' Ships - Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria.
Ship that Tom Crean sailed towards South Pole on.
Sept 2015
We applied to be included in the Blue Star Programme in October 2015. This programme is in existence for 5 years. It involves the study of the EU Community under a number of topics.
June 24 2016
We raised our EU Blue Star Programme Flag. We are very proud of our achievement.
Here we are with our flag and our certificates. It is a great programme. We really enjoyed doing it and we learned a lot.
May 12 Food Fare and visit from His Excellency Mr Dusan Matalay Ambassador of Slovakia.
We look forward to our food fare and the visit of The Slovak Ambassador Mr Dusan Matulay on Thurs day. Thanks to all who are helping with the food.
After that we just have to complete our report and hopefully we will be successful and get our European Flag with Blue Stars!
Preparing the Hall for our Food Fare.
May 11.
Feeding The Troops after their hard work.
May 9
We had The Handshake for Europe today.. May 9th is Europe day where we celebrate both our unity and our diversity.
We emailed The embassy of The Netherlands in Dublin and invited The Ambassador to join us. We were delighted when he replied to say both he and his wife would be joining us on 8th April.
Marian Harkin MEP also joined us that day. The Ambassador gave a very interesting and educational power point presentation on his country. Marian Harkin MEP gave an interesting account of the institutions of the EU and the work of an MEP. We played and sang for them and made some presentations.
We e mailed Mairéad McGuinness MEP, and asked if she could come and talk to us about the Institutions of the EU. She very kindly agreed to do so and she and Emer called to us on 28 th January 2016. Thank you very much.
Here Mairéad talks to us about The European Parliament, The European Commission, The European Bank and the European Courts.
Frank joined us for the presentation and talked to Mairéad.
Boys from 4th class welcomed Mairéad and Emer to our class.
We told Mairéad about some of our work to date.
Mairéad with the Blue Star Committee..
Bhí sé go hálainn agus an-bhlasta.
Go raibh míle maith agat!
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