On Monday 20th October, St. Seachnall's N.S. competed in the Meath Badminton Primary Schools County Qualifier event in Claremont Stadium, Navan. The competition acts as a qualifier for the Leinster Primary Schools finals event. Our boys team came third just missing out on qualifying for the leinster finals. Our girls came 6th and played really well. It was our first time competing in badminton - well done to both teams.

Our Student Council Elections will take place on Friday 24th October - same day as the Presidential elections. Best of luck to our 5 candidates. 

The Say Yes to Languages module aims to give pupils and teachers a taste of what it means to integrate additional languages alongside English and Irish in the primary classroom. This year, Ms. Jordan will teach French to all children in 5th and 6th class. 5th class have already started their lessons.

Thank you to PJ Hegarty Construction, who have generously offered to sponsor a free STEAM/Engineering programme for our three 4th classes. The programme includes five lessons and a final project. Ms. Weldon's class started Lesson 1 - introduction to Engineering - building paper towers using paper and sticky tape. We are looking forward to the project over the coming weeks.

Today all 3 sixth classes visited the local fire station in Dunshaughlin. Each class was given a tour of the station by the local fire fighters and were allowed to use some of the fire equipment. A big thank you to Fionnan and the staff in the fire station who facilitated the visit.

Thank you to Tennis Ireland for funding a Tennis Taster with tennis coach, Darren Mc Comiskey for Rang 2, 3 & Rang 4. ​

On Wednesday, Ms Quinn’s fifth class attended an event in the library for the Children’s Book Festival. They met Natasha Mac a Bháird. She told them about how she became an author, spoke about the books she has published and gave them an inside scoop into her new book in her mystery series ‘Sycamore Hill’. They also took part in their own mystery and had to solve the clues of the murder at the talent competition. The children really enjoyed their morning in the library.

Thank you to all the children who joined us in the Harvest Festival parade last Friday, it was great fun. Well done to the Harvest Festival Committee on a very successful festival.