Creative Day 2025

This year’s Creative Day took place on 5th June. The children enjoyed a range of creative activities organised by our super Creative Committee and our parent volunteers. A fantastic day was had!

The activities on the day included tie dye, face painting, a talent show, clay tile mosaic making, story writing, creative games, craft making (slime and plant pot decorations), character drawing, coding and music with synthesisers. We had a ball! Check out our pictures below.

Clay

Jewellery making

Tie Dye

Slime making

Coding

Creative Games

Synthesisers

Drawing

Creative Story Writing

Talent Show

1st class tour to Clara Lara

Check out some of the action from the 1st class tour to Clara Lara

4th & 5th class tour to Kilruddery

On Monday 22nd of May our 4th & 5th class enjoyed their school tour in Kilruddery. During the day the class engaged in fun activities including den building, crack the code, marshmallow toasting, doing the Ireland’s Fittest Family course and archery. They had an absolute ball. See some pictures from the day below!

Active Week 2025

This year our Active Week took place from the 12th - 16th of May. We were truly blessed with the weather all week. During the course of the week we participated in co-operative games, walk/cycle to school, the grand national, Nun’s Cross Fittest Family, junior and senior stations, a slip ‘n’ slide, a visit from Golf Ireland and the week ended with the colour dash run. It was a week which was packed with fun and activity and we are very appreciative of Ms Bennett and her Active Committee who organised and supervised the activities throughout the week. We all had a blast! Take a look at our video below to see some of the action.

Coast Guard Landing Demonstration

On the 14th of May we were invited to Ashford GAA pitch to witness a demonstration of the Irish Coast Guard landing their helicopter. Our junior infants who had been learning about emergency services in our area attended along with pupils from 2nd, 4th and 5th classes. What a treat it was! While we were walking to the pitch we were excited to hear the sound of a helicopter in the air, keen to see if we could find where the noise was coming from. We were impressed by the helicopter landing on the pitch we play lots of games on, it was an amazing experience.

Bike Day 2025

On the 1st and 3rd our classes brought their bikes to school and engaged in bike riding and safety training with Hugh from Cycling Ireland. Hugh brought some bikes and balance along with him to make sure everyone had something they could practice their cycling on. We were interested to learn about the ‘M’ checks which need to be carried out on a bike before we hop on. Lots of progress was made by all children on the day, as they completed obstacle courses, braking and balancing challenges among other activities. Take a look at some of our cycling below.

2nd class visit to the Seal Sanctuary

Back in April our 2nd class were keen to take a field trip to learn more about seals, what better place to go than the Seal Sanctuary in Courtown. The children thoroughly enjoyed their day learning about seals and finding out about all the great work the seal sanctuary do to look after our seal population in the south east of Ireland. We would like to say a huge thank you to the guides who gave us our tour.

Easter Egg Hunt

The children in all classes enjoyed an Easter Egg Hunt which was organised by our amazing PTA.

Each class enjoyed hunting around the school grounds for eggs. Many didn’t survive until home time!

We are grateful to have such a dedicated and hard working PTA who are working hard to raise money for our new playground space.

Cuman na mBunscoil Coughlan Cup

Today the boys from 4th, 5th and 6th class travelled to Bray to participate in day 2 of the Coughlan Cup. The boys made us tremendously proud throughout the tournament displaying some excellent skill, determination and team work. Both teams fought really hard until the end and their determination really paid off. Today our senior team won the Division 3 title and our junior team won the Division 4 shield. This is a huge achievement for this talented group of boys and for the school. Thanks also for our travelling support on the day.

Engineers Week in 3rd class

This week as part of Engineers week 3rd class complete an engineering challenge. They were challenged to create the tallest tower they could in 30 minutes using paper triangles. At the end of the 30 minutes we measured our towers with the metre stick. The winning team built a tower which stood at an amazing 35cms!

Check out our wonderful efforts below!

Buddy Reading for World Book Day

During World Book Day our 6th class visited their Junior Infant buddies where they read some of their favourite stories. It was a really enjoyable experience!

Carnival Floats in 1st class for Engineers Week

Today 1st class treated the whole school to a Carnival parade. They worked really hard all week making their floats for homework and today they got to show the whole school the fruits of their labour. The atmosphere was electric on the court!

Rainforest Houses in 1st class during Engineers week

The past number of weeks 1st class have been learning all about Brazil. This week during Engineers week they made some rainforest houses. Check them out!

Science in 2nd class

Sunrise hike

On 31st of January our 2nd class pupils and their parents made the hike to Gossan Stones which frame the Equinox sunrise. They wrapped up and set off on their hike in darkness and were delighted to be met with a magnificent sunrise before making their return journey back to school for their day of lessons. Huge well done to everyone who completed the hike, this may become a regular hike for us here at Nun’s Cross!

Well-being week 2025

During well-being week we took a break from homework and instead used our well-being wheel for suggestions for alternative exercises and activities to engage with in our evening times. Our junior classes took part in co-operative games as arranged by our Active Committee. During these games the children from all 4 junior classes were mixed into teams, where they had to work together to succeed. Our senior classes did well-being stations with our senior teachers for an afternoon, trying out yoga, art through music and co-operative games.

We would like to say a huge thank you to Felisity who kindly gave her time to do karate with all classes during the week.
Our Well-being week finished on Valentines day with a lovely church service which was led by our junior classes and attended by our parents.

Leinster Swimming

Our wonderful Lily who is in 6th class swam for Nuns Cross NS in the Leinster minor schools meet. which was held on Saturday January 18th. She qualified in all 3 events for the Nationals on 30th March.  These include the 100m individual medley, the 50m freestyle and 50m butterfly. We are incredibly proud of her achievement and wish her all the very best of luck in the Nationals.

Lily and Freddy also got to meet Olympic swimmer Ellen Walsh! 

3rd & 4th class Boys Hurling Blitz

Last week our 3rd & 4th class boys (and girl) travelled to Bray to compete in the hurling blitz organised by Cuman na mBunscoil. We were immensely proud of the team work and determination shown on the day. The children played with great skill and confidence, winning all their matches. We would like to thank Brian along with our 6th class trainers who practiced drills with us in the lead up to the blitz.

Tag Rugby Autumn Internationals

On Thursday our wonderful Active Committee arranged a tag rugby blitz which was enjoyed by all classes. The teams included Ireland, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina to represent our favourite rugby team (Ireland) and their opponents for the Autumn internationals. We were extremely lucky to have the weather on our side. We would like to say a huge thank you to our Active Committee for organising a fun filled day for all of us. Come on Ireland!!!

Anti-Bullying Week 2024

This week we celebrated anti-bullying week in Nun’s Cross. As part of our Bí Cineálta anti-bullying policy development, we decided it would be a great idea to spend the week looking into what bullying is, how if effects children, the role of bystanders and the importance of telling. Our senior classes completed the FUSE anti-bullying programme for their specific classes and Zippy’s Friends and circle time were used in the junior classes. Our student council also ran a poster competition and they announced the winners during assembly on Friday. Well done to all the children for getting involved. Posters will be displayed throughout the school to remind everyone to be kind and not to bully.