Pictured is Mr. Dillons class who were playing this morning before school. A first for St Pius X BNS!! Our first ever basketball team to play competitively. Huge thanks to our new coaches Ms. Mason and Ms. O Sullivan.
Both of our Junior Football Teams have hit the ground running this year. Our Junior Greens won their first two games against local rivals St. Mary’s, Rathfarnham and St. Joseph’s, Terenure. While our Junior Whites narrowly lost their first game against St. Mary’s, but had a superb game and win vs St. Joseph’s in Terenure College. Both teams will play …
Danny Curran had a great weekend at the Karate National Championships. His super performances were rewarded with not one, but TWO gold medals. Amazing stuff Danny, keep up the great work.
Boys from Mr. Finnegan’s and Mr. Dillon’s 5th class had a blast in Templeogue College yesterday at the Future Leaders Programme co-ordinated by their TY students. All boys enjoyed a range of activities including football, hurling and soccer as well as a quiz indoors.
The Senior Green’s coached by Mr. Finnegan and Ms. O’Dell had their second match last week in Terenure college with a 3pm kick off. The team played against a very competitive St. Mary’s B.N.S Lucan. The excellent Senior Green’s came away with the win at the final whistle with a score of 5-7 to 3-8. Congratulations Senior Green’s!
Jacob in Ms. O’Neill’s Senior Infants prepared an Oral Report on the Titanic. He had all his facts researched and was able to answer every question posed by classmates and teacher alike! Jacob is a very accomplished artist, even for one so young, and had made his own model of the ill-fated ship. Excellent work Jacob!
Buddy from Ms. Devenney’s 2nd class was lucky enough to see some Ireland players on Saturday ahead of their clash against England in the Aviva Stadium. He even managed to secure some big name signatures on his Ireland jersey too.
Tim and Paul from Faughs GAA Club called into our 1st class boys today to introduce the Faughs Hurling Academy. Boys of all school ages are welcome and its never too late to start. Call down to Faughs GAA to have fun, make friends and learn to hurl.
Mr. Barron from Templeogue College called into Mr. Coyle today to discuss the Future Leaders Programme his TY students will be coordinating with our 4th and 5th class boys. Our 4th and 5th classes will attend sports events and wellbeing talks led by Templeogue TY students while also having lots of fun along the way. Keep posted for some photos …
Over the summer a number of boys in St. Pius were involved in competitions in different sports. Here is a sample of some of our successful sports people. Zach Dillon and Isaac Martin both from Ms. O’Connor’s 4th class were awarded Player of the Year from their respective clubs in the under 10 Division. While on the GAA pitch many …
