The boys in Mr. Kealy’s and Mr. Curtin’s class are in for a treat this term as they undertake 10 weeks of Lego engineering. For the first week the boys made motorised cars and as you can see they really enjoyed themselves.
Mr. Réamonn met the Junior and Senior Quiz teams who will go and compete in the Credit Union Quiz in Colmcilles’ SNS, Knocklyon on 27th Jan. The boys were selected after finishing top in their age group in Mr Reamonn’s weekly Whizz Quizzes. Best of luck to these boys who will represent the school!
James, Aaroh and Isaac in Ms. Pleamonn’s class have been hard at work writing their own books. The boys are future authors and even did all the illustrations themselves. Well done boys
The boys in Ms. O Sullivan’s class have been working collaboratively since before Christmas on a project looking at space. Each group completed their own research on an element of the Solar System and then came together to make one big project. The boys then presented their part to the class.
Carter in Ms. Herity’s 1st class has been working very hard at his Karate this year and just before Christmas he got his orange belt- WOW! He is already aiming for his next belt which is the red one. Watch out!
St. Pius X is very lucky to have a few very famous past pupils and West Brom Captain, and Ireland defender Dara O’ Shea is one of them. Dara’s sister Ms. O Shea was working in St. Pius before Christmas and brought in a West Brom jersey, signed by Dara. Although West Brom would not be one of the biggest …
Carols on the yard are a wonderful way to finish the school year in festive cheer as we break for the Christmas holidays. A huge crowd turned up to sing along with the boys. 6th class boys also did a bucket collection for SVP. Amazingly. thanks to the generousity of the parents in our school community, we raised just over …
Mr. Réamonn continued setting the boys from 3rd to 6th class a Monthly Enrichment Challenge this term. In December, he set the boys a Mathletes challenge called ‘Christmas Presents’. The response from the boys was excellent with 219 entries this month (a new ‘school record’)! However, each month there can only be three winners and these boys are selected at random from the correct …
Even it is the busiest time of the year for the big man in red, Santa Clause paid a visit to St. Pius X BNS to do a final check that everyone was nice this year and looking forward to their presents. Thankfully our local community Garda was on hand to escort St. Nick so that he wouldn’t get delayed …
