Sports Day was held this year on Wednesday 31st May which luckily turned out to be a beautiful, sunny day. Expertly organised by Mrs Hannon and Ms. O'Reilly, the activities were arranged in a series of stations including a bouncy castle, disco, soccer skills, "Go Noodle" dance, basketball, hula-hooping, javelin throwing and of course the traditional long jump and sack/egg and spoon races. We are very grateful to John Crudden of the FAI who provided coaches to man the two soccer stations. The girls thoroughly enjoyed moving from station to station throughout the morning. During their lunch break, they were treated to ice lollies, then it was back outside again for tennis lessons, handball practice and some classes took to the Greenway for an afternoon stroll. Well done to Mrs Hannon and Ms O'Reilly and special thanks to the 6th class girls who helped run some of the stations: Amanda, Klara, Stephanie and Ivon

On Saturday, May 20th, Hannah, 5th class, travelled to Ballymena to represent St. Louis Girls' School in the Ulster Schools' Swimming Competition. She came 4th place in the Back Crawl and 3rd place in the Front Crawl. Well done Hannah!

ing Competition

Our 4th, 5th and 6th classes recently took part in Monaghan Education Centre's Publish-a-Poem Competition. Pictured are five of the seven girls who won merit awards and whose poems will be published in a special book which is a compilation of all the winning poems from school children throughout the county. The seven girls have been invited to attend a Presentation Evening to be held in the Garage Theatre on Tuesday 30th May at 5.30pm. The poems of 28 other pupils received the accolade of "Highly Commended." Well done to all the girls who took part in this competition and to their teachers.

Merit Winners: Katie and Eve, 6th class, Ellie and Daria, 5th class (missing from photo), Grainne and Klaudia 4th class and Vilte, 3rd class.

On Tuesday, May 9th, the Clan Cluana Theatre Company visited the school to perform their latest play, "Diarmuid and Grainne."  The wonderfully spirited performance kept the whole school enthralled the entire afternoon. We are very grateful to our Parents' Association for funding this entertainment treat for the children.

Anti-Bullying Week was held from 2nd-5th May. Each class chose a particular item from the Action Team Partnership's list of activities.The children showcased these activities in a special assembly held on Thursday 4th  to which the ATP Adult Committee was invited. 2nd & 4th classes sang songs, the 3rd class led the whole school through a Mindfulness Meditation, 5th class displayed and explained their artwork and performed a rap, while 6th class entertained us with two dramas and showed us their lovely poster work. On Friday 5th we had a Yard Mix-Up Day, with the 6th classes going into the junior yard for lunch time and the thirds went into the senior yard. The staff members are very grateful to Family Home Liaison Officer, David Mc Cague, for facilitating Anti-Cyber Bullying Workshops in some of the classrooms during the week.

Our 6th classes have just completed a Paired Reading Initiative with the first classes in the Infant School. Every Tuesday morning, for 5 weeks, the 6th class girls went into the Infant classrooms to work with their "reading buddies." This has proven to be a very rewarding and enjoyable experience for our girls and we are assured that the First Classes just love it! Many thanks to Miss Louise Corr from the Infant School staff for inviting us to take part in this project.