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Pushkin
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Pushkin

Our pupils recently took part in a dance workshop with Ayesha Mailey under the Pushkin theme of β€œHitch the Sails.”

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World Book Day 2024
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World Book Day 2024

We had a brilliant day today celebrating World Book Day. Our pupils did a wonderful job of dressing up as their favourite characters. Well done to you all. 😊We all came together this morning for a special assembly with Mr. Barnes. The Junior Classroom had a zoom call with the author of Dragonterra books, Louise Flanagan, and the Senior Classroom picked up some great books with our book tokens. We also visited Buncrana Library who organised lovely activities for us for World Book Day. Happy World Book Day!

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Pancake Tuesday
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Pancake Tuesday

We love Pancake Tuesday. ❀️ Thank you to all our Senior Room pupils for helping out and a big thank you to Mrs. Gallagher for making us all delicious pancakes. They were yummy!πŸ˜‹

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Pottery
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Pottery

We had a lovely day recently doing pottery with Lorraine from Peninsula Pottery. This was part of the Creative Schools Programme. We made lovely creations using the theme of biodiversity and looking after our wildlife

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St. Brigid’s Crosses
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St. Brigid’s Crosses

A big thank you to Donegal County Library for inviting us over to make St. Brigid crosses. This is an annual tradition that we look forward to each Spring.

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Cycle Training
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Cycle Training

Our Senior Classroom are participating in cycle training with Fergus and Gemma McDaid. The pupils have made great progress and are learning lots about road safety.

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Credit Union Quiz
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Credit Union Quiz

Well done to our wonderful pupils who represented St. Mura’s in the Credit Union Quiz last night in Inishowen Gateway.πŸ‘

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Christmas Carol Service
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Christmas Carol Service

Congratulations to our amazing pupils on their wonderful performance at our Christmas Carol Service. We are very proud of you all..🀩 A special thank you to Canon McNee, Mrs. Moore and Annette McNelis for their support and guidance in the preparation for our service and to those who organised the tea and treats afterwards. Happy Christmas!πŸŽ„

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Cinema Trip
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Cinema Trip

This has been a very busy week in St. Mura’s so we were delighted to get a trip to Buncrana cinema today to see β€œHome Alone”. A great way to get into a festive mood! πŸŽ…πŸŽ„ Thanks to Shauna and Gary from South Inishowen School Completion Programme for organising this and also for the delicious treats.πŸ˜€

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Green Schools Committee
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Green Schools Committee

We are working towards our sixth Green Schools Flag which is under the theme of Global Citizenship - Litter and Waste. Here are our Green Schools Committee members.

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Student Council
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Student Council

We have recently set up a Student Council in St. Mura’s, which will give pupils a voice in what is happening in our school. Here are our Student Council members.

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Halloween
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Halloween

Today was a super fun Friday in St. Mura’s! We all dressed up for Halloween and had a fabulous time dancing, apple-bobbing, no hands-doughnuts and creating mummies! We also made time to have a few little treats.😁 Happy Halloween!πŸ‘»πŸŽƒπŸ¦‡

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Maths Week 2023
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Maths Week 2023

We had a very fun week celebrating Maths Week 2023! We did lots of exciting maths activities like pattern blocks, board games, a shape hunt, β€œMaths eyes” questions and answers and Smarties data charts! Both classrooms worked very well together, it was lovely to see great team-work. Well done to all our hard-working pupils!😊

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BLAST Initiative
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BLAST Initiative

Our pupils recently composed and performed a Halloween piece of music and also created monsters to accompany our music. We did this along with Annette Mcnelis through the BLAST Initiative. Thank you to Annette for working with us, we really enjoyed composing our spooky songs!πŸŽƒπŸŽƒπŸ‘»πŸ¦‡πŸ¦‡

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Can Do Academy
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Can Do Academy

We were back in Buncrana Library this morning for a Lego animation workshop run by Can Do Academy. It was such a fun workshop and we really enjoyed making our animated Lego films on the ipads! Thanks to Joel from Can Do Academy and Buncrana Library for hosting us.😊

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Wainfest 2023
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Wainfest 2023

We had a great morning in Buncrana Library as part of Wainfest. We designed a book cover based on the theme of β€œOur senses”. Thanks to Mhairi who hosted the session today and gave us brilliant ideas for creating our covers and thank you to Buncrana Library for having us over.πŸ˜€

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Intercultural Day
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Intercultural Day

We had a wonderful Intercultural Day showcasing Ukranian, Australian and Irish delights! Thanks to everyone who brought in food and to all the parents who came.πŸ˜€

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Tasty Treats!
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Tasty Treats!

Thanks so much to Amina for surprising us with a delicious hot lunch today! It went down a treat.πŸ˜€

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Inch Wildfowl Reserve
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Inch Wildfowl Reserve

We had a lovely day out today with Aengus Kennedy from NatureNorthWest who took us on a visit to Inch Wildfowl Reserve. We learned about all the different birds who visit Inch including the Whooper Swan, caught butterflies and explored the many different inhabitants of the pond. Have a look at our lovely leaf creations! It was a beautiful day and thank you to Aengus for an enjoyable and informative day out.😎

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Welcome back to school
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Welcome back to school

We had a great first week back at school! Our new pupils are settling in and it’s great to see all our friends again. It was a busy week so we were delighted to visit Buncrana Library today to do Lego.😁

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