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National Children's Choir 2025
40th Anniversary Regional Concert
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Our amazing senior boys' team have yet another title under their belt! They are the Meath 5 a side soccer champions and progress to the North Leinster Championship. We are running out of words to keep up with these achievements! Well done all!
School Lotto Fundraiser
Congratulations to Emer Bourke, our latest Lotto prize winner. Thank you to Evie who accepted her prize on her behalf.
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Our boys' team are the Mini 7s champions of Meath. Emerging from three rounds of competition with 100 teams involved we are SO proud to announce that we are the winners! Well done to every single player who represented our school in Dunganny and thank you to our many supporters!
Cliceáil anseo chun ár ngníomhaíochtaí Coicís na hÉireann a fheiceáil agus ár gceolchoirm freisin!
Spring Time in Curragha
Deposit Returns Scheme
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Thank you to all our families who are bringing plastic bottles and aluminum cans to our Deposit Returns Scheme collection every Thursday morning. Thank you to our 3rd class pupils who helped sort them out this week! Thank you to our Parents' Association who collect them and return them on the school's behalf. |
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Mini 7s
Congratulations to the 20 boys and girls from fifth and sixth class who played in round one of the Mini 7s football competition on February 26th. Our girls came third in their group and the boys team won their group and progress to round 2. Hon the Ha!
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Féile Fichille
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Congratulations to the 24 children from 4-6th classes who represented our school so brilliantly at the recent Féile Fichille Chess Day. Our Master’s teams placed 2nd and 5th respectively out of 11 teams and our Bud’s team placed 3rd out of 7 teams so we are very proud of their achievements. Our 1st Master’s team (The Ruthless Rooks) will now go forward onto the next round at Simonstown Gaels GAA Hall on Wednesday 2nd April. |
St. Valentine's Day Assembly
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We had our Valentine's Day assembly today. The winners of our Green Schools 'Walk Your Dog' art competition were announced and our Hero in the Hallway was revealed! We learned all about the life of Saint Valentine and there was great excitement as the raffle winners were drawn! Check out the gallery below! |
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Congratulations to Jude, Sophie, Noah, Orlaith, James, Freddie, Jack and Ailbhe who represented our school at the Credit Union Quiz on Monday, February 10th in the Pillo Hotel. Our junior team came 3rd and our senior team came 4th. Well done to you all! |
Tesco Community Fund
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Our school was awarded €600 from the Tesco Community Fund. Thank you to all of our families and the wider school community who supported our school in collecting blue tokens. Thank you to JP and Polly who picked up the cheque on behalf of the school. Thank you Tesco Ashbourne! |
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Our New Life 4 Clothes Fundraiser raised €275! |
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Catholic Schools Week 2025
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International
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Did you know that January is International Walk Your Dog month? Our Green Schools & our Active Schools committees visited every classroom to encourage pupils to be active using the greenest form of transport there is - walking!! Check out our lovely gallery below. We look forward to receiving more photos of our pupils and their four legged friends! |
Sports Quiz
Congratulations to Ailbhe, Charlie, Keelan, Jack, James, Freddie, Odhran and Maggie who represented the school recently at the inaugural Cumann na mBunscol Sports Quiz.
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Deposit Return Scheme
After Christmas, we will begin the Deposit Return Scheme at school. Every Thursday morning, we will collect plastic bottles and aluminium cans in our new orange returns bin which will be located at the hall door. Thank you to members of the PA who researched and applied for the scheme and got the bin delivered to the school. The money raised will go towards the funding of our new play space.
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Today at our last whole school assembly of 2024 we sang Christmas songs and talked about our favourite memories of the last few months. Kerri played the violin and Robyn and Avril played the piano for us. Junior Infants got a big bualadh bos for completing their first term in primary school. Nollaig Shona agus Athbhliain faoi Mhaise Daoibh go Léir!!
Christmas at St. Andrew's N.S.
Christmas Jumper Day 2024
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Good News Alert!!!!
We held our annual Christmas Jumper Day in aid of SVP Society on Thursday 19th of December. We raised an impressive €507 for this worthy cause. Thank you to all who donated. 
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Keeping Childhood Safe and Smartphone Free
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We invite all parents/families of *primary school children* in our Ashbourne community to join us: Gaelscoil Na Cille, Gaelscoil Na Mí, St Declans, St Marys, Educate Together, Ashbourne Community School & St. Andrews NS Curragha.
*Thursday 14 November* *8pm* *Ashbourne House Hotel* The "*Keeping Smartphone Free*" community initiative has been successfully adopted by parent groups in other Irish communities. Learn more about this initiative and hear experts speak on health and safety aspects. We would be grateful if you could share this invitation and spread the word. We believe a collaborative effort can make a meaningful impact on the learning environment for our young learners. We look forward to seeing you all next Thurs 14th Nov at 8pm. |
We had another amazing Science Week in school! On Tuesday our junior school classes took part in a workshop with Gabi from Creative Classrooms. They learned lots about the scientific topic of light and shadow. On Wednesday we had our annual Super Science Quiz in the hall. It was very close and everyone showed off all their scientific knowledge! Congratulations to team nine on their win! Finally, on Friday our senior school classes took part in a workshop with Roisin from Mess Chef. The children learned about acids, bases and chemical reactions while making delicious doughnuts and pink lemonade!
Team Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal
Thank you to the families in our school who donated to the Shoebox Appeal this year. Jana from Team Hope collected an impressive 85 boxes from our school today!
Check out our Halloween gallery!
Keeping Active at Lunchtime
Junior & Senior Infants' Nature Walk in Curragha
See our class pages for more pictures
Creative Classrooms - Ceramics Project
Check out class pages to see how our Ceramics Project is progressing!
Brother Cross Country
Congratulations to everyone who represented our school so well at the annual Brother Cross Country! It was great to see so many first time runners out enjoying themselves and wonderful too seeing our experienced athletes leading by example! Well done everyone - we are very proud of you!
Thank You Emerald Park for another great Wellbeing Day!!
Amber Flag Committee 2024/2025
Active Committee 2024/2025
Green Schools Committee 2024/2025
Junior Infants 2024/2025
We are settling in very well in Junior Infants. We have made new friends and we're enjoying lots of activities with our teacher Ms. O'Farrell and our SNA Karen. Our Principal Ms. O'Connor brought us to the library for story time this week too!
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Junior Infants met with their 'Buddies' this week and told them all about themselves! See our class page for more Buddy photos
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End of Year Reporting
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New Primary Mathematics Curriculum - Launched 7th of September 2023 |
Curraha Parish LinkPlease click on image for Parish website 
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St. Andrew's National School at sunrise on 1st of June 2020
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