St. Declan’s National School

Ardmore

🏫 OPEN EVENING 🏫 📅 3rd April 2025 ⏰ 5.30pm - 7pm 💙 All welcome, please spread the word!

💚 SNAG 2025 ☘️ 📷 Físeán an Lae ✔️ 🥇 Comórtas ✔️ 💃🏽 Céilí ✔️ ☑️ Biongó ✔️ 🛝 Gaeilge sa Chlós ✔️ 💚 Là Glas! ✔️ 👫 Tionòl le Miss Uí Dhomhnaill & Liam Lynch ✔️

💚 Seachtain na Gaeilge shamrock 👏🏻 Míle buíochas do Miss Uí Dhomhnaill agus an coiste as a gcuid oibre. #Snag2025

💚 Là Glas ☘️ #Snag2025

👏🏻 📕 ARDMORE NS READATHON 2025 📕 👏🏻 #wbd25

📕 World Book Day 2025 - Assembly 📕 🎶 I’ll be reading my way, ‘cause it’s World Book Day! 🌍 We ended World Book Day with a fantastic assembly that was thoroughly enjoyed by the children! 🎲 Miss Dwane had all the teachers busy! Each teacher/SNA/ staff member voice recorded a snippet from their favourite book! Miss Dwane played them in assembly and the children had to guess what teacher it was, what the book was called and who was the author! Lots of fun and lots of book tokens up for grabs 👏🏻 🫶🏻 Miss Dwane has some excellent Junior Infants helpers! Some gave out the prizes and some helped her reveal the answers! 📕 During assembly we launched out “Ardmore NS Readathon” that will run from 6th March -18th March.( See next post!) 🎵 We finished with the famous George Ezra song with some changed lyrics to suit the day! #WBD25

💚 SNAG 2025 💚 💚Bhí maidin álainn againn le Irene Cunnigham, Damhsóir ar an Sean-nós as Conamara. Rinne Irene ceardlann le na ranganna go léir agus bhí go leor spraoi ag na páistí! 🫶🏻 Go raibh maith agat Ms.Uí Dhomhnaill as maidin álainn a eagrú ☘️ #SNAG

🌺🍃 Spring has Sprung in Ardmore 🍃🌺 🌈 Infants enjoying fun in the sun with the parachute on our wonderful Astro Turf 💫 🫶🏻 Laughter & Smiles ✔️

🎦 🍿 CINEMA TIME 🍿 🎦 🎥 At the end of last term, Juniors, Seniors, First and Second Class went to the Cinema in Dungarvan! There was great excitement and the children were fantastic! 💫 A great success 👏🏻 #wheretonext

💃🏽 🕺🏼 🪩 ZUMBA CONCERT 2025 🪩 🕺🏼 💃🏽 🪩 After six weeks of Zumba with April the children performed their dances for each other on the Astro! The concert finished with a group dance by all! 💃🏽 The children thoroughly enjoyed their weekly Zumba, thank you April. #zumba

💙 ⭐️ GRANDPARENTS DAY 2025 ⭐️ 💙 🪄 A very special day of music, celebration, tea, cakes and stories with some very special people 🫶🏻

💫 DEBATE TEAM NEWS 💫 🎤 Huge congratulations to our superb debate team and their backroom staff of Mr. Brennan and all 5th and 6th class! ✔️The debate motion was ‘School Summer Holidays are Too Long’. We proposed the motion and it was carried! 👏🏻 The class are now through to the quarter finals of the competition! 🩵 Our Junior Infants were very proud and gave the team a big cheer as they passed by 👏🏻

🖊️ DATE FOR THE DIARY 🖊️ 🤎 We look forward to seeing you, all grandparents welcome.

⚠️🔨 School Projects 2023- 2024 🔨 ⚠️ ✅ Here at St Declan’s NS, we are constantly striving to improve our school. Above are some of the larger projects completed in 2023/24. 🫶🏻 A big thank you to Henry Murphy for collating the above evidence and constantly working to support our school. ⚠️ Here is a list of the above projects: ✅ 1.Clearing back the field and setting wild flowers. ✅ 2. PPV Scheme for Schools ✅ 3.Emergency Works Scheme ✅ 4. Wild Bee Habitat Posts ✅ 5. Painting External Walls ✅ 6. Library ✅ 7. Recycled crafts for the An Sruthàn w/ Jane Moloney

** 🌟 THROWBACK 🌟 ** 📖 World Book Day Competition 2024 : Reading in an Unusual Place 📖 🫶🏻 The above competition and the wonderful PA enabled us to bring our Library vision to life! 💫 The entries for the competition were incredible! The children were so enthusiastic and submitted some incredible entries. 💙 Above are the winners and runners up! 🔜 I wonder what this years World Book Day has in store 👀 #worldbookday

📚 💙 💫 Our Library 💫💙 📚

💫 ❗️ELVES @ WORK‼️ 💫 🍪 Throwback to Miss Dwane’s Junior Infants making yummy ‘Strawberry Cookie Santa Hats”.

🎄 🍫 🍬 Clay Christmas Pinch Pots 🍬 🍫 🎄 🎨 Ms O’Halloran’s Senior Infants busy making Christmas Pinch Pots before Christmas! ➡️ Swipe all the way to the end to see the process and amazing result! 👏🏻 Well Done Senior Infants 💛

🎶 Music Generation - Ukulele with Danny Dunford 🎶 ▪️All children from 3rd - 6th are learning to play the Ukulele once a week- they love it! 💫 Above is a throwback to a Christmas performance for the school by each class. The smaller children loved the song choices and were eager to sing along! 👏🏻 Danny performed for the children at the end of the concert and as you can hear, it was a crowd favourite! #musicgeneration #dannydunford

🎶 Music Generation - Harp with Jill Devlin 🎶 ▪️The children in our school have the wonderful opportunity to learn the harp if they wish. ▪️Jill, the harp tutor for Music Generation comes every week. 💫 Above is a throwback to the Christmas performance by all the children learning the harp. It was amazing! 🎵 Jill also performed for the children at the end 👏🏻 #musicgeneration

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🏫 OPEN EVENING 🏫 📅 3rd April 2025 ⏰ 5.30pm - 7pm 💙 All welcome, please spread the word!

💚 Seachtain na Gaeilge shamrock 👏🏻 Míle buíochas do Miss Uí Dhomhnaill agus an coiste as a gcuid oibre. #Snag2025

💚 Là Glas ☘️ #Snag2025

👏🏻 📕 ARDMORE NS READATHON 2025 📕 👏🏻 #wbd25

🌺🍃 Spring has Sprung in Ardmore 🍃🌺 🌈 Infants enjoying fun in the sun with the parachute on our wonderful Astro Turf 💫 🫶🏻 Laughter & Smiles ✔️

💙 ⭐️ GRANDPARENTS DAY 2025 ⭐️ 💙 🪄 A very special day of music, celebration, tea, cakes and stories with some very special people 🫶🏻

🖊️ DATE FOR THE DIARY 🖊️ 🤎 We look forward to seeing you, all grandparents welcome.

📚 💙 💫 Our Library 💫💙 📚

💫 ❗️ELVES @ WORK‼️ 💫 🍪 Throwback to Miss Dwane’s Junior Infants making yummy ‘Strawberry Cookie Santa Hats”.

**Our Motto**

While we strive for high educational standards, we accept that there is more to life than academic achievement. We believe that emotional intelligence is a greater predictor of success and happiness than IQ. Our ‘Motto’ for the children is that;
**“*We are more concerned with what the children will remember, when they have forgotten all we taught them*”**
Our “Motto” for the educational community in Ardmore is that; “None of us are as good as all of us”
The spirit of community and cooperation in Ardmore has made our school a wonderful place to be.
**Sincerely**,
Lindsey Prendergast
Principal, St Declan's School

Location

Located in the seaside village of Ardmore, Co Waterford, St Declan's National School is home to 114 children from the ages of 4 to 12.

Learning

The school is characterised by a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, one that's driven and encouraged by the teachers - and one in which learning comes naturally to the children.

Facilities

Boasting excellent facilities, including a Science and Music room, extensive ICT equipment, great outdoor spaces and a state of the art Astro-turf pitch , St Declan's school is an ideal place to grow and learn.

St. Declan’s National School

Ardmore

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