Well done to the pupils who entered the competition to design the cover of this year’s school journal. You can see some of the incredible entries in the slideshow above.

Congratulations to Andreea, Amy & Lucy in Ms Boland's Room 24 who are the winners for this year!

Tuesday 28^th May was an important day for the forty Scoil Thomáis athletes in our ‘Santry squad’ who travelled to Morton Stadium to compete in this year’s sprints and relays. After months of training hard, our eight relay teams and eight sprinters were excited but also nervous in anticipation of their races. As always, the competition was intense, as only 2 of 8 sprinters and relay teams are selected from their heats to compete in the finals. Nevertheless, both of our Under 14 sprinters, Oisin and Leya, secured places in their respective finals, and narrowly missed out on medals. Junior Jacob from our Under 11 boys’ team also reached his final but just missed out on a medal. Mia Brett, representing the Under 10 girls, won her heat and went on to win gold in her final – a massive achievement, well done to Mia!

When it came to the relays, the U 14 boys and U 14 girls, along with the U12 boys’ team, finished in 3^rd place in their heats, just missing out on places in the finals. The U10 boys’ team of Arann, Woyentarila, Patrick, Liam and Abdullah finished first in their heat and went to win bronze in their final – well done boys.

The U11 boys’ team of Cillian, Junior, Euan, Johnathan and Finn also secured a third place finish, and best of all, the U 10 girls’ team of Mia, Ekaterna, Lucy, Elodie and Siobhan won silver by finishing in second place in their final. Well done to all of fantastic runners, and a big thank you to their trainers; Mr. Gurhy, Mr. Doherty, Ms. Goulding, Mr. Bracken, Ms. Fitzgerald and Mr.  Brooks.

Best wishes to our wonderful Lollipop lady Maura O’Reilly who retired at the end of May!!

Maura has given dedicated service as a school warden to the pupils and parents of Scoil Thomáis for the past seven years. Her kindness and care for all the children is much appreciated.

The school community wishes Maura well for her retirement!

Everyone is invited to the Calum Farrell Memorial Cup in Castleknock GAA Grounds, Somerton on Sunday the 9th of June from 1pm - 5pm. There will be garden games, a magician, face painting, DJ, music and the very first competitive GAA matches of all the 2012 boys and girls in Dublin 15.

There will be a raffle on the day in aid of defibrillators for the nurseries at each of the participating clubs and for Temple St. & Crumlin Children's Hospitals. You can check out the Castleknock GAA Instagram page @castleknockgaa on Instagram for a full list of prizes and for details on how to purchase tickets.