Pizza Party Prize!
Congratulations to our Green Schools Committee who came 2nd in the Travel Cluster and won, amongst other things, a pizza party. See attached link to see the award ceremony.
Bike Week 2025
Boys FAI Soccer Final
On the 4th of March, Maryborough NS boys team played in the FAI Soccer Blitz In Killeshin AFC. They played brilliantly and managed to make it to the final on Wednesday 26th March. The final was tough with a lot of games back-to-back. They played brilliantly and put up a good fight but it wasn’t to be. They came second making Maryborough history in the FAI soccer. Thank you to parents, teachers and coaches for all the assistance!
Girls Soccer Team!
On the 4th of March, Maryborough NS girls team played in a soccer Blitz In Killeshin AFC. They played brilliantly and really enjoyed the day out!
Well done girls!
Green Schools Committee visit Laois Chambers
Our Green Schools committee spent a very exciting morning in Laois Chambers with other schools involved the Travel Cluster. We listened to talks, offered our opinions and made plans to get our school family walking, cycling and travelling sustainably to school.
We can’t wait to visit again in the summer term.
Love Letters to the Earth
The Great Travel Challenge
Our Green Schools Committee have had a busy two weeks during the Big Travel Challenge. We have being doing our best to promote sustainable, green ways of travelling to school to reduce emissions in Portlaoise and make getting to school a safer, fun experience for all.
We had an online meeting with the other schools in Portlaoise that are taking part in the Travel Cluster where we discussed ideas to encourage as many people as possible to walk, cycle, car- pool, park and stride or take the bus to school.
We then met up again as a committee, to make a plan for our school and did out a timetable of events to take place. We surveyed parents (Huge thanks to all the parents who responded – our response rate has been the best of all the schools in the town so far!) We surveyed every child in the school three times over the course of the the two weeks and recorded the scores to see if there was an improvement in numbers travelling sustainably. We applied for more bike/scooter parking to cater for the increasing number of students needing it. We organised a whole school assembly with the wonderful Michéle from the Green Schools, to teach us more about the benefits of walking. cycling, taking the scooter, and park and striding to school. Our 5th and 6th class wrote very moving, love letters to the earth – Check out our beautiful display in the entrance to see these inspiring pieces! Our Green Schools Committee organised a colouring competition for all the classes, art lessons for younger classes and gorgeous displays with the older classes. We put an extra special emphasis on our WOW Day on the 12th of February where we all came dressed in red to show our love for the earth. This has definitely been our best WOW day to date with record numbers taking part! We finished off our two weeks with a beautiful walk in the People’s Park.
Well done to all the children and parents in our school for engaging so enthusiastically with all the activities. We can’t wait to organise some more events in the near future – Watch this space!
Winners of the Great Travel Challenge Colouring Competition
Congratulations to the lucky winners of our colouring competition. Well done to all who entered! The Green Schools Committee had their work cut out for them trying to choose a winner from each class. The winners are: Junior Infants: Ella
Senior Infants : Zahra
1st Class : Dhyan
2nd Class : Rouaa
3rd Class : Abigail
4th Class : Ava
5th Class : Izabella F
6th Class : Sinéad
Pizza Party to end the brilliant season of Cumann na mBunscol!
To end a fantastic season of Cumann na mBunscol we celebrated with a Pizza Party and board games. Well done to the Boys team and Ms. Handcock for reaching the final. It was a great season of skills and team performance by both girls and boys. Well done everyone!
Maryborough Boys Football Team Make History!!
A very exciting year for our Boys Cumann na mBunscol Football team as they made it to their first Final in Maryborough history!!! What an amazing achievement and hopefully a wonderful memory that the boys will look back on with great pride in years to come. The boys worked hard to get to the final with countless training sessions, practice games and competitive matches with neighbouring schools. Their commitment and dedication to the team was exceptional and they represented our school extremely well. Unfortunately, it wasn’t our day but the boys fought hard until the end and really gave it their all. We are extremely proud of them!! They all received a medal on the day and our goalkeeper Ahmad received the Fair Play Award which is amazing. A great end to the season!!
