Kindness Song..... opened the assembly....see video below
The Máire Rua award originated in honour of our wonderful teacher, Mrs Marion McNamara who taught in St. Paul’s School for many many years and passed away in 2008. During her teaching years apart from being an outstanding teacher she valued family and kindness and she strived to instil the trait of kindness and caring in every pupil. In her honour and memory, the Máire Rua Award was set up.
All children started to make their way to the hall at 9am and were guided to their places by our SNA, Martina.
The celebration began with a speech fromMr. Tuohy followed by Ms. Geary who welcomed staff and pupils to the ‘Kindness Celebration’, she spoke about being kind to each other throughout life.
A speech from Ms. Áine McNamara followed (Mrs Marion McNamara’s daughter) who said a huge well done to the children who were being awarded for their kindness and went on to say that her mom, Mrs McNamara would be very proud of the children who followed in her legacy of kindness.
Mr. Madden was our MC for the event.
Mr. Madden, our SNA's Eileen and Emily Mr. Tuohy then presented certs and medals to 26 children in our school….one boy or girl from each class plus two children from our social skills group . The child chosen was selected by all pupils in his/her class for their kindness. As each child was called to collect their award their teacher spoke a few words about why they had been chosen by their classes and Ms. Allis and Ms Ulhemann took all their photos.
Mr. Tuohy closed with the ceremony.
All children then sang ‘Circle of Friends’ …. finale to the celebration. check out the video at the end of this article.
It was indeed a joyous and special occasion and a huge thank you to staff members for making this special day possible especially Ms. Geary for organising the whole event.
The day did not end there…..Our Student Council organised an Ice-cream van to come to the school so all children had a lovely ice-cream followed by a Zumba session with Darren Nash for every class. The children really enjoyed the session and everyone was getting active including the teachers!!! A big bualadh bos’ to our Student Council and to our teacher Ms. Hayes for certainly adding fun to the day.
Pupils from St. Gabriel’s School joined us for an ice-cream also.
Artwork displayed in the Hall was created by pupils from all classes.
It certainly was a fun filled day for the whole school.
Above is a picture of all the girls and boys who were presented on the day.
Missing from the photo are : Tommy Henley Bourke (Ms. Francis, Junior Infants), Rory O'Mahony (Mr. Madden, 5th Class), Zofia Wlodarczyk (Ms. Kenneally's 3rd Class and Sarah May Cowen (Ms. O'Sullivan, 6th Class)
6th Class Awards
Adon Santhosh Chacko: Ms. Bennis's Class
Ron Markham: Mr Hutton's Class
Sarah May Cowen: Ms. O'Sullivan's Class
Rachel Kinnane: Mr. Hutton's Class
5th Class Awards
Liwia Syzmanska: Ms. Barron's 5th Class
Macy Kithara Conde: Ms. Geary's 5th Class
Rory O'Mahony: Mr. Madden's 5th Class
4th Class Awards
Chloe Chan: Mr. Carroll, 4th Class
Nicoly Mota Nunes: Ms. Keane/Ms. Geoghegan's 4th class
Daniel Barce: Mr. Walsh's 4th Class
3rd Class Awards
Éabha Shine Hogan: Ms. Toomey's 3rd Class
Leah Breen: Ms. O'Connells' 3rd Class
Zofia Wlodarczyk, Ms. Kenneally's 3rd Class
2nd Class Awards
Alex Downey: Ms. Trant's 2nd Class
Richard Wieczorek: Mr. Curtin's 2nd Class
Anthony Joseph: Ms. O'Dea's 2nd Class
1st Class Awards
Noah Ryan: Ms. Naughton's 1st Class
Freya Hayes: Mr. Kirby's 1st Class
Aidan Ryan: Ms. Mortell's 1st Class
Senior Infants Awards
Muhammad Syed Shadid Ali: Ms. Hayden's Senior Infants
Abbey Croker: Ms. Donnelly's Senior Infants
Amanda Silva Sbampato Calado: Ms. McNamara's Senior Infants
Tommy Gardiner: Ms. Hayden's Senior Infants
Junior Infants Awards
Harry McCarthy: Ms. Roche's Junior Infants
Louis Craul: Ms. Ryan's Junior Infants
Tommy Henley Bourke: Ms. Francis, Junior Infants
The Finale - Circle of Friends...check out the video
Enjoying an Ice-Cream.....
Zumba..... check out the video below
Artwork created by pupils in all classes
