Something that happens every year in April is Active School Week, and Reem El-Hassany (ريم) was at Scoil Mhuire in Shankill to check out all the fun activities the whole school have been getting up to! Active School Flag #ASW23

A huge thank you from 6th Class for supporting the @InMyShoesAppeal We collected 130 pairs of pre-loved shoes!

Celebrating Europe Day in schools this morning, joined by Latvian Ambassador HE Juris Štālmeistars, celebrating 50 years of Ireland’s membership of the EU🇪🇺🇮🇪 Speaking with students involved in the European Parliament Amabassador Programme & the Blue Star Programme! #IrelandEU50

Tomorrow is #EuropeDay2023 and we had the great honour of Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD raising our European Movement Ireland #bluestarflag 6th Class earned with their work in European Studies. She was accompanied by His Excellency, Juris Štālmeistars Ambassador of Latvia Latvia in Ireland and Cllr. Jim Gildea.

Gary helped 2nd Class plant an apple tree in the school garden today #greenschool Green-Schools 🍎 🍏

Sixth Class and the #greenschools committee had a fantastic seafari today with Mona from SEASHOREKIDS Marine Institute at Booterstown seashore.

What a fantastic day on Booterstown beach with Rathmichael Parish NS ☀️ Sea Potatoes, Masked crabs, juvenile flatfish and much much more. Great exploring everyone🙌Explorers Education Programme Marine Institute rathmichaelschool

Today, 5th and 6th Class ran their last mile of Marathonkids Ireland We are so proud of them and grateful to dlrSportsPartnership for facilitating this program! Huge thanks to our parent reps for the incredible celebratory treats after the children collected their medals today. Active School Flag

On Monday, we had a visit from author and illustrator @AlNolan who told 1st to 6th class children all about his latest book and taught them how to draw the yeti character from it. Great fun was had by all!

Sixth Class are participating in cycle training this term Active School Flag dlrSportsPartnership

Bravo 3rd and 4th classes for your fabulous performance at the #peaceproms24 tonight! We are so proud of you!

What a great pleasure to have Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD, Regina Doherty MEP, Jacqueline Burke and Cllr. Jim Gildea visit the school today and give so generously of their time to answer 6th Class’s questions! Sixth Class are working towards the Blue Star Flag

Sixth Class enjoyed a marine biology workshop with Mona from SEASHOREKIDS Marine Institute yesterday and look forward to their field trip ‘seafari’ to Sandycove next week 🐟🐠🐡

Sixth Class had an amazing Seafari at Sandycove this morning with Mona SEASHOREKIDS Marine Institute as part of the Ocean Explorers program. They found crabs, starfish, shrimps, anemones, butterfish, pipefish……. the list goes on!

What a day for a Seashore Safari, sun and not a breath of wind☀️Rathmichael Parish NS students found so many plants and animals on Sandycove’s rocky shore, great exploring everyone👏👏 Marine Institute Explorers Education Programme

6th Class visited Dáil Éireann today at the kind invitation of Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD & met with Barry Ward 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 who gave generously of his time. Then onto SCSI - Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland for lunch, graciously hosted by Shirley Coulter. A wonderful day out for some future leaders in the making!

#activeweek day 1! We had our morning warm up lead by some 5th class boys, the junior classes had #stretchandgrow 🤸🏽 and the senior classes had cricket 🏏 kindly coached by Johnny Harte. A great first day! Active School Flag

Some boys and girls attended Bray junior parkrun (2km) on Sunday and Shanganagh parkrun (5km) on Saturday to kick off #activeweek in great style! Thank you P.J. and Mary for the warm welcome and shout outs to our mighty runners! 🏃 Active School Flag

Excellent seeing schools joining in their local junior parkrun Ireland as part of #ASW24 👍

Photo Friday 📸 one photo from each classroom! JI: Self-portraits 🖼️ SI: Self-portraits 🖼️ 1st: Name art 🎨 2nd: Shoe art 👟 3rd: Clowns 🤡 4th: My talents and hopes 🤞🏼 5th: All about me jerseys 👕 6th: Self-portraits 🖼️ We look forward to seeing you at the fete tomorrow!