The Banana Book Club – December Highlights and Beginning 2025

Jan 15, 2025

Lunchtime Book Club – December Fun!
December was a month full of creativity in our Lunchtime Book Club! The children used Book Creator to make their own digital stories based on two wonderful books: ‘Little robin red vest’ by Jan Fearnley and ‘I follow the fox’ by Rob Biddulph. They added the pictures and recorded themselves reading the pages. Classes were able to watch these stories on the interactive whiteboards, but here are the links for anyone who would like to watch at home:

Little Robin Red Vest Story https://read.bookcreator.com/WkSyey72uEVZ3oUvdM0CCkFVzQb2/sgrG2UbMReuCyt5-BMtsPA


I Follow the Fox Story https://read.bookcreator.com/WkSyey72uEVZ3oUvdM0CCkFVzQb2/Oi-gN3kVROmrLDaKjQdbnQ


The club also created a digital story trail for the Ukrainian folk tale ‘The mitten ’ by Jan Brett. The infant classes had a great time following the story around the school and discovering all the animals that crawled into the mitten. Check out the happy faces above as they discovered each page, scanned the QR code and heard our bookclub members reading to them!

To wrap up the month, the children made special bookmarks for the new books they were hoping to receive for Christmas! It was a wonderful way to finish the year with creativity and fun.

Into 2025 with an audiobook

We’ve started 2025 with something a bit different for January’s Book Club! This month, we’re enjoying Neil Gaiman’s ‘Fortunately, the milk…’ as an audiobook, while also playing games inspired by tall tales and imagination. The children have been sharing their favourite book recommendations with one another, and in our first meeting we had a fun, giant Kahoot quiz on children’s classics. Congratulations to the three sixth-class boys who were the ultimate winners! It’s shaping up to be a fun and book-filled year ahead! Happy Reading, E. Walsh

Our Jolly Holly Christmas Fundraiser

Dec 19, 2024

We hope you enjoyed our Christmas Plays as much as we did. There was such an amazing atmosphere on the nights of the plays with nervous kids and very proud parents!

A BIG thank you to all the kids and all the staff who worked so hard to get ready for their performances!

A BIG thank you to everyone who bought tickets for the plays and the raffle tickets!

A BIG thank you to our Sponsors who kindly dontated our prizes!

Wildlands, Sweeney Oil, Kavanaghs Supervalu, Yourells Hairdressers, Elysium, Enjoy, Galway Cakery, Evergreen!

The winners of the raffle prizes were :

Brendan Mackey
Margaret Conroy
Laura Dunne
Colin Hannon
Audrey Trigg
Silpa Kalathil Ramakrisnan
Mark Hopkins
Caroline Walsh
Ruth Gordon
Waly Ullah
Sarah Cleary
Paul Audley
Sara Griffin
Marija Simic
Karolina Plonka
Sylvia Collins
Aideen Molloy
Siobhan Allen
Amy Duggan
Niamh Bohan
Georgina Carter
Majella Giblin
Faye Bohan
TJ Cox
Paule Lobe
Ronan Purcell

Big thank you to local businesses for sponsorship of sports jerseys

Dec 17, 2024

On behalf of everyone at Scoil Mhuire Moycullen, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to four wonderful local businesses – Wildlands, Toy Corner, Olivia Traynor & Co Solicitors, and Topopal – for their incredibly generous sponsorship of new sports jerseys for our athletics and handball teams.

Their support means the world to our young athletes, enabling them to represent Scoil Mhuire with pride and confidence at upcoming competitions. 

We would like to encourage our school families to support these local businesses in turn, helping to strengthen the bonds that make our community so special.

Thank you once again to our fantastic sponsors for their generosity! 

Keep an eye out for some photos of the new sports jerseys once they arrive early next year! 

Parents’ Association, Scoil Mhuire Moycullen

Prickly Hay!

Dec 17, 2024

Ms Hester/Ms Duggan’s Senior Infants performed their Christmas show ‘Prickly Hay’ on Wednesday 11th December and what a fantastic job they did!