We are in the middle of an exciting art challenge here in the Scoil Mhuire community.Even though the school building is closed we are still able to create and share wonderful things together .We are always so impressed and inspired by how creative our girls can be so we thought this was the perfect opportunity [...]
https://vimeo.com/296018043 Best of luck to 36 of our six class Pupils who are off to the Late Late Toy Show audition on Monday in The Strand Hotel Limerick. The school received a phone call on Wednesday afternoon to invite the girls to audition to sing their action song Medley from Mary Poppins. The girls [...]
‘It’s a Rap!’ On Monday, May 28th and Tuesday May 29th, our Fifth and Sixth Class students were treated to wonderful Rap workshops by professional rapper and musician Garry McCarthy. Having performed some of his own witty, edgy lyrics to his snappy beats (enthralling our students), Garry set about organizing each [...]
Lots of fun here in school on dry, sunny days! We had a little Teddy Bear's picnic today, followed by creative drawings on our school yard with mega chalks!
On May 16th 2017, Fourth Class received a Creative Schools award for their 20 minute Promenade Theatre production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. This involved students performing five scenes not on a stage but in five different locations (outdoors and indoors) around the school. The invited audience followed the actors as they performed the street fight scene in [...]
We hope you will have enjoyed some of our Christmas shows this year. For the first time we experimented with a variety of venues for our Christmas performances: some of our Christmas productions were performed on stage at the community theatre; some were in the spacious community centre hall; and the infant classes performed in the school hall. Each [...]
gyeBF97rhTQ ‘Hamlet’ in Fourth Class? 54 students in Fourth Class have recently won a national award for their 16 minute potted production of Shakespeare’s great tragedy – Hamlet. These enthusiastic young ladies worked over four months on this exciting Shakespearean project. They designed costumes, composed the narration, rehearsed and polished their performances and [...]
On August 26th famous singer and musician Mundy performed to a capacity audience in Barrack Square. VMware celebrated ten years of technical support in Ballincollig. 15 of our actresses dramatised his most famous song 'The Galway Girl'. Hey Mundy... You ain't ever seen nothing like our Scoil Mhuire Girls!!! The Galway Girl I [...]
Scoil Mhuire Pupils in Winning Performance. Fourth class pupils of Scoil Mhuire, Ballincollig won 1st prize in a special competition to commemorate the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. The girls put on a memorable performance which was very highly praised by the two adjudicators of the competition. The prize was 1,000 [...]
For the second year running, Scoil Mhuire won a national award for Creative Schools. The award was made to Scoil Mhuire teacher, Helen Ní Ailíosa, for a project carried out with Fourth class and their teacher Máire Breatnach. The award ceremony was held in the Ark Cultural Centre for Children, Temple Bar, Dublin on Monday May [...]