We are a girls and infant boys school located in Garryowen, Limerick. We aim to provide a secure and happy learning environment for pupils, parents and staff.
All our lucky weekly winners over the summer will receive their prize when our school re-opens. If you are really lucky & win our Jackpot, then we will be in touch. We thank you all for your support, as it is making a real difference. Enjoy the summer holidays! Jackpot €325!
On Monday we said goodbye to our HSCL Coordinator, teacher and colleague - Diane! She will be greatly missed in our school and the community!🥰 We wish her the best on her next chapter 🍀☺️
#ASW23
Day 2 ✅ There was great fun had today learning circus skills, having a skipathon and exercise circuits! We finished off the day in our local Markets Field Stadium for a teacher vs pupil soccer game ⚽️😊
#ASW23
@IrelandFootball
@ActiveFlag
@faischools
A big thank you to
@ASM_Limerick
for inviting our 6th class students for an amazing sports blitz today! All the girls had great fun and were so well looked after by the students of Ard Scoil Mhuire 😊👏
There was great excitement in St. John’s yesterday! Some of our students visited
@BDandCo
in Castletroy to see the medical devices they make! Great to see the huge interest in STEAM!
@EDNIP1
What a fabulous day at the World Café hosted by St. John's and partly sponsored by
@EDNIP1
who brought a treat for every child as well ☺️. The children created fabulous posters and brought in delicious traditional food from the 44 countries represented in our school 👏
Thank you so much to
@EDNIP1
and
@MICLimerick
for inviting our students to their World Café. We shared some countries cultures and taught the student teachers all about Ramadan as well. It was a very enjoyable morning.😊🌍
A huge congrats to both teacher and student who won the basketball knockout challenge today! This is their 2nd year in a row winning! Roll on ESSD 2024…👀
@ActiveFlag
@IrishPrimaryPE
Today we switched on our Christmas lights!🎄 We sang Jingle Bells in Polish, English, Portuguese, French and Irish to represent some of the many cultures in our school 😊 We had some very special visitors including Dr. Loic Guyon and Councillor Kieran O’ Hanlon!
What a wonderful end to Seachtain na Gaeilge last Friday with all classes taking part in a Céilí Mór. Thank you to Mrs. O'Neill and all the class teachers for all their preparation work ☘️
@SnaGaeilge
#c
éilí
Senior infants enjoyed their STEAM lesson based on the ‘Not A Box’. 🎨🔬They worked in groups planning and deciding what they would make together! Here are their super results 😃
🐝Spelling Bee🐝 Congratulations to all the girls in 5th class and 6th class for participating in our
@easons
Spelling Bee today! There was tough competition but one deserving winner in the end 👏✨
Huge congratulations to our Junior and Senior Athletics teams for their performances today! The Junior team won 1st place and Senior team came joined 3rd place! We couldn’t be prouder of their efforts and support for each other!
@Limericksports
@MICLimerick
@MaryISports
Fourth class were treated to an amazing presentation from a classmate today about Ukraine. They were presented with beautiful hand made bracelets in the Ukrainian colours and a beautiful handmade traditional doll 🇺🇦😊
What a fantastic
#ASW23
day 3! Sixth class were amazing buddies to the Junior Infant classes! Lots of fun activities throughout the day like dance and gymnastics! We finished off with a 4th class blitz! A special thanks to 6th class for refereeing and keeping the score sheets 😊
Huge congrats to our basketball team on their win yesterday! 😍 All their hard work and the hard work of their coaches is really paying off 👏🏀
@ActiveFlag
Hugh thanks to
@EDNIP1
@ted_mic
@EDII_MIC
@BrighidGolden
for the fabulous
@MICLimerick
campus tour this week. The students had such a brilliant time visiting the college, attending a lecture and designing posters about changemakers in their lives with the Mary I student teachers.
We were so proud of our Athletics team yesterday in
@UL
! They performed so well, did their best and most importantly- had a lot of fun! 😃 They were definitely inspired by our recent visitor
@sarahlavin_
!
@ActiveFlag
🏅🏃🏽♀️🏃
Some of the pictures from our amazing World Café last week! Thanks to all the parents and children who brought in their homemade goods and supported the event 😊
@EDNIP1
Our Student Council has been busy making noise about bullying this week for Anti-Bullying Week😊. We have been doing anti-bullying lessons, learning a song and some classes have even made a video. Well done to everyone for helping to make St. Johns a bully free zone!
What a lovely morning at the World Café in our school last Friday! It was sponsored by
@EDNIP1
who brought treats for each child who exhibited & showed something from their home country.The children and families brought in food, money & dressed up. Thanks to
@CarambolaKidz
also.
25 lucky children involved in the EDNIP Afterschool Steam club got to visit Jaguar Land Rover Shannon yesterday. We learned about the various careers available and saw some really cool cars. Thank you to JLR Shannon for an amazing trip.
@EDNIP1
@MICSTEMCrAFT
@LifeatJLR
Our St. John's basketball team will represent the Memphis Grizzlies in the Junior NBA programme in the National Basketball Arena, Tallaght, Dublin today! We wish the girls and coaches a fantastic day! 🏀😁
The basketball team had a fantastic day on Wednesday at the Junior NBA in the National Basketball Arena! They represented their school so well and played some super basketball on the day 🏀 Thanks to St.Colms,
@HealthyLimerick
and Basketball Ireland for the amazing day!
Mrs Harrington bumped into one of our pupils/ superstar basketballers at a recent Glen Cruisers v St. Colm's basketball match 🏀. A very exciting match was played!
@ActiveFlag
What an ✨AMAZING✨ start to
#ASW2023
! We started off the day by learning a dance routine for our daily busy break followed by Zumba classes!We finished with a teacher and student basketball knockout competition..Spoiler alert: We have very competitive teachers 👀😅
@ActiveFlag
A big thank you to Ms. Ryan and Ms. Walters for hosting an amazing quiz for European Day of Languages! 🌍 We had a great day learning about the different languages in our own school community too! 😊
@EDNIP1
The rain held off today for our sponsored school walk! 🚶🏽♀️ A big thanks to all the families who got sponsorship and supported our school!
@ActiveFlag
#ASW24
Well done to our girls from 5th and 6th class who represented their school so well today in Seanchoill at the
@faischools
soccer blitz! We are so proud! 👏⚽️
@ActiveFlag
4th class have been busy with a few new additions to their classroom! 😊They made grassheads and then wrote up a procedure writing all about the activity! They were growing so well that they needed a haircut 😎
5th class learned about Diwali celebrations on Friday 🎇 Lisa from
@EDNIP1
came in and we discussed what happens for the festival. The children created their own rangoli art from paper, coloured rice and couscous and jewels. Happy Diwali!
#rangoli
#diya
#festivaloflight
A huge congratulations to St.John’s athletic team who came 1st 🥇 in their category today in the Primary School Sports in
@UL
! 👏👏👏 We are so proud of their amazing achievements and how supportive they were of each other and other schools 👏😊
@ActiveFlag
On Friday, we had an assembly to acknowledge the hard work that was done by the student council for their Kindness Campaign. The choir performed for the first time as part of the celebrations 😍🎶
6th class had an amazing day last week with
@access_ul
in
@UL
! They had a very engaging workshop on climate change followed by the climbing wall! 🧗🏽♀️
@ULimsport
@ActiveFlag
Our Student Council is hosting a Bake Sale this Friday (March 24th).
We are asking parents to send in buns, cakes, traybakes etc for us to sell in aid of UNICEF's Earthquake Appeal.
Please remember we are a Nut Free School. Thank You 😋🍰
We are so proud of the St. John’s Basketball Team for everything they have achieved this year! On Wednesday they were finalists in the primary league 🥈🏀 Big thanks to their coaches too for all their hard work throughout the year! 😊
🎄Santa is Coming!!🎄 Santa is coming to St. John’s this Friday 8th of December! Children are asked to bring in €3 for our colours day, a visit with Santa AND a little treat! 🎅🎄 We are looking forward to a great day!!
We had a fabulous day celebrating Roald Dahl today 📖 Congratulations to the winners of our Roald Dahl quiz and a big thank you to Ms. Quinn for organising!
@roald_dahl
Just some of the beautiful books we received as part of the ‘Books for Birdies’ initiative. 😃 Thank you so much
@KPMG_Ireland
and
@KidsBooksIrel
. We are super excited to get stuck into a good book 📚😊
There was great excitement in St.Johns today! We had a celebratory assembly for our talented athletics teams! Both teams were presented with medals 😊
@Limericksports
Well done to all the boys and girls who took part in our ceilí on Thursday 🎶☘️ Big thanks to the parents who were able to come and show their support 😊 Below are a few of our junior classes 🎶
What a beautiful day we got for the annual teacher-student soccer match! Well done to the ‘Bibs’ for winning 2-1 👏⚽️ A big thank you to all the supporters in the stands 😊Great fun 😊
@ActiveFlag
#ASW24
@faischools
What a super and busy sports day we had yesterday! 🏅⚽️ Thankfully the rain held off ☀️ There were definitely a few competitive competitors including one or two teachers…👀😁
Ms. Travers' Junior Infants have been busy getting ready for Halloween. They carved a pumpkin and designed their own pumpkin faces. Happy Halloween everybody!
Ms.Lynch’s Junior Infants finished their 8 weeks of Talkboost with some lessons on First,Next & Last. We chatted about all the steps needed to make a jam sandwich. They were delicious 🥪 😊
Senior infants Ms O’Reilly/Mrs Ahearne have been using their imaginations with the help of this very exciting book! 😍Look at the creations they’ve made using a hole in a page! 📚🎨🖌️
6th class have been busy with their Rugby World Cup research projects! 🏉🏟️We are looking forward to see what they have learnt about all the different countries taking part 😃🇮🇪
Well done to our volleyball team who competed in the Volleyball Ireland blitz in U.L 👏 We are very proud of their commitment and hard work over the past few months!
@VolleyballIRL
@ActiveFlag
St John’s Lunchtime Book Club enjoying a ‘Booknic’ before the holidays- a chance to chat and share all our summer ‘must-reads’. They enjoyed this in the lovely sunshine. Thank you to Ms. Quin for all her time with the Lunchtime Book Club this year.
#readingforlife
6th class had a fantastic morning at the
@limerickgallery
. They really enjoyed looking at the variety of artwork in the museum! They can’t wait for their next visit 🎨🖼️🖌️