
The school has been given €500 from the Tesco Community Fund to upgrade our school playground! Thank you to everyone at Tesco!
St Bernadette's Junior National School

The school has been given €500 from the Tesco Community Fund to upgrade our school playground! Thank you to everyone at Tesco!
St. Bernadette’s JNS is accepting applications for enrollment into our Early Start, Junior infants and Special class from Monday, February 12th – Thursday, March 14th.
The application form is available in the admissions section. Hard copies of the form can be collected from the school office from February 12th on.

Our school has been celebrating science week this November! The children have been taking part in captivating and educational experiences all week! These activities, experiments and events were specifically designed to spark curiosity and passion for science among our young learners. We made science fun whilst promoting a deeper understanding of STEM subjects and fostering a lifelong love for learning.
Science Project 2023
The theme for the science project this year was homes. The children were asked to design and create a sustainable home.
Sustainability is about small changes we can make to help look after the planet. Making these changes helps protect animals, plants and our natural resources so that future generations will be able to enjoy them. We all enjoyed looking at the science exhibition on Friday the 24th and all children who took part received a prize!
Thank you to Ms.Monahan for organising and well done to all the children and staff it was a great Science Week!











Maths week took place in all classes last week. There was lots of practical learning happening in all the rooms and the children really enjoyed all the activities set out. Every class took part in Maths games, puzzles and trails. Take a look at what some classes got up to throughout the week.
Senior Infants- Maths Trail




1st Class- Car Registration Hunt



Congratulations to all the children in St Bernadettes for taking part in our 2023 Art Competition. There were prints, paintings, portraits and everything in between. The children made it very difficult for our judges to choose a winner!
Well done to all our winners.









Congratulations to the children, teachers and parents of St Bernadettes Junior National School for earning a SFI Gold Award. The school received this award in recognition of the wide variety of STEM activities in our school. Well done to Ms. Monahan for organising everything!
Enrolment for September 2023 opens for: Early Start, Junior Infants and Special Class (ASD) on Monday February 13th.
Application forms are available in the admissions section or in the school office.

It has been such a busy week for everyone.
The Junior Infant children had great fun this week planting bulbs with Niall. Ms Colvin’s class are really enjoying reading about Jake and Tizzy every week and bringing the stories home. Ms Bowen’s class love playing the 3 little pigs game, trying to build houses before the wolf blows them down.
In Senior Infants, Ms Cashin’s and Ms Kennedy’s classes were also outside planting bulbs with Niall. They planted crocuses and snowdrops. They did a great job! They are enjoying Science week and have done the rainbow and lava lamp experiments.
In first class news, Ms. Daly’s class finished their Zones project. They were so good that they all got a certificate and a prize. Mr. Walshe’s class started English stations this week. All of the teachers are so happy with them. Ms. Curley’s class are working hard on building boats for Science week. It is hard work but they are doing great.
Ms. Ryan’s have been busy building bridges for Science week. They are having so much fun.
Ms Monahan’s class had a very nice trip to the library yesterday and loved picking their new books. Ms Hennessy’s class had a fabulous week doing lots of science experiments. Their favourite was the balloon powered car one. Mrs Byrne’s class had a lovely time being guests in other classes for two days this week. They would like to say thanks for having them.
That’s all the news for this week.
First Class are having fun learning all about Kenya. Mr Walshe’s class are excited to start Literacy Lift Off next week. Ms Curley’s class are reading a lovely story called Tara the Tooth. Ms Daly’s are learning an amazing dance in PE
Ms Ryan’s class worked so hard sorting all the shoeboxes. Well done!
In Junior Infants, Ms Colvin’s class are doing the 3 little pigs in Aistear. They are learning all about different materials that build houses. Ms Bowen’s class are learning about recycling and they are so good at recognising the recycling sign.
In Senior Infant’s Ms Cashin’s class are enjoying reading the story of The Tiger who came to tea. Ms Kennedy’s class are learning all about a café and are going to set up one in their classroom.
2nd class has been a very busy block this week. Each class had the important job of walking down to Dealz in Fonthill on Tuesday with the Christmas shoe boxes. They are going to help those children less fortunate than us. 2nd class are also starting to get ready for the Christmas play and the best performance ever!
That’s all the news for this week.