Manister National School

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Welcome to Manister National School. Thank you for taking the time to visit our school website. Our school aims to provide a warm and nurturing environment for pupils to try to achieve their full potential academically, spiritually, physically, socially and emotionally. We strive to be a centre of learning and happiness for all pupils and a source of help and encouragement for all parents. We are extremely proud of our school and community and hope you enjoy your visit to our website!

School News

January 17th 2020
Congratulations to all those who took part in or supported our charity fundraiser in aid of Bumbleance and Cenacalo Community when carol singing before Christmas. A total of €932.00 was raised and €466.00 lodged to each charity. The Bumbleance have already sent a card saying thank you to everyone for the effort put in. Although out of season now, here is a reminder of how the money was raised.

Dec 20th 2019 - Cheque presented by Greybridge Classic Club
Greybridge Classic Club, near Meanus, recently raised funds for Manister National School with their successful Harvest Vintage Day at Meanus. Pictured are Fiachra Liston and Louise Crowley from the Club presenting the huge cheque to Peter Lavin, Principal.

Dec 19th 2019 - Carol singing
Thank you to everyone who helped with carol singing in the Crescent Shopping Centre tonight - the singers, the musicians, Tina and friends, the supporters, the parents the bucket shakers especially Ms Claus who did it with style !! And I should probably mention David Kilcoyne for stepping into a photo with eagle eyed pupils who spotted him in Butlers while we sang. Video footage to follow shortly. As soon as the amount collected has been counted I will update you . This will be divided between The Bumbleance and Cenacalo Community.

Dec 11th 2019 - School Play
The big night has finally arrived. After a hectic few weeks of rehearsals we will be performing A Christmas Rhyme (Infants and 1st Class) and Porridge (1st to 6th Classes) tonight and tomorrow night.

We will be holding a raffle and tickets will be available at the door - €5 for a strip of 5 tickets. We have a huge amount of prizes - pictured below. Thanks to all who made donations.

Dec 5th 2019 - Geoff Hunt - Irish Garden Birds
Geoff Hunt from Heritage in Schools visited us today. In 1st and 2nd Class Geoff told us all about the Top Three Irish Garden Birds - The Robin, The Blackbird and The Blue Tit. We listened to their song, learnt about their habitat, diet and coloured in drawings of them.

Nov 18th 2019 - Shoebox Appeal
Thanks to everyone who put in a tremendous effort to prepare shoeboxes for the Team Hope again this year.

Oct 25th 2019 - Halloween Horror
The school was taken over today by lots of Skeletons, Siamese Twins, Evil Clowns, Bananas, Werewolves, Zombies, Witches, Dead /Teachers/Schoolgirls/Footballers/Hurlers/Cheer-Leaders, Devils, Cowgirls, Every Marvel character under the sun - the list goes on forever. Even Mrs Brown made an appearance.

Hope you enjoy trying to recognise the "Pupil behind the Mask". For more photos see here.

Oct 25th 2019 - Traditional Halloween Games
In history this week 1st and 2nd Classes have been learning about Halloween Traditions in Ireland and decided to try out some of the games that would have been played at Halloween long ago.

Check out some of the photos here.

Friday Oct 11th 2019 - The Eagle has landed

As part of Space Week 2019, 1st and 2nd Class discussed what it would be like to live on the moon. We designed and made our own astronaut suits. These had to be able to withstand temperatures as high as 123 degrees Celsius and as low as -233 degrees Celsius. They had to be able to supply oxygen to breathe. We also had to figure out how we would cope with having very little gravity on the moon and what we would do to protect us from harmful rays from the sun as the moon has no protective atmosphere.

You can see some more moon related photos here.

October 9th 2019

Lee from Skip-Hop visited the school today and showed some of the amazing activities you can do with skipping ropes. Many of them look difficult but everyone can do them with a little practice.

Have a look here for some more videos.

Happy skipping everyone.

27th September 2019
1st and 2nd Classes enjoying their smoothies as part of European Schools Sports Day.