As part of the Heritage in schools Day Mr. Paddy Madden, a lecturer in Marino College came to St. Michael’s laden down with lots of crates of very interesting things from the Natural World. Paddy set up his tables in the P.E. Hall. He had brought fish, water insects, specimens of bats, different flowers and […]
Archive | October, 2014
First Holy Communion and Confirmation
Second Class celebrated their First Holy Communion on Saturday May 24th this year. The children with their teacher Ms. O’Connor had prepared well for the day. The school choir sang sweetly, and it was a very memorable day. On May 11th Sixth class celebrated their Confirmation with Bishop Leo O’Reilly. The adult choir sang on […]
Write-a-Book Competition
Every year the Monaghan Education Centre invites school in Monaghan and Cavan to partake in the Write-a-Book or Publish-a-Poem or P.S. Letter Writing competitions. Many classes in St. Michael’s take part every year, and we have been very lucky to receive prizes and Merit Awards many times. The winning poems and letters have each been […]
An Artist in the School
St. Michael’s has been very lucky to be able to avail of The Artist in School scheme over the past number of years. We have had an artist who painted murals with the pupils, one who worked with clay, a jeweller who did a beautiful Confirmation piece, and last year we had an artist who […]
Christmas Concert
The Christmas Concert is a very exciting event in the school’s December Callender. All the classes take part either doing a little play, or some singing and dancing. The concert has two day shows and two night shows. There is always great fun with make-up and costumes just before the show, and of course some […]
Halloween Danceathon
The school’s Halloween Danceathon is run every year on the day of the Halloween holidays. Each class gets a period of time to spend in the hall dancing, and they get sponsorship from their parents and friends to raise funds for the school. Everybody dresses in their Halloween costume, and St. Michael’s becomes a very […]
We are a Catholic school under the patronage of the Bishop of Kilmore. We are also a DEIS Band 1 school as designated by the Department of Education and Skills. 
There are 260 wonderful pupils, boys and girls in classes from Junior Infants to sixth. We encourage our pupils to partake of a variety of activities – musical, dramatic, sporting, artistic, as well as academic.