Excitement is building around Scoil Oilibhéir as the students and their teachers continue rehearsing for the highly anticipated Spring Concerts. Junior Infants, First Class, the School Choir and the School Band will be performing on Tuesday March 10th at 10am in Halla Oilibhéir. Senior Infants, Second Class, the School Choir and the School Band will […]
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Welcome to Scoil Oilibhéir
Scoil Oilibhéir is a large co-educational primary school situated in Ballyvolane, a northern suburb of Cork City.
Election Fever in Rang 5 agus Rang 6 Ahead of Tomorrow’s Vote
A mock General Election was held in 5th and 6th class today. Each student was given a ballet card to cast a vote. Quotas were worked out and several counts and tallies were taken in what lead to be a great insight into the voting process for the future generation of voters .
Spring Concerts 2020 in Scoil Oilibhéir
We want to let you know about a very exciting programme of Spring concerts in which every pupil in our school will perform. These are fundraising concerts and funds will go towards iPad purchase & our school playground. We have decided on 3 Spring concerts as follows: Concert Who is performing? When & Where? Spring […]
Sporty Senior Infants
This term, Senior Infants are focusing on improving their soccer skills and they were joined on the yard yesterday by Mr Brosnan’s Rang 6. The buachaillí and cailíní really enjoyed their kick around in the sunny spring weather and were delighted to have help from the very talented soccer players in Rang 6. Maith […]
Fourth Classes Fabulous St Brigid’s Crosses
The arrival of the 1st of February and St Brigid’s Day, saw fourth class make the traditional St Brigid’s crosses. Pupils in really appreciated how patient St. Brigid was. After many attempts we succeed in making some wonderful crosses.
Rang 4 Busy Building Bridges in STEM Activity
Children in Mrs.Quinlan’s 4th class worked in groups today to plan, design and build bridges from a range of different materials. The bridge had to: Be at least 40-50cm long. The bridge had to support the weight of different toy vehicles for at least 20 seconds. The bridge must be smooth enough for the wheels […]
January Joy in Tír na Sí
The library committee are bringing some January Joy to Tír na Sí, (library in Scoil Oilibhéir). The library is starting to reap the rewards of a very successful Book Fair. The school received €3991 in rewards from Scholastic Book Company. The first delivery of new books arrived in our library today. We are in the process of […]
Stay Safe Programme
Dear Parents, A personal safety education programme called Stay Safe will be taught in Senior Infants, 2nd, 4th and 6th classes over the next few weeks. The aim of the Stay Safe programme is to teach children personal safety skills so they can look after themselves in situations which could be upsetting or dangerous. The […]
Scoil Oilibhéir’s Green School Update
On 12th December, the Green School Committee carried out a ‘Walkability Audit’ with Lisa O’ Grady the Travel Officer from An Taisce. We took the following photos to capture their hard work!!
Official Opening of Scoil Oilibhéir’s Sensory Room
Today we invited Fr. John, Ms. Barry Murphy, Ms. Collins and Mr. Forde to our sensory room for its official opening. We wanted to express our sincere thanks to them for all the work they did to make this room possible. Fr. John organised Strictly Come Dancing Blackpool last Easter. As well as this, he […]