Checkmate

  A team of eight Springdalers from 4th to 6th Class, The Mighty Oaks, competed in the annual Ficheall tournament on Thursday 12th February. It was a great opportunity to represent our school while meeting new people. The team showed great skill and were ranked in top place on the day- congratulations to all who […]

VEX Robotics

For the last few months eight pupils, under the supervision of Ms Kenny,  have been busy building Huey the Robot. Huey can stack pins, move backwards and forwards and from side to side through a controller. As well this, he has been programmed through the coding skills of the team to pick up stacks and […]

Carol Singing for our Neighbours

4th, 5th and 6th Class were busy carol singing during the second last week of term. They visited the Raheny Community Nursing Unit and the Rehabilitation Unit in St. Joseph’s. Unfortunately this year’s visit to the Residence Carton had to be cancelled due to Storm Bram. They wowed their audiences as they spread some Christmas […]

We made the news!

Our ‘Snowy Switcheroo’ has made it to today’s episode of News2day! Well done to all our interviewees! https://www.rte.ie/player/series/news2day/SI0000001210?epguid=IH10008773-25-0169  

A Snowy Switcheroo

Following the success of their Spooky Swap Shop, 5th Class organised a Snowy Switcheroo, which took place on Monday, 24th November. Huge congratulations to everyone involved—it was a wonderful success! Our Springdalers had great fun choosing Christmas accessories that were ‘new to them’. Oscar’s Kids were thrilled to hear that an impressive €630 was raised. […]

Mad Hair Day 2025

Mad Hair Day 2025 was a great success. There were plenty of amazing, crazy hairdos! We had great fun as we raised funds for our school and Oscar’s Kids. Thank you to everyone who came along to join the fun, especially  to our neighbours in the  Raheny Community Nursing Unit in St. Joseph’s who cheered […]

A Competition Organised by our Librarians

Our school librarians held a Halloween-themed writing and art competition! Each class was set a special spooky challenge… Junior and Senior Infants were asked to draw a spooky character while First and Second Class were set the task of designing a spooky book cover. Third and Fourth Class got their thinking caps on to compose […]

Great Fun while being Sustainable!

Who knew sustainability could be so much fun? The 5th Class Spooky Swap Shop was a roaring success and raised €570 . Thanks to so many donations, we had more than enough Halloween costumes for everyone who wanted to shop. There was a great buzz of excitement and plenty of fun as everyone had a […]