Thanks to Dylan in 5th class, who gave us all a 'working with leather' demonstration. Dylan explained how a horse saddle is constructed, showed us how to use various tools in the art of saddlery and gave a practical demonstration of stitching a pattern in leather. Not as easy as we all thought!

On Friday December 7th, 2nd to 6th classes travelled to the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin to see "The Snow Queen" pantomime.  The younger children went to Longford to see "Elfie Saves Christmas", and on their journey home, stopped off at Glenview Folk Museum near Ballinamore. 

Children from junior infants to 3rd class participated in the HSE "Looking After Your Teeth" program in the school recently. The program was produced by the Cavan/Monagan HSE Oral Health Promotion team and was run over 3 weeks as part of our SPHE program. On completion of the course, HSE dental nurse Máirín McInerney, visited the school to talk to the children and present them with their certificates. More photos in gallery section of the website.

Congratulations to the boys who won their Cumann na mBunscol final in a thrilling encounter in Breffni 3G pitch on Saturday 10th November.  Well done to our competitors and near neighbours, Greaghrahan N.S. for a very close contest. Well done to Rory Dolan, Fionán McIntyre, Finn McGovern, James Mahon, Liam Donohoe, Conor Bannon, Sam Maguire, Anthony Brady, Odhrán Kelleher, Oísín McGovern, and Aaron Farrell.

Congrats to 1st and 2nd class students on being chosen as the junior category winners for Cavan in the 'Someone Like Me' art competition organised by the Department of Justice and Equality. 

This aim of this competition was to develop children’s understanding of disabilities and to help them celebrate the aspects that make them and their classmates unique. The team painted a huge poster entitled: "My Friends include everyone. My friends include.....someone like me".

Mark and Fergal represented our school in Dublin City Hall on December 5th, where they picked up the award. More info on the project can be found in 'Classroom News'. Missing from photo: Donal, Eliot and Mark.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to our Halloween dress-up day charity fundraiser in the school on Thursday 25th October. This year's charity was Laura Lynn Foundation in memory of our dear Katelyn.  Everyone had great fun dressing up. Thanks for your support. A video of the 'fashion show' can be viewed above. 

Well done to everyone who brought in boxes for this years Team Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal. Team Hope delivers Christmas boxes right into the hands of children in the most remote and poorest parts of the world and these Christmas boxes may be the only thing these children receive this Christmas. An amazing 52 boxes were collected from our school this year for needy children in Africa, Eastern Europe, and former Soviet Union. Last year our 45 boxes went to Romania. Hazel from Team Hope will let us know shortly where this years boxes are destined for. Pictured with the children below is Hazel from Team Hope who collected all our showboxes. Missing from this photograph, 6th class.

A growing body of scientific research shows that mindfulness has positive effects on mental health and well-being. Practising mindfulness has been proven to help children learn to focus, manage stress, regulate emotions, feel compassion and empathy and develop a positive outlook. 

Mindfulness is part of the SPHE programme in St. Mogues NS and this is the second year that we have run this course for all children in the school. We would like to thank our instructor Ann Reilly for her encouragement and enthusiasm.  The children benefited greatly from the sessions and learned useful techniques to carry forward with them.

4th, 5th and 6th classes enjoyed a most interesting and informative visit to Belturbet Town Hall on Wed 3rd Oct to visit a mobile planetarium.

Junior & Senior Infants - Mrs. Evelyn McManus

A warm welcome to all the pupils and in particular the new pupils joining the school. We are delighted to welcome new Junior Infants: Aimee Callaghan, Fergal Corrigan, Francis Devine, Ryan Gilleece, Aoibheann Heery, Grace Maguire, Emma McGovern, Leon McKiernan-Stojak and Matthew McManus. A special welcome to Leon Dawson who joins 2nd class this year. We hope they settle in effortlessly and have many happy years of learning in our school.

Sincere thanks to all the families who maintained the school garden in excellent condition over the summer.

We bid farwell to Tess, Uainíonn, Kelly, Cáit, Ruairí, Niall, Conor, Thomas, Shane and Paul as they graduate from primary school. We wish them all the best as they start a new chapter of their lives. Thanks to each one of them for their contribution to school life in St. Mogue's. We will miss you all. (This photograph was taken on their last school tour together - Thomas is missing from the picture).

We held our annual school sports day on 12th June. Events included sprints, egg and spoon races, sack races, three-legged races, poc fada and a soccer tournament. At lunch break, a "fruit and veg fest" was laid on for everyone to enjoy. An enjoyable and healthy day was had by all.

Check out the gallery for more photos. Results table and video highlights to follow shortly.

Junior Infants to 1st class had a very enjoyable school tour to Florencecourt House on Thursday May 24^th, while second to sixth class visited the Titanic Centre and W5 in Belfast on Friday 8th June. Check out the gallery for loads of photos from the day.