Month

October 2016

Rabbits Came to Visit!

25 Oct 2016

We had two very special visitors to Ms. Rael’s Senior Infants class last week, Dory and Lucky! Two beautiful seven week old baby rabbits (kittens) that belong to Ms. O’Sullivan, who kindly brought them in to visit us. We got to rub them, learn what they like to eat,...

Maths Week in Senior Infants

25 Oct 2016

Ms. Rael’s Senior Infants were very busy for Maths week, making patterns, playing “Shape Dominoes”, going on Maths Trails and Shape Hunts, making Shape Villages and practising number tracing. We really enjoyed ourselves!

The Milford Gazette – New Edition

25 Oct 2016

New year, new team of writers and editors! We welcome Conal and Joey to our news team at The Milford Gazette. We’re sure Seth and Saoirse will make you feel welcome. Newcomers who would still like to join are most welcome, please contact Ms. Rael (Room 16) for more details....

Centra Token Fundraiser

24 Oct 2016

The results are in and we are proud to announce that Milford NS collected a total of 2000 tokens in the Centra Initiative organised by Tom Duggan. Even though we didn’t reach our target number of 3000 tokens Tom has still kindly donated €2500 to Milford NS. A huge thank you to...

Maths Week – Second Class Maths Trail

23 Oct 2016

As part of Maths Week 2016 Ms. Moloney’s second class students measured various sections of the school in metres. Students noted their estimates before measuring. Then pupils worked in pairs to cut metre string and measure. Finally actual measures were compared against...

Book Fair Update 2016

21 Oct 2016

There was quite a buzz around Milford NS last week as the children got the opportunity to visit and buy books if they wished. The success of the Book Fair was guaranteed by the wonderful team of Parents Council members who acted as stewards, librarians, stocktakers and...

Third Class Maths Trail

20 Oct 2016

This week the Wagtails enjoyed taking part in a Maths Trail covering lots of practical areas in Maths. They estimated, measured, weighed, poured and calculated! They are also working hard to earn points on the maths website, Mangahigh. Great work, Wagtails!

Walk on Wednesday

19 Oct 2016

WOW Each Wednesday a group of Milford pupils form a walking “bus” to school under the supervision of their parents/guardians. They depart from Unigolf at 8.30am and always welcome new passengers. We will have a Hallowe’en themed Walk on Wednesday on October 26th. Children...

Fundraising Walk

16 Oct 2016

On Saturday 15th October Tom Duggan’s Centra (Chawkes) organised a fundraising walk at 11am around the castletroy area ( approx. 5km walk ) to raise funds for Action Breast Cancer. Many thanks to all the parents, teachers and children from Milford NS who participated in the walk...

Full Attendance Awards 2016

13 Oct 2016

Children from Senior Infants to Sixth Class who had full attendance last year. Congratulations to all the children who achieved full attendance last year. Mr. Moore presented a special Full Attendance certificate to each of them during our assembly this morning. The boys and...