Fire Brigade Fun

Thanks to the firemen from Kilbarrack Fire Station who visited Springdale today. Past Springdaler and fireman, Derek Singleton, was joined by the Station Officer, Dave Connolly, and fellow firemen, Glen Ellis and Paul. As you can see below, Mr. Vincent managed to capture the great excitement and fun had by pupils from Junior Infants to […]

On your marks, get set, go!

The sun was shining while the whole Springdale community thoroughly enjoyed our annual Sports Day. Tea, coffee and home baked treats were provided by the PTA as parents arrived to join in the fun. Congratulations to all our athletes who participated and well done to this year’s overall winning team, the Yellows! Many thanks to […]

Have a look at our projects!

Pupils from 3rd to 6th Class have been busy working on projects for the last few weeks. They have covered a variety of topics from ‘monkeys’ to ‘mental health’. The finished projects are very impressive. If you have time during the week, be sure to take a few minutes to have a look at the […]

Baking Cookies

Cookie Making with Ms. Kenny On Friday Katya, John, Nathan, Sam, Sophie, Nila Rae and Adi baked cookies with Ms. Kenny. First we read the recipe and we made a list of stuff we needed to buy to make the cookies.  Then we went to Supervalu to buy the ingredients. When we got to Supervalu […]

A closer look at Twistables

A parent on the PTA recently asked whether or not we can recycle Twistables. The Green Schools Committee were given the challenge to find out. We contacted Panda, our bin collection company and this is what we discovered: We CAN recycle the plastic outer case of Twistable colouring pencils as long as there is no […]

Kick Off!

Three Springdale teams took to the pitch in Irishtown Stadium as part of the Spar Primary 5 -a-sides Dublin Qualifiers last week. Competition was tough but we were delighted when one of the boys’ teams made it through to the next round. We wish them the very best of luck in the Dublin Finals on […]

Springdale’s Got Talent

3rd to 4th Class students took to the stage last week with two amazing shows, ‘Aladdin Trouble’ and ‘Bugsy Malone’. Congratulations to all our talented Springdalers and to all involved in producing such fantastic shows. Mr. Vincent captured some great shots throughout the evening:  

World Down Syndrome Day

World Down Syndrome day will be celebrated all over the world on the 21st of March. In Springdale we are going to fundraise on this day for Down Syndrome Dublin. We are asking everyone to wear colourful odd socks on this day and to bring a small donation to school. We will have students collecting […]