Bhaineanar a lán taitneamh as Twister as Gaeilge.

The boys made beautiful Easter Baskets. They came in handy for their scavenger hunt, looking for chocolate eggs hidden in our school garden.

Every year at HBNS we hold a book cover Art competition for World Book Day. Congratulations to these three boys who are this year’s worthy winners.

A big thank you to Ms.O’Carroll and the boys in Rang a Sé for doing a healthy eating workshop with us. The boys enjoyed writing short narratives about Victor the Vegetable and tasting delicious smoothies too.

Ghléas na páistí suas in éadaí glas roimh Lá ‘le Pádraig. Maith sibh a bhuaichaillí!

Bhí na buachaillí ó Rang a Dó ag léamh leabhair Gaeilge leis na buachaillí ó Rang a Sé. D’éist na buachaillí níos sine go cúramach agus bhí siad an-fhoighneach leo. Maith sibh!

Comhghairdeas leis na buachaillí seo. Bhuaigh siad an comórtas ealaíne i Scoil Haróid do Sheachtain na Gaeilge: na seanfhocail.

Bhain na buachaillí sult as Damhsa Gaelach sa halla le Rang a Sé.

Our four baby chickens are doing well. All settled into their brood box for the next few days🐣🐣🐣🐣

Tá spraoi ag na páistí sa seomra ranga an cluiche Twister a imirt as Gaeilge.

Déanann na buachaillí a ndícheall a gcuid Gaeilge labhartha a úsáid chun an cluiche Guess Who a imirt. Maith sibh!

Bhaineamar taitneamh as an Tráth na gCeist sa halla le Rang a 3. Go raibh míle maith agaibh do na buachaillí ó Rang a 6!

Some of the amazing efforts the boys went to, to dress up as book characters for World Book Day on the 5th March 2026. Well done also to the winners of our potato Art competition this year.

Go raibh míle maith agat to the parent who donated this amazing rollercoaster to us for Engineers Week.

The boys’ creativity really showed when our computer teacher, Mr. McCarthy, did an engineering workshop with them. Their marble mazes turned out so well, maith sibh!

The boys really enjoyed our trip to the Lexicon Library for a Junior Einstein Workshop for Engineers Week. They were so well behaved on the Dart, so earned some minutes in the playground too. Well done boys!

Our school tour to the EPIC Museum, in Dublin City, was a great success!

Engineers Week got off to a great start in our classroom with a brilliant show & tell!

Rang a 2 completed the Active Break Every Day Challenge. Maith sibh rang a 2!

There was great excitement when the eggs arrived, from Nore Valley Farm, to hatch in our classroom over the next few weeks.

The riddles that have been placed on our school’s Active Walkway are a fun way to turn on the thinking caps!

We celebrated Safer Internet Day on Tuesday, 10th February. Congratulations to these three boys who won the Internet Safety Slogan competition in Rang a Dó.

Happy Valentine’s Day from everyone in Rang a Dó!

The boys were delighted when some 6th class boys came in to show us their robots from the Vex Robotics project.

Congratulations to these two boys, who both won awards for their short-films at the Arclight Film Awards. We are so proud!

The boys really enjoyed making wish sticks with our Creative Schools coordinator, Rebecca.

It was such a nice treat when some parents came in to make waffles for every class to celebrate our school’s 125th birthday. Go raibh míle maith agaibh!

Well done to these two boys for solving our subtraction dominoes.

Our school’s active walkway is a fantastic resource. The boys really enjoyed solving the word puzzles.

The boys have been using Dienes Blocks to help them understand how to rename when adding and subtracting numbers.

Well done to all the boys who made a recycled Christmas decoration for the DLR competition. They look fantastic!

Our Dienes Blocks really help us visualise the numbers when we’re adding two-digit numbers together.

We recently finished our first novel, The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. The boys made their own clay owls, which now have their own nest in our classroom.

Amazing artefacts for our school’s timeline & the annual historical fancy dress.

Amazing artefacts for our school’s timeline & the annual historical fancy dress.

Amazing builds at our school’s weekly LEGO Club!

This test was a very effective way to show the importance of hand washing!

We watched as the gummy bear grew in water over a few days. This process is known as osmosis.

Chemical Reactions, Cocoa Powder Test and Coke & Mentos

Magic Pepper, Microscopic Views & Dancing Raisins

The boys watched the reaction when they dipped a cotton bud with washing up liquid into milk & food dye.

The boys have been learning about light and how different items can be transparent, translucent or opaque. They tested some items in the classroom using torches.

The boys made rainbow spinners to show how the colours of the rainbow can merge together to make white light. Great job boys!

We placed cress seeds in two different cups, marked ‘A’ & ‘B’. Both cups had cotton wool and water. The only difference was light exposure; we put Cup A on the windowsill and Cup B in the cupboard. The results were very interesting!

A great experiment to show how plants drink water.

The boys made terrifying cakes this year for our annual scary cake competition. The judges had a tough decision choosing the winners!

Congratulations to this boy who won this year’s spooky poetry recital in Rang a Dó. The boys learnt a variety of poems - Witch Witch, It’s Halloween, Skeleton Parade & Happy Halloween .

There was a fantastic turn out, on 15th October, at our weekly WOW ( Walk on Wednesday ) from Cuala for National Walk to School Week. Well done boys!

Well done to everyone who took part in this year’s GOAL Jersey Day on Friday, 10th October. We managed to raise €200 for such a great cause!

The boys are enjoying using our schools’ new skipping ropes. Each week they are getting better and better!