Welcome to St. Aidan’s National School, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan
As we begin the 2025/26 school year, we are delighted to welcome Ms. Quirke to our staff. We are also thrilled to have ten wonderful Junior Infants starting their journey with us, bringing our enrolment to 78 pupils.
St. Aidan’s is a school where every person is a valued member of a happy, vibrant learning community. Tá gach dalta, tuismitheoir agus múinteoir lárnach i bpobal foghlama bríomhar agus cairdiúil anseo i Scoil Náisiúnta Aodáin.
In St. Aidan’s, we aim to provide a well-structured, caring and positive learning environment with plenty of fun and adventure along the way. Our highly dedicated and creative staff work hard to foster the holistic development of our pupils, supporting them to grow in confidence, curiosity and kindness.
We are hugely supported by our parent body, who constantly work in partnership with us, and our website highlights the many events and activities taking place across the school year.
I would like to wish each of our students the very best for the year ahead. There will inevitably be challenges, but with the right support we hope every child will flourish and enjoy a happy, successful school year.
Tá súil agam go mbainfidh sibh taitneamh as ár suíomh gréasáin agus go bhfeicfidh sibh bríomhar, dearfach agus spraíúil scoil anseo i mBunbhó.
Le gach dea-ghuí,
James Rudden
Principal
Child Safeguarding
The Board of Management’s annual review of the school’s Child Safeguarding Statement took place on October 17th 2024.
Our Child Safeguarding Statement can be found here under Policies.
The Designated Liaison Person (DLP) is James Rudden and the Deputy Designated Liaison Person (DDLP) is Juliana Doherty.
Today the children learnt about the history of Shrove Tuesday, what ingredients are used to make a pancake and the junior children listened to the story of ‘The Enormous Pancake’. The children’s favourite part was of course eating the pancakes with sugar and lemon or Nutella. Nutella was the most popular topping for both pupils and teachers!
All pupils have enjoyed taking part in Dance Class with fitness instructor Michelle Fanning every Friday for the last five weeks. Michelle taught us all sorts of cool moves. Fitness is fun!
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Today we held a whole-school assembly to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day. Love was in the air and we all gathered together to give thanks for the wonderful gift of love, the love of family, the love of friends and the love of God our Father. We were delighted that Fr. Phair and Sr. Anna, our Diocesan Religious Examiner could join us for this special service too.
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Our pupils were very happy with the snowfall last night. Here they are enjoying break time this morning! It was great to see all the pupils working together to make an igloo! Team work rocks in St. Aidan’s!
We are enjoying lots Christmas Activities here in St Aidan’s during the run up to Christmas. We have been busy writing letters to Santa, making Christmas decorations, singing songs, reciting poems and of course learning about the real meaning of Christmas. Now we are looking forward to a well-deserved break. Merry Christmas everyone!
Look at some of our pupils wearing their lovely Christmas jumpers on the last day of school before the holidays.
We had a group of pupils from St. Aidan’s travel to Cavan Swimming Pool today to take part in a Swimming Gala. Everyone did their best and did the school proud. The following pupils got medals: Lauren Brady, Ethan Edwards, Patrick Leech, Aoife Maguire, Siobhán Maguire, Dallán McKenna, Néamh McGovern and Seán McGovern.
Pictured are Siobhán and Lauren from 1st class with their medals. Well done to you all!
We had an amazing 9 winners in the recent Credit Union Poster Competition.
Well done boys and girls!
A big ‘thank you’ again this year to all the families who contributed to the Shoe Box Appeal. We were delighted to have collected over 40 shoe boxes.
Well done!
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The boys and girls in Mrs Doherty’s classroom dressed up in their Halloween costumes and attended the Halloween Ball in Florence Court House today. They learned all about how the Florence Court servants would have celebrated Halloween and the end of the harvest, through art activities, story and dance. They also took part in an outdoor trail and discovered the seasonal changes that are taking place. Just before we returned to school the children enjoyed some time in the adventure play area. The new rope swing was a firm favourite with pupils and teacher! Everyone had a great time as you can see from the happy faces in these photos.
The pupils in St. Aidan’s National School have been taking part in Maths Week Ireland 2014 this week. Maths Week Ireland is an all-Ireland celebration of maths and promotes awareness, appreciation and understanding of maths through fun events and activities. To celebrate Maths Week in our school all classes have been engaging in maths games, quizzes, board games and maths online activities.
They also took part in a Maths Trail organised by Mrs Maguire which incorporated all the different strands of the Maths Curriculum. As always it was great to see the older children helping out the younger ones!
Look at our photos.
