Welcome To Our School
St Paul's NS
Dooradoyle
Limerick
Message from the Principal
Dear Parent,
I would like to welcome you to our website. I hope you find the site useful and that it gives you a real sense of our school and its pupils.
Take time to browse through our website, you will find information on school holidays, recent newsletter etc under the heading 'Parent Information'.
If the information you need is not available on the site please contact our school office at 061 306645 or email stpaulsdooradoyle@gmail.com
Kind regards,
John Tuohy,
School Principal
School Holidays
All holidays can be found under 'Parent Information' on this website
School Newsletter
Please click here to bring you directly to our most recent newsletter...happy reading.
Halloween Fun
A big ‘Bualadh Bos’ to our Student Council and teachers for getting everyone into the spirit of Halloween before the Mid-Term Break. To follow are a few photos to share the spooky fun.
Act of Kindness
Oscar Fortune from Ms. Roche’s Junior Infants had a makeover with a difference when he cut his beautiful long blonde locks and donated it to The Little Princess Trust Foundation / Laura Lynn Foundation – Locks of Love.
This is a charitable foundation that works to improve the lives of those living with hair loss.
What a wonderful ‘Act of Kindness’ from a child so young.
WELL DONE OSCAR....We are very proud of you here in St. Paul’s.
Credit Union
Our local Credit Union invited some classes over to help them celebrate ‘ Credit Union World Day' on Thursday, October 16th
Our pupils were treated to Hot Chocolate and Ice-Cream from Hook and Ladder and many of our staff were treated to a lovely coffee
What a lovely morning…..
Many thanks to Fiona and all in the Credit Union for the invite.
World Dyslexia Awareness Day
Mr. Walsh’s 4th class celebrated World Dyslexia Awareness Day on October 8th.
Emma Norton made posters for her class explaining all about Dyslexia. She was inspiring in her talk to her classmates and then treated all the class to go Krispy Crème Doughnuts.
Thank you Emma !!
Dooradoyle Library
We would like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to Dooradoyle Library for all the wonderful workshops they have hosted and invited our school to so far this year.
They provide such enriching learning opportunities for all our pupils from an early age. It is so much appreciated by teachers and pupils alike.
A huge thank you to our teacher Ms. Geary for organising all these visits for our school.
Ms. McNamara’s Senior Infant class were invited to the library on October 7th for Storytime and also did some lovely art and craft on the stories they read.
Arran Towers came to our school on October 3rd and visited our three 3rd classes - Ms. Kenneally, Ms. Mortell and Ms. O’Connell. Arran is known as the ‘The Big Friendly Giant’. Our pupils thoroughly enjoyed the event
Mr. Carroll and Mr. Walsh’s 4th class attended a History talk and artefacts exhibition in Dooradoyle Library on October 4th. It was a fantastic way to engage children with past events.
Ms. O'Dea's 2nd class had a wonderful time on their visit to Dooradoyle library for a "Create a Monster" workshop with Celina Buckley on October 15th
They had great fun creating and drawing their very own monster book.
Ms. Bennis’ 6th class also visited the library during the month and had a chance to check out Medieval Weapons.
Junior Infants 2025
Many thanks to Adam and Theo O’Connor’s mom Paulina for brightening up our first day back at school with a lovely colourful balloon display for our new junior infants.
We tried to get as many children in the photographs as possible but unfortunately due to illness some children may be missing. We apologise for this but it was out of our control. There will be other opportunities during the year for lots more group photos so please don’t be disappointed if your child is missing from the photograph.
Fantastic Attendance
In June 2025, Mr. Tuohy presented children who achieved excellent attendance over the year (100% attendance or 1 day missed). See picture of the presentation below. Please note, some children are missing from this photo.
Well Done to all!!
Peace Proms
On Sunday, January 9th, 54 of our pupils from 4th to 6th had the privilege of singing in the Peace Proms concert presented by the renowned Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland. Over 3K other pupils took part in the performance . It was a most memorable and incredible experience for all, a culmination of months of learning and practicing songs during their lunchbreak
A huge thank you to Ms Ryan, Ms Keane, Ms Allis, Ms Reale and our SNA Martina for all their work promoting music in the school and preparing our choir for this concert during their lunchtimes.
Our pupils were a credit to their school and parents on the night.
Analog Devices - Robotics Workshop
Mervin, Skye and Claire from Learn It delivered a 90 minute LEGO Robotics workshop to Ms Geary’s 5th class on December 13th. Each group made a Lego robotic arm which they programmed it to pick up objects.
We would like to thank Analog Devices and Learn It for affording us the opportunity to learn aboot electronics and robotics by building our own robots.
We also received 4 explore Marine Lego sets to use with our existing Spike Lego. As a reward each student was gifted a Lego medal which they made afterwards. A thoroughly enjoyable session.
The WINNING team on the day were Mina Sheikh Raji, Sarah Ousmane and Angel Castejon and RUNNERS-UP were Cian Buckley, Casey Flynn and Evelyn Egan. Well done to the whole class for taking part.
Mina, Sarah and Angel will now go forward to represent St. Paul's in the Semi Finals which will take place in March. We wish them the very best.
Christmas Door Winners Dec 2024
There was great excitement around the school before Christas as our Student Council committee announced the winners of the Christmas Door competition.
Winning doors were based on the criteria of theme, original ideas, children’s work, level of work and the over all look…..
Prizes were given out to the winning classes before Christmas. Check out the winners below….. A huge thank you to our Student council for running this competition and to all teachers, pupils and staff who entered. It certainly created a festive buzz around the school.
Healthy Heroes Winners Dec 2024
Our Healthy Heroes committee ran a whole school competition where everyone was asked to get involved in their Healthy Festive Colouring and Drawing competitions……
The aim of the competition was to highlight healthy eating and encouraging pupils to eat a wide variety of really healthy foods.
To follow are the winners of this competition and our Healthy Heroes committee distributed prizes before the Christmas break.
A big thank you to our Healthy Heroes for all their hard work over the 1st term....
St Paul's Parents Association
St. Paul’s Parents Association have been very busy last term where they planned events for all the children in our school….Junior Infant Evening, Christmas Jumper Event, Christmas Disco , Santa’s visit to our school
We would like to thank all members of the P.A for their organisation of all these very festive events in our school.
We are so fortunate to have such an active and supportive Parents’ Association.
Some members of the Parents Association who organised the Christmas Jumper Event pictured below
Sarah Keane, Darragh and Sadhbh Kavanagh presented a cheque for €500 to Carol Fitz-Gough (Fundraising and Events Coordinator) in the Children's Grief Centre. This money was raised at the Christmas Jumper Event.
Choir & Orchestra Dec 2024
A big thank you to everyone who came along and supported our School Choir and Orchestra in the Crescent Shopping Centre on December 10th. They were amazing and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Throughout this term the choir have been learning Christmas songs in preparation for the festive season and a very big thank you to all our teachers who have been training them during their lunch break, Ms. Keane, Ms. Reale, Ms. Allis, Ms. Ryan and our SNA, Martina and to all who helped out on the day.
Act of Kindness
Sadhbh Kavanagh from Mr Kirby's 1st class recently cut her hair to donate to chari
Sadhbh has currently raised over €500 for Locks of Love for LauraLynn.
Sadhbh hair donation provides free real hair wigs to children in need while raising funds for children with life limiting conditions in LauraLynn
We are so proud of you Sadhbh. What a lovely Act of Kindness
Analog Donation
Our school received a very welcome financial boost of €2k thanks to Maurice Egan from Analog Devices on November 25th.
The Analog Employee Community Awards programme enables employees to nominate their chosen organisation to receive a donation from the company in recognition for their contribution to the local community
Maurice is the Chairperson of our very active Parents Association. We are very grateful to him for nominating our school and the very generous donation will go towards IT equipment for our school. Again we thank Maurice and Analog Devices.
Credit Union Appreication Day
Our local credit union held a ‘Customer Appreciation’ day on December 13th. Our 2nd and 5th classes were invited over to celebrate this day.
Our pupils were treated to Ice-Cream and Hot Chocolate and thoroughly enjoyed their outing.
A big ‘Thank You’ to Dooradoyle Credit Union for including us in the many events they hold throughout the year….Quizes, Colouring Competitions etc.,
Ms. Toomey's 3rd Class - Harvesting and Planting
Ms. Toomey’s 3rd class were very busy in October planting and harvesting seeds under the guidance of their teacher Ms. Toomey and help from Ms. Ulhemann.
The initiative encourages the children to learn the process of growing from planting the seed to picking the crop.
Here’s hoping for a bumper harvest!!
Active Travel
The official launch of the new walk and cycle paths on Fr. Russell Road took place in our school on Thursday, October 17th.
It was officiated by Major, John Moran and Junior Minister for transport, James Lawless.
Our school was part of the celebration which was held in our halla as our Student Council greeted our guests and our School Choir and Orchestra performed beautifully for the occasion.
Photo's below from Don Moloney
St Paul’s National School pupils Anna Tobin, April O’Keeffe Howard, Elliott Harrington, Luke Yang, and Patryk Janowski were at the launch of the Father Russell Road Active Travel Scheme.
CONTACT DETAILS
Please ensure your child’s contact details are up-to-date. If there has been any change to your home address, telephone numbers etc., please contact Marion in the office or email your changes to stpaulsdooradoyle@gmail.com
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