🏆 Winners of the Transition Cup 2018
St Michael’s PS continued with our sporting success by winning the Transition Cup in Keady High School. The soccer tournament between schools who feed into St Patrick’s HS was held on Thursday 10th May in very wet conditions. A strong performance against Foley PS saw us progress to the final with Darkley PS. The boys drew with the Darkley boys 3-3 and the girls won their game 4-0, giving us a 7-3 aggregate over the …
Information for Parents
This page has been created to keep our parents and school community up-to-date with current activities, developments and upcoming events. Information regarding school holidays, closures, recent activities, fundraising events, blogs posted by the school community etc will be posted under this section. The Parents section of the website also includes useful links to other educational websites relevant to the curriculum, links for ordering the school uniform from School Trends, the current dinner menu and information by the Friends of …
Welcome to our website
St Michael’s Primary School is a Catholic Controlled Maintained School in the Kilcluney Parish. Christian values are intrinsic to the education we provide. St Michael’s is a friendly school committed to the traditional values of hard work, respect for others, good manners and self-discipline. It is our aim to ensure that all children are provided with the essential values, skills, knowledge and abilities that will develop them academically, physically, socially and morally. At St Michael’s we promote our culture through language, games, dance, music and stories. We enjoy a close relationship with parents and wider community and are very thankful for the support they provide.
As you browse through the various sections of this website I hope you enjoy learning more about our school and how we aim to develop and prepare each child within our educational environment.
My thanks go to all who contributed to the formation of this website which is a tremendous addition to our school. I would encourage the school community, parents & children to become regular users of our website and to avail of the important features within it.
Mr John White.
Recent Blog Posts
✅ Back to School Dates - Read More
P1 Pupils will enjoy an induction day on Friday 31st August as detailed in the letters they will receive by post. All other Pupils will return on Monday 3rd September. We look forward to welcoming everyone for the start of the new school year 2018/19.
🏅Pupils 'Race for Life' Fundraiser - Read More
Well done Eli (P7) & Ivah (P5) who successfully completed the 10km Race for Life and raised almost £1500 in aid of Cancer Research.
📚 Avid Reader Receives Reward - Read More
Our Primary 7 pupil, Eli, was awarded with a Waterstones Voucher for being an avid reader. He read a staggering 6 million words under the Accelerated Reading Scheme whilst in Primary 6 & Primary 7. Well Done Eli!
🖋 Winner of the Cumann na mBunscol Poetry Competition 2018 - Read More
Congratulations to our Primary 6 Pupil, Niamh, who won the Cumann na MBunscol Poetry Competition. Primary 6 and Primary 7 pupils constructed poems based on their GAA icon. Some fantastic pieces were penned and in the end Niamh’s entry, which is based on her Mummy’s involvement and achievements in GAA, was a winner. Well done Niamh!
👋🏻 Farewell P7 Pupils of 2018 - Read More
It has been a pleasure to teach this lovely bunch of P7 pupils. They thoroughly enjoyed a great send-off from St Michael's with sumo-wrestling and an ice-cream van, balloons & a water fight. Thank you to Fr Greg for celebrating a very special end-of-year Mass on their last day. I wish each one of theses boys & girls luck & happiness as they continue on their educational journey. They know they are always welcome at …
⛵️ Pirate Fun in Mrs Nugent's Classroom - Read More
The topic of Pirates has been so much fun. Mrs Nugent saw a rather large pirate figure outside the shop that Fionnuala and Annmarie's mummy has. The girls brought in a few photographs, which sparked a lot of interest. We made treasure maps, looked at the points on a compass, created wanted posters and pretended to be stranded on a desert island and wrote a message in a bottle. Primary 1 worked ever so well …
📚 Accelerated Reading Awards - 25 June 2018 - Read More
The awards for Accelerated Reading keep on coming. We are very proud of the progress and achievements made by each and everyone f the boys and girls who have taken part in this most worthwhile programme.
⭐️ Star Pupil Awards - 25 June 2018 - Read More
This week we had another first for our pupil of the week award. To acknowledge the efforts of everyone in her class Miss Toner announced her whole class as the pupils of the week!! Well done boys and girls.
🚌 P4-P7 End of Year Trip - Read More
On Monday 18th June the P4-P7 school children went to Lisburn on a school trip. Pupils watched the latest movie, Show Dogs which had all pupils laughing out loudly during this very enjoyable film. After the film children enjoyed a picnic in the beautiful sunny weather. The P7 pupils were allowed to go to the Subway for their lunch. The afternoon was spent in the Leisureplex and the water slides. This was a great fun …
🏃 Our Annual Sports Day - Read More
Children, staff and parents alike enjoyed our Annual Sports Day. Thanks to Karol McQuade for organising our teams and races. Well done to all the children and to Mr White who won the Teacher's Race by default as no other teachers made it to the starting post 😊