St. Paul's NS | National School Ratoath Co. Meath

Welcome Message from Our Principal

Welcome to St. Paul’s National School! We hope you enjoy our website. On this site you should get some idea of the many activities in which our children are involved and what it is like to be a member of our school community.

We hope the children, their parents and family will be frequent visitors to our site and that you find your visit both enjoyable and informative.

If you do not find all the information you are looking for on this site please contact us in the school.
Morag McGowan

Principal

School News

The Secret Garden comes to St. Paul’s!

The children from First Class to Sixth Class had a special treat today when they got to watch a performance of The Secret Garden. The Sixth Class children had a "back stage" session with the cast afterwards who gave them lots of inside information on the performance...

The Eur-Run Challenge

As part of renewing our Active Flag this year, our school is accepting the challenge to "Run around Europe." We are very excited about this and have named it the "Eur-Run." Each class level has a target destination. Have a look at the destinations and distance each...

Spelling Bee 2018

Congratulations to Conor, in Fifth Class, who represented St. Paul's in the Spelling Bee Meath county final. Following a school based competition between all the children in Fifth and Sixth Class, Conor was the last student standing after spelling all of his words...

Daffodil Day 2018

We are delighted to have raised €1,487 on Daffodil Day, which was donated directly to the Irish Cancer Society. Many thanks to everyone who donated money, and a special thank you to our Student Council who worked very hard selling pins, daffodils and raffle tickets on...

Kilmainham Gaol

Today, Ms Broderick’s class visited Kilmainham Gaol. Our tour started at the front gates of Kilmainham Gaol. Here we were met by our friendly guide called Lisa. Lisa began the tour by bringing us to the chapel inside the gaol. Here she told us the captivating story of...

6th Class Test for Starch!

Hi all! As part of the Discovery Science project, Room 22 completed an experiment testing a variety of materials for starch. We had a lot of fun participating in this experiment. Firstly we found out what starch is. We then placed a variety of items onto paper plates....

Fifth Class Update

Ms O’Reilly, Ms Ní Mhurchú and Ms Broderick would like to wish you all a very happy New Year!!! We have been extremely busy since we started back. But to keep you up to date with what has been going on in our classrooms we have chosen a selection of our displays to...

Good Vibrations in Ms. Broderick’s Class!

In Science, we investigated seeing sounds, feeling sounds and making sounds. The four activities the children carried out proved that sound can travel in vibrations through air or other media. Below is a summary of what was involved in each activity. Seeing Sound –...

Pancake Tuesday

Pancake Tuesday is one of our favourite days here in Room 25. We love discovering the different toppings we can put on our pancakes! This year we put chocolate spread, sugar, lemon and strawberries on top of our pancakes. They were delicious!