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

Pentel Art Competition Winners

A massive well done to the huge number of children who won prizes in the Pentel International Art Competition.

Active Week

There was lots of sport and activity in St. Paul's last week for our annual Active Week. Each day the children took part in different activities including Athletics, GAA, Orienteering and the much love Water Day. Thank you to all the teachers involved in making it...

Sixth Class Donation to Keith Duffy Foundation

Keith Duffy, and his wife Lisa, paid a visit to St. Paul's last week to be presented with a cheque for The Keith Duffy Foundation. The children in Sixth Class donated some of their confirmation money to the charity, which so far has amounted to €800. Keith and Lisa...

Leinster Glory for St. Paul’s!

Leinster Glory for St. Paul’s!! With all four of the St. Paul’s teams qualifying for the Leinster Olympic Handball semi-finals, there was great excitement in the build up to the big day. The Leinster finals were played in Gormonston College on Monday, 8th May. We...

St. Paul’s Boys Footballers Qualify for the Meath County Final

St. Paul’s First Football County Final Appearance: Saturday 10th June at 3.30pm, Páirc Tailteann, Navan Saturday, June 10th will be a proud day for St. Paul’s Ratoath, as it marks the school’s first appearance in a boys’ 15 a-side county football final. St. Paul’s...

A Snapshot of Senior Infants 2016/2017!

We had a super-de-duper year in Senior Infants Room 5 filled with lots of learning and oodles of fun!! Here is a snapshot of some of our favourite memories: In September, we were happy to be back at school and looking forward to Senior Infants. We had fun painting...

More Active Week Fun in Third Class!

Room 12 really enjoyed all the activities on Wet Day, as well as the orienteering fun on Friday! Thanks Ms. McCarthy and Mr. Burns and to all the Learning Support teachers for organising the best Active Week ever!!

Room 12 were jumping with joy!

Third Class had so much fun on Athletics day this week! Look how high we can jump and how fast we can run!

Something Fishy Going On in Room 12!

We learned about rivers in Geography and teeth in Science.... What better way to integrate the two topics in Art than "Toothy Fish". We added a little bit of magic by having a surprise in the picture- folding them in such a way, that there are two versions of fish! We...

Dragon’s Den in Room 12!

Ms. Smyth's Class learned about different famous inventors in History last month. They then worked together in pairs to come up with their own inventions- something that would help in their everyday lives. They talked about all the important things that an...