St. Patrick's NS, Slane

BOWOW Updates

17th June

Our final BOWOW Day was most definitely a wet one! The heavens opened and gave all those brave souls on bikes a good soaking. It would have to happen on our 'Bling Your Bike' Day! Nevertheless, with so many bikes arriving at school (and a few extra delivered aswell!) there was a great display.

10th June

While BOWOW Day went ahead this morning, the transport results were not recorded. It was a busy day here today!

Next week will be the last BOWOW day for the school year. We are encouraging children to give it a good go for the final one. Also, given that National Bike Week (14th - 21st June) is taking place, our school cyclists can bling their bikes for BOWOW with ribbons or decorations or some such. ( You can ask your children if you don't know what 'bling' means ;) )

3rd June

Click here for the transport results for the 3rd June BOWOW Day.

20th May

Click here for the transport results for the 20th May BOWOW day.

As mentioned, we are collecting old mobile phones for recycling. This past week we have collected 25. For every 100 mobiles collected, the school will recieve a new computer. If you have old, broken or unwanted phones please send them into the school and we will put them to good use!

13th May

Click here for the transport results for the 13th May BOWOW day.

We are now collecting old mobile phones. If you have an old mobile phone we can have them recycled. More info to come.

6th May

Click here for the transport results for the 6th May BOWOW day.

22nd April

Click here for the transport results for the 20th April BOWOW day.

Today was the first BOWOW day of the 3rd term and its great that such a good effort was put in to keep us on track!

Please note that while next Wednesday is Confirmation Day for the 5th & 6th classes, BOWOW day will still take place.


1st April

Click here for the transport results for the 1st April BOWOW day.

Though today was indeed April Fool's Day, BOWOW day is really going to happen every Wednesday and no-one was fooled into thinking otherwise! This week's Golden Boot competition was a repeat of last week's. This time, however, the winner's were Ms. Gerrard's Senior Infants and Mr. O'Connor's 5th class. Congratulations to them. The two classes even get to hold onto the trophies for a little longer as next week brings the Easter Holidays!


25th March

Click here for the transport results for the 25th March BOWOW day.

NOTE: As the BOWOW initiative has been so successful, many of the parents have requested that BOWOW day be held each week instead of every fortnight. So, starting from next week, BOWOW day will be every Wednesday.

This week's Golden Boot competition was about revision of all our ways of staying green. The Green Team performed spot checks around the classrooms to make sure lights were off when not needed, doors closed at lunchtime, picking up rubbish etc. The winners were Mrs. Connor's Senior Infant & 1st class while from the senior end, Ms. Mulqueen's 6th class won. Congratulations to the two classes.


12th March

Click here for the transport results for 11th March BOWOW day.

For week's competition, the children had to design a shoe suitable for walking.
From the junior end, Evan Murray from Junior Infants was the winner. In the senior end, Michael Cully from 6th Class won the competition. Congratulations to the two boys. The winning pieces will be displayed shortly...


26th February

Click here for the transport results for the 26th February. (NOTE: BOWOW day took place on Thursday as Wednesday was Ash Wednesday)

Todays competition was for the best poem/limerick written about the travel theme. Some classes got together and wrote a class poem/limerick, others worked in groups while others worked individually. This winners of this weeks Golden Shoe Award was Ms Mulligans classroom and Ms Browns classroom. Congratulations to David Kelly in 3rd class who won the award for Ms Brown's room and David King, Eva Salerno and Jonathan Mc Donagh who wrote the winning entry in Ms Mulligan's Classroom.

11th February

Click here for the transport results for our 2nd BOWOW day.

Golden Shoe Award

On each Bowow day, a new competition is announced. The competition is open to all classes from Junior Infants to Sixth class. There are two winning classrooms each fortnight, a class from the Junior end of the school - (Junior Infants - 2nd class) and a class from the Senior end of the school - (3rd - 6th class).

The first two classes to receive the Golden Shoe Award were Ms O' Briens 1st and 2nd class and Mr Sheridan's 4th class. It was a song contest. Each classroom had to write and perform a song about our BOWOW day. The tricky part was that everybody's song had to include our slogan in the lyrics.All entries were of a very high standard. Congratulations to all the classes and especially to the two classes that won the award. Click on the links below to have a listen to the various songs...

Junior Infants
Senior Infants
Senior Infants & 1st Class
1st & 2nd Class
2nd & 3rd Class
3rd Class
4th Class
5th Class
6th Class

BOWOW - Bus or Walk on Wednesday.

Click here for the transport results of our first BOWOW day...

For the launch of our Bowow day, we had a poster/slogan competition to find a new school slogan for our Travel theme. Laura Doonan in 4th class was the overall winner.

Our Slogan - More Footprints Less tyreprints.

Runners Up

6th Class

Alison Curran
Jonathan Connolly
Síabhra Reily


5th Class

Liam White
Gemma Donnelly
Ellen Farrell


4th Class
Laura Doonan (overall winner of slogan)
Emma Robinson
Finn Searle


3rd Class

Emily Ní Áogáin
Saoirse Gough
Aisling Gordon


2nd Class

Helen Larkin
Anna Myles
Luke O’ Hagan


1st Class

Maia Searle
Aisling Devin
Evan O’ Sullivan
Niamh Cullen
Ellen Hickey


Senior Infants

Aisling Floyd
Erik Larkin
Bronagh Lane
Eva O’ Hagan


Junior Infants

Gary Smyth
Ellie Riggs
Emmanuel Akinla