Congratulations to our 42 Wonderful Winners at the Talbot Visual Art’s Display 2025!

And THANK YOU to all the amazing young artists in our school who shared their creativity with us for the art display. We’re so proud of your imagination and hard work. Keep creating — the world needs your art!

Recently, some of our 6th Classes were lucky enough to participate in a comic book art workshop with local artist, Juliet. The workshop was brought to us by The Civic Theatre in Tallaght as part of the lead up to their Cruinniú na nÓg festival which takes place on Saturday 7th June.

The workshop was a truly memorable and inspiring session for our 6th class students. Juliet encouraged the students to delve into their creative sides and embrace their inner artists, with each child producing super comics by the end of the workshop. 

A huge thanks to Juliet and The Civic Theatre for working with us.

You can find more information on the wonderful Cruinniú na nÓg events taking place in The Civic Theatre by visiting their website here.

 

On Monday 14th April during our Easter break, up to 20 Talbot kids got the chance to be involved in a filming project as extras. Filming for the new short film took place in Clondalkin. ‘Magic Markers’ is a Playbook Media Ltd production, written by Jason Branigan and Produced Emer Durcan, who is working on the project. She said: “We received Screen Ireland funding for a short film, and shot in various locations around Clondalkin including Talbot SNS.”

Well done to all our pupils who featured in the filming project! We wish you well in your future acting careers – don’t forget us now :)! Article and pictures courtesy of the Clondalkin Echo: https://www.echo.ie/

On Tuesday 29th April four of our pupils made it to the finals of a nationwide primary schools science competition in TU Blachardstown. A huge congratulations to the four pupils from 5th class, and their teacher, Ms. Lonergan! This team proudly represented Talbot Senior National School at the Intel Mini Scientist National Finals event in Dublin attended by 80 primary schools from all over Ireland.

They had to present their science exhibit on gravity and roller coasters to the Intel judges and other exhibitors.

After months of hard work in Talbot and a winning project at the school level, they presented their investigation to the judging panel. The day was full of excitement! They got to see incredible projects from other schools all across Ireland on AI, infection control, evacuation procedure coding and exploring everything from renewable energy to the science of slime. Scientist Phil was on hand to showcase some cool science experiments to all present!

Our Talbot team confidently explained their project, answered tricky questions, and met with other young scientists. It was a fantastic opportunity to see science in action and learn so much. They discovered the importance of clear communication, teamwork, and how much fun experimenting can be. Well done to all on such a great achievement!

https://www.intel.ie/content/www/ie/en/education/mini-scientist.html

Ms Bradley’s 6th Class and Mr Coleman’s 4th class participated in the Gardaí Community Art Project with Clondalkin Garda Station and Garda Seán White – Clondalkin Community Engagement Unit. We were invited to the Station for a guided tour and the kids really enjoyed it.

Easter Raffle

Our annual Easter Raffle takes place this Friday 11th March. Tickets cost €2 per strip or €5 for 3 strips.

Take a look at the prizes below!

Recently a number of our Talbot parents and children have been busy learning more about science and other important areas, to help them and their own children gain knowledge and new skills in the home.

The programme is called Doodle STEAM and was produced by the Childhood Development Initiative – https://www.cdi.ie/programmes/doodle-steam/

“Fostering young children’s curiosity and hands-on learning is hugely important for their future STEAM engagement and parents play a central role as children’s first role models.”

Every Wednesday in the parents room for 8 weeks, a group meets to learn more about science, technology, engineering and other important topics.

We have made homemade play dough using flour and salt, and a homemade stethoscope to listen to our breathing/measure our heart rate!

Thanks to all the participants for being great students themselves! Looking forward to the rest of the course.

Joey Byrne, Talbot Home School Community Liaison Teacher.