St. Patrick’s Classical school participated in the National Flag Day today. The Thomas F. Meagher Foundation was established in 2013 to promote pride and respect for the Irish flag.
We celebrated the day with:
·         Lessons in History classes on the Irish Flag
·         A tutor time quiz
·         A student led school address on the history of the Flag
·         A flag raising ceremony 
Thank you all the students involved especially Mr Ronan O Reilly and 1C who helped organise many of the activities.
A special thank you to:
Daniel Bellew and Nathan Mongey who addressed the whole school.
Ronan Lawlor who took on the job of raising the flag, Eoghan Darcy who played ‘Amhrán na bhFiann’ beautifully on the Uilleann pipes
To TY students David Donnelly ,James Connell, Cian Reilly, Eoin Reilly, Michael Loughran who sold commemorative tricolour pins and raised €300 for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital , Crumlin.
Thank you to all who supported.
 
Kind regards,
Sinead Bannon 

Wednesday the 16th of March marked National Flag Day. Here in St Patrick’s Classical School we celebrated the day with a number of events. There was a display on show in the display cabinet with facts about our flag. First year student Shane Tormey told us about the history of our flag with an announcement over the intercom.
On a glorious sunny morning we had a flag raising ceremony where fifth year student Luke Griffin told us of the importance of the flag and of some of the momentous events where our flag was raised. As first year student Nathan Reilly raised the flag our trad group of Alex Sheridan, Cathel Reilly, Sean Reilly and Oscar Seery played the national anthem. The boys also played further music to mark the celebrations.