The best start in life

Welcome to Scoil Mhuire Junior School. We are a girls only, private, primary, Catholic school. Our rich, broad and balanced curriculum gives each girl the opportunity to reach her full potential.

It is my pleasure as Principal to welcome you to the Scoil Mhuire Junior School website. We are very proud of our school and pupils. Our rich, broad and balanced curriculum gives each girl the opportunity to reach her full potential. We hope that these pages will give you a small insight into our various activities and how we educate the girls academically and socially, offering them all-round personal development.

Ka Lingwood, Principal

If you would like to apply for a place in the school, please fill out the application form and return to the school by email or by post.

Latest News

Engineering Week March 4th - 8th 2024

SMJS has applied to the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) whole school "GOLD" award. SMJS documented lots of photos of experiments,investigations and inquiries that all classes carried out during this week. We are awaiting our award!!

Third Class Assembly

The 3rd class pupils presented their assembly on "Irish Women and Girls in STEM". The pupils began by researching their own individual scientist and each gave a wonderful speech on their chosen scientific topic. Then the pupils demonstrated experiments through the different letters of the S.T.E.M acronym. The experiments ranged from creating Carbon Dioxide, Oobleck (Non-Newtonian fluid), building Solar Ovens & fruit powered Clocks, making Kaleidoscopes, exploring Health Hygiene and showcasing the modern engineering technique of 3D printing. The pupils finished their presentation with the wonderful rendition of the song "Top of the World " by the Carpenters.

Maryville Interschool Showjumping Competition

We were delighted to have Abbie O’Neill representing SMJS at this recent competition. Well done Abbie for doing us proud!

Grandparents’ Day

The girls had great fun chatting and asking loads of questions to grandparents and older friends on Grandparents’ Day. Of course our guests enjoyed a nice cuppa thanks to the Parents’ Council.

Ski Trip 2024

Photos of the very succesful recent ski trip to Austria

World Book Day 2024

The girls in SMJS enjoyed celebrating their favourite book or character by wearing one identifying item to school. The girls in Junior and Senior Infants have been taking part in shared reading with their ‘older sisters’ in the Secondary school. We are very grateful to the chair of the Parents’ Council for the beautiful gift of ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ by Charlie Mackesy for each classroom.

The girls from Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First class enjoyed a day at The Glucksman Gallery, UCC. The girls worked on a project called The Big Dig a print making workshop using their imaginations on the types of artefacts and objects that could be found on an archaelogical dig!!!

First Class had their assembly today.

They told their parents and the other classes all about The Water Cycle!

UCC Teddy Bear Hospital

The Junior and Senior Infants had a great time at the teddy bear hospital organised by UCC’s Medical Society. The girls had the opportunity to have their teddy bears x-ray’d, bandaged and much more! They had a great time!

Fun at the Glucksman Gallery

The girls from 2nd and 3rd class attended a collaborative drawing workshop to tell imaginative stories from the past.

Happy 2024 to Everyone!

The girls in SMJS have settled back into school nicely and are working hard on Maths problems, Junk Kouture fashion, Science and much more!