We had a fantastic morning celebrating all things Irish at our St Patrick’s Day Coffee Morning kindly organised by All Souls’ PTA. Saint Patrick is the class Saint for our Year 5 children and they took part in hosting the morning by performing songs and acting out the story of the life of St Patrick.
We were incredibly grateful to be joined by local musicians Jarlath Mulhern and Fiona Hoey from the Comhaltas and The Wild Mountain boys, who treated us to a live performance of Irish music throughout the morning. It was wonderful to welcome Jarlath back to All Souls as he spent his school days here. Once an All Souls boy, always an All Souls boy!
Following the musicians came a spectacular performance from the Mary McHugh School of Irish Dance. Mary teaches weekly dancing lessons at the school and pupils from Year 2 up to Year 6 put on a fantastic display for their lively audience.
The morning ended with closing prayers of the faithful, read by the Year 5 children, as we prayed for St Patrick to guide us and reflected on all those in need or suffering during this time of Lent.
A special thank you to the Coventry Irish Society for attending and supporting the event throughout and for offering their support to the Irish community across the city. Also, to our very own Mrs Edge who designed the leaflets and co-ordinated with the Irish Society and many of the artists to enable them to join us on the day.
Thank you to all parents, grand-parents and carers who baked cakes to help raise money for the school on the day and for everyone who donated to the raffle. To the Year 5 children for their St Patrick’s day performance and for helping with cake and raffle sales and representing the school so well, Mr Youson for supporting with the lights and sound and Miss McGaffney, Miss Brady, Mrs Smith, Mrs Cannon for keeping the Irish coffees flowing on the day!
A very special thank you to Mary O’Malley and Rob Hunter for their hard work in organizing the entire event and leading on the morning, it takes a lot of time and care to co-ordinate such an event and your commitment is hugely appreciated. Thank you to all of the members of the PTA who helped in planning the day and for helping out selling raffle tickets, decorating the hall, manning the cake and coffee stalls – all of these things made the event the success that it was.
Above all – thank you to everyone who attended. The PTA were very pleased with how the morning went and the monies raised for the school. We hope you all enjoyed it too! Here are some more photos of everyone who managed to join us on this special day:
We wish you all a Happy St Patrick’s Day!
