Golden Rules Champion
This week saw the start of Golden Rules Champion. This is an initiative to encourage peer recognition of positive behaviour. Children from all classes can nominate a peer for Golden Rules Champion. Each teacher has nomination forms. When a child sees another child (a peer) keeping a Golden Rule she or he can nominate that […]
Graduation Robes are Here
Our graduation robes arrived today and they look fantastic! We’re looking forward to our first big graduation ceremony this year where the whole school community will come together to celebrate the success of our 6th class pupils as they make the move to secondary school.
Read Together
This year our Read Together programme is running in Adrian’s and Aisling’s classes. Read Together is a 3-week programme where parents come into the school to read with children in their classrooms. It’s only 20 minutes each day and it’s a great opportunity for children and parents to spend time in the classroom, talking about […]
Students of the Week
Loads of Books!
Thanks to our great parents and staff who bag-packed in Dunnes Stores, the school has been able to buy new equipment for the children. We’re delighted that the first of our new resources arrived today! The school now has bought almost 150 individual reading books to support the new literacy and numeracy initiative. Here we […]
A Titanic Assembly
Erin led our first assembly on term 3 with a great chat about the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking. The children heard all about how the “unsinkable” ship hit an iceberg. Erin brought in a fantastic poster about the Titanic which will be hanging outside her room for everyone to see. Emer B also […]
Students of the Week
Bag packing in Dunnes
Thanks to all the staff, parents and families who have been out bag packing for the school. It’s been busy so far so it looks like we’re on target to be able to buy our new readers, art equipment and gowns!
Happy Easter
Happy Easter from 5th and 6th class. We have had a lovely week enjoying the good weather. Today we had a nice surprise from the Parents’ Council. We were given two Easter eggs to raffle off in the class. The prize for the best surprised face definitely goes to Nathaniel. We are all looking forward […]
Principal’s Letter (March 2012)
Dear parents, What a fabulous week of weather we’ve been having! I hope you’ve been enjoying the sun and hopefully it will continue into the spring break. As we end our second full term of school, this has certainly been the most exciting of months in our school’s life. This month we had the official […]