Dear Parents,
Happy New Year!
Just a reminder the Parents assembly is on Friday 11th of January.
The assembly usually starts at 8.40am for junior infants to second class
and at 10.30 am for 3rd to 6th class.
We look forward to seeing you all there.
Regards,
Tomás.
This week, our 5th Classes welcomed Loraine from Oceaneers Education to the school. Loraine conducted a lively, informative and fun workshop on Marine Litter.
The children got to explore the sources of marine litter using graphs and simple addition and also learn about micro-plastics and how they are harming marine animals.
Thank you to Loraine and to Fingal County Council for providing funding for the workshop. Title: Diving for Data
INNER CITY HELPING HOMELESS
CHRISTMAS SHOEBOX APPEAL
Collection at Educate Together @ 8.30am, 1.10pm & 2.10pm Dec 7TH
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Our recently elected Student Council met recently to discuss a number of important school related topics. As always, one item of discussion was deciding on a charity to support this year. It was decided that this month we will once again hold a shoebox appeal in support of Inner City Helping Homeless charity. Last years appeal was a massive success for a vital cause.
If you wish to support this charity, please see the details below.
Thank you
Wrap a Shoebox allowing it to open, Label it Male or Female and add any of the items below:
** if you are making up a box for a child please Label it with Age & Boy or Girl
Dear Parents,Last week saw the opening fixtures in our school soccer tournament. We have forty-five children from our Senior Classes making up 9 teams (our staff have a team to make up the numbers!) and it was wonderful to see so many happy and enthusiastic footballers taking part during lunch break.
It was a hugely successful opening week… There were a number of hard-fought matches, some draws, some interesting celebrations, plenty of goals and one broken goalpost!
The Portuguese team are currently sitting at the top of the league, followed by France and our (not competitive at all) Staff team!
For anyone interested, the fixtures and league table are on the noticeboard in the lobby.
Aisling
Dear Parents,
Here are the dates for the Parent Assemblies for the year.
2018
Friday 5th October
Friday 9th November
Friday 7 December
2019
Friday 11 January
Friday 8th February
Friday 15 March
Friday 3rd May
Friday 7th June
Hi everyone,
We travelled another 395 km today in the great weather, which brings us to the city of Silopi (still in Turkey, although we are at the very south eastern corner of the country and will cross over into Iraq tomorrow). Silopi is the main crossing point between Turkey and Iraq and we hope to get through the long queues at the border tomorrow. The route we will take will miss out on Syria altogether as there are difficulties with getting access to roads in Syria on the Mapquest site we are using (which are nothing compared to the terrible difficulties for very many people living in Syria at the moment).
You can follow our exact route by clicking on the link below:
Thanks to everyone for their support at home and the effort being put in by the staff and children is really great to see.
All the best,
Conor
Hi everyone,
We added another 331km to our total today, bringing us over the 5,000km mark (5,028km in total). Well done to everyone and we’re well on our way to our overall total of more than 13,000km.
We find ourselves in Adana, still in Turkey, which has a population of more than 1.7 million people (making it the 5th most populated city in Turkey).
You can follow our progress by clicking on the link below:
We’ll update you on our progress again tomorrow.
All the best,
Conor
Hi everyone,
We continued our journey across Turkey today, travelling another 371km and reaching the town of Mucur. This town has a population of just over 14,000 and is known as a centre for the production and sale of decorative rugs (both religious and non-religious). We will try to bring a few back with us. It is perhaps worth noting (and, depending on your perspective, also perhaps not) that we have been travelling for more than 800km in Turkey alone and we are still less than halfway across the country.
The children are certainly covering their daily distance with greater ease and strength than before and it is great to see their enthusiasm out there each day. Some classes are timing their laps and have set ambitious targets for the pace at which they will try to cover their kilometres and we might publish some of these in the coming days.
You can follow our exact progress by clicking on the link below:
https://goo.gl/maps/rG3T89W4ZZ32
Huge thanks to all families who have returned their sponsorship cards, it is very much appreciated. We will keep you updated with our progress again tomorrow.
All the best,
Conor