Dear Parents / Guardians, ETHOS: Our core value next month is Trust. St Brigid’s Day is on Sunday. St Brigid awakens all the fields and the flowers, and calls the birds to sing. Yes – January is over ;o) TEACHING AND LEARNING: This week the children listened to ‘Little Blue and Little Yellow’ by Leo […]
Newsletter 22/1/2015 Welcome to this week’s newsletter. ETHOS – At assembly today 1st, 2nd and 3rd class played percussion instruments accompanying the school in singing the ‘Road to Nowhere’. Philosophy; we have really been enjoying thinking time this week. We will be keeping you informed of our thoughts in the coming weeks. We will be […]
Welcome to this week’s newsletter, ETHOS – Core Value this month is Empathy. We spoke about this at assembly yesterday. The children are learning Talking Head’s ‘Road To Nowhere’ at assembly. 1st, 2nd and 3rd are putting some instruments on this one. We have started philosophy discussions this week. We will be keeping you updated […]
Happy New Year all, and welcome to this week’s newsletter, ETHOS: Have a look in the Gallery at our Festival of Lights Assembly. Core Value this month is Empathy. We discussed the new-year 2015 at assembly today, and the children learned all about new-year resolutions. PORTOBELLO HITS THE BIG SCREEN: Well done to Aodán’s class, […]
ETHOS: Festival of Lights Assembly in the school next Thursday 18th December at 08.30am. All Welcome. Reminder that we are having our annual donations at this assembly. This year it is for De Paul and on behalf of them we would be grateful for the following: Dry Food goods (all types). Toiletries: toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, […]
Welcome to this weeks newsletter – ETHOS: To celebrate the end of our Human Rights Month, we are selling Amnesty Bracelets to the children tomorrow. Please donate around €1 / €2 euro for each bracelet. The funds go towards the Amnesty outreach programme. Big Thanks to Amnesty for supporting us in our Human Rights Month […]
ETHOS: Have a look at this link NOT NOW BERNARD – our students have been reading this story and exploring the child’s voice. We will be having an open assembly before we break up in December. We will be in touch about the details soon. ACTIVE-SCHOOLS. We are delighted to inform you that we were […]
Welcome to this weeks newsletter – ETHOS: November is Human Rights Month. Have a listen to our assembly song – WINTERWONDERLAND PARENT TEACHER MEETINGS: Our meetings are on next Tuesday and Wednesday. Please return the confirmation slip to your class teacher. TEACHING AND LEARNING: We had our Active Schools inspection on Wednesday with Jimmy O’ Neill […]
Welcome to this week’s newsletter, ETHOS: Our Human Rights month is going extremely well and the children are enjoying learning about wants and needs, the rights of the child, the right to a home, an education etc and they are learning about famous human rights activists. The children are singing ‘Winter Wonderland’ at assembly for the […]
Welcome to this week’s newsletter, ETHOS: November is Human Rights month. Our core value is Equality. We have now learned ‘Blowin In the Wind’ and practiced it for the final time at assembly this week. We read through a Human Rights book also assembly, which the children truly enjoyed, & there was jiving! We will be moving […]