Newsletter 4th October

Secondary School Enrolments
Parents of 6th Class pupils, if you haven’t already done so please check with your chosen secondary school about their admissions procedures. These have changed recently and most schools now have a limited period for accepting applications each year.

Parent/Teacher Meetings
We are planning to hold these in November. We await further advice from the Department of Education re. the format of the meetings.

Covid Update
To date we know of fifteen of our pupils who have tested positive since we returned at the end of August. Two of these were probably caught in school, the remainder were probably caught from family members or in other settings. Even allowing for the fact that close contacts in school are no longer being routinely traced, things seemed to have settled down in the past ten days or so. Please continue to be vigilant and remember that if your child has symptoms of the virus, they must stay at home. Thank you.

Gaeilge
Táimid ag déanamh iarracht níos mó Gaeilge a úsáid i rith an lae. We’re trying to use a little more Irish during the day. Listen to some of our efforts from last year, we aim to add more this year. Bainigí triail as!

Smart Devices
A reminder that phones, tablets etc. are not necessary for children during the day. In exceptional circumstances if they need to be brought, they must be turned off and handed to the class teacher in the morning.

Halloween Hike
As in previous years we will be dressing up for Halloween, this year on the morning of Friday October 22nd. Covid disrupted us last year, but this year we aim to restore our ‘hike’ from the school and will be issuing sponsorship cards soon. Details to follow.

Staff Inservice
Please remember that teachers are required to undertake inservice on the revised primary language curriculum and it will take place this week. School will finish for all pupils at 12:30 (12:15 for infants) on Wednesday, 6th October.