Clontibret N.S. Newsletter
March 2024
Upcoming Events:
- Thursday 7th March – Dress up as a Book Character for World Book Day. There will be a Character Catwalk and Collaborative Art.
- Monday 11th March – Junior Infant Vaccinations in school.
- 11th-15th March – Seachtain Na Gaeilge Activities. Pupils will work in groups and will get rewarded for speaking as Gaeilge – Duaiseanna Spotaí
- 15th March – Lá Glas Everyone to wear green on that day, we will play games in Irish. €2 donation each per child for Dublin Central Mission, Homeless Ministry. Any homeless people they meet are offered tea/coffee/hot soup and sandwiches. This is run by a Christian organisation and all money raised will help support their work.
- Monday 18th March – No school St. Patrick’s Day.
- Friday 22nd March – School will close at 12.00 for Easter. There will be no hot lunches on that day. We would like to thank Marissa and the Braeside for their delicious hot lunches since September 2019. We really appreciated the Friday hot lunches as they were such a treat at the end of the week.
- Monday 8th April – School Re-opens. 1st day of our hot lunches. Pupils will need to bring a knife and fork, a breaktime snack and a drink every day. Swimming begins on Monday 8th in Monaghan Leisure Centre. We will leave school at 12.20 for our lesson at 1.00. Junior and Senior Infant children may be collected at the pool after the lesson. All lessons must be paid for in advance this year. It will cost €56/child for the 8 weeks. The lessons/bus are also subsidised by school funds. P.E. clothes to be worn on Mondays. Lessons will run to Monday 10th June.
Friday Hot Lunches:
8/3 Pasta Bolognese
15/3 Sausage in a Bap & chips
Ulster Scots Dancing By Adam, Bonnie & Emily
We went to Corcaghan Community Centre on Thursday 22nd March and Wednesday 28th March with Drumacruttin N.S., to practise Ulster Scots Country Dancing.
It was fun and we enjoyed it. ‘Dosie Do’ was one of the dances we learned. There was lots of skipping and jumping around with our partners. The dances were sometimes with large groups and sometimes small. We went around in circles and made arches which others went under and joined a new group but always ended up with our original group. Last Wednesday we went back to Drumacruttin N.S. and had our lunch and playtime with them. Some of our school played football with them. Then we went back to school.
On Friday night 1st March Drumacruttin N.S. had a Ceilidh with the Scottish Country dancing in Corcaghan Community Centre. It was a great night with lots of the dances we had practised with them. In one dance we had a partner and we had to swing around. In another one we were in a square of 4 people. We also did the ‘Dosey Do’ which we had learned. We went home at 10.30 after a great night.