October 2021
Important Upcoming Events
We hope to take the Junior Room pupils to Armagh Planetarium as they are learning about Space during Aistear this month. The trip is planned for Friday 22nd October. A bus has been booked. Children will be home by 2.50pm. School uniform should be worn and pupils need to bring a packed lunch.
We plan to take the Senior Room pupils to visit the Marble Arch Caves on Thursday 21st October as we have been learning about limestone landscapes, caves and rocks. A bus will bring the pupils to and from the caves within the school day. School uniform should be worn and pupils need to bring a packed lunch.
The cost of the trips are being covered by school funding.
Our hot lunch will therefore be served on Wednesday 20th October next week so everyone may avail of it. It will be pizza and chips next week.
Hot Lunch Menu – Please remember to bring your lunch money to school on the Tuesday.
15/10 Sausage in a bap
20/10 Pizza and chips
5/11 Goujon roll
12/11 Chicken curry
19/11 Sausage in a bap
26/11 Mince and potatoes/pasta
3/12 Goujon roll
10/12 Chicken curry
17/12 Pizza and chips
Clothes Collection
We hope to have a Clothes Collection for second hand clothes, shoes and household textiles (not duvets or pillows) on Wednesday 3rd November. Please ask friends and family members to help out so we can have as large a collection as possible. It’s a good time of year to have a clear out. Please bring the clothes into school on the Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning.
Parent/Teacher Meetings
We hope to have Parent Teacher Meetings on Thursday 18th November. More details will be available after the half term holiday. If this does not suit please let us know.
Photographs
Photograph orders/money is now due as orders will be collected by the photographer next Wednesday 20th October.
Book Rental and Insurance Thank you very much if you have already paid your book rental and school insurance. €60 per child for the book rental and €5.30 for school insurance, which covers your child during school hours. This may be paid over the next month.
Dates for Your Diary
Halloween Half Term School is closed Monday 25th October-Friday 29th October.
School will re-open on Monday 1st November.
September/October News
Trip to Castleblayney Adventure Centre
On Friday 24th September we went to Muckno Adventure Centre. Everyone met at the Castle car park. We walked down to the adventure centre. We were split into three groups. We all got to do seven activities. At lunch Marissa brought everyone hotdogs and after lunch the junior room went out on canoes and the senior room got changed into wet suits to do water sports. We did last man standing on the paddle boards, while one of the leaders made waves with a speedboat. At the end we all got to go on the speedboat. I had a great time, the water sports was my favourite part. I would love to go there again.
By Lucy
On the 24th September we went on our school tour to Muckno Adventure Centre. We did loads of fun activities. Some of them were frisbee throwing, building a bridge, roasting marshmallows on flint and steel, building a tower with ropes, making a pizza blindfolded, a maze with golf balls and the best part was the paddle boards. We had our lunch in the middle of the day. Marissa Lowey brought hot dogs for everyone. They were really nice hotdogs. After lunch we got changes into our wet suits to go into the water. The little ones went on canoes to an island. We had a great day.
By Timothy
• We are enjoying the return of the Friday Hot Lunches. We really appreciate Marissa’s hard work and varied menu and the goujon rolls from the Braeside.
• Brian Parker from the Faith Mission visits the school twice each month. He talks to the pupils in the Junior Room one week and the Senior Room the following week.
• Euan Treanor has been giving excellent soccer coaching to all the pupils on Wednesday afternoons.
• 12 ipads have been purchased and we are starting to use them in each classroom to facilitate learning in Maths and English. They will also be very useful for Geography, History and Science project work and research.
• The pupils are making excellent progress in their oral language skills. Each child has been giving very articulate and confident oral presentations on Thursdays. This is a very important yet daunting life skill and we are very pleased with their preparations and confident delivery.
• We are delighted with the very large collection of used school bags that parents donated to Mary’s Meals. They will be filled with lots of educational goodies and sent to Africa in the coming months.
• We are currently teaching the Stay Safe Programme during SPHE lessons – this will continue in November.