Clontibret N.S. Newsletter
October 2025
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Dates for Your Diary
- Christmas Cards Children have designed their cards and they will be sent away today.
- Mid Term School closed Monday 27th-Friday 31st October
- Photos Money due by Tues. 4th November
- Shoebox Appeal Boxes due by Tues. 4th November
- Christmas Play 17th December
- Clothes Collection We are using a new collection company, Bag2School this year and the collection will be Fri. 19th See the poster below, to see what they are collecting. Please let friends know about this. It will be collected early on Friday morning so we will take clothes Mon.-Thurs. of that week. Bag2School will donate an additional 10% to LauraLynn Children’s Hospice.
- Christmas Break School will close on Fri. 19th at 12.00 and reopen on Monday 5th January 2026.
- After school Will continue after midterm for Junior and Senior Infants
The Planetarium
On Tuesday 7th October the Junior Room went to the Planetarium in Armagh. We went by bus. When we arrived we went into the dome and watched a movie about aliens trying to find somewhere to holiday. After the movie we learned about the planets. Pluto is one of the dwarf planets. We then went downstairs and made rockets, we took them outside and blasted them off. Alannah’s travelled the highest and longest. We went inside and cleaned up. We then had lunch. The lady told us all about life as an astronaut in the International Space Station. We had free time to run around the space science room. We could dress up as astronauts. The bus collected us and brought us back to school.
By Tara, Alannah and Faith.
Spanish
Every week Rebecca comes in and teaches us Spanish. So far, we have learned numbers, colours, food, days and months. We’ve learned our birthdays. Every day she comes in she picks a Spanish Star of the Day. Every so often she puts a picture on the board, talks about it and see if we understand it. Near the end of every lesson we play a game – she calls out Spanish actions and we have to do what she calls out. And the last one standing is the winner. We enjoy the Spanish and we will hopefully carry on when we go to secondary school. It’s an easier subject than French and it’s a fun subject as we enjoy ‘rolling our Rs’. It’s a nice change from Irish.
By Bonnie and Lucy