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Linking home and school. “This school should be used as a model for other schools around the country” - The Minister for Education and Science “I get the sense that this is a school that really ‘gets’ boys.” - Catherine Shanahan, Irish Examiner Deire Fómhair 2017 / October 2017 www.snbclonakilty.com Volume 23, Issue 02 Email: [email protected] | Mobile site: m.snbclonakilty.com | Telephone/fax: 8834487 | Twitter: @snbclonakilty Parent’s Meetings: for all classes except 5th &6th class are on Tuesday 10th Oct. @ 7.30 p.m. See page 5 Sixth Class Meeting: Thursday 12th @ 7.30 p.m. The AGM of the Parent’s Association will be held on 17th of October at 8.00 p.m. Mid-Term Break: Mon- day 30th of October to Fri- day 3rd of November inclu- sive. School Closed: Wednesday 6th of December (New! for Staff Inservice) School Closed: Friday 8th of December. Christmas Holidays: Boys will get their holidays on the 22nd of December at 12.00 p.m. Back to school on 8th of January. February Mid-Term Break: 15th and 16th. School Closed: Monday 19th of March Easter Holidays: Boys will get their holidays on Friday 23rd of March at 12.00 p.m.. Back to school on 9th of April. School Closed: May 7th, May 8th, First Confession: 26th of April @ 7.30 p.m. First Holy Communion: Saturday 26th of May, 2018 @ 11.00 a.m. School Closed: June 4th, June 5th. Summer Musical: Tues- day 19th, Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st of June. Summer Holidays: Friday 29th June @ 12.00 p.m. Reminder: Please remember to sign the Links each month. From now on it’s the oldest boy in the family who will receive the Links. Congratulations to the Parent’s Association on the great success of the Family Funday this year. It raised €3385 net profit on the day approximately. A lot of work went into the day which was organ- ised by the Parent’s Association. A lot of parents also helped out setting up the day before and manning events on the day. Well done to everyone concerned. Many thanks also to the bands who entertained the crowds on the day: Clonakilty Ceoltas Group, Bandjaxed and Sudden Moves and SnB Sound Crew. Thanks to Finbarr and Majella O’Mahony for the use of their Bouncy Castles for the day, to Kieran White of Java Coffee, Mi- chael McCarthy of Carbery Plastics. Thank you also to Pat- rick Murphy (former (Continued on page 9) This year we had three days of the Guitar Fes- tival. John Spillane came on Wednesday and enthralled the au- dience of boys from 2nd - 6th. The boys had learned one of John’s songs - Life in an Irishtown” and sang along with him. On Thursday, musicians from Rang 5 agus Rang 6 were treated to a workshop on the Alexander Technique, given by Katie Sleaman. This was very interesting and a very (Continued on page 2) We have just created a mon- tage of your son’s first day at school. It is A4 size. If you wish to have one, please con- tact the school at 8834487, or email to [email protected] on or before Friday 14th of Oc- tober. There is no charge for the photo. Photographs can be collected from the office from the 21st of October.
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Linking home and school.

“This school should be used as a model for other schools around the country” - The Minister for Education and Science

“I get the sense that this is a school that really ‘gets’ boys.” - Catherine Shanahan, Irish Examiner

Deire Fómhair 2017 / October 2017 www.snbclonakilty.com Volume 23, Issue 02

Email: [email protected] | Mobile site: m.snbclonakilty.com | Telephone/fax: 8834487 | Twitter: @snbclonakilty

Parent’s Meetings: for all

classes except 5th &6th class are on Tuesday 10th Oct. @ 7.30 p.m. See page 5

Sixth Class Meeting: Thursday 12th @ 7.30 p.m. The AGM of the Parent’s

Association will be held on 17th of October at 8.00 p.m. Mid-Term Break: Mon-

day 30th of October to Fri-day 3rd of November inclu-sive. School Closed: Wednesday

6th of December (New! for Staff Inservice) School Closed: Friday 8th

of December. Christmas Holidays: Boys

will get their holidays on the 22nd of December at 12.00 p.m. Back to school on 8th of January. February Mid-Term

Break: 15th and 16th. School Closed: Monday

19th of March Easter Holidays: Boys

will get their holidays on Friday 23rd of March at 12.00 p.m.. Back to school on 9th of April. School Closed: May 7th,

May 8th, First Confession: 26th of

April @ 7.30 p.m. First Holy Communion:

Saturday 26th of May, 2018 @ 11.00 a.m. School Closed: June 4th,

June 5th. Summer Musical: Tues-

day 19th, Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st of June. Summer Holidays:

Friday 29th June @ 12.00 p.m.

Reminder: Please remember to sign the Links each month. From now on it’s the oldest boy in the family who will receive the Links.

Congratulations to the Parent’s Association

on the great success of the Family Funday this

year. It raised €3385 net profit on the day

approximately. A lot of work went into the

day which was organ-ised by the Parent’s Association. A lot of parents also helped out setting up the day before and manning events on the day.

Well done to everyone concerned. Many thanks also to the bands who entertained the crowds on the day: Clonakilty

Ceoltas Group, Bandjaxed and Sudden Moves and SnB Sound Crew. Thanks to Finbarr and Majella O’Mahony for

the use of their Bouncy Castles for the day, to Kieran White

of Java Coffee, Mi-chael McCarthy of

Carbery Plastics. Thank you also to Pat-

rick Murphy (former

(Continued on page 9)

This year we had three days of the Guitar Fes-tival. John Spillane came on Wednesday and enthralled the au-dience of boys from 2nd - 6th. The boys had learned one of John’s songs - Life in

an Irishtown” and sang along with him. On Thursday, musicians from Rang 5 agus Rang 6 were treated to a workshop on the Alexander Technique, given by Katie Sleaman. This was very interesting and a very

(Continued on page 2)

We have just created a mon-tage of your son’s first day at school. It is A4 size. If you wish to have one, please con-tact the school at 8834487, or email to [email protected] on or before Friday 14th of Oc-tober. There is no charge for the photo. Photographs can be collected from the office from the 21st of October.

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worthwhile experience. On Friday, The Mae Trio, all the way from Australia entertained a huge audience from Rang 3 - Rang 6. Gearóid, on cajon and Donnacha on bongos, joined in on one song. Well done to the lighting crew of Cian O’Regan, Daniel Kingston and Darragh Cullinane, who did a great job on all the days. Well done also to the Sound Crew of Tom Peet, Daniel McCarthy, Peter McCarthy, Cal O’Mahony, Shay Murphy, Colin Nyhan, Patrick Murnane, Conor Daly and Kacper Godzic. They were ably assisted by Séamus Poillot on the sound desk. A big thank you to the F.O.H. crew: John Deegan, Marty O’Mahoney and Eoin Collins

who organised seating and the stage for each event. Many thanks finally to Ray Blackwell and Kevin McAnally for organising the events for us in Scoil na mBuachaillí again this year.

(Continued from page 1)

Please do not park on the double yellow lines outside the school as it will cause an accident. Also please do not allow your child to sit or stand on the school wall or the railing outside the school. Please respect the wardens at 3.00p.m. - they are helping to keep our children safe. Every year a number of parents remain in their car and and call their child across the main road from the driver’s seat! This is extremely dangerous and in the past a child was nearly knocked down when another driver attempted to

pass out the parked car. DO NOT TAKE CHANCES WITH YOUR CHILDREN’S SAFETY. There is no excuse for it. Come a few minutes earlier and drop your child off in the Clonakilty Playground carpark. It is perfectly safe. The Traffic Warden has informed us that he will “ticket” anybody who parks on the yellow lines and we fully support this. Also please do not drop your child out at the top of the school driveway.

This is extremely dangerous and will lead to an accident. Children are not permitted to walk through the staff carpark - either accompanied or not. Also parents are not permitted to drive into the staff carpark during school hours. It is already overcrowd-ed and there is no space for parents’ cars. After school e.g. after training it is fine as there is lots of space. Junior School Wardens: please be aware of the senior pupils who do Warden Duty each day and encourage your child to cross with them each day.

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Please return all HSE forms to the school asap. Junior Infants got Yellow forms and Senior Infants got Pink Forms.

New Parents please remem-ber to sign all school notes – they will be in your child’s bag. Once you have it signed please return it to the school the following day – it is the only way we know that you have seen the note. Recently we have sent home the following and though most of them are back, some still have not arrived: Yellow form (money

collection form - you

will receive a copy of this later on in the month).

Allianz Insurance (blue form) | Last day for this was 30/09/17

RSE Note (appropriate for your child’s class)

Basketball Notes (Now Full up)

Drum Notes (Full up) Altar Server Notes

(Full up) Warden Notes Rang 6 Swimming Notes (to

boys in Rang 2) Eye Forms or HSE

forms to children in Junior Infants and Senior Infants

Dental Notes to Rang

1, 3, 6 (will be given out soon)

Chess Note (Full up) You will know that

you have to sign the note if it asks for a

parent’s signature. The Links DOES have

to be signed, this year. Please read it and re-turn the signing slip to the school the follow-ing day.

This year’s calendar is on our school website. We also sent a paper one home with the September Links.

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For the scheme to continue to be a suc-cess it is very important to take very good care of the books you rent. These books will be needed again next year. Parents should check up on these books regularly. Any book that is lost or damaged will have to be replaced by the child. We have just spent over €6,000 on Rental Scheme books in September! So please, please take care of your books. The Rental Fee this year did not cover the cost of the books, as we had to buy so many new book schemes this year. Please look after the Literacy Lift Off books also and return on time. PLEASE NOTE: CHILDREN JOIN THE RENTAL SCHEME IN RANG 1 AND ARE JOINED UNTIL RANG 6. YOU DON’T HAVE TO APPLY EACH YEAR.

The HSE is no longer carrying out Vi-sion Screening or Colour Vision Screening in 6th class (nationwide). However if you have a concern regard-ing your child IN ANY CLASS, please ring the school on 023-8834487 and we contact the school nurse to follow it up.

All cans gratefully re-ceived. Please contact Ms. Regina Fitzmaurice if you have any query re. this matter. Many thanks to Ms. Fitzmaurice.. She and her class will also look after the school garden and glasshouse. The money that is collected by this scheme is used in the school garden. Thanks to Carlos, Cillian and Emmet for organising the cans this year.

Please note: if you have not paid your fees yet for Insurance, Rental Scheme, etc please do so as soon as possible. Folk Dancing started recently - if you have not paid for it yet (from Junior Infants - Rang 3), please do so on Monday. Important: If you are experiencing any difficulty in paying the fees contact Barth Har-rington (Príomhoide) at the school immediately for assistance.

On Friday the 27th of October our Annual Fancy Dress Parade will take place in the school. Boys may come to school dressed up or if they wish may get ready in the school. How-ever the infants should come to school dressed in their costume. There is always an emphasis put on boys who make their own costume rather than buying one. Boys who go swimming must be con-scious of the fact that they will not be allowed in to the pool with hair dye or face paint on them. If you would like to see what last year’s parade was like - just visit photos.snbclonakility.com and visit 2016/2017 - October ‘16

Basketball 17/18: Basketball training will start on Tues-days and Thursdays once the Sciath na Scol competition is finished. This will probably be in early November. Thanks to Ms. Carol Anne O’Dono-van for assisting again with Basketball this year.

Quizzard ‘17/18: will start in November. Classes from Rang 3 - Rang 6 will be par-ticipating. Gearóid Coleman and Donncha Walsh will be in charge of the quiz this year.

Chess: has started. Boys in Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6 may participate. It will run on Tuesdays and Wednesday after school. Notes will be given out next week. Chess will end by the Easter Holi-

days - due to the summer Mu-sical. Thanks to Ms. Niamh Mac Auley for her help with the Learners. Thanks to Mr. Gavin O’Riordan for his con-tinued assistance with the Players Chess Club.

Soccer Competitions

Senior Infants Soccer Held on Monday, Tuesdays, or Wednesdays. No Soccer on Thursday or Friday.

Rang 1 Held on Tuesdays or Wednes-days. Extra day’s soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1 and Rang 2.

Rang 2 Held on Mondays AND Thursdays. Extra day’s soc-cer on Fridays - between

Rang 1 and Rang 2. Rang 3 Held on Mondays

Rang 4 Held on Tuesdays

Rang 5 Held on Wednesdays

Rang 6 Held on Thursdays

Multi-Media Authoring / Video Editing / Computer Lessons / Coderdojo - for Rang 2, Rang 3, Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6 will start in October with our new lap-tops in our new computer room. Thanks to Mrs. Marga-ret Deegan for teaching Coder Dojo to Rang 2 each week. Swimming: for Rang 2 - started on 8th of September

until the 13th of Oc-tober.

Wardens – Boys in fifth/sixth class are trainig with Mr. O’Driscoll for Junior Warden Duty. Many thanks to Mr. O’Driscoll. Thanks also to Chris Hinchy for his help.

GAA - Timmy Anglin Rugby - Martin White

Sciath na Scol Training - is underway at present for Rang 5 agus Rang 6. Thanks to Mr. Gavin O’Riordan and Mr. Seán Daly for coaching the boys this year.

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only €16.00 p.p.

only €9.00 p.p.

As part of the Croke Park Agreement schools are request-ed to publicise use of hours in the school year 2016/2017. Usage was as follows: (All figures below are approxi-mate) School Planning 42%,

Policy Development 33%,

Staff Meetings 25%,

The staff stay after school - usually on Mondays as part of the Croke Park agreement. Of course many staff members stay back after school on every other day of the week also plan-ning and doing extra curricular activities but these hours are not shown above.

Parents: now that children are back in school, please be vigi-lant and check your child’s hair regularly for headlice. If you find any please notify the school and we will send a note to all parents in that class.

Our school website www.snbclonakilty.com has just passed the 186,036 hit mark. Many thanks to all who regular-ly visit our site. Our photos site www.photos.snbclonakilty.com has 20,311 hits. If you have any ideas about what else you would like to see on our site please email [email protected] at any time and if we can we will try to

accommodate your suggestions.

Parent’s Meetings: for all classes except 5th and 6th class - are on Tuesday 10th October @ 7.30 p.m.

On this night (10th of Octo-ber) there is a special meeting for par-

ents for Junior Infant chil-dren / parents of new chil-

dren to other classes. Parents of older children could if they wish go to their own meeting first and then attend this meet-ing. a special meeting for parents of boys in Rang 1 to explain the job-sharing arrangement and split classes.

meetings for Senior Infants,

Rang 2, Rang 3, Rang 4 It is very important that

parents attend these meet-ings. Class routines are explained and you may of course ask questions at the end. We are grateful to the

teachers for coming in at night to present these meet-ings and we thank them for this. … so please do attend.

Sixth Class Meeting:

Thursday 12th @ 7.30 p.m. This will be the final meet-ing for the sixth parents in our school. The meeting will outline the programme for the year and explain how parents can help their child as they prepare for Second-ary School. The Assess-

ment Test and enrolment procedure for Secondary School will be explained.

The AGM is on the Tues-

day 17th of October at 8.00 p.m.

REFRESHMENTS will be provided on each night by the Parents’ Association. Many thanks.

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If you would like to book an ad for the com-ing school year 2017 - 2018 please let Thel-ma know as soon as possi-ble. The num-ber of ads is limited. Our Links goes to all parents in the school - 10 times a year - at the beginning of each month. The cost is €20 per issue or at a dis-count of €150 for the entire year! Please ring 8834487 if you are interested.

“Cent” boxes will continue this year. Rang 5 - Ms. Karen O’Regan’s) will be in charge of organising the collection each week. Last year €1,193 was raised last year for Rapid Response. Ryan O’Leary and Callum Hurley will try and beat last year’s record as they are now in charge for the com-ing year. Ideas for the coming are: A Monster Cake Sale, Penalty Shoot Outs etc.

Work is just getting underway on this year’s Christmas Mag-azine. As was the case last year, lo-cal businesses can place ad-vertisements in the magazine. Advertisements are priced as follows:

Half-page: €20

Whole page: €40 The magazine is in the same format as last year – that is A5 size. Money raised by advertisements last year was spent on our computer network - used by all in the school. This has become an invaluable source of revenue to the school - it was also used to repair and purchase computers for the school. Please place your advertisement by con-tacting Thelma at the school at 023-8834487/or send in a note with your child, as soon as you can and a space will be booked for you.

My brothers and I did a Kidathlon in Dungarvan. At the start I did a swim that was three hundred meters long, eight km cycle and one and a half km

run. My brother did one hundred meter swim, four km cycle and one km run. My other brother did a

two km cycle and five hundred meter run. We had a really fun and hard day.

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Literacy Lift Off has started for all classes Junior Infants - Rang 6. The younger classes have been allocated more time than the older ones. Many thanks to all the parents who have volunteered to help throughout the year. However we do need your support for it to be a success for your son. Please take an interest in the books your child brings home and also ensure they are returned.

Learning Support classes in literacy and numeracy have also started. The teachers involved help boys who may be experiencing difficulty in literacy and

numeracy. These children have been identified by the recent standardised tests - Drumcondra.

Our Reading Recovery teacher is able to take 3 children (each for approx. 20 weeks - 5 days a week). These children are usually from Rang 1 and Senior In-fants.

EAL: Our EAL teacher - supports children who have little or no English in all classes - depending on the needs of the children.

Resource: Our resource teachers sup-port children with specific needs and we

are implementing the new model at pre-sent. It is proving to be very challenging as we have more children to cater for and yet our hours are the same!

Maths Recovery: we are able to take just a few boys in Rang 2 for Math Re-covery.

Dyslexia Groups: we have set up 2 groups this year and these are on daily. F.M.S. / G.M.S.: again this year we have set up Fine Motor Skills and Gross Motor Skills groups.

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Listed below are the times that children will be doing P.E. or Soccer. On these days children can wear their school track-suit only. Boys in split classes will play soccer with their own class - i.e. Rang 1 will play with Rang 1.

Weekly PE Timetable

Timetable

Class Soccer P.E.

Junior Infants Ms. Horgan

N/A Monday and Friday

Senior Infants Ms. Michelle O’Neill

Senior Infants A Mon | B Tues |

C Wed

Tuesday and Thursday

Rang 1 A Ms. O’Shea / Mrs. Houstoun

Tuesday & Friday

AB Tuesday C Wednesday

Rang 1 B Miss Crowley

Monday & Thursday

AB Tuesday C Wednesday

Rang 2 Mr. O’Riordan

A B Rang 2 Monday and Thursday

Thursday

Rang 3 Ms. O’Donovan

Rang 3 Monday Monday & Wednesday

Rang 4 Mrs. Hayes

Rang 4 Tuesday Tuesday

Rang 5 Ms. O’Regan / Ms. A. Kingston

Rang 5 Wednesday Tuesday

Rang 5 / 6 Ms. Mac Auley

Rang 5 Wednesday Rang 6 Thursday

Tuesday or Friday

Rang 6 Ms. Fitzmaurice

Rang 6 Thursday Thursday

First Holy Communion (second class) will be held on May 26th, 2018 at 11.00 a.m. in the Parish Church. First Confession: will be held on 26th of April @ 7.30 p.m. Confirmation: No confirmation this school year. Children who were baptised outside of the parish of Clona-kilty will have to send in a copy of their Baptismal Certifi-cate (unless you have already done so). Please send in this certificate as soon as you can. Children in other classes who have not sent in their Baptismal Cer-tificate can do so at any time – it will be photocopied and the origi-nal returned immediately. For children in Junior Infants it is the ideal opportunity to locate and send in your Baptismal Certificate – we won’t have to ask for it ever again.

Gum Shields must be worn for Football, Hurling and Rugby

GAA with Timmy Anglin on Wednesdays

Classes 5th, 5th / 6th & 6th September 6, 13, 20, 27 and October 4th and 11th

Classes 3rd, 1 B and Rang 2 October 18th, 25th and No-vember 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th

Classes 4th, 1 A, Juniors, Seniors December 6th, 13th, 20th, January 10th, 17th, 24th

Classes 5th, 5th / 6th & 6th

January 31st, February 7th, 14th and 21st

Classes 3rd, 1 B and Rang 2 February 28th, March 7th, 14th, 21st

Classes 4th, 1 A, Juniors, Seniors April 11th, 18th, 25th, 2nd of May

Rugby with Martin White on Fridays

We are awaiting the timetable for Rugby. It will probably start in October. Classes will be notified as soon as we have the timetable.

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On right: new entrants to classes other than Junior Infants

Sciath na Scol training Sciath na Scol training Sciath na Scol training

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Chairperson of the Parents’s Associa-tion). Thanks to Deirdre Allen of Inchy-

doney Ice Cream. Thanks to Tim Mur-phy for his creations.

A special thanks to the Parent’s Associa-

tion led by Eileen Collins for organising such a fantastic day.

(Continued from page 1)

LAMDA Prizewinner

Baking in Rang 1

The School Wardens &

Road Safety:

A Timely Reminder: With the start of the new school year it is appropriate to be ever vigilant and conscious of road safety. Please remind yourself and your child of the following, where appropriate- The wardens will be on duty every evening at 3 ‘o clock unless conditions are unsafe or extremely bad.

If they are not on duty Mr. O’Driscoll will always try

and be there to help an or-derly exit and crossing. There is a ZEBRA CROSS-ING there so always use it! Children on their own, or with an adult, should never cross the road anywhere else. Even if the wardens aren’t on duty, still use it. If a child is on its own and is crossing at the zebra crossing and no wardens are on duty, they must still use the Safe Cross Code to be safe, a driver may not always stop to allow safe passage and re-member that the crossing in itself does not guarantee auto-matic safety by walking or running across without due care. Do not lead a child across from between parked cars, it is exceptionally dangerous and may encourage other children to do the same, on their own, with possible dis-

astrous consequences. There are still a few adults doing this so please…..! Never park on the double yellow lines and impede the view of the wardens. This could lead to an accident. Sincere thanks and well done to all who have made the crossing at O’Rahily Street so much safer and more organised in recent years. Sincere thanks to John, the town Traffic Warden for his great work in helping keep the children of S.N.B safe and the traffic moving freely. Remember also about road safety whatever route your child takes to or from school and by whatever means. All classes will be taught and reminded of all aspects of road safety throughout the year. High Vis jackets will be giv-

en out to the Junior Infants courtesy of the Road Safety Authority. For more information, the latest news, rules and regula-tions, photos etc. on all as-pects of the Wardens’ Scheme and Road Safety go to our school website. Many thanks to Mr. Tadhg O’Driscoll for training and looking after the Warden team on a daily basis through-out the year. A special thanks

to Mr. Chris Hinchy for his help in training the teams.

Congratulations to Finn who won the Cork City F.C. signed jersey at the Fun-day in early September. Pictured below with Eileen Collins (Chairperson of the Parent’s Association.)

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Rang 4 and Rang 5 /6 have been busy doing Science Experiments recently. Rang 4 were 4th Class investigating capillary action and the anatomy of a flower.

Rang 5 / 6 were studying an introduc-tion to Osmosis in plants using potatoes and apples.

Rang 6 working on our new iPads

Rang 4 - Science Experiments

Rang 1 On Friday we had lots of fun. In the morning we baked buns to bring with us to Castlefreke. When we got to Castlefreke we went for a hike in the woods. We looked at the trees. We saw oak, holly, ash and sycamore. We collected leaves. We built camps with our

friends. Then we ate the buns. We had a great time.

See page 6 for more photos.

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The largest soccer stadium in the world is North Korean Rungrado May Day Stadium with a seating capacity of 150,000.

The natural disaster

that killed the most people was the 1931 China Floods that killed between 1 and 4 million people.

At 1,975 feet long, the water slide at Action Park in New Jersey, USA, is the world's longest.

Ring Rowing club had great success in Donegal recently - winning 5 gold 2 silver and 2 bronze medals. We are now the second best rowing club in the country. Past pupils Rory Cullinane gold medal for u21, Jack Conway u16 gold medal.

Sciath na Scol training begins

Infants Autumn Nature Walk

I have received and read the aforementioned Links. Child’s name: _________________________ Class:_______________ Signature: ____________________________

This very popular scheme has started again, for all classes except Junior Infants. Stamps cost €1 each. Junior Infants will start collecting later in the year. Thanks to Eileen O’Donovan for her assistance. Children in Rang 6 have to

use this scheme for saving for their Surfing lessons and boys in Rang 5 have to use this scheme for Kayaking.

A number of boys in the school are allergic to nuts and for them any contact with nuts or products containing traces of nuts can be dangerous for example NUTELLA or Pea-nut Butter!!!! Please be aware of this when organising your child’s lunch and DO NOT allow your child to bring anything containing nuts to school. Your help in this matter is very much appreciated. p.s. Please give your children water to drink coming to school - not sweet or fizzy drinks.

Yes it’s going ahead again! The date for the Tea Party in 2018 is Friday 20th of April. Following up on the phenom-enal success of last year’s party Eileen Collins and her crew have been persuaded to do it again this year. More details later. Tickets will go on sale after Christmas - €15.00 - same price as last year, but space is limited, so book early. If anyone wishes to donate Spot Prizes please contact Thelma or Eileen Collins. This year again, there will also be a Past Pupil Parent’s Table.

Many thanks to Timmy An-glin and all at Ahamilla for their cooperation again this year.

Here you can see the Sound Crew, Lighting Crew and Front of House crews who were busy at work for the Guitar Festival.


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