Thank you!

We extend our sincere thanks to Jenny Mahon for coming into school last week to work with the children.  As a treat for Mother's Day, Jenny (with some help from Emily) helped everyone make and decorate cookies and muffins....delicious!  I am not sure how many actually made it home to Mammy!  

Thank you Jenny and Emily!  More photos here.

Another thank you...!

Thank you  to Garda Battle for visiting us in school last week.  He visited the younger children as part of their work on 'People who help us'.  The children enjoyed asking questions and hearing about the work of the Gardai Síochána.

Sponsored Unihoc

Thank you to everyone for your support of the recent Sponsored Unihoc.  The current total is approximately €1100, a much needed boost to our funds.  Please could any remaining money be returned to school as soon as possible.

Open Afternoon

We look forward to welcoming our new Junior Infants and their families to school on Thursday 21st March.

Science Demonstration

Children from each of our classrooms will be demonstrating some short science experiments at Assembly on Wednesday morning.  This is part of our ongoing work for our Discover Science project. Parents/friends are very welcome to join us at 9.30 a.m.

Easter Holidays

Don't forget that school will close for the Easter Holidays on Friday 22nd March and will open again at 9.20 a.m. on Monday 8th April.

Busy, busy, busy.....!

Lots of photographs and new content has been added to the Gallery and to Mrs Gourley's and Miss Bustard's pages.  Please take time to have a look.

Biongó as Gaeilge

Seachtain na Gaeilge atá ann agus Dé Máirt seo caite, chuaigh na páistí i Rang 4, 5 & 6 go dtí an leabharlann i mBun Dobhráin.  D'imríomar cluichí biongó agus bhí an-spraoi agus spórt againn! Bhuaigh Lee, Ben, Drew agus Louise duaiseanna agus thógamar leabhair abhaile linn.

It is Irish week and last Tuesday the children in 4th,5th and 6th Class went to the library in Bundoran. We played Biongo games and we had great fun.  Lee, Ben, Drew and Louise won prizes and we brought books home with us.

World Book Day

We had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day.  We had hot chocolate, milk and cookies followed by an enormous bedtime story (all in our pyjamas!).  We read stories, wrote stories and shared stories. Everyone went home with a book token which can be exchanged for a free book or used as part of the cost of an alternative book.  The official World Book Day website and details of the free books can be found here.

Author's Visit

Chris Thompson visited us last Monday.  In the Junior Classes, she told some wonderful stories.  In the Senior Classes, we had a writing workshop and concentrated on writing poetry.  We hope to publish some of this poetry soon.  As part of our School Development work, we are working on improving writing skills.  The following video is a reading of a poem composed at the workshop.

Easter Egg Competition

It's time again for our Easter Egg Competition.  The imaginative and artistic response last time was fantastic and we hope that this year's eggs will be equally wonderful.

Eggs will need to be in school by Tuesday 19th March for judging.

Swimming

Swimming for 3rd - 6th Class will begin after the Easter holidays.  The cost per child will be €25 and this money will cover the cost of transport to and from the pool.  The cost of the tuition (€34 per child) will be covered by school/fundraising money.

It is regrettable that we have to charge for this but unfortunately the Department of Education requires schools to provide swimming lessons for the children but does not provide any funding for it.