​Unihoc

We had a very energetic and fun-filled afternoon of Unihoc on Friday! ENORMOUS thanks to Muriel and Ezra for organising this for us...thanks also to those parents who helped and those who were brave enough to compete against 6th Class.

Hallowe'en 

Children may dress in costume or own clothes on Thursday 25th October.  No scary costumes or masks please.

Brownhall/Autumn Walk

Weather permitting, we are hoping to walk to Brownhall on Friday 26th October.  Children will need warm, waterproof clothes and wellingtons/old shoes.  Please also send a change of clothes in case we get wet and muddy.  

Shoeboxes

Filled shoeboxes will be collected in school on Monday 5th November.   


Fundraising Quiz & Sheets

We thank Nan Leslie for organising this year's Quiz Sheets.  We will be sending home a number of sheets for each family to sell.  Completed sheets may be returned to school or directly to Nan.  This year's Quiz will be held on Saturday 10th November.
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Peace Proms

We are delighted to be included in the choir for this year's Peace Proms Concert in the S.S.E. arena in Belfast in February.  4th, 5th and 6th Class will be taking part and will be working exceptionally hard to learn all the songs in time.  

Súgradh le Chéile

We were delighted that all of the children in the Junior Room had the opportunity to play with parents and relatives last Friday morning.  We sincerely hope that the experience was enjoyed as much by the grown ups as it was by the children.   It was particularly nice to see so many Dads...hopefully they enjoyed the visit to school and will visit again soon.

Visitors/Workshops

You might have heard the children talking about or have spotted visitors in school over the past few weeks.

• Mr Barnett has resumed his weekly visits to help with Literacy, Maths and Gaeilge activities.

• Reverend Corrie and Jenny Mahon are helping out with reading on a weekly basis.

• Troy (from the Balor Arts Company) is running music workshops every Wednesday with all children.

• Sarah from Rinka is in school every Friday - her sessions incorporate dance, gymnastics and fitness work.

• Ms Currid has resumed weekly music lessons.

• Brian Donaghy visits every Thursday for Bible readings and activities.

• Canon Russell, Reverend Montgomery and David McAllister visit on Thursday mornings for assembly.

• Mrs Russell is working with the 4th, 5th and 6th Class children in R.E. 

• The Brickz for Kids afterschool club is being held in school on Monday afternoons and during Maths Week all children in school took part in a Lego session.

We thank all these people for helping us provide the children with a wide and engaging range of activities.


Cheerios Morning

Thank you for your support of this.  €150 euro was raised for Childline. 


Library Visits

As part of the Wainfest activities, all children in school visited the local libraries.  The Junior Room saw a puppet show in Bundoran.  The Middle Room had a science display in a pop up planetarium.  The Senior Room had great fun listening to a presentation by children's author, Jonathan Meres.

Co Donegal Schools' Service

5th Class and 6th Class enjoyed their outing to Ramelton Presbyterian Church on Thursday 5th where they joined with over 600 other children from the other 30 schools in Donegal which are under Church of Ireland or Presbyterian management.  We say well done to Andrea Moore for reading a 'Sorry' prayer on behalf of our school.

Parent Teacher Meetings

We hope to hold Parent Teacher Meetings between 12th and 23rd November.  More details to follow soon.

School Closures

School will be closed for the week beginning 29th October. 

Christmas Holidays - Last day of term will be Friday 21st December.

Thank you George and Paul for the logs for the playground.  The children are really enjoying playing with them.   

Thank you 

​Thank you George and Paul for the logs for the playground.  The children are really enjoying playing with them.   
 

We extend our deepest sympathy to Mr McAllister, his wife Priscilla and their family on their recent bereavement. 

Couldn't have asked for better weather this year for the School Tours. Both groups had fun days out last week.

We had such a lovely afternoon at Rossnowlagh beach on Friday.

What a lovely way to remind us all of how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful place, how lucky we are to have good friends to spend time with and just how precious life's happy little moments are.
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Hopefully we sent home very tired but happy little folk at the end of the afternoon...the teachers were also a little tired 😉 

Our thanks to everyone for helping with transport arrangements and to Jenny for the ice cream. 

On behalf of everyone in our school community, we would like to extend our sincere sympathy to our former pupil Robert and his partner Shannon and also to Daphne, Winston, Sharon, Amanda, Kyle and the wider family circle.  We are truly sorry for your loss. The loss of a child is heartbreaking. We send you our love and heartfelt prayers that you may find the strength you need to get through the days ahead.

As the weather is so nice and it’s the end of Test Week, we thought the children might like a little picnic on Rossnowlagh beach.  They have been working exceptionally hard on their tests over the past two weeks and have also been very patient (and quiet!) while other classes were working on theirs.

We will be leaving school around 12 noon on Friday 25th May and returning around 2.30 p.m.  If you are able to collect the children from the beach on Friday at 2.15 p.m., it would be much appreciated as we are hoping that the minibus (30 seater) would then only have to make one trip back instead of two.  Children may be picked up in the main car park.
 
As this is the hottest and sunniest part of the day, please make sure the children have adequate hats/sun cream etc.  We are not allowed to apply sun cream but are happy to supervise (and advise) children applying it themselves if you want to send some in.

Children may wear their own clothes – please make sure clothes are appropriate for a couple of hours in the sunshine on the beach.  We don’t want anyone going home with sunburn.
Children MUST have a refillable bottle.   We will fill these from the water cooler in school before we leave.  Please send lunch as usual.

Children may leave their schoolbags at home on Friday – please swap them for buckets and spades.
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As always, if you have any questions or queries, please let me know.  

Green Flag Number 5 was awarded to our school today.
Well done to our Green School Committee and Miss McGinley for their hard work over the past two years. Three of our older children represented our school today at an Award Ceremony in Letterkenny. We thank them for their impeccable behaviour, for stopping for ice-cream for all of us on the way home and for not gloating for too long about their delicious profiteroles.

Congratulations and our best wishes to James, Clint, Adam, Ciara, Alex and Rachel on their Confirmation Day.